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BBC ‘presenter scandal’: ‘I hope the media will look at themselves in the coverage of this story’, says Alistair Campbell
Cathy is joined by Alastair Campbell, journalist and former Downing Street director of strategy and communications under Tony Blair, who has interviewed Huw Edwards about mental health.
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Debate: Will Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland change anything?
We speak to Belfast comedian Jake O’Kane and Margaret Gibney, who as a schoolgirl, 26 years ago, wrote to Tony Blair asking him to make peace happen in Northern Ireland.
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BBC impartiality ‘undermined’, says Times columnist
We spoke to Alastair Campbell, former director of communications to Tony Blair, who now hosts a podcast produced by Gary Lineker’s company, and Times columnist Matthew Syed, who himself hosts a BBC radio programme.
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Commonwealth realms will consider change, says Baroness Valerie Amos
Baroness Valerie Amos, International Development Secretary under Tony Blair, and Britain’s former high commissioner to Australia to discuss the future of the Commonwealth with King Charles as its head.
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UK government taken NI border ‘very lightly’, says Good Friday Agreement negotiator
We spoke to Jonathan Powell, who was chief of staff to Tony Blair and a chief British government negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement.
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FactCheck: Patel’s incorrect claim about cash to tackle violence against women
The Home Secretary said she’d tripled funding compared to “any other two-year period”.
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‘Worst time in my 40-year career’ for NHS staffing, says National Care Association chair
We spoke to Dr Alistair Blair, the medical director for Northumbria Healthcare Trust, and Nadra Ahmed, the chair of the National Care Association.
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Starmer faces down hecklers as he breaks with Corbyn in Labour conference speech
“Are you shouting slogans or changing lives?” That was the question Labour leader Keir Starmer threw at hecklers during his first in-person conference speech as leader.
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Labour party has got to be ‘bolder and bigger’, says Andy McDonald
We spoke to Andy McDonald and asked him why he made the decision to resign.
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‘A hellishly difficult problem’ to solve prosecutions relating to the Troubles, says negotiator in Northern Ireland peace process
Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair in Downing Street and was intimately involved in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Debate: Where does the racism targeted at England’s footballers leave the UK’s ‘culture war’?
We spoke to Alastair Campbell who was head of communications for former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Conservative political activist and columnist Tim Montgomerie about the UK’s ‘culture war’.
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Hereditary peers: too posh to push out?
We speak to a hereditary peer, a life peer and a constitutional expert to understand why it’s so hard to try to change the upper chamber.
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Jihadi groups in Africa could become ‘threat to the West’, says analyst
We spoke to Bulama Bukarti, who studies jihadi violence in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. We asked him why does Africa now seem on the frontline of Jihadism?
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Jon Snow to step down as Channel 4 News presenter at end of 2021
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow has decided to step down from his role from the end of the year after 32-years at the helm of the flagship news programme.
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Series 6, Episode 12: David Miliband
David Miliband, has had a varied career – from working as a policy analyst in Tony Blair’s Downing Street, ultimately becoming Foreign Secretary to heading up an international charity, working with refugees all over the world.