Before Brexit, many hospitality jobs in Jersey were filled by Europeans. Today, a new wave of immigrants - mainly Kenyans and Filipinos - do the work, but tough visa conditions are making life on the island difficult.
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The latest episode of The News Meeting is out!
We discuss: Is it a Hot Reform Summer? How risky is handing over your ID under the Online Safety Act? And has Trump really turned his back on Putin?
Thanks to @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @paticlarke.bsky.social @poppybullard.bsky.social
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This week @theobserveruk.bsky.social published a major investigation into The Salt Path.
In this special episode of The News Meeting, the reporter behind the story, @chloehadj.bsky.social and her editor, Alexi Mostrous, discuss how the investigation unfolded.
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Absolutely surreal to see The News Meeting and The Sensemaker in @theobserveruk.bsky.social !
Congratulations to the brilliant team for putting together such a beautiful first edition (well technically it’s the paper’s 12,177th!)
We also wade into an extremely bizarre debate about Orchard Pudding thanks to @catneilan.bsky.social
Thanks to the brilliant @paticlarke.bsky.social + @ktriley.bsky.social + Hashi Mohamed
I'm back in the hot seat on today's episode of The News Meeting.
We talk about an intriguing all-caps post from Trump, ask whether we’re too old to 'get' AI chatbots and look at why some American lawyers are running for cover.
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Cat, I stand by the editorial judgement I made. @paticlarke.bsky.social was right not to plump for your terrible pun!
I did not think we would have tapped into such a rich vein of pudding drama. You are welcome to make your case in a future episode.
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has expired, and hopes for a second phase are fading fast.
With hostages still held in Gaza and political tensions rising in Israel, is renewed war now inevitable?
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Why did Anora sweep the board at the Oscars last night?
@stephena1984.bsky.social says its honest portrayal of sex work might be the answer: "For much of Anora's first half, the women primarily talk about their shifts, the rota and their plans for retirement."
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I was on the News Meeting podcast talking about the crisis currently unfolding in UK drama pod.fo/e/2b3196
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Yesterday was a thrill as always! So many new faces and great chats with listeners after the show.
With the news moving so fast, it’s clear people want space to make sense of it all and that’s exactly what we’re here for.
Thanks to @caseymagloire.bsky.social for making it happen!
🎙️🔥 The episode is out now: lnk.to/7bAXXI
Tune in for @matt-forde.bsky.social's uncanny Starmer & Trump impressions,
+ @scottygb.bsky.social's passionate defence of the UK's struggling TV industry,
+ why does @catneilan.bsky.social say Zelensky might have pulled a blinder with the US mineral deal?
🎫 What a great show!
Last night our monthly News Meeting Live was a sell-out success! Thank you to our incredible audience for really bringing the energy at Tortoise HQ.
And of course thank you to our brilliant guests @scottygb.bsky.social + @matt-forde.bsky.social + @catneilan.bsky.social
It was an privilege to produce this series during the first six months of the investigation and to collaborate with such a tenacious and empathetic reporter on this complex story.
'Gareth' is in his fifties now and he's spent decades trying to come to terms to what happened to him.
Please take a listen to this beautifully told, sensitive four-part series by Chloe, Gary Marshall and Hannah Varrall.
@chloehadj.bsky.social first called me about this story back in early 2024. As she laid the details over the phone I was astounded: a 14-year-old boy had a 'relationship' with his 27-year-old female teacher but no one wanted to see him as a victim of sexual abuse.
Great to be joined by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com for the latest episode of @tortoisemedia.bsky.social's The News Meeting.
We debated which story - Trump's lies, Badenoch's rightward shift and the alarming situation in DRC - should lead the news
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The latest episode of The News Meeting is out now.
It's a must-listen for anyone concerned about recent coverage of The White House.
The gang discuss why it's so hard for journalists to report on Trump’s blatant lies.
@catneilan.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com + Ada Barumé
- And @claudiawilliams.bsky.social investigated the mystery of who stole ancient treasures from the Drents Museum (lnk.to/uKcZrq)
With the way things are going, it looks like the news will stay relentless for a long time yet.
Follow The News Meeting and The Sensemaker so we can help you keep up.
But it’s not all fire and fury from the US.
- Elaine McCallig asked whether Joan Didion’s personal diary should have been published after her death (lnk.to/FsjMZi)
- @phoebeivy.bsky.social spoke to a woman leading efforts to distribute self-test rape kits (lnk.to/7wz3N3)
- Serena Cesareo asked if the Labour government is borrowing Trump’s immigration playbook (lnk.to/2rlFn8)
- And tomorrow, @paticlarke.bsky.social will analyse the data: are Musk’s politics turning people off Tesla?
- @xaviergreenwood.bsky.social wrote about Musk’s Doge gang taking over the US government (lnk.to/WjA9jh)
- @catneilan.bsky.social focused on Pete Hegseth firing the starting gun on America’s shift on Ukraine and Europe (lnk.to/vGjE4Y)
The mission for our Sensemaker podcast is simple: one story, every day to make sense of the world. And with Trump shaping the global political weather, it’s no surprise he’s been at the centre of many recent episodes.
With the fallout from the US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia still unfolding, listen back to @gwhittell.bsky.social, Jasper Corbett and @catneilan.bsky.social for a sharp primer: lnk.to/31jRFl
But even they couldn’t have predicted how fast things would move...
By this Monday’s recording, one story eclipsed all others: the endgame in Ukraine. So, we devoted the entire episode to it.
That’s the lens through which former South African opposition leader Lindiwe Mazibuko, CNN’s @maxfostercnn.bsky.social and Tortoise’s @paticlarke.bsky.social discussed the Trump-Putin phone call last Thursday.
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Since Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, the news cycle has been non-stop.
One question that our editors keep asking on The News Meeting podcast is: does this story really matter, or is it just another case of The White House throwing out distractions while journalists scramble to chase them?
