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Reform Reveals Plan To Put Kids In Poverty

Novara Live

Novara Media

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Reform’s push to put children into poverty.

Plus: Is “build, baby, build” making progress?, Big Tech’s arms race, and China flaunts dominance in humanoid robots.

With Michael Walker & Aaron Bastani

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Navarra Live.

0:04.8

Coming up tonight, Robert Jenrick's first speech as reform shadow chancellor.

0:09.4

Britain's housing crisis appears to be getting worse.

0:12.8

There's a housing shortage, but no one's building any new homes.

0:16.9

The development of AI weapons is getting more conflictual.

0:22.0

There is a battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon.

0:25.1

What does it tell us about the future of autonomous weapons?

0:28.1

And to mark Chinese New Year,

0:31.4

the CCP is showing off their dominance in humanoid robots.

0:36.2

To discuss AI, robots, housing, reform, I'm joined by Aaron Bistani.

0:41.5

It's a very Michael, our encoded line-up we've got, isn't it, in terms of stories?

0:45.8

It's very much so.

0:47.6

I'm excited to get your take on Chinese humanoid robots.

0:51.0

We're saving that until the end.

0:53.7

Before we start the show, most of our viewers

0:55.5

will be familiar with downstream. Of course you're familiar with downstream. That's Ash and Aaron's

0:59.4

weekly interview show where they question some of the leading thinkers of our time. But we now have

1:02.8

more for you. So they've recently launched an accompanying newsletter that goes out every Sunday.

1:08.2

Aaron, why don't you tell our viewers about it? I should really

1:12.8

check through the script before we start so I know sort of how to make that sound more natural,

1:17.2

but I didn't know we were going to do that hook. But anyway, tell us about your newsletter.

1:21.2

Michael is so talented. He wings everything. It's a great newsletter. Look, downstream,

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