A ‘golden age’ for America? Changes to British passports & sunshine returns
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
Sky News
4.0 • 224 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has made a record-breaking speech in the US - the longest in history… at one hour 48 minutes long.
Peter Mandelson's lawyers say a 'baseless' suggestion prompted his arrest on Monday. Mandelson has denied any wrongdoing.
From today, visitors will require an Electronic Travel Authorisation to enter Britain. What does it mean for dual nationals?
And has spring sprung?
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Shine Nightwalk London is a 10K half marathon or full marathon supported walk around the city at night |
| 0:06.0 | on the 19th of September to raise vital money for cancer research UK. |
| 0:10.0 | It's also... |
| 0:11.0 | Everyone walking with all their colours, twinkling away. |
| 0:14.0 | We can actually see how nice London is and London is different at night time. |
| 0:18.0 | Celebration of life and it gives hope. |
| 0:24.5 | Step towards a brighter future at shinewalk.org today to get 30% off your entry. |
| 0:26.6 | Together we are beating cancer. |
| 0:28.7 | Teas and C's apply. |
| 0:32.4 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:40.5 | Until UK the full story first. Until you came along, we're just always losing, but now we're winning too much. |
| 0:46.1 | President Trump has declared a golden age for America in a record-breaking State of the Union address. |
| 0:52.4 | Peter Mendelsohn's lawyers say a baseless suggestion prompted his arrest on Monday. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news on Wednesday |
| 1:02.4 | the 25th of February. I'm Wilfred Frost. And I'm Safie Ridge. And today, it feels like we've |
| 1:07.9 | had the first bit of sunshine for months and we're enjoying it. |
| 1:14.4 | So Donald Trump has made a record-breaking State of the Union Address. |
| 1:20.0 | It was an hour and 48 minutes long. |
| 1:22.6 | They're always long these and they are always drawn out because there's always pauses for adulation. |
| 1:31.4 | And there was a lot of adulation. According to our correspondent, James Matthews, over |
| 1:35.1 | a hundred standing evasions by Republicans. So that's going to take some time, right, I guess. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah, but still it's a record. He doesn't like to shorten his moments in the spotlight. I think the standout point of this |
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