Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. You are listening to the spiked podcast. My name is Ella Wheeling, I'm the assistant editor at Spite. Thank you for tuning in. Today we have a great lineup. We've got Bruno Waterfield on the Brexit negotiations which were announced this morning. Sean Collins, our US correspondent, picks the latest stage in the panic about

Russia and the US, and I speak to Naomi first about the Stop Funding Hate campaign

and why it is threatening press freedom.

A breakthrough.

A breakthrough, a sigh of relief. That was how this morning's announcement from the negotiation table with the EU leaders and Prime Minister Theresa May was described by many.

Here at Spiked, we were rather less encouraged. In fact, the agreements on the withdrawal bill sound a lot more like cowardice, compromise and failure than any kind of successful moving forward.

One BBC economics editor asked,

so did soft Brexit just win?

And I think that probably tells you quite a lot.

So what happened, May has agreed that the European Court of Justice will remain supreme over adjudicating

EU citizens' rights for at least another eight years, with UK courts basically having to

toe the line on those decisions. And with regards to Ireland, which has dominated the papers for the last week,

a decision was reached which stated that if the UK fails to agree a trade deal,

it will remain in full regulatory alignment with the rules of the Single Market and Customs Union, which effectively means, as Tom Slater or deputy editor put it on spike today, that we check out but never leave.

Is this it? Is this the fate of Brexit to be watered down and compromise to the point of pointlessness?

Well to discuss this morning's announcements I call Bruno Waterfield, he's the Brussels Correspondent for the Times and you may well recognize him from our Brexit video, Brexit and the Battle for Democracy. Here's what he had to say.

So Bruno, the big news out this morning is that there has been a breakthrough in the Brexit

negotiations that finally something has happened that isn't kind of gossiping and bickering,

that there has been an agreement in relation to the withdrawal bill between Theresa May, the Prime Minister and the EU leaders.

But on the other hand, actually, when you dig a little bit deeper, it seems that May might be giving the EU what it wants. I mean, are we witnessing a surrender here?

Look, at this stage, it's about the withdrawal agreement. So the agreement or the bare bones of a withdrawal agreement.

So on the whole, a lot of it is what you would do,

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