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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Russian spy ship, secret Ukraine peace deal, AI nightmare for novelists

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0224 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Defence Secretary John Healey sent a direct warning to Russia after a ship was spotted off the north coast of Scotland.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff's post on X has suggested the US and Russia may be forming a secret plan to end the war in Ukraine.

And authors say they fear AI replacing them entirely.

Plus - why are MPs reading dad jokes in the Commons?

Sophy and Wilf have everything you need to know, minus the doomscrolling, in just 10 minutes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, mate, how's it going? What time you want till?

0:03.6

Not bad, thanks. Probably finishing a three, I reckon.

0:07.0

Your Uber driver is here at aerobic fitness, as you use every Tuesday lunchtime.

0:12.2

Because Uber drivers work when they want and do other stuff when they want.

0:16.0

Like live a double life as Croydon's most popular aerobics instructor.

0:20.5

Naturally.

0:22.1

Looking good, gang. Love those leggings, Trevor. Let's go.

0:27.7

Uber on our way.

0:31.1

Hello, you are listening to Cheeksheet, the podcast that gets you up to speed with everything

0:35.4

that's happening in just 10 minutes. I'm Sophie.

0:38.4

And I'm Wilf. It's Thursday the 20th of November. Here's what's happening. So the UK is exploring

0:43.8

military options. If a Russian spy ship sells any closer to British shores, we're going to explain

0:49.9

what's happened in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the US and Russia could be secretly forming a plan

0:56.3

to end the war in Ukraine. And it is a nightmare, to be honest, for novelists. Nearly half of

1:02.9

authors in the UK think they're going to be replaced by AI. Right, let's talk about the Russian ship off the coast of Scotland. The Foreign Secretary of

1:14.2

Cooper says the government's deployed a Royal Navy warship and also RIF planes to keep an eye on what it's up to.

1:20.9

It was spotted yesterday. What they suspect it of doing is gathering intelligence to try and map Britain's undersea cables. The ship

1:30.7

known as the Antar is just off the north coast of Scotland at the minute and it was also seen

1:36.5

pointing lasers at pilots of RAF aircraft. Let's listen to what the Defence Secretary had to say.

1:43.2

He said the UK is exploring military options

1:45.6

if it gets any closer to British shores. And he did a press conference yesterday as the news broke

1:50.5

and addressed the Kremlin directly. My message to Russia and to Putin is this. We see you. We know

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