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My Fidel Castro: oppressive, flawed but an exceptional global force
I only met him once. I interviewed him in Nicaragua, in English. He spoke about 100 words of it, I would say – maybe more, but if so, he didn’t let on in our discussion.
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Hugh Masekela – trumpeter, musician and perhaps above all emblem of South Africa’s extraordinary journey – has died aged 78. His music and activism cast a spell on the world, watching as he came of age during the long struggle to end apartheid.
If you think Oxford and Cambridge students are mostly posh, southern and white, you’d be pretty much right. New data released thanks to freedom of information requests has revealed quite how much, and the extent to which poorer, northern and black students are under-represented. Labour MP David Lammy has branded Oxbridge admissions “social apartheid” and”fiefdoms of entrenched privilege”. He debates…
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chair of the foreign affairs committee, and journalist Rania Abouzeid discuss the fall of Raqqa.
Labour MP Heidi Alexander and the leader of the Liberal Democrats Vince Cable debate Labour’s change in Brexit policy.
Kassem Eid, the survivor of a Syrian Government sarin gas attack in Damascus in 2013.
Labour MP Heidi Alexander, she resigned from Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet because of doubts about his leadership in the wake of the EU referendum, and the former Work and Pensions Secretary and Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith discuss Tony Blair’s speech and what it means for current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Conservative MP Heidi Allen and Angela Rayner, Labour’s shadow education secretary.
Richard Shakespeare, a disability consultant, and Heidi Allen, chair of the all- party parliamentary group for young disabled people.
Jon Snow interviews journalist Rania Abouzeid, who has reported extensively on the Syrian conflict, former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, and Dr David Nott, a British surgeon who has been working with medical teams to save the lives of the seriously wounded in Aleppo.
I only met him once. I interviewed him in Nicaragua, in English. He spoke about 100 words of it, I would say – maybe more, but if so, he didn’t let on in our discussion.
Trevor Noah talks with Krishnan Guru-Murthy about race, what a Trump presidency means for America and his new book ‘Born a Crime’, about his life growing up with a black mother and white father in apartheid South Africa.
Hate crime across the UK had gone up 46% in the two weeks either side of the Brexit vote, compared to the same period last year.
Jeremy Corbyn is hit by mass resignations from his top team as his position as Labour leader is challenged by some of his MPs, with Hilary Benn calling on him to resign.
Would doctors or nurses in the NHS have been able to get away with playing with their phones while seeing patients?
Jeremy Hunt has been very guarded in his use of language around imposition versus introduction of junior doctors’ contracts.