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Gary Gibbon
As David Cameron turns a small business speech into a relaunch address, the old Labour pop group of Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell show signs of enjoying themselves too much, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
Nick Clegg’s children are amongst those stranded abroad by the volcanic ash. Maybe it’ll give him extra time to focus on the week ahead and trying to hold onto the most extraordinary and unexpected sudden poll surge many people can remember, writes Gary Gibbon.
We spoke to Rebecca Wilcox – she’s the daughter of television presenter Dame Esther Rantzen, who has terminal lung cancer – and Dr Cajetan Skowronski, a geriatric and palliative care doctor.
We spoke to Baroness Warsi and asked whether she thinks the Conservatives have moved too far to the right.
We’re joined by Nick Bridge, the UK’s last climate envoy before the role was axed by Rishi Sunak, and new Green MP Ellie Chowns.
Private landlords look to be leaving the rental market at a record pace, but will this prove to be a problem or an opportunity for private tenants?
American election forecaster, Nate Silver, tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy the chances of Kamala Harris or Donald Trump winning the US election, why he thinks Elon Musk’s tweets on X during the 2024 UK summer riots were part and parcel of having freedom of speech, and the transformative impact of AI on the world, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
The UK’s leading children’s charity is warning that child neglect could become a national crisis, fuelled by the cost of living crisis and cuts in support services.
The political row escalated in July when seven Labour MPs had the whip suspended after they rebelled and voted for an SNP amendment to the King’s Speech, calling for the two-child limit to be scrapped.
We spoke to Professor Peter Slee, the vice-chancellor of Leeds Beckett University.
We spoke to Julian Hendy, the founder of the Hundred Families charity, and Dr Colin King, a mental health survivor who’s become a practitioner himself.
We’re joined by financier Bill Browder, who is a friend of Vladimir Kara-Murza. He’s been an outspoken critic of Russia’s President since the death in a Moscow prison of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who’d uncovered massive fraud involving Russian officials.
The actor Amanda Abbington says she first complained to the BBC about her dance partner Giovanni Pernice within days of starting Strictly Come Dancing.
Andi Brierley is a youth justice specialist at Leeds University and a former inmate himself.
We spoke to Neal Katyal, who was the acting US Solicitor General under President Obama