Ben Kentish
Presenter and Westminster Editor at LBC
Columnist at The i Paper
Presenter “Late Nights with Ben Kentish” @LBC 10pm-1am Mon-Thurs | Ex-Westminster Editor | Columnist @theipaper | Instagram: benkentishlbc | @barnetfc sufferer
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1 month ago |
jewishnews.co.uk | Ben Kentish
I start with an admission. I used to quite like Kanye West. His music provided part of the soundtrack to my teenage years. I even went to see him perform live once. A lot of his tracks are really quite good – some of them still feature on my running playlist, spurring me on to yet another disapprovingly average 5K time. A shame, then, that West’s musical talents have now been overshadowed by his vile antisemitism.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
jewishnews.co.uk | Ben Kentish
You can accuse Donald Trump of many things, but wasting time isn’t one of them. Trump has been back in office for less than two months and has spent much of that time rapidly unravelling America’s historic diplomatic ties and trashing its alliances. He has repeatedly threatened not to come to the defence of NATO allies if they are attacked, undermining the very purpose of that military alliance. And he has hit close US allies and neighbours like Mexico and Canada with punishing tariffs.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish
Britain has a housing crisis. That much, everybody knows. We hear it time and time again: we don’t have enough homes. We must build and build and build. More and more parts of the country must be concreted over. In many parts of the UK this is true: supply has not kept up with demand. But – and this may surprise you – this country actually has more homes than it has households.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish
Next Friday’s vote on assisted dying has left many MPs facing a major dilemma. While some have long-standing and deeply held views on the issue, others do not. These waverers are listening carefully to all sides and grappling with their consciences; many have still not decided how to vote.
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Nov 4, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish
It did not take long in the end – just 78 minutes, in fact. That was all the time that was needed for Rachel Reeves, delivering the Budget last week, to tear up a plethora of promises that she and her party had made over the course of several years. One by one they fell. Having vowed not to “fiddle” her fiscal rules “to get different results”, she did precisely that. After pledging not to increase national insurance, she did.
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It’s actually even worse than this: if your *personal* income is under £35,000 but your partner has an income of, say, £1 million a year, your household - including the person earning £1 million a year - will still get Winter Fuel Allowance from the taxpayer. What an absolutely
If you're a pension-age couple with a combined income of just under £70,000 a year, the government will give you taxpayers' money to pay your energy bills with. If you're a family earning a fraction of that amount and struggling to keep your children warm this winter, no help
Young person working all hours God sends just to cover the rent, while paying record levels of tax? Want to ever have a hope of buying a house? Work harder. Over-65 enjoying the benefits of your private pension/dividends/property rent on your latest Mediterranean cruise? Great,
RT @Victoria_Spratt: Labour are opening themselves up to this sort of criticism. For good reason. Remember the 165,000 homeless children g…