Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/11/2025
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
On Remembrance Sunday, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton says the UK must be prepared against ‘hybrid warfare’, and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy contends with allegations of BBC bias, Labour cronyism, and mistakenly released prisoners.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:45.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:54.1 | This week, as the Remembrance Sunday service took place at the cenotaph, |
| 0:59.6 | culture secretary Lisa Nandi contended with questions over the BBC, wrongly released prisoners and other instances of her government not meeting its highest standards. |
| 1:05.1 | The BBC is set to apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech. |
| 1:09.6 | It featured in the panorama documentary, |
| 1:11.8 | Trump, a second chance. The documentary spliced together different segments of Trump's speech |
| 1:17.3 | to make it look like he said he would walk to the US Capitol with the rioters to fight like hell. |
| 1:25.1 | Speaking to Laura Coonsberg, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandi said she was concerned |
| 1:29.4 | about systemic bias at the institution. My concern about what is happening at the BBC is twofold. |
| 1:35.4 | I've had countless conversations with the senior leadership there, too many to name and |
| 1:41.0 | far more than I would like over the last 15 months since we were elected. |
| 1:46.7 | The first concern that I have is that in all of these areas, whether it's Israel, Gaza, |
| 1:52.3 | whether it's the concerns that were raised this week about the way they report on trans people |
| 1:57.3 | or on this issue about President Trump, |
| 2:08.1 | that what tends to happen at the BBC is that decisions about editorial standards, |
| 2:14.0 | editorial guidelines, the sort of language that is used in reporting, is entirely inconsistent. |
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