Sam Delaney's News Thing
''Sam Delaney's News Thing'' was a television programme produced by RT UK and presented by British journalist and broadcaster Sam Delaney, that aired every Saturday night from November 2015 until June 2018. Notable guest appearances included Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London, Calum Morson, a notable Sunderland AFC fan and John Prescott, Labour peer and former deputy prime minister. A clip of the show that was widely shared online was a prank where a child was dressed up as the Queen to knight Nigel Farage, but had been primed by Delaney to say "My mummy says you hate foreigners." Commenting on the segment, Jim Waterson said it was "unclear" how a show with material like this fitted into the image of RT being a Kremlin propaganda front. On 3 June 2016, the show was guest hosted by John Prescott John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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RT (TV Network)
RT, formerly Russia Today (), is a Russian State media, state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air television channel, channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Portuguese and Serbian. RT is a brand of TV-Novosti, a nonprofit registered Nonprofit_organization_laws_by_jurisdiction#Russia, as an "autonomous non-commercial organization" (ANO) and founded by the Russian state news agency Federal State Unitary Enterprise, FSUE RIA Novosti in April 2005. During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its List of strategic organizations of Russia, list of core organizations of strategic importance to Russia. RT operates as a multilingual service with channels in five languages: the original English-language ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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RT UK
RT UK, also known as Russia Today, was a free-to-air television news channel based in the United Kingdom. It was part of the RT network, a Russian state-controlled international television network funded by the federal tax budget of the Russian government. The channel's head was Nikolay Bogachikhin. Launched in 2014, it ran live broadcasts for seven years and ceased broadcasting from London in July 2021. RT UK served as the home and production base of RT's UK-based programmes. The channel's studios were located in Millbank Tower. Prior to its closure, the channel offered four hours of its own programming per day, airing RT UK News Monday through Friday at 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm and 10 pm. The RT UK News anchors were Bill Dod and Kate Partridge. RT International now broadcasts in its place, though the channel is still available online through RT's websites and social media. The UK media regulator Ofcom repeatedly found RT to have breached its rules on impartiali ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English former politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was Local Government Act 1985, abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the Greater London Authority Act 1999, creation of the office in 2000 until 2008 London mayoral election, 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 United Kingdom general election, 1987 to 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001. A former member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a socialist. Born in Lambeth, South London, to a working-class family, Livingstone joined Labour in 1968 and was elected to represent Norwood (electoral division), Norwood at the GLC in 1973 Greater London Council election, 1973, Hackney North and Stoke Newington (electoral division), Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977 Greater London Council ele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull East for 40 years, from 1970 to 2010. He was often seen as the political link to the working class in a Labour Party increasingly led by modernising, middle-class professionals such as Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson (although Prescott described himself as "pretty middle class"), and developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often fractious relationship between Blair and Gordon Brown. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, in his youth Prescott failed the eleven-plus entrance exam for grammar school and worked as a ship's steward and trade union activist. He went on to graduate from Ruskin College and the University of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party, often referred to as Labour, is a List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum. The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. It is one of the Two-party system, two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom; the other being the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Labour has been led by Keir Starmer since 2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 2020, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. To date, there have been 12 Labour governments and seven different Labour Prime Ministers – Ramsay MacDonald, MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Attlee, Harold Wilson, Wilson, James Callaghan, Callaghan, Tony Blair, Blair, Gordon Brown, Brown and Starmer. The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Viral Phenomenon
Viral phenomena or viral sensations are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. Analogous to the way in which viruses propagate, the term ''viral'' pertains to a video, image, or written content spreading to numerous online users within a short time period. This concept has become a common way to describe how thoughts, information, and trends move into and through a human population. The popularity of viral media has been fueled by the rapid rise of social network sites, wherein audiences—who are metaphorically described as experiencing "infection" and "contamination"—play as passive carriers rather than an active role to 'spread' content, making such content "go viral". The term ''viral media'' differs from '' spreadable media'' as the latter refers to the ''potential'' of content to become viral. Memes are one known example of informational viral patterns. History ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farage ( ; born 3 April 1964) is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton (UK Parliament constituency), Clacton and Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England (European Parliament constituency), South East England from 1999 until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020. A prominent Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, Eurosceptic since the early 1990s, Farage was first elected to the European Parliament (EP) in 1999. In 2004, he became the president of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy. Farage was 2006 UK Independence Party leadership election, elected UKIP's leader in 2006 and led the party at the 2009 European Parliament election, when it won the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jim Waterson
James Waterson (born March 1989) is an English journalist who was the media editor of ''The Guardian''. Previously he was political editor of BuzzFeed UK, and prior to that worked for City AM Early life Waterson was born in York. He attended Oundle School, leaving in 2007. He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 2011, with a degree in history. He represented the college on the 2009–10 series of ''University Challenge''. Career Waterson interned at Guido Fawkes, ''The Independent'', and ''The Observer'' before landing his first job covering politics and business on City A.M. While at City A.M. he fried an egg on a street using reflected heat from the 20 Fenchurch Street skyscraper. He was BuzzFeed News' UK political editor from 2013, before joining ''The Guardian'' in 2018. In 2024 he set up ''London Centric'', a newsletter publishing "exclusive, ambitious and interesting news stories about the capital that aren’t being reported by other outlets". He has presented ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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RT (TV Network) Original Programming
RT may refer to: Arts and media * RT (TV network), a Russian television news channel (formerly ''Russia Today'') ** RT America, defunct U.S. channel (2010–2022) ** RT UK, defunct British channel (2014–2022) ** RT France, defunct French channel (2014–2022) ** RT Arabic, Arabic-language channel ** RT Spanish, Spanish-language channel ** RT Documentary, RT's documentary channel * RT!, Canadian music-video director * ''Radio Times'', a British listings magazine * Radio Thailand, a Thai public radio station * Rooster Teeth, an entertainment production company * Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator website Science and technology Biology and medicine * Radiation therapy or radiotherapy * Rapid test * Reaction time, a term used in psychology * Respiratory therapist * Resuscitative thoracotomy * Reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that transcribes RNA to DNA * Richter's transformation, in chronic leukemia * R_t or effective reproduction number, a measure of the spread of an infec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |