In 2013, former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos faced jail time after she was tricked by a Sun newspaper journalist into passing on a potential drug deal contact. Now, she’s campaigning for improved press regulation to make sure people like her have more protection.
6 Aug
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has hit back at Kemi Badenoch’s ‘spiteful class warrior’ insult over Labour’s 20% VAT rise on private school fees, saying she “owns” the insult if it means making a difference to children in state schools.
10 Jul
Karl Turner, MP and Andy Burnham supporter, tells The News Agents why he feels sorry for Keir Starmer as a family man, but won’t miss his leadership as Prime Minister.
23 Jun
Former health secretary Wes Streeting has criticised the response of Nigel Farage and Reform UK in the wake of the death of Henry Nowak, describing the party’s politics as "dangerous" and “nationalistic”.
5 Jun
Tony Blair says we have no choice but to let AI into our lives. Journalist and author Karen Hao says he’s wrong, and we should be more concerned about the industry’s unchecked growth.
29 May
Sir Tony Blair, UK Labour Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007, tells Jon Sopel why he has stepped back into the political world with a new essay addressing the failures of – and suggesting solutions for – Keir Starmer’s ailing government.
27 May
Jess Phillips stepped down from Keir Starmer’s government after the disastrous local elections, not because of the loss of 1,500 Labour councillors, but because the PM’s promises rang hollow to the lifelong campaigner for women and girls.
18 May
New York lawyer Matthew Bergman tells The News Agents about winning a $6m payout from Meta and Google for mental health harm, and why the tech industry could face the same challenges tobacco companies once did.
14 Apr
Natalie Fleet on why there is a lack of moral outrage in the UK over victims of sexual abuse unless it is politically motivated and why Keir Starmer still has her support despite his own failings.
13 Feb
Rutger Bregman, whose Reith Lecture was censored by the BBC, tells The News Agents of the irony of cutting Trump criticism from a speech about the ‘cowardice’ of elites.
16 Jan
The Mayor of London says he believes people of the UK do not align with Elon Musk on free speech on social media, and welcomes the new Ofcom investigation into sexualised images on X/Twitter.
12 Jan
Children in secondary school will be taught about misogyny under new measures to tackle violence against women and girls in England and Wales. Kemi Badenoch has said migrants are to blame, but safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says the Tory leader should apologise for this.
19 Dec
David Lammy explains his reasons for scrapping jury trials for court cases in England and Wales for lower level crimes, accusing Tory MP Robert Jenrick of spreading “disinformation” about the changes he’s making.
3 Dec
Can justice, conducted in secret, ever truly be justice? This is a question with which I have much cause to wrestle, for some 23 months.
12 Dec
On Saturday morning, I woke just before 4am. Jolted awake by the radio playing softly beside me that reported the death - by suicide - of Virginia Giuffre, at the age of 41.
28/04/2025
As Trump pardons those convicted of committing crimes on January 6 2021, Emily Maitlis talks to supporters awaiting their release at a vigil outside the D.C. jail.
21/01/2025
Lewis Goodall reacts to the UK announcing to suspend some arms exports to Israel.
03/09/2024
It is hard, I think, for Democrats to imagine a more perfect incarnation as running mate than the Senator from Ohio that has found himself on Trump’s ticket, writes Emily Maitlis.
26/07/2024
President Joe Biden's Oval Office address marked the end of his re-election bid. But how do you bow out gracefully when you were pushed?
25/07/2024
