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1Oct 9, '23"My cousin is not Hamas. These kids are not Hamas." Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, lost 6 family members amongst the almost 700 killed in Israeli strikes 142×14M19k6.3k2.4k
2Sep 6, '25"People that are working here shouldn't be targeted like that, nobody should be targeted like that." Social media content creator and “proud Englishman” John Fisher, aka Big John, 129×12.7M28k1.6k3.2k
3Nov 19, '24“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?” @vicderbyshire speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westm77.2×7.6M15k2.3k2.4k
4Sep 27, '23"Frankly what Ofcom should do is shut it down" Broadcaster Adam Boulton tells #Newsnight regulator Ofcom should shut down GB News for disrupting Britain's 'broadcast ecology'43×4.2M4.8k1.2k197
5Jul 14, '24FULL INTERVIEW with a witness, talking to @BBCNews, who says he saw a man with a gun on a building roof firing shots. Donald Trump was rushed off stage during a rally in Pennsylvan42.4×4.2M5.2k1.4k1.6k
6Mar 18, '25“Could you live on £70 a week?” “Absolutely not” “So why do you expect young people to?” “We won't” @vicderbyshire challenges DWP minister Torsten Bell on benefit reform. #Newsnigh41.8×4.1M3.7k912708
7May 15, '23‘Brexit has failed’ GB News presenter Nigel Farage admits after he is read a list of negative facts about the UK economy40.8×4M3.4k1.2k423
8Aug 9, '24"[Elon] Musk is trying to pretend freedom of speech as some absolute right. It's never been an absolute right." Keir Starmer's biographer Tom Baldwin says there should be more regu34.8×3.4M5.3k1.4k1.1k
9May 29, '24“Honestly I’m so shocked right now, to be treated this badly” Faiza Shaheen, who was set to stand for Labour, describes hearing that her candidacy had been pulled over liking a ser31.6×3.1M4.8k1.5k587
10Jul 29, '25"This act makes children less safe!" Reform UK's Zia Yusuf makes his party's case for repealing the Online Safety Act, citing the uptick in downloads of VPNs. #Newsnight30.5×3M5k466711
11Oct 12, '17Emma Thompson tells us the Harvey Weinstein allegations are just the tip of the iceberg of a wider and systemic problem in Hollywood29.8×082k43k21
12Nov 19, '24“I’ve got £3m worth of cattle stood in the shed… but we’ve got no money” “This will be end of family farms” @vicderbyshire speaks to farmers and supporters attending the farmers’ i29.7×2.9M11k1k753
13Nov 17, '25“This is extreme, this is inhumane, and it is a government of cowards.” Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, responds to the government's changes to Britain's asylum system. #Newsnig25.9×2.5M7.9k1.5k480
14Sep 2, '25"These are totally unacceptable tweets... I think it was proportionate to arrest him" Zack Polanski, Green Party Leader, on the arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow a25.6×2.5M4.1k6191.1k
15Mar 3, '25"Death threats, phone calls - I don't know how they got my number" Brian Glenn, the man who asked President Zelensky why he doesn't wear a suit, tells #Newsnight about the public r22.7×2.2M18k2.1k1.4k
16Aug 9, '24"Nine times out of ten it is sheer rubbish". Classics professor Mary Beard's health warning on Elon Musk's posts about the Roman Empire #Newsnight16.1×1.6M4.2k1k368
17Oct 16, '23“It’s a kind of brutish attempt at harassment… as if my wife did not have enough to worry about" Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic surgeon in Gaza, says police turned up to h15.8×1.6M7.1k3.7k351
18Jan 30, '23Victoria Derbyshire: ‘Is it possible to estimate the yearly extra cost to your business because of Brexit?’ This chemical manufacturer: ‘£155,000 per year’ #Newsnight |15×1.5M6.1k2k184
19May 23, '17"We can react in anger. Or we can react by doing" - powerful interview with blood donor Ian in Manchester14.3×043k20k7
20May 2, '23‘Whatever way you slice it, the monarchy is neither a fair nor representative institution’ Journalist Ash Sarkar says she believes the royal family have revealed themselves to be a12.3×1.2M4k812188
21Nov 29, '24“I’m shocked a Labour government would do this…and make this one of the first things they do.” “Do you blame the Prime Minister for that?” “Of course…” Christian Fraser speaks to a11.2×1.1M7.1k1.9k673
22Jan 7, '25“I've travelled across the country… something that I very much doubt Kemi Badenoch or Chris Philp have done, to get a young woman… to a place of safety.” Safeguarding minister Jess10×988k3.7k556109
23Feb 18, '25"There are more people in jail in the UK because they spoke what they thought was right... than there are in Russia." Ex Trump ambassador Carla Sands claims more people are jailed 9.8×961k4k650319
24Mar 6, '23“This whole notion that you run government like you run a household…is a complete myth” Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato tells #Newsnight Government’s should address social issues 8.9×878k3.9k1.4k343
25Oct 27, '25"We've now been able to confirm that this image was in the back garden of Royal Lodge" BBC's Joe Pike says Prince Andrew hosted Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxw8.7×861k7.9k2.6k591
26May 2, '25“The President of the United States simply does not have the legal authority… to impose tariffs. Period.” California Governor Gavin Newsom tells @bbcpaddy why he’s challenging Pres7.8×766k22k4.6k419
