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"In what world are you cancelled? I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be accountability.". Graham Norton criticises John Cleese and tells #TimesRadio that cancel culture isn't real. @mariellaf1
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A message of defiance from Ukraine's president Zelensky and his administration. They say they are on the streets of Kyiv and ready to defend the city.
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âThus did Israel become the first nation ever to be attacked for being attacked.â. @AfNeil critiques the Westâs mostly young and âbetter educated classesâ for being âuseful idiots in the cause of evil.â. #TimesRadio
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âI felt this charity was harming childrenâŠIf that is being a Terf then Iâm proud to be one.â. @RosieMillard defends her decision to step down as chair of the BBC charity Children in Need. #TimesRadio
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âReeves has bitten off far more than she can chewâŠI don't know a single person of demonstrable economic expertise anywhere near the top of this government.â. Financial markets are âincreasingly concernedâ about Labour's handling of the economy, @LiamHalligan tells @AfNeil.
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"I'm going to terminate the interview, this is my last warning . I've not come on here to justify where the story was placed or how I chose to go about that." . Isabel Oakeshott hangs up during her interview with Cathy Newman on #TimesRadio
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âHe is a rambling, nasty individual but heâs actually positively dangerous.â. It is âreally consequential for the world that Trump is not elected tonightâ, says @WilliamJHague on #TimesRadio. @AasmahMir | @StigAbell
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âKaba was a gangster. Kaba carried guns. Kaba was a wrongâun.". Chris Kaba was a âwaste of spaceâ, says former Scotland Yard detective @PeterBleksley. @Lara_Spirit | #TimesRadio
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âHow are you so certain that removing your genitals . will solve your issues, those issues are going to wait for you when you wake up from surgery.". Ritchie Herron is suing the NHS after transitioning, he claims was fast-tracked into making âthe biggest mistake of his lifeâ.
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"This government has made it clear that MPs who vote against it will be punished and will have the whip removed.". Cutting the winter fuel payment is wrong but dissenting Labour MPs will not vote against it through fear of having the whip removed, says Labour MP @RosieDuffield1.
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âPeople are saying things about Jews that they were saying in the 1300s.â. Author Howard Jacobson says he âcanât sleep at nightâ and he is âflabbergastedâ by the state of antisemitism in Britain. @HugoRifkind | #TimesRadio
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âThis is what happens to women like me. We are constantly misrepresented and it leads to us being discriminated against.â. SNP MP @JoannacCherry reacts to being âno-platformedâ by the Edinburgh Fringe after staff said they were uncomfortable with her views on trans rights.
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âSo much for spending plans being fully costedâ. Rachel Reeves' budget will âbear no resemblanceâ to what Labour said to get elected, @AFNeil notes. đ»| #TimesRadio
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"I don't think Labour quite realise how high risk this is.". If just one prisoner let our early commits a horrific crime it will be in the news "day after day", says @afneil.
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"Thereâs humility in the way that Marcus lives his life.". In his first interview in four years, Sir Alex Ferguson throws his support behind Marcus Rashfordâs campaign to lift children out of food poverty. Learn more @TheTimes | @MarcusRashford
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âAnybody earning 30 odd grand a year, which most nurses are, using food banks, then theyâve got something wrong with their own finances.â. Tory MP Lee Anderson tells #TimesRadio he doesnât believe nurses are struggling to make ends meet.
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"I have the most sympathy with the incoming government on this.". Prisoner early release was due to a "Conservative failure" that has left the Labour government with no choice but to "let some out", says former Conservative leader William Hague.
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"Thatâs not political correctness, thatâs just treating other people with respect.". Author Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) describes being called âwokeâ for his work in The Sandman on #TimesRadio.
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âI went back and read the manifesto and it says very clearly, we will not raise rates of national insurance.â. Labour would be in a "straightforward breach" of their manifesto if the chancellor hikes employer national insurance contributions, says IFS director @PJTheEconomist.
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âLabourâs lead was as wide as an ocean but as deep as the village pond.â. The âfragilityâ of Keir Starmerâs âloveless landslideâ in the general election is now clear, says @AFNeil. #TimesRadio
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âAlmost ÂŁ5.4 billion was spent on asylum seekersâŠthis is in a country which canât afford winter fuel allowances for pensioners.â . It remains unclear whether Labour can bring migration down to a manageable number, says @afneil.
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"I fail to see what this legislation is going to do to act as a deterrent." . Conservative MP Caroline Nokes says she won't vote for Rishi Sunak's migration bill. @AyeshaHazarika | @carolinenokes
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âI doubt the British government knows whatâs about to hit it.â . While David Lammy is ânauseatingâ in his attempts to ingratiate himself with Trump, Keir Starmer is âless hypocriticalâ but his efforts to befriend the President are âcharacteristically clunky,â says @AfNeil.
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'Mentally, I wasn't in the best headspace. I felt like a letdown to my friends, a burden.'. Ahead of the release of his documentary #HowtoBeBehzinga YouTuber Ethan Payne talks to @TimesRadio about YouTube, mental health and the decision to run a marathon. @CalumAM | @Behzinga
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Noam Chomsky claims Jeremy Corbyn won an âenormous victoryâ in the 2017 election. @MattChorley challenges him on the facts of Corbynâs leadership .Tune to from 10am đ»
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âMy party has slowly started to be taken over by an extreme viewâŠLee Anderson is really the tip of the iceberg.â. Former co-chair of the Conservative Party @SayeedaWarsi warns suspending Lee Anderson isnât enough to eradicate Islamophobia from the party. @AyeshaHazarika
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"He's just opened himself up to every jihadist and nutcase out there.". It is 'naively stupid' for Prince Harry, his publisher and ghost-writer to have published details of his kills in Afghanistan, explains Major General Chip Chapman. @NotesFASMil | @RickKelsey
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âI don't have repeatable words for the BBC right now.â. The BBC need to "stop participating in these ridiculous confected outrages" says Kathleen Stock as they drop RĂłisĂn Murphy from 6 Music over her comments on puberty blockers. @Docstockk | @StigAbell
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âMainstream politicians of both parties have serially lied, and I use that term advisedly, about immigration.â. Broken promises about bringing down immigration create an âendemic distrust in politics,â says @MatthewSyed. đ» #TimesRadio
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âIf I had to bet, I think Kamala Harris will win comfortably.â. @RoryStewartUK tells @jhansonradio that polling companies are no longer working, and theyâre scared to predict Trump will lose after miscalculating the 2016 election. #TimesRadio
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"A member of my own party was convicted of threatening to rape me because of my views. trans rights activists threatened to murder me.". SNP's @joannaccherry says convicted rapist Isla Bryson, a trans woman, is a man and should be sent to a male prison on #TimesRadio.
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"Trans people are extremely brave.". Paul O'Grady tells #TimesRadio that it's about time everyone was accepted for who they are.
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âSuella Braverman probably is Islamaphobic.â. @samuelkasumu says someone with âsuch prejudicesâ like Suella Braverman should not be Home Secretary of a liberal society like the UK. #TimesRadio | @kaitborsay
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âI did leave the Guardian because I was told I was not able to write about certain things. whether it was about gender or antisemitism.â. @HadleyFreeman argues she lost journalistic freedom while working at The Guardian. The Guardian did not wish to comment. @KaitBorsay
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"My chief of staff was abducted, he faced custodial charges, he was stripped naked, he was tortured.". @ImranKhanPTI tells #TimesRadio the Pakistan government attempted to kill him and abducted his staff to prevent him from winning the next election. @LOS_Fisher
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The fake name âAli Al-Shakatiâ has been circulating online in connection with the alleged Southport attacker. @KDenkWrites has uncovered the source of this misinformation: a fake news website believed to be run by Russians. đ» #TimesRadio
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"People have got to sort themselves out. Join the 21st century.". Eddie Izzard says she isn't going anywhere after Rosie Duffield said she'd rather be arrested than refer to Eddie as she. @eddieizzard | @RuthDavidsonPC | #TimesRadio
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âI spoke to Kensington Palace that morningâŠThey said she's really upset and sad that she's caused all this trouble.â. Editor of The Sun, Victoria Newton, says itâs time to give the Princess of Wales a break after the âunfairâ backlash to her Motherâs Day photo. @StigAbell
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"This is a scandalous way to behave. None of us need free things, even the lowest paid MPs." . Speaking exclusively to The Sunday Times' @cazjwheeler, @RosieDuffield1 reveals she is resigning as a Labour MP blaming Starmerâs "cruel and unnecessary" policies for her departure.
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"I'm due to speak at the Oxford Union and some people really don't want me to. despite the fact they've had Martin McGuinness, OJ Simpson after his trial, David Irving and various other people.". @DocStockk says her presence "punctures a fantasy version of the world."
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"It's okay if you want to share your story, Harry, it is yours to share, but it's not fair to share your brother's.". Harry is being "cruel" to Prince William who is "not in a position to respond", U.S royal journalist Kinsey Schofield tells #TimesRadio.
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âEven if Iâm jailed, they feel that the party will still win. Thatâs why thereâs two assassination attempts on me, because if they remove me, then PTI minus Imran Khan might be palatable for themâ. @ImranKhanPTI talks to @JPonpolitics ahead of his possible arrest tomorrow.
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"I had no idea that a senior politician could say things that were just not true and take legal action or threaten to take legal action on that basis." . Nadhim Zahawi used libel law to stop journalists from exposing his taxes, says @DanNeidle on #TimesRadio.
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"Putting a double rapist into a female prison, I don't know what risk assessments they're doing to have these men in the prison.". Female inmates do not trust Nicola Sturgeon to decide who is sent to female prisons, says ex-Cornton Vale Prison inmate Amanda Benson. #TimesRadio.
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"The real opposition to Labour these days, is it's own incompetence.". Labour have the "worthy aim" of returning people to work, but it does seem "illogical" to simultaneously "lumber business" with ÂŁ25 billion worth of employer's national insurance, says @afneil.
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âIt is fascist. because what it's saying is we don't care about democracy, we don't believe people have absolute rights, we simply believe that our ability to govern overrules everything else.â. @adamboultonTABB questions the âanti-democraticâ nature of the Rwanda policy.
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These are the angry scenes outside Labour conference as pro-Palestine protesters are challenged by party members. #TimesRadio
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âIâm fed up with going away to Europe and apologisingâŠyou feel embarrassed.â. Lorraine Kelly says queues at passport control post-Brexit make her feel like a âuntermensch.â. @reallorraine | @HugoRifkind . đ»
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"It is like reading Mein Kampf, in that Hitler thinks he's a great hero and you put the book down with absolute disgust. And you do put this book down with total disgust.". Readers finish Harryâs book with "disgust", journalist and author A.N. Wilson tells #TimesRadio.
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âWhat happened on October 7th was a jailbreak. It was the slaves revolting.â . Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi claims Hamas are not terrorists. @StigAbell | #TimesRadio
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âI have seen the practice develop from euthanasia being an exception, to euthanasia becoming a rule.â. Assisted dying expert Professor Theo Boer warns there's evidence "all over the world" that legalising euthanasia "sets in motion a new dynamic" of supply and demand. @AasmahMir
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âMy mother was in Belsen concentration camp⊠she always used to say, itâs not a competition. That is exactly the mistake that Diane Abbott has made.â. @DannytheFink says Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn ârefuse to recogniseâ oppression that âdoesnât fitâ in their worldview.
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âHistorians have judged the effort by Britain to end the slave trade as the most expensive example of international moral action recorded in modern history.â. âAre we doing comedy?â. @AfNeil challenges @Kehinde_Andrews on whether Britain should pay reparations for slavery.
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âItâs a terrifying look into the future of warfare, into the future of what battlefields are going to look like.â. Ukrainian forces are developing drone technology âat breakneck speedâ, reports @CaolanRob. @KaitBorsay | #TimesRadio
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"If Russia retains Crimea, then they'll always be able to do what they're doing now.". Liberating Crimea is key to Ukraine's success, General Ben Hodges explains. @general_ben | @AyeshaHazarika
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âThe SNP will miss him. Scotland will miss him. I will miss him. Rest in peace, my old friend.â. @AfNeil says that while he and Alex Salmond âjousted fiercelyâ, off air he and the âmost accomplished Scottish politician of modern timesâ were good friends. #TimesRadio
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âShe undermines the very freedoms that have enabled us to make the progress that we have made over the last decade.â. Katharine Birbalsingh tells Rod Liddle why she is against Labourâs Education bill. @Miss_Snuffy | #TimesRadio
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"One of the worst TV viewing experiences of my life.". Times Washington correspondent @hzeffman reviews last night's US presidential debate and says Joe Biden was "capable, though not particularly good" and Donald Trump "turned up with a strategy to make Biden crack.". @AasmahMir
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âThere is a Tory premium now on mortgagesâ. Labour leader @Keir_Starmer reacts to the rise in interest rates with @MattChorley on #TimesRadio.
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âIâm depressed. Iâm properly, really depressed. I canât sleep.â. Four years since the UK left the EU, the leave-voting constituency Barking says theyâve seen no benefit from Brexit. @Jo_Crawford | #TimesRadio
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"Don't you find it slightly depressing? The idea that free speech, a fundamental cornerstone value of our society, is now mistrusted?". Progressive people have suddenly become 'bigots,' broadcaster Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) tells Hugo Rifkind on #TimesRadio.
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The Tavistockâs gender clinic is facing a class action lawsuit from patients over treatments. Barrister @thomasgoodhead, who leads the class action, says the case "is going to be one of the largest medical negligence scandals of all time".
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âThere's a very good chance that Tommy Robinson will one day be the prime minister of England.â. Similarly, people in South Africa would have said youâd âlost your marblesâ if youâd told them Nelson Mandela would become president, says Elon Muskâs father Errol Musk. #TimesRadio
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âHarryâs a traitor. You canât betray your own people. You canât betray your familyâ. Hereâs what royalists camping outside of Buckingham Palace have to say about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. #TimesRadio
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âNobody has ever said to you that youâre too scruffy?â. âNobody.â. @BorisJohnson tells @StigAbell heâd rather be âa scruff than take suits from Lord Alli.â. #TimesRadio
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âEnvoy for the nations and regions, what on earth does that mean?â. Sue Grayâs new role is a ânon-jobâ and leaves many questions unanswered after the âremarkableâ clear-out of No 10, says Times Radioâs Andrew Neil. @AFNeil | @StigAbell | @RosieWright99
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"A sickening display of humanity. The fake news went from Internet to violence offline.". Nigel Farage's comments about the police âhidingâ information about the Southport riots is "straight out of Trumpâs playbookâ, says @Tobias_Ellwood . đ»
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âThe pride movement has been so taken over by corporations doing their woke-washing by planting their rainbow flags on social media.â. Oxfam is âwoke washingâ Pride Month, says columnist @HadleyFreeman. @MattChorley | #TimesRadio
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âNobody is angrier than I am, particularly as we're doing so well with black and ethnic minority voters.â. @Nigel_Farage tells #TimesRadio he will put Reform âunder much, much stricter controlâ in future after the racism row in his party. đ» | @AasmahMir
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"Raise taxes on the rich or millionaires like me, or millionaires like Rishi himself, so that we can support the ordinary, hard working families of this country.". Former trader turned inequality economist @GarysEconomics speaks to @mariellaf1 about the #SpringStatement
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"I would say that trans identifying males are still a subset of males." . Olympic swimming medallist Sharron Davies says that trans athletes competing in Olympic sports is like 'doping with testosterone." . @CathyNewman | @sharrond62
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âAngela Rayner had an opinion when Boris Johnson was getting money from donorsâŠnow you've got someone who has a luxury glasses habit who's taking money from pensioners.â. âOkay youâve had your rant.â. Dame @AngelaEagle avoids answering questions on the PMâs new glasses.
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âWe paid a heavy, almost unimaginable price for the stupidity of our political elite in the 1930s. Let's hope we're not about to pay another one.â. @AFNeil criticises the state of the Ministry of Defence
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"We should never have thrown women's sport under the bus so that half of the world were no longer entitled to fair sport.". Former Olympian Sharron Davies says she welcomes the World Athletics ban on trans women athletes. #TimesRadio | @sharrond62
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âHe was one of the first people through the door, when Glenys died.â . Lord Kinnock says heâs keen to get involved with Keir Starmer, who he describes as âdecentâ for his response to Glenysâs death. @EdVaizey | #TimesRadio
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"I was completely wrong. obviously, I'm guilty of massive wishful thinking.". Rory Stewart outlines how he got his prediction of a Harris win so wrong after Donald Trump swept to victory across government. #TimesRadio | @RoryStewartUK | @HugoRifkind
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âI got ÂŁ700 extra on my pension this year courtesy of the triple lockâŠSo to expect a Christmas bonus, if you like, is ludicrous.â. Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson tells @AfNeil heâs âreally pleasedâ the chancellor did not row back on plans to cut winter fuel payments.
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"The gap between what the party promised and what it delivered was so great it finally pushed me over the edge". Former adviser to Boris Johnson, Conservative Home founder & 33 year Conservative Party member Tim Montgomerie announces his move to Reform UK. @Montie | @JPonPolitics
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đŽ "Suella Braverman has been repeatedly told by government lawyers that she's illegally detained asylum seekers at a processing centre in Kent.". The Home Secretary has refused to put people into hotels or release them on immigration bail, @ShippersUnbound tells @AyeshaHazarika.
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âWhy they want to join a collection of economies synonymous with slow growth and stagnation is a puzzle.â. @AfNeil says Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have chosen the path of European social democracies with low economic growth. #TimesRadio
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"It damages breast tissue, the lungs, the ribs. Itâs a form of self-harm.". Charities are sending breast binders to young girls without their parentsâ permission, concerning activists about health risks. Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend discusses on #TimesRadio.
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, says he is "mentally prepared" for jail on #TimesRadio. "It's a very tough time, I'm going through two assassination attempts. Certainty of going to jail. So it is the biggest struggle of my life.â . @ImranKhanPTI | @cathynewman
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BREAKING: Liz Truss's chief of staff has been interviewed by FBI agents about an alleged criminal plot to bribe a politician and influence a US election, @Gabriel_Pogrund tells @ayeshahazarika on #TimesRadio.
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"He's going to be overwhelmingly supported and almost certainly re-elected.". There's every reason to believe Donald Trump will be a candidate in the US 2024 election, says National Tea Party movement co-founder @michaeljohns.
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"When you get asked: âWhat have we benefited from Brexit to date?â You really have to scratch your head.". Britons are "paying heavily" for Brexit, which wonât help grow the economy, Conservative MP @Tobias_Ellwood tells #TimesRadio.
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âWe all have to understand that the only way to end this war is to equip the Ukrainian army sufficiently enough so that we can defeat the enemy on the battlefield. â. Advisor to the Ukraineâs defence minister Yuriy Sak says "we must not appease the aggressor" on #TimesRadio.
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âI suppose itâs an industrial strategy of sorts, but the market economy, it ainât.â . Britain is paying the price for âworshipping at the altar of net zero,â says @afneil.
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âWeâre not talking about dying, weâre talking about killing.â. Melanie Phillips criticises the âhijack of language to manipulate public opinionâ over the assisted dying bill. @MelanieLatest | #TimesRadio
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"Do military alliances bring peace or do they actually encourage each other and build up to a greater danger?". Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn tells #TimesRadio @jponpolitics he would like to see a world without Nato and other military alliances. đ»
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âThis is not a regular army. This is a rogue terrorist army. And that tragic event happened due to the nature of this conflict.â. Israeli forces killing hostages held by Hamas in Gaza was a âtragic mistakeâ, says IDF spokesperson @LtColRichard Hecht. @RosieWright99 | @CalumAM
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"The only act of a parliament that is has some kind of moral integrity is to rip up her illegal and immoral bill, which has no place on our statute book.". @CarolineLucas speaks out against the #IllegalMigrationBill
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"We need to stop fixating on suppressing infection.". Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at @UniofOxford, says the government needs to "let infection reach an equilibrium level and strenuously protect the vulnerable". @AasmahMir | @StigAbell | @SunetraGupta
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"Do you accept, hands up, you've gone too far in some respects, you've said things that you would want to take back?". "No, not not one thing.". Father Ted writer Graham Linehan is challenged on his controversial statements on trans issues, on #TimesRadio. @Glinner | @StigAbell
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"For the last 22 years, everyone has been tip toeing around Putin." . Putin's arrest warrant is a 'watershed moment' for the international community, says Bill Browder. @AlexisConran | @Billbrowder
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"I can't believe I'm having to explain this. You're asking me, why should we be able to speak freely in a supposedly free country.". Scotland's new hate speech law is "breathing down the neck" of people who want to have "open discussions" on trans rights says @Ella_M_Whelan.
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âIâve applied for a few jobs and sadly not even had an interview yet.â. @GullisJonathan admits heâs struggling to return to teaching after losing his seat as a Conservative MP because there are "too many activists in the classroom". @HugoRifkind | #TimesRadio
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âKeir Starmer is banned, heâs the first person to be banned.â. @JeremyClarkson won't let Keir Starmer in his new pub until the prime minister does something to turn around farming in Britain. đ» | @CathyNewman | #TimesRadio
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âI think I maybe spoke for the public at that momentâ. @StephenFlynnSNP, SNP leader at Westminster, responds to being caught saying âwhat the f**k was thatâ at PMQs today. @MattChorley
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"This is not a game of chess. It's either we win or Putin wins. And if he wins in Ukraine, the conflict will expand.". Russian chess grandmaster & dissident Garry Kasparov tells #TimesRadio the West is "at war with Russia, whether we like it or not.". @AasmahMir | @Kasparov63
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âIâm afraid to say she is a tart. She loves being loved by other people.â. Steve Darlingâs guide dog @RtHonJennie is loving the all the attention from her first week in parliament. đ§ @MattChorley | @CllrsDarling
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