''Sam Delaney's News Thing'' is television programme produced by

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 Russia ...

and presented by British journalist and broadcaster Sam Delaney, that aired every Saturday night from November 2015 until June 2018. Notable guest appearances included

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, former Mayor of London, and

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, 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

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, but had been primed by Delaney to say "My mummy says you hate foreigners." Commenting on the segment,

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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

and temporarily titled ''John Prescott's News Thing''. The series was cancelled in 2018 when RT reduced its amount of independently-made output.

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References

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