Tonight's Question Time - I will NOT be watching!!!

WhatThe
WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,014 Championing
edited March 2025 in Current affairs

My mental health is too delicate to listen to this lot 🙃

Tonight's panel includes Helen Whately, an ex-Tory MP, a Republican and Fraser Nelson 😶 😖

It's Newsnight for me - the day's important national news and international stories - with no YELLING and the lovely Paddy O'Connell 🙂

🕊️

(channelling ChrisSCOPE)

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,014 Championing

    (who?)

    HARDtalk ends later this month 😕 I had no idea!

    I've just watched Nina Simone speaking English and trying to keep a straight face

    😂

  • Stellar
    Stellar Community Member Posts: 536 Trailblazing

    You shouldn't be watching it anyway. Nobody should.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,014 Championing

    Ranald, frog face.. What are his initials? I like a puzzle 😄

    HARDtalk ends later this month 😕 did you know? I'll miss it a lot.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,014 Championing
    edited March 2025

    Santosha , it's usually more balanced. I don't imagine any of them had anything new to say 🙄

    Diane Abbott is 71 🤩

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,014 Championing

    Homer Simpson 😄

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,014 Championing
    edited March 2025

    Viewers have been left furious at the BBC’s decision to scrap one of its flagship current affair programmes, HARDtalk.

    The politics show, known for its challenging interviews with world leaders, is presented by veteran broadcaster Stephen Sackur and has spent nearly three decades on air.

    On Tuesday (15 October) the BBC announced the decision to end the programme in March 2025, along with the loss of 100 news roles at the corporation.

    The company has been facing increasing financial pressure and has projected its total deficit will increase to £492 million for the 2024/25 financial year.

    Sackur, 60, hit out at the decision to axe HARDtalk, calling it “depressing news for the BBC and all those who believe in the importance of independent, rigorous deeply researched journalism.”

    He continued, “At a time when disinformation and media manipulation are poisoning public discourse, HARDtalk is unique – a long-form interview show with only one mission, to hold to account those who all too often avoid accountability in their own countries.”

    During his career, the presenter has interviewed Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez, Sergei Lavrov, Meles Zenawi, Lula, Nancy Pelosi, Recep Tayep Erdogan, Emmanuel Macron, Imran Khan, Olusegan Abasanjo, and many others.

    (the Independent)

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