27Nov 11, '16"I am sorry but if you are a white man you don't get to define what racism is" : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #newsnight7.3×015k12k10
28Nov 4, '16By popular demand, here's our playout from last night...6.6×014k10k60
29Oct 16, '25“It's disgraceful“. The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn reacts to the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from their Aston Villa away fixture on safety grounds. #Newsnight6.5×640k5.7k859401
30Oct 7, '25“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are.” @vicderbyshire6.4×632k9.2k2.3k589
31Jul 12, '24“It has been an honour and a blast… goodnight and good luck” After 30 years of presenting #Newsnight, Kirsty Wark signs off for the final time6.4×629k5.3k448151
32Jan 31, '25"Unfortunately the United Kingdom is living with the economic impact of that decision." The former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says he wishes he ‘had been wrong’ 5.2×513k4.1k1.1k154
33Sep 23, '24"How did accepting four tickets for the Capital Summer Time Ball at Wembley worth £400 last summer help you do your job?" Labour minister, Sarah Jones MP is questionned by @VicDerb5.0×490k4.7k1.3k294
34Oct 6, '25“You could certainly pick up people in the English Channel, hold them on some kind of a mothership & send them back to the land from which they’ve come on some quiet and moonle4.5×439k4.3k431263
35Sep 2, '25“He... is clearly responsible for making the country more divisive, divided, poorer, less relevant in the world, fewer opportunities for our kids and grandkids.” Nick Clegg critici4.1×404k5.4k1.1k238
36Sep 12, '24"I do think there's an issue with truth. And, you know, it's exacerbated when the CEO of X is a purveyor of misinformation and disinformation." John Legend accuses Elon Musk of spr4.0×392k4.4k826104
37May 28, '25"That woman was inciting violence. She is free to think her horrible, horrible, racist thoughts. That is fine. What she isn't allowed to do is go and incite violence." Labour peer 4.0×390k3.9k608142
38Jan 10, '19David Bowie died three years ago today. FROM THE ARCHIVES: Speaking to Newsnight in 1999, he predicted the internet was going to have "unimaginable" effects on society and "change 3.7×011k4.5k287
39Dec 18, '24“He has no feel for politics. Remember he’s on his big fat DPP pension. What does he know about ageing women?” Labour MP Diane Abbott rejects the PM’s insistence that he understand3.6×356k3.9k911159
40Aug 22, '25"What Trump is trying to do is buy time... in order not to help Ukraine." David Frum, speechwriter to George W. Bush and Atlantic staff writer, believes that President Trump is act3.6×356k4.2k1.4k141
41Oct 20, '17US comedian and host of The Daily Show @Trevornoah, speaks to #newsnight about President Donald Trump.3.4×09.1k5.2k3
42Nov 2, '17“What we’ve seen in Spain the last few weeks is outrageous, it’s a shock for every democrat in the EU” argues @markdemesmaeker #newsnight3.3×06.1k7k0
43Jan 10, '17David Bowie died a year ago today. Back in 1999 he made this incredible prediction about how the internet would change our lives forever3.3×07.9k5.5k11
44Nov 12, '25"Those last four weeks of her life when she was in the hospice, I think it's odd to say, but were some of the happiest of her life." Sir Michael Palin reflects on the care his wife3.2×317k8.2k964211
45Aug 17, '18"For the first time since the Second World War we have a domestic, proscribed terrorist group. It's right-wing, it's neo-Nazi, it's proudly white supremacist." The Met's former cou3.2×05.8k5.3k73
46Nov 11, '16"I am sorry but if you are a white man you don't get to define what racism is" : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #newsnight3.1×06.5k5.2k2
47Dec 12, '18“This is a very bad result for the prime minister, 117 votes against her… much worse than she thought” says Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, who insists the result is worse that it looks as an 3.1×04.7k3.9k192
48Mar 3, '20“Joe Biden appeals to people who pay their cable bills on the day they arrive. Bernie Sanders appeals to people who may forget to pay their cable bill entirely.... the first group 3.1×03.9k1.1k193
49May 10, '21“People were going on the holiest night of Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, to pray… look at the hundreds who have been injured.” Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK @hzomlot talks to #N3.1×07.5k4.1k368
50Sep 15, '25"I'd like Government contracts with Tesla to be cut and ended." Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey calls for the Government to block Tesla contracts after Elon Musk told protesters to “fi3.1×301k11k1.9k171
51Sep 4, '24"We're going to leave you with the names of the 72 men, women, and children, who lost their lives as a result of the Grenfell fire." @vicderbyshire #Newsnight3.0×300k3.3k62060
52Jan 31, '25"Perhaps we should ask for that subsidy back." Mark Carney, who hopes to become the next Canadian prime minister, suggests Americans should pay more for energy because Canada subsi2.9×282k4.9k1.1k174
53Nov 15, '19“This is one of those moments where Britain actually has a responsibility… to defend an agreement between two nations,” says @TomTugendhat on the Hong Kong protests. He adds “there2.7×05.6k5.2k9
54Oct 15, '20“I think they’ve been treating the north with contempt.” Mayor of Greater Manchester @AndyBurnhamGM tells @lewis_goodall “the north is fed up of being pushed around” by the governm2.