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Nov 20, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Catherine Neilan |Joe White |Katie Riley
So what? That is not how parliaments are meant to operate. Under the new Labour government, the House of Lords is heading for reform. But a comprehensive new analysis of how the upper chamber works shows that Labour’s plans to scrap hereditary peers only scratch the surface of potential changes that could be made to improve the parliamentary system. Last week MPs backed a bill that would abolish the 92 seats reserved for hereditary peers, who inherit their titles through their families.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Jess Winch |Katie Riley
American governance is supposed to be protected from extremism by time-honoured checks and balances. So what? From the very start, Trump 2.0 looks unchecked and unbalanced. He will have formal or de facto control ofthe White Housethe Senate andthe Supreme CourtHe has threatened to intervene in the running of the Federal Reserve and to turn the Department of Justice on his enemies. In addition, as usual for a president, he will be Commander-in-Chief of the world’s mightiest military.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | James Harding |Katie Riley |Mary Jordan |Michael Warren
News Meeting: Did the media help Donald Trump win an historic election? Your browser does not support the audio element. US Election 2024 Our planet #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Katie Riley
As today turns into tomorrow on the east side of the Atlantic, on the other side, polls will start to close in the most important election – American or otherwise – in our lifetimes. So what? Yes, again. Where to watch. It’s important to resist the urge to tune into the BBC. British broadcasters tend to be slower on breaking news than their American counterparts, and no one makes a spectacle of the democratic process quite like they do.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Katie Riley
As today turns into tomorrow on the east side of the Atlantic, on the other side, polls will start to close in the most important election – American or otherwise – in our lifetimes. So what? Yes, again. Where to watch. It’s important to resist the urge to tune into the BBC. British broadcasters tend to be slower on breaking news than their American counterparts, and no one makes a spectacle of the democratic process quite like they do.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Giles Whittell |Katie Riley |Xavier Greenwood
A convicted felon and serial bankrupt found liable for sexual assault and under federal investigation for his part in an attempted insurrection would not ordinarily be a plausible candidate for the White House. That his idea of presidential language is to mock and threaten anyone brave enough to call him out for his lies wouldn’t ordinarily help. That his economic policy platform will raise prices by raising barriers to trade wouldn’t either.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Katie Riley
Olivia Nuzzi, a 31-year-old American political journalist, has left her job as New York magazine’s star Washington correspondent. For the past month, Nuzzi has been on leave from the publication as it reviewed her work, after another journalist, Oliver Darcy, reported she had engaged in an intimate (though, she’s insisted, “non-physical”) relationship with the subject of a magazine cover story she’d written in 2023: the then-presidential candidate Robert F.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Giles Whittell |Katie Riley |Kevin Sullivan |Mary Jordan
Trump threatens to fight the enemy within and the gender divide splitting US voters Your browser does not support the audio element. US Election 2024 #DonaldTrump
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Giles Whittell |Katie Riley |Cat Neilan
This event is exclusive to Friends of Tortoise Join Tortoise Media for a live recording of the podcast, ‘The News Meeting’ and help set the news agenda. In every newsroom around the world there’s a daily editorial conference to decide what leads the news, what follows and in what order. In this live version of the hit podcast The News Meeting, the Tortoise audience gets a chance to see and hear how these conversations shape the news agenda.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Katie Riley
SENSEMAKER US Election 2024 The 100-year life #Politics #USA Harris and Trump both know that winning in Pennsylvania could mean winning the White House This week, Kamala Harris sat down for some of her first formal, in-person interviews since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. One was with a local television station and another with the National Association of Black Journalists. So what?
