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PT: Corbyn 2021

this morning (friday 26th), bbc podcast 

political thinking (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“Do you still speak to Jeremy Corbyn?”

including interview with …

• sir keir starmer mp 

(available from 0:05:39 to 0:06:00 and 0:34:10 to 0:40:15 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b6k9mp)

Corbyn 2021

yesterday (thursday 10th), 57 minutes, online only

jeremy corbyn (interviewed at the cambridge union)

Jeremy Corbyn has sparked renewed fury after telling Cambridge University’s debating society that former Jewish MP Luciana Berger ‘was not hounded out of the Party’. 

Appearing before the Cambridge Union the ex-Labour leader was responding to a comment by the society’s President Joel Rosen who had asked him what he had done to stop the Liverpool Wavertree MP from being ‘hounded out’ of the party.”

(see also https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-looking-into-corbyns-claim-that-luciana-berger-was-not-hounded-out/)

(available at https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-tells-cambridge-union-luciana-berger-was-not-hounded-out-of-labour/)

TF: EHRC report

last thursday afternoon (28th october), 5.09-5.18pm, on bbc radio essex 

tony fisher includes …

Labour anti-Semitism report.”

including interviews with …

• baroness angela smith 

• rabbi warren elf 

(more…)

PM/6ocn: Corbyn suspended

this afternoon (thursday 29th), 5.00-5.02pm, 5.05-5.18pm, 5.32-5.39pm, 5.49-5.58pm, and 6.01-6.08pm, on bbc radio 4 

pm (presented by evan davis) and six o’clock news lead with …

“The Labour Party has taken the extraordinary step of suspending its former leader Jeremy Corbyn for the way he reacted to a damning report into anti-semitism while he was in charge.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter chris mason 

jeremy corbyn mp

keir starmer mp

lisa nandy mp

• journalist kerry-anne mendoza, of the canary 

• journalist sienna rodgers 

• journalist paul mason 

• bbc reporter leila nathoo 

alasdair henderson, EHRC commissioner in charge of the report

luciana berger, former mp

margaret hodge mp 

angela rayner mp 

• bbc reporter laura kuenssberg 

(more…)

EB: EHRC report

this morning (thursday 29th), 10.51-10.53am, 11.06-11.31am, 12.05-12.33pm, and 12.48-12.54pm, on bbc radio 5 live 

the emma barnett show includes contributions from …

• bbc reporter helen catt 

keir starmer mp

“I found this report hard to read, and it is a day of shame for the Labour Party.”

“The Labour Party which I lead accepts this report in full.”

• bbc reporter leila nathoo 

luciana berger, former mp 

Is Jeremy Corbyn anti-semitic?” “… yes.”

lisa nandy mp 

Is Jeremy Corbyn an anti-semite?” “I don’t know.”

alastair pringle, executive director, EHRC

(more…)

VF: Mirvis intervenes

tuesday 26th november, 7.00-7.01am, 7.08-7.16am, 7.17-7.21am, 7.41-7.44am, 8.07-8.16am, 8.18-8.27am, 8.47-8.59am, 9.07-9.21am, 9.22-9.31am, 9.33-9.51am, and 9.54-9.59am, on bbc radio 2 

vanessa feltz leads with …

“The top story this morning is the story of the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who has made a rare if not unprecedented intervention in politics by strongly criticising the Labour Party.”

including interviews with …

mike katz of jewish labour movement 

• naomi wimborne-idrissi of jewish voice for labour

• journalist henry zeffman 

and calls from • shaz from buckinghamshire, • paul from stanmore, • juliette from swiss cottage,  • karen from borehamwood, • film director producer and writer gary sinyor, • dharminder from egham, • mark from tonbridge wells, • emkay, • winston from westminster, • ben from st pauls, • johnny from west hampstead, • tony from dulwich, • michael from twickenham and australia, and • jackie from muswell hill

(more…)

JD: Mirvis intervenes

tuesday 26th november, 1.02-1.03am, 1.04-1.09am, 1.19-1.27am, 1.33-1.35am, 1.37-1.45am, 1.49-1.57am, 2.04-2.07am, 2.09-2.15am, 2.32-2.39am, 2.44-2.52am, 3.10-3.15am, 3.21-3.26am, 3.29-3.30am, 3.32-3.41am, and 3.46-3.49am, on bbc radio 5 live 

jim davis (phone-in programme) includes …

The Chief Rabbi has strongly criticised Labour, saying that the party is not doing enough to root out anti-Jewish racism. In an article for The Times newspaper today, Ephraim Mirvis said that a new poison sanctioned from the very top has taken root in the party, and asked people to vote with their conscience.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter martin bashir 

and calls from …

irene from bermondsey, • simon from edgware, • rita, • fenella from whetstone, • shahid from hemel hempstead, • anthony from london bridge, • phillip from amsterdam, • clare from highgate, • richard from essex, • stuart from stanmore, and • tony from enfield

(more…)

W@1: Liverpool Labour anti-semitism

this afternoon (tuesday 19th), 1.34-1.39pm, on bbc radio 4

world at one (presented by sarah montague) includes …

Labour has seen another resignation over anti-semitism. The Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner, Jane Kennedy, who’s a former Labour MP, says the party has ‘failed to deal with the problem’.”

including interview with …

jane kennedy

(more…)

W@1: Esterson on anti-semitism

yesterday afternoon (wednesday 6th), 1.24-1.28pm, on bbc radio 4
world at one (presented by sarah montague) includes …

Anti-semitism: do you recognise that the party has a problem?”

including interview with …
bill esterson mp
nadhim zahawi mp
(more…)

QT: Labour anti-semitism?

thursday 21st february, 11.21-11.26pm, on bbc 1
question time (chaired by fiona bruce) includes…

Anti-semitism within the Labour Party: do you think that that is a problem?”

including panellists …
andy mcdonald mp
chris leslie mp
(more…)

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