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Jon Sopel

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Jon Sopel

@jonsopel

Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of forthcoming book, Strangeland. Order now or come to one of the events lnk.to/StrangelandBook

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Born May 22

Joined April 2010

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Jon Sopel
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May 29, 2025
The paperback edition out today, with new chapter on Trump, Musk and Farage (which sounds like a dodgy law firm…..)
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Aug 8, 2024
Anyone else woken up this morning to listen anxiously to the news and feeling relieved, prouder of who we are, and just a bit more disdainful of the Tommy Robinsons and Elon Musks of this world? Well done decency, well done the police
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Sep 26, 2023
‘Multiculturalism has failed’ says Suella Braverman who is from Kenyan and Mauritian background and married to a Jew, serving as Home Secretary in a govt led by someone whose family came from India. Wonder what multicultural success looks like…..
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Oct 5, 2022
For 4 years when I was US Editor I went to endless Trump rallies where we’d be accused of being ‘enemies of the people’ - the ‘we’ were the media, but also ‘liberals’, civil servants, environmentalists, the swamp, the think tanks. All felt a bit familiar in B’ham today
Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Aug 11, 2024
Crikey- you may be right ⁦@elonmusk⁩ - it feels like imminent civil war in London this evening - people from all races and religions sitting in the sun, having picnics, walking dogs, playing frisbee, enjoying the greatest city in the world. #edgy
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Oct 28, 2022
After tumultuous week, worth reflecting: In the 37 years from 1979 to 2016 there were just 5 prime ministers. In the 6 years since 2016 we’ve also had 5 PMs Something pretty destabilising must have happened that year
Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Oct 12, 2022
And this from the Daily Telegraph cartoonist….
Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Sep 29, 2022
Waspish line from @AngelaRayner - 'Liz Truss has finally broken her long painful silence with a series of short painful silences.'
Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Feb 8, 2024
Sorry. This is nuts. A presenter on a news channel uses platform to advance a conspiracy theory about a cancer in children linked to vaccines which is baseless, and OFCOM says it’s fine. If facts don’t matter on a news channel, then where are we?
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Oct 14, 2022
I float this. Throughout the Tory leadership contest there was this whole narrative that Liz Truss has been under-estimated her whole career. Is it possible that it’s completely the reverse?
Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Mar 10, 2023
Lucky there are no producer guidelines on whether you need to declare facilitating an £800k loan to a prime minister while applying for a job as chairman of a broadcasting organisation….
Pippa Crerar
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Mar 10, 2023
BREAKING: Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use - @BBCNews
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Jon Sopel
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Jul 10, 2023
No longer bound by BBC rules on impartiality, let me just say what a moronic and offensive comment. If I’m not mistaken didn’t you have a deputy chief whip appointed even tho his past form as a sex pest was well known and documented?
BBC branded 'a safe haven for perverts' as Tory MPs demand licence fee scrapped
From express.co.uk
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Nov 6, 2023
Trump in court: Counsel: did you prepare the 2021 financial statement Trump: ‘I was so busy in the White House, focusing on Russia and China and keeping our country safe’ Counsel: you weren’t president then 🙄
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Jon Sopel
@jonsopel
Feb 5, 2023
Hold on - wasn’t it those pesky free markets - that she champions - reacting in horror to £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts? That led to surge in cost of borrowing, near collapse of pension industry, and more costly mortgages for all of us. Didn’t Liz Truss bring Liz Truss down?
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