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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

“Nigel would ship them out - totally un-British, totally unacceptable, you have to call it what it is.”

Nick Watt asks Deputy PM David Lammy if he agrees with Sir Keir Starmer labelling Reform UK’s immigration plans as racist, saying “it reminds me of the Windrush scandal.”

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“Not you again!”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells Nick Watt that he thinks Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech was “unifying” and “in stark contrast to the snake oil salesman Nigel Farage.”

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“Rachel Reeves, was that a better speech than yours?”

“Of course”

Nick Watt hears reaction to Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech from The Chancellor, Bridget Phillipson and Ellie Reeves.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

"Farage does not like having his policies criticised, because he's used to simply standing on the sidelines."

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to Nigel Farage calling the Prime Minister's language "a disgrace".

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"I'm all for people giving him a good kicking... but the danger is if you give him too much free publicity you turn him into a bigger figure than he is."

Former Labour MP, Diane Abbott on the focus on Nigel Farage during Labour Party conference.

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WATCH: “Terrifying” | Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett debate the UK’s “sad” economic situation

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“Terrifying” | Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett debate the UK’s “sad” economic situation

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

"Even more un-British than certain unsavoury people attending certain protests would be a world in which the country saw Jews or the Jewish community demanding that certain rights were disavowed or forfeited."

Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund on the weekend's planned protests.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You could certainly pick up people in the English Channel, hold them on some kind of a mothership & send them back to the land from which they’ve come on some quiet and moonless night”

Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott tells #Newsnight how the UK could deter small boat crossings

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“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

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“This is about substance - this is not showbiz.”

Nick Watt hears from Shadow Ministers, MPs and a former Australian PM about the mood at Conservative Party conference.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“Was your language wise?”

Nick Watt asks Robert Jenrick about his comments describing Handsworth as was “one of the worst-integrated places" he’d been and that he had not seen "another white face" in the hour-and-a-half he spent filming there.

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WATCH: "They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left

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"They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 19d

“I think it’s disturbing.”

Sohrab Ahmari, US Editor of Unherd, on Donald Trump’s comments that networks who criticises the President could risk losing their licence, following Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from ABC.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 19d

“I’m just stunned at the idea that somehow in the media where 97% of the people are anti-Trump… that is somehow considered fair and balanced”.

Former Deputy National Security Adviser, KT McFarland, defends criticism of Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from ABC.

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"He's super irritated” | Michael Wolff on Trump's response to The King's state banquet speech

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"He's super irritated” | Michael Wolff on Trump's response to The King's state banquet speech

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 19d

"The Russians are testing the doorknobs... and what they're discovering is the US President is not at home."

Senior Editor at the Atlantic, David Frum, on President Trump's response to Russian jets violating NATO airspace.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 16d

“Maybe the Lib Dems might have to be in coalition in the future?”

“I wouldn’t rule it out”

Nick Watt presses former Lib Dem leader and cabinet minister Sir Vince Cable on whether the party would join a coalition in the next parliament.

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Will Artificial Intelligence end the world? AI 'prophet of doom' speaks to #Newsnight

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Will Artificial Intelligence end the world? AI 'prophet of doom' speaks to Newsnight

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 16d

"It's the same as saying people with lung cancer have matches in their pockets. It's not the matches that gave them lung cancer, it's the smoking."

Former Centres for Disease Control director Dr Demetre Daskalakis on President Trump linking paracetamol and autism.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 16d

“You do not see a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism in children.”

Author of 'Expecting Better' Professor Emily Oster explains the studies on paracetamol use in pregnancy, after President Trump warned pregnant women against using the painkiller.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 15d

Why is Trump making unfounded autism links with Tylenol and Paracetamol?

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Why is Trump making unfounded autism links with Tylenol and Paracetamol?

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

“Is it responsible to refer to Nigel Farage’s views on gun laws and talk about how children in this country need to have lessons on mass shootings?”

Nick Watt presses Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper on comments made by Ed Davey in his party conference speech.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

“This is an existential moment as a human race and I don’t think we should underestimate it.”

Paddy O'Connell questions Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur with ambitions of living forever, about vaccine scepticism and RFK Jr’s influence on US health policy.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

WATCH: “There are many types of patriotism” | Billy Bragg on the flag debate

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“There are many types of patriotism” | Billy Bragg on the flag debate

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

Nigel Farage appeared on the radio today and failed to back the scientific & medical advice given to pregnant women when it comes to taking paracetamol

He also suggested migrants were eating swans & carp

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social runs through the claims and official responses

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