"Your Party" seems to be falling apart. Can it be salvaged. And does it need to be, with Zack Polanski's Greens providing a challenger from a similar political space?

Also - will US tech giants invest in the UK or exploit it? He mull the investment deal struck during the US President's state visit.

Plus - has Trump discovered a business backdoor hack to the constitution? And might cancelling critics backfire?

Alex and Naomi talk through the week's news.

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“It’s partly generational, but not just about their ages. Corbyn is a slow-horses sort of guy and Sultana is a come-on-guys person. And with Zack Polanski hitting the ground running, I think she has good reason to want to go faster.”

“The King’s Speech was superb: holding the line on disagreements without being argumentative, flattering without being unctuous. Then Trump gets up to respond and essentially reads out what I think might have been the Wikipedia page for the UK.”

“Jimmy Kimmel could have the top podcast tomorrow. Maybe it is a huge strategic error to kick these big names out of legacy media and into spaces that the right wing has dominated and progressives have ignored, with 50 times the potential audience, AND armed with a legitimate grievance.” 

“We’ve just got to stop taking the right wing at its word on free speech. What they actually want is to be insulated from any criticism. This is a fundamentally political story that echoes what we’ve seen from Meta, from X, from Amazon, from Tesla, whose fortune is tied up in their relationship with Trump.”

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