Sunak, Starmer, and the death of the political interview
The News Agents
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There's no time anymore. Not many long-form interview shows. Politicians are so much more brittle, so much more willing to call buyers. And try and intimidate rather than face up to them. We like to think we're plugging some of that gap here on a news agent. But it does matter, because politics remains about arguments. If there is nowhere for those arguments to be tested, to be tried, for politicians' metal to be gauged, then democracy just doesn't work properly. Or worse, you end up with American-style broadcast news, all just so chummy. So much pointless drivel about baseball and who's playing whom this weekend.
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