After a terrible knife attack in Reading by a suspected IS sympathiser MI5 were aware of Dan asks whether we should be allowed to sentence people based on expressing interest in terrorist organisations. Lord Michael Howard and former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Alex Carlile talk us through the ramifications of such a move.

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Dan criticises the BBC for appointing Richard Sambrook to look into how BBC journalists use their social media accounts when he himself has shown bias in the past. WW2 veteran Mervyn Kersh tells us what Vera Lynn meant to him after news of her passing emerges and after Dominic Raab's comments on talkRADIO about his choice not to take the knee for Black Lives Matter Femi Oluwole and Emma Webb give excellent debate on his decision not to do so.

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Dan makes an impassioned speech urging schools to get back. After Penny Mordaunt suggests sending people who vandalise war memorials to army camps Colonel Richard Kemp and the ipaper editor Benjamin Butterworth debate whether this would be a good move and Daily Star columnist Dawn Neesom tells the Prime Minister why lockdown needs to end.

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After Munira Mirza is criticised for her race commission role Dan asks who is stoking the culture war in Britain. Former Labour Adviser Richard Power Sayeed and Conservative Commentator Benedict Spence go head to head debating where the culture war is coming from and Sir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Lib Dems explains why he thinks we should be extending Brexit.

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Non-essential shops are back in action and Dan argues that reducing the 2 metre social distancing rule will help us get business movingeven faster. Labour MP and former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd thinks that the 2 metre rule shouldn't be changed and Lord Alan Sugar gives his views on shops reopening and the Black Lives Matter protests.

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Upon learning that Little Britain and a number of other TV shows & movies have been removed from streaming services for unsavoury jokes around race Dan asks if this is right. Dominique Samuels the President of the Orthodox Conservatives Group debates with journalist Eleanor Penny over the issue of cultural censorship and Graham Smith of Republic debates with Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams over whether royal statues should be included in the conversation about our cultural past.

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After a statue of slaver Robert Milligan was removed in London Docklands Dan talks to Councillor Ehtsaham Haque who oversaw the removal. Former deputy Lib Dem leader Donnachadh Mccarthy & Chairman of Brexit-watch.org Ben Habib debate the merits of Winston Churchill and Prof Karol Sikora discusses the government's two metre distancing rule.

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After the Prime Minister says that those who broke the rules at the Black Lives Matter protests should feel the full force of the law, Dan asks if you agree. Conservative MP for Mansfield Ben Bradley tells us why Boris Johnson was right and there's debate between Times columnist Mercy Muroki and Weyman Bennett the Stand Up To Racism national co-convenor about the tearing down of the Cecil Rhodes monument at Oxford University.

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After a weekend of Black Lives Matter protests across the country Dan asks if the police should have done more to prevent violence. Labour MP Dawn Butler talks with Dan over whether the protests were really a good idea in the midst of a pandemic and journalists Nadine Batchelor-Hunt and Daniel Hannan debate whether the pulling down of a statue of a slaver in Bristol was the correct thing to do.

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Should we stick with the government's proposed quarantine scheme for people coming into the U.K or would an air bridge system be better, Dan asks. Author and columnist Lionel Shriver suggests that we've lost some of the risk necessary for a happy life and a feisty debate ensues when Former Trump strategist Sebastian Gorka and Democrat strategist Michael Starr-Hopkins discuss the protests in America after the death of George Floyd.

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