Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter
Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
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“The problem is a systemic problem” – Columnist Rachel Sylvester questions government’s vetting of Andrew Sabisky.
We spoke to The Times columnist Rachel Sylvester and Peter Cardwell, who was a government adviser for the past three and a half years, until he was sacked last week in the reshuffle.
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Hospital baby deaths: review launched into East Kent NHS Trust
An independent review has been launched into maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust – after a number of potentially avoidable baby deaths since 2011.
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‘It’s not just murder, it’s very narcissistic, twisting, ongoing torture’ – Sam Gillingham on not knowing where her mother’s murdered body was left
A bereaved mother has described the “ongoing torture” of seeing her daughter’s murderer released, despite the fact he’s never told police where he left her body.
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Dozens more infected with Coronavirus on cruise ship – as David and Sally Abel explain
British couple David and Sally Abel are being quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan, where the deadly coronavirus has now spread to 61 people.
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Dame Vera Baird: ‘Men who are sexually exploitative seem rather better at spotting vulnerable people than the people who ought to be protecting them’
We spoke with Dame Vera Baird who’s the Government commissioner for victims.
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Why victims of child sexual exploitation are still being let down by social services
Lessons have been learnt – a phrase which has been uttered after every high-profile child sexual exploitation scandal in the last decade.
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Auschwitz survivor Renee Salt: ‘Anti-Semitism is very bad now’
For 50 years Mrs Salt remained silent about her experiences.
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Death of England: class, race and identity in play about post-Brexit world
The play, by coincidence, opens at London’s National Theatre on Brexit day.
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At least 22 killed in Turkey earthquake
At least 22 people have been killed and more than a thousand injured, after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey yesterday evening.
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City ‘like a ghost town’, says Wuhan teacher Ben Kavanagh
I spoke to Ben Kavanagh who is from Ireland, and working as a teacher in Wuhan, and started by asking him what the situation was like in the city.
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Wretch 32 on masculinity, relationships and the power of mums
He’s one of the most successful rap artists in Britain. Stormzy says he one of the best in the world. Wretch 32, also known as Jermaine Scott, is famous for his painstakingly constructed, poetic raps and now in his new book he explains his craft.
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‘It’s a lot easier to be lucky if you’re most powerful country in world’ – Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer
Joining me now from New York is Ian Bremmer, the president and founder of political risk research and consulting firm Eurasia Group, and journalist Hiwa Osman from Erbil, Iraq, who served as an adviser to Jalal Talabani – the former president of Iraq.
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‘In future we may be talking about them stepping down’- royal commentator Peter Hunt on Harry and Meghan
I’m joined now from central London by royal commentator Peter Hunt.
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Lysette Anthony alleges she was raped on two occasions by the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
It is not about sex, it is about domination and control. That’s what the British actress Lysette Anthony tells us tonight.
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TV licence is ‘criminalising people for being poor’, says Tory MP Andrew Bridgen
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, who led a debate on decriminalising non-payment of the TV licence fee discusses the future of the TV licence with Michael Grade, former chairman of the BBC and ITV, and a Conservative peer.
