Lewis Goodall
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: [email protected]
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: [email protected]
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
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Lewis Goodall
@lewisgoodall.com
· Jul 15
The secret court that silenced the News Agents...until now
YouTube video by The News Agents
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Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story.
The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...
The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...
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A lovely, insightful interview of Ken Clarke by @lewisgoodall.com here, covering Attlee to Starmer and many things in between.
Working (briefly, very unimportantly) as an adviser to Ken was one of the most enjoyable parts of my career to date. A true original, and a thoroughly decent man
Working (briefly, very unimportantly) as an adviser to Ken was one of the most enjoyable parts of my career to date. A true original, and a thoroughly decent man
Was a true pleasure to go to Nottingham to interview Ken Clarke, truly the archetypal big political beast.
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A lovely, insightful interview of Ken Clarke by @lewisgoodall.com here, covering Attlee to Starmer and many things in between.
Working (briefly, very unimportantly) as an adviser to Ken was one of the most enjoyable parts of my career to date. A true original, and a thoroughly decent man
Working (briefly, very unimportantly) as an adviser to Ken was one of the most enjoyable parts of my career to date. A true original, and a thoroughly decent man
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Neutrality is increasingly problematic in both theory and practice since X became such a toxic platform while so many people continue to use it to consume information.
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Neutrality is increasingly problematic in both theory and practice since X became such a toxic platform while so many people continue to use it to consume information.
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
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Been worth breaking my holiday from the News Agents for this excellent interview. He's particularly excoriating about debating Budget choices in public
Was a true pleasure to go to Nottingham to interview Ken Clarke, truly the archetypal big political beast.
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Been worth breaking my holiday from the News Agents for this excellent interview. He's particularly excoriating about debating Budget choices in public
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“What timeline are we in where Zohran Mamdani and Trump are suddenly best buds, while MTG has quit the party over a bitter feud?”
@jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com discuss why Trump seems so taken with New York’s new Democrat mayor.
@jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com discuss why Trump seems so taken with New York’s new Democrat mayor.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“What timeline are we in where Zohran Mamdani and Trump are suddenly best buds, while MTG has quit the party over a bitter feud?”
@jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com discuss why Trump seems so taken with New York’s new Democrat mayor.
@jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com discuss why Trump seems so taken with New York’s new Democrat mayor.
SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL @LBC.co.uk FROM 10
-Transport Sec @Heidi_Labour
-Shadow Chancellor @MelJStride
-Former Chancellor Ken Clarke
-Newly minted Green @lloyd_rm
-Assisted dying campaigner @kimleadbeater
Best political analysis with @NatashaC
Get your radios on.
-Transport Sec @Heidi_Labour
-Shadow Chancellor @MelJStride
-Former Chancellor Ken Clarke
-Newly minted Green @lloyd_rm
-Assisted dying campaigner @kimleadbeater
Best political analysis with @NatashaC
Get your radios on.
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL @LBC.co.uk FROM 10
-Transport Sec @Heidi_Labour
-Shadow Chancellor @MelJStride
-Former Chancellor Ken Clarke
-Newly minted Green @lloyd_rm
-Assisted dying campaigner @kimleadbeater
Best political analysis with @NatashaC
Get your radios on.
-Transport Sec @Heidi_Labour
-Shadow Chancellor @MelJStride
-Former Chancellor Ken Clarke
-Newly minted Green @lloyd_rm
-Assisted dying campaigner @kimleadbeater
Best political analysis with @NatashaC
Get your radios on.
Was a true pleasure to go to Nottingham to interview Ken Clarke, truly the archetypal big political beast.
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Was a true pleasure to go to Nottingham to interview Ken Clarke, truly the archetypal big political beast.
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In an extended conversation, we talk about Reeves nightmare Budget, his long political journey and his fears for where politics might go next.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
NEW: Marjorie Taylor Green says she will resign from Congress in January
“I have too much self respect and dignity…love my family way too much….to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for…it’s all so absurd and completely unserious.”
“I have too much self respect and dignity…love my family way too much….to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for…it’s all so absurd and completely unserious.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
NEW: Marjorie Taylor Green says she will resign from Congress in January
“I have too much self respect and dignity…love my family way too much….to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for…it’s all so absurd and completely unserious.”
“I have too much self respect and dignity…love my family way too much….to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for…it’s all so absurd and completely unserious.”
