The News Agents

"The names of Afghans who helped UK forces, left exposed, waiting for the Taliban to see." The MOD took out a super injunction to stop the story. @lewis_goodall asks: What kind of justice is secret justice? Watch now on @GlobalPlayer or YouTube.

"Keir Starmer said the situation in Gaza was 'intolerable' – yet somehow he, and other world leaders, found they could tolerate it.” Why fresh calls on Israel to end the war in Gaza are set to fail, once again @maitlis | @jonsopel articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq3VpEzXPf65…

“If you are Donald Trump, you’re going to point people to that video and say ‘𝘌𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺!’” Why Hunter Biden’s angry 3-hour interview is spectacularly unhelpful for the Democrats. @maitlis | @jonsopel articles.globalplayer.com/2GXqErzyrqHA7s…

"Burger King over McDonald's?! That's your worst take." As Netanyahu chats fast food on a podcast, the UN reports Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 Gazans at aid sites. @maitlis | @jonsopel

“Media organisations around the world haven’t united to tell Israel: you can’t just shut down Gaza and block us from reporting.” Ayala @panievsky calls out the global media's failure to collaborate in pressuring Israel to allow press freedom in Gaza. @maitlis | @jonsopel

"While the King speaks kindly to his plants, it seems he speaks 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 kindly to his gardeners." A report on “disquiet at Highgrove” claims staff are quitting in droves, with some earning minimum wage... @maitlis | @jonsopel

“The MAGA movement are unleashed - they're not doing Trump’s bidding anymore.” Trump continues to try to kill the Epstein story - filing a $20 billion lawsuit against the WSJ - but his MAGA base aren’t prepared to let it die. @maitlis | @jonsopel articles.globalplayer.com/cFJanLJeS6LicB…

"Murdoch has put his big boy trousers on and said to Trump: 'You want to fight? Fine!'" Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal for $20 billion over Epstein claims - does he think this will kill the story? @maitlis | @jonsopel

"We need to make sure that we can still have clean drinking water whenever we turn on the taps." "We were running out." @SteveReedMP explains how bad things had become in England's water industry @maitlis | @jonsopel articles.globalplayer.com/7giJqFFdHfHERG…

"People are saying to 𝙮𝙤𝙪 it's unacceptable money - you can't say it back to them, you've got to act on it!" Environment Sec. @SteveReedMP agrees water bosses’ pay is outrageous, but what will 𝘩𝘦 do about it? @maitlis | @jonsopel

"Why is the Labour Party going to war with Diane Abbott?" Or, is Diane Abbott going to war with the Labour Party? @jonsopel @lewis_goodall

📢 Q&A 📢 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬? Whether it's the Afghan data breach story or anything else from Westminster this week... 📧 Email [email protected] (voicenotes welcome) or reply here. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

"There is a cost associated with being outspoken, with organising against your own government. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴." Starmer has suspended four rebellious MPs - but will it strengthen or weaken his position? articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq6Vye87SRJv…

"The idea in Britain today there's still hundreds of millions of pounds being spent, unaccounted for..." "Oh, it was accounted for, we just didn't tell you!" The News Agents unpack the "costliest data breach in UK government history". @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

"Everyone is troubled by the lack of answers around Epstein - just one person is 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 to disagree: Trump." Epstein questions aren't going away - and the president should know by now: You can't kill a conspiracy theory, you can only shrink it. @maitlis | @jonsopel

“The populist left do actually need to deliver." Saikat Chakrabarti, aiming to unseat Nancy Pelosi, says the left must embrace the populist playbook to truly challenge Trump. @maitlis | @jonsopel

"People start to put their fingers in their ears when their own side is in the dock." Why Labour - as well as the Tories - must be held accountable for the catastrophic Afghan data breach. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq6a1DMJHCQr…

"The fact the Speaker couldn’t act in his role is extraordinary... I’m amazed more MPs aren’t affronted." How are super injunctions compatible with the powers of Parliament? @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

"There's this 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 that we're blaming Labour for a Tory problem... yes the Tories took it out, but Labour maintained it!” @lewis_goodall on why the Afghan data breach isn’t just a problem for the previous government. @jonsopel

“People don't like the Democratic Party even more than they don't like Donald Trump.” @saikatc - the man who wants to unseat Nancy Pelosi - says the Democratic Party needs “𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦” to survive. @maitlis | @jonsopel articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq6AEp7oHjFZ…

“Why would you be taking away the lifeboats at precisely the moment of maximum danger?” @lewis_goodall asks Defence Sec @JohnHealey_MP why the asylum scheme designed to help thousands of Afghans affected by the gov's catastrophic data breach is closing. articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq3zWRrozFdx…