Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

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They may still win Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire back in next year's general election, but that doesn't arrest the growing expectation that there is a distinct possibility the Conservatives could soon face electoral annihilation. These included his denial that they had had sex in 2001 saying he had been at Pizza Express in Woking that evening, and that Giuffre’s claims about dancing with him at a club in London while he was sweaty were false as he had temporarily lost the ability to sweat after an “adrenaline overdose” during the Falklands war.

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Americast received positive reviews and performed well becoming one of UK's most listened to podcast of any genre. The News Agents at the Labour Party Conference: Day 2If Sir Keir Starmer was looking for a bit of sparkle today in his Leader's speech he shouldn’t have worried: it came to find him in the shape of a glitter-throwing protestor before he’d had the chance to say a word. The Home Secretary had a meeting with Met Commissioner Mark Rowley to ask why the police weren't prepared to arrest those seeking to incite "violence or hatred" on Britain's streets. She was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, [7] and then studied English at Queens' College, Cambridge. From cutting carbon footprints by reducing working hours, to a session on how to spot ‘greenwashing’ by governments, corporations, NGOs and universities.The film, which starts shooting in London this month, will also feature Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis, the then-lead presenter on the show, who conducted the interview, widely perceived to be a remarkable coup for the programme and an ill-advised move by the prince. The corporation is buffeted by forces it cannot seem to grip; a chilly commercial climate, a post-truth political culture where even categorical denials from No 10 can no longer be believed, but also rising tensions with some staff who see neutrality as uncomfortably close to complicity in the current climate. The title of Emily Maitlis’ new book, Airhead, is a subversive nod to the misogynistic stereotype of the female broadcaster. Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart in Terence Davies’s film version of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth. It is 11 minutes past three, the morning after our interview, and Emily Maitlis is sending me a Twitter message, having woken up with an urgent need to clarify something we spoke about yesterday afternoon.

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She's in Washington setting out her case for a major overhaul of the UN Refugee Convention - signed in 1951 in the aftermath of the Second World War (but updated continually since). The panellists include Professor Michael Kenny, who discusses his forthcoming book, Governing a Troubled Union; Dr Chandrika Kaul; Professor Saul Dubow; and Zoë Billingham, director of the IPPR North think tank.While one gets the sense that many Westminster journalists have few intellectual or cultural interests beyond the intrigues of parliament, Maitlis can boast the hinterland of a small country. Quizzed by Maitlis, the Duke failed to express any regret over his friendship with Epstein, or empathy for his victims. In response to Sir Mark's comments about the Attorney General's Office, an AGO spokesperson said: "There has been no delay in the charging process for the two women who were arrested on suspicion of displaying images in support of Hamas. Laurence Fox's weird sexist rant last night on GB News got short shrift from the organisation which immediately suspended him from the platform, and followed on later by suspending their presenter, Dan Wootton.

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CPS received a complete version of the police report in the early hours of this morning – this was passed on to AGO at midday today for permission to consent to prosecute and this is being dealt with this evening as a matter of urgency. When I look back at the sort of arc of it, I think, ‘Oh yeah, God, that was a sort of blissful time,’ and I knew he wasn’t going to find any of it. In this no holds barred account of life in the seconds before, during and after going on air, Newsnight presenter, leading journalist, and queen of the side eye Emily Maitlis gives us the insider info on what we don't get to see on-screen. Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host a daily news podcast: The News Agents. Later, waiting in 43C heat for Clinton, she changes her clothes in a barn smothered in goat poo, and frets about her “pothole-jolted make-up” that looks “crayoned on by a three-year-old”.In February 2021, Maitlis was criticised over lacking impartiality after sharing a tweet by Piers Morgan which condemned the government.

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In 2020, Maitlis began presenting a BBC podcast, Americast, with Jon Sopel, the BBC's North America editor. And the PM still hasn't announced his decision on the northern leg of HS2 - we talk to West Midlands Mayor Andy Street about his campaign to keep the train line going north of Birmingham. It’s my son’s A-level text, and my way of getting through the parental nerves was to embrace his work and chat about it. You can listen to this episode on Alexa - just say "Alexa, ask Global Player to play The News Agents". Today – along with electric blue nail varnish and a Snoopy T-shirt with the slogan “If I can’t bring my dog, I’m not going” (Moody’s not with her but she came anyway) – she is wearing a gold bracelet her father had made for her from a bangle her grandmother fled Germany with.Later, we discuss the SNP defection to- checks notes - the Conservative party, and we ask whether judges are going to let convicted rapists roam free because our prisons are now full. And as Israel starts to evacuate parts of the north of the country - is Hezbollah - the Islamist militant group in Lebanon far stronger than Hamas with equal hate for everything Jewish and Israeli - about to get heavily involved in what could soon become a regional war? Maitlis interviewed Donald Trump for the 2010 BBC documentary Donald Trump: All-American Billionaire. Some accounts work better than others: her awe at David Attenborough’s utterances make you briefly question her role as one of BBC TV’s interrogator-in-chiefs, while interviews with Simon Cowell and Russell Brand yield little of interest.