Center stage journalists and Brexit’s fate (E258)

Sometimes the journalist becomes the story and, in this often bewildering Hall of Mirrors in which we all live, it’s happening more and more. In the 70s with Woodward & Bernstein and “All the President’s Men”, it was the journalists who were the heroes, at least to the chattering classes. Now, the journalists are the villains. Those who work at RT are routinely slandered and, in the United States, RT journalists are required to register as Foreign Agents (even if they are born and bred there). Our star guest this week is one of the best journalists we’ve ever met. He’s former BBC and Al Jazeera reporter, and is now RT “Going Underground” anchor Afshin Rattansi: We invited him into our studio to help us understand what is going on.

What is the fate of Brexit? According to the Times the PM scraped home badly wounded from her party's no confidence vote this week; according to the Mirror, she’s a lame duck for Christmas and her goose is cooked; for the Daily Mail and the Express, it was “now let her get on with the job”. The “job” is to persuade first the EU to change its parliament's perception of her Brexit deal and then to change the parliamentary arithmetic on it. No pressure then! So, we invited UKIP London Assembly member David Kurten to help us map out the next few weeks.

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