The News Agents

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  • Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host an award-winning daily news podcast: The News Agents. They’re not just here to tell you what's happening, but why. Expect astute analysis and explanation of the day's news – and a healthy dose of scepticism and the ability to laugh at it all when needed. Episodes are available every weekday afternoon. You can listen to The News Agents on Alexa, just say "Alexa ask Global Player to play The News Agents" The News Agents is a Global Player Original podcast. For advertising opportunities on this podcast email: dax@global.com And The News Agents now have merch! Click here to buy yours now: https://store.global.com/collections/the-news-agents
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  • Trump’s Liz Truss moment: “It could be cataclysmic”

    Trump’s Liz Truss moment: “It could be cataclysmic”
    Apr 9 2025

    Trumps tariffs, combined with China's retaliation, are doing terrible things to stock markets around the world. People are selling off equity and assets in this increasingly uncertain time. But now something even more strange is happening - the bond market is tanking. And that’s a sign that confidence in the US government itself has hit the rocks. When Greece starts looking like a safer bet than America you know things are bad. Is Trump going to follow Liz Truss down the road to self immolation? And what happens next?

    Later, why the Birmingham bin strikes are about something much bigger than rubbish - and why they might soon hit the rest of England.

    Don’t forget you can also subscribe to our other News Agents podcasts via the link below:

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    The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/

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    32 mins
  • "China gives Trump the middle finger"

    "China gives Trump the middle finger"
    Apr 8 2025

    As Trump threatens to double the tariffs on China the trade war between two of the world's biggest economies is escalating. China has said it will "fight to the end". Trump says he will not back down. As each side raises the stakes, will Trump have to concede that he's made mistake? Who will back down first? And how will this trade war affect the rest of the world?

    Later, we speak to pollster Luke Tryl from More in Common about how all of this is going down with the voters in the UK - and how Starmer is coming out of all this mayhem.

    Don’t forget you can also subscribe to our other News Agents podcasts via the link below:

    https://linktr.ee/thenewsagents

    The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/

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    30 mins
  • Will market chaos make Trump rethink his tariffs?

    Will market chaos make Trump rethink his tariffs?
    Apr 7 2025

    Hong Kong's stock exchange has just closed down 13% - to put this in context it's the worst day of trading since the Asian market crash of 1997. The FTSE 100 has plummeted here, Goldman Sachs has upgraded its probability of a US recession, and members of the US government are now taking to the airwaves to squabble about the plan ahead. Is this genuinely what Trump wanted? Is he still pretending it's going well? And is the plan to make the world come to the negotiating table? It can't - coherently - be both. What will Keir Starmer's plan for growth involve now? Who should we be trading with? And are those fiscal rules still ironclad?

    And later, why did Israel stop two UK MPs from entering the country?

    Don’t forget you can also subscribe to our other News Agents podcasts via the link below:

    https://linktr.ee/thenewsagents

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Great

I really value that the journalists are stating their own views without needing to toe any particular line.

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Love their humour !

3 very thoughtful compassionate journalists with a lovely relaxed style. Unbiased take on current news and political events.

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Well informed

Excellent pod cast, listening to one about Donald Trump, amusing and educational, listen to Newsagents regularly

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refreshingly excellent journalism

look forward to every podcast. BBC, you really missed a trick with this trio. in depth news with never the term "sorry, we have finish there. we have run out of time" onwards and upwards you three musketeers !

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Listening from Ireland and have a great interest in UK politics. This podcast is superb

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What Newsnight used to feel like

Back in the late 80s and 90s, I'd get my news from Newsnight. Paxman's legendary interviews, Kirsty Wark trying to control Tom Paulin and Germaine Greer on the Newsnight Review. It was the fun side of the intellectual establishment. Since Maitlis and Goodall got edged out, it's been a poodle of the administration, and it's been necessary to look online for anything like independent news coverage (God forbid one look to ITV or Beeb 1; that's past praying for). But thank Heaven for the merry trio of Goodall, Maitlis & Sopel. Their coverage is a little left-leaning, within very controlled parameters - that alone makes them a breath of fresh air (and God knows the right never control the parameters within which their news partisans operate - GB Froth, anyone?) Their coverage is broad but never shallow, their access is exceptional for online news. And I'm guessing all their regular listeners find the badinage a cheesy pleasure. Since discovering the News Agents, I can go to bed a full hour earlier, because I don't need to wait up to be disappointed by Newsnight's tapioca pudding, but can think and chuckle on my commute every morning instead. God bless these merry folks.

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Analysis worth listening to.

I got out of the habit of watching the news during Covid and never went back. Lots of daily news doesn’t interest me anymore. However, the in-depth analysis provided by ‘The News Agents’ is worthy of my attention. The presenters compliment each other well. Emily was my favourite presenter on Newsnight, back when I watched it.
The same goes for the US version.

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very good

i really enjoy this podcast, interesting and plain speaking daily news and political analysis.

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Thoughtful and interesting analysis of the news

Very enjoyable podcast, the interaction between the three presenters is both informative and entertaining. Emily's grilling of one of the "New Conservatives" is a personal fav ("You picked radishes for four months, why'd you leave?"), also interesting to discover the pea picking and hair sweeping/washing hidden skills.
Stones in the pea bag, for shame.........

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Flashes of greatness undermined by smugness and bias

This is an uneven podcast, which is frustrating as the hosts are individually talented and collectively capable of something greater than the sum of its parts. So what goes wrong? A default soft left worldview, banal choice of topic and guests, far too much ex BBC chat, and a dangerous lack of perspective on many issues - the coverage of Huw Edwards was a travesty. Fine, he’s Sopel’s mate. But couldn’t Emily or Lewis have been more forensic in their scrutiny of Edwards’ misdemeanours?

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