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Burnham’s Trump charm offensive faces some awkward tests (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham has emerged relatively unscathed from his first meeting with Donald Trump in New York.You could even argue it went better than Keir Starmer’s first meeting with the US president, where he sparked a British nationwide eye-roll when, with a flourish, he presented Trump with an unprecedented invitation for a second state visit. In his own meeting at the UN general assembly, Burnham was polite but in the public-facing part of the chat, he did not resort to such elaborate gestures of fea
Ed Sheeran caught in an online storm over Macklemore backlash (opens the original)
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The news is often complicated and grave and regularly provokes an emotional reaction.The issues discussed in this week’s newsletter are big and difficult ones that are impossible to give anywhere near enough justice to in one article. However I am going to try to explore what has happened with the Ed Sheeran tour controversy this week and explain the deeper context behind it.Subscribe nowEd Sheeran’s support acts and band have all quit his US tour after rapper Macklemore was
Burnham draws a line with Israel (opens the original)
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We are around six weeks away from the new chancellor’s first budget and the next few weeks will be filled with speculation about potential tax rises and giveaways. In the meantime, there is plenty keeping the newspapers busy with foreign policy announcements and more drama engulfing Reform. There’s also a lot to talk about when it comes to TV and movies, so stick around to the end of this week’s News List!The News List by Vicky Smith is a rea
Burnham’s first PMQs featured some familiar hits & Lindsay Clancy trial divides opinion (opens the original)
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We are at the end of the summer holidays and while I’ve had a great time, including a break in Cornwall, I am ready to get back to some semblance of a routine. Thank you to those who support my work every week, it means a lot. If you like my breakdowns of the big stories of the week and analysis of how news and social media interact, please consider supporting my work with a paid subscription. Subscribe nowNew prime minister Andy Burnham has been recapping<a href="https://vickysmit
What my favourite journalism films taught me about reporting (opens the original)
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I can’t remember a specific moment in time when it hit me that I wanted to be a journalist.The reality is that far from being a lightbulb moment where I read an incredible scoop and felt an inescapable urge to do something exactly like that, I actually found that I rather liked English at school and journalism looked like a good fit.However it is fair to say that watching movies centred around the importance and often outlandishness of journalism over the years have inspired and grabbed my atten
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