PoliticsJOE Podcast

Baroness Beeban Kidron is a filmmaker and tech campaigner, and she joined Ava at Sunday Papers Live recently to speak about her book Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back.

During the course of the conversation, Kidron breaks down the ways in which big tech have wormed their way into democracy to warp regulatory structures for their own benefit. She also explains how they've knowingly harmed the lives of their users, and offers solutions for governments to fight back.
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Labour's leadership nominations opened today and, so far, Burnham remains unopposed on his march to Number 10. But who is Andy Burnham, and what does he want for Britain? Andy and Seán recap what we know so far, and speculate as to how Burnham might build a cabinet.
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With Keir Starmer away on NATO duty it's Deputies Day at PMQs, but Ava and Seán are still here to unpack the drama.

Nigel Farage's resignation stunt has lost some momentum after all the major parties announced they wouldn't be standing a candidate in Farage's 'People v Establishment' by-election, meaning the Reform leader will spend his summer battling Count Binface for the seat.

At the despatch box, David Lammy and James Cleverly clash over prison records and jury reform.
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Ava is joined by Venetia Menzies of Insight, the investigations team at The Sunday Times.

Over the weekend, Venetia and her colleagues published a story uncovering the extent of the relationship between Reform's Nigel Farage and 'Posh' George Cottrell, a convicted felon, as well as a potential breach of the parliamentary rules linked to gifts from Cottrell to Farage.

Menzies breaks down the story and the investigation leading up to it.
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Another week, another Reform scandal. Ava, Andy and Seán react to news of an investigation into Nigel Farage after it emerged he accepted gifts from one George Cottrell, an old friend and colleague, before he became an MP.
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