NEW: Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, sentenced to 10.5 years in prison over pro-Russia bribes.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, sentenced to 10.5 years in prison over pro-Russia bribes.
Another Russian attack in Ukraine, one of the deadliest in the west of the country.
At least 25 people have been killed, including 3 children. Another 73 wounded, including 15 children.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
At least 25 people have been killed, including 3 children. Another 73 wounded, including 15 children.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Russian attack on Ternopil kills 25 in one of deadliest strikes on western Ukraine
Two blocks of flats were destroyed by cruise missiles in the city of Ternopil, Ukraine's air force says.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Another Russian attack in Ukraine, one of the deadliest in the west of the country.
At least 25 people have been killed, including 3 children. Another 73 wounded, including 15 children.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
At least 25 people have been killed, including 3 children. Another 73 wounded, including 15 children.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Some grim polling here for Labour from Ipsos beyond the headline figures
-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.
-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Some grim polling here for Labour from Ipsos beyond the headline figures
-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.
-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.
Kemi Badenoch: “This is the first budget to unravel before it’s even been delivered.”
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Kemi Badenoch: “This is the first budget to unravel before it’s even been delivered.”
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Extraordinary story in Poland. Yet more sabotage.
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
Poland blames sabotage for blast on major railway line
Prime Minister Donald Tusk stops short of linking Moscow to explosion
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Extraordinary story in Poland. Yet more sabotage.
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
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Lewis Goodall: Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lewis Goodall: Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
Off this week!
Just turned on @lbc.co.uk where are you @lewisgoodall.com? 😔
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Off this week!
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
Fascinating piece on how AI may well think more like us than we’d like to believe. And why that’s both groundreaking and curiously sad. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Fascinating piece on how AI may well think more like us than we’d like to believe. And why that’s both groundreaking and curiously sad. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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"The BBC and Keir Starmer’s Labour government share much in common. They are easily bullied and too often afraid, as non-populists too often are, of exercising their own power."
Spot on @lewisgoodall.com . Excellent piece!
Spot on @lewisgoodall.com . Excellent piece!
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"The BBC and Keir Starmer’s Labour government share much in common. They are easily bullied and too often afraid, as non-populists too often are, of exercising their own power."
Spot on @lewisgoodall.com . Excellent piece!
Spot on @lewisgoodall.com . Excellent piece!
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100% right. There is so much about this whole BBC saga that is simply mad but Lewis is right that the Corporation now has the chance to take a stand for something important. It should take that opportunity.
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
100% right. There is so much about this whole BBC saga that is simply mad but Lewis is right that the Corporation now has the chance to take a stand for something important. It should take that opportunity.
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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This from @lewisgoodall.com on the recent BBC mess is so good. Particularly this bit.
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This from @lewisgoodall.com on the recent BBC mess is so good. Particularly this bit.
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
A newish (and chilling) feature of British politics has been Starmer/Reeves increasingly pitching themselves as a quasi technocratic govt, saying bond markets will accept no other. If that’s the strategy, my impression is that Labour MPs do not want to hear it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A newish (and chilling) feature of British politics has been Starmer/Reeves increasingly pitching themselves as a quasi technocratic govt, saying bond markets will accept no other. If that’s the strategy, my impression is that Labour MPs do not want to hear it.
No 10 briefs to embarrass Streeting, knowing he’s on the media round
Streeting excels at morning round, embarrassing No 10
Another triumph
Streeting excels at morning round, embarrassing No 10
Another triumph
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
No 10 briefs to embarrass Streeting, knowing he’s on the media round
Streeting excels at morning round, embarrassing No 10
Another triumph
Streeting excels at morning round, embarrassing No 10
Another triumph
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At the beginning of the latest @newsagents.bsky.social ep on YouTube, @lewisgoodall.com makes an excellent job of explaining the difference between the BBC misrepresenting what Trump did and what he said (or didn’t). The distinction is why Trump stands to lose his case. youtu.be/PqOYCcsyq14?...
Will the BBC face down Trump in court?
YouTube video by The News Agents
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
At the beginning of the latest @newsagents.bsky.social ep on YouTube, @lewisgoodall.com makes an excellent job of explaining the difference between the BBC misrepresenting what Trump did and what he said (or didn’t). The distinction is why Trump stands to lose his case. youtu.be/PqOYCcsyq14?...