“British Rail was actually a success, because…”
Q: “Was it?”
“Yes it was a success…”
Q: “Well hang on…”

Rail expert Christian Wolmar comments on Labour’s plan to take every major train operating company back into public hands.
#Newsnight

The Chancellor says increasing UK military spending to 2.5% of national income by 2030 will cost an extra £20bn, which civil service unions say will be funded by cutting 70,000 jobs bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within five years bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Labour says it expects to renationalise most passenger rail services in England within five years, if it is elected.

Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman had more details on #BBCBreakfast

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

🎙️You’ve been in politics 9yrs. It’s long enough to know efficiency savings in civil service aren’t going to get you to £75 billion quid

🗣️I’m inclined to believe the PM

Ex-Armed Forces Minister James Heappey on how the gov says it will pay for extra defence spending

🎙️You’ve been in politics 9yrs. It’s long enough to know efficiency savings in civil service aren’t going to get you to £75 billion quid

🗣️I’m inclined to believe the PM

Ex-Armed Forces Minister James Heappey on how the gov says it will pay for extra defence spending

Claudia Lawrence's mum Joan asked Tom McDermott to help her try to find out what happened to her daughter 15 years ago.

'Answers for Claudia' - a new podcast from Audio Always + #6foot6productions is the result .

On Wondery from next week.

wondery.com/shows/answers-…

How should government help journalists, Andrew Neil is asked by a Lords committee...

'Stay the hell out of it... You’re not on our side, we’re not on your side. We’re different. Relations between journalists - all media - and government should always be bad. And never, on any

Ex DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has appeared in court charged with rape & 10 other historical sex offences

His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, a co-accused in the case, faces 4 charges

The offences are alleged to have happened between 1985 & 2006 and involve two alleged

Nima Moradi left Iran because he says he was targetted by the regime. He told us the risk of drowning in the Channel to get here was a gamble he was prepared to take, & Rwanda won’t stop people

He was granted asylum by the Home Office in 2023 👇

🚨 New podcast coming 🎧

‘Answers for Claudia’

80 yr old Joan Lawrence has asked journalist Tom McDermott to help her try & find answers about her daughter Claudia who went missing 15 yrs ago. Joan says this might be her last chance
Audio Always
@wondery
#6foot6Productions

Rhianon’s story illustrates the risks to the victim when there is no coordinated response to stalking.

#JoinForcesAgainstStalking this #NSAW2024 to ensure that what happened to Rhianon Bragg (née Meirion-Jones) doesn’t happen to anyone else.

🚨 New podcast coming 🎧

‘Answers for Claudia’

80 yr old Joan Lawrence has asked journalist Tom McDermott to help her try & find answers about her daughter Claudia who went missing 15 yrs ago. Joan says this might be her last chance
Audio Always
@wondery
#6foot6Productions

‘There will be people screaming at the TV tonight saying everything I’m saying is a lie or my motivations are poor… ‘

Ex-Armed Forces Minster Rt Hon James Heappey MP on the brutality of modern politics
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Nima Moradi left Iran because he says he was targetted by the regime. He told us the risk of drowning in the Channel to get here was a gamble he was prepared to take, & Rwanda won’t stop people

He was granted asylum by the Home Office in 2023 👇

'I really can't tell you the shame I felt in me having met at trusted this man'

Stalking survivor Kerri Layton talks of the shame she felt as a victim of stalking

More than 6,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year. But where exactly are people coming from, and why are they risking their lives to come here?

Our UK Editor Sima Kotecha takes a look.

#Newsnight

'I think that this is the most dangerous time not just since the end of the Cold war but maybe since the 1960s'

Conservative MP James Heappey talks to #Newsnight about the war in Ukraine

#Newsnight 1030pm

• Is Ukraine losing? Rt Hon James Heappey MP on war in Europe, & boost to UK defence spending announced today
• 300 people crossed Channel in boats today-5 died incl a 7 yr old. We talk live to an Iranian man who made that journey. Wld the prospect of being sent to

Conservative MP & PPS at the Home Office Kieran Mullen says he expects
asylum seekers sent to Rwanda to physically resist deportation

He tells #Newsnight that *without* force you essentially haven’t got a deportation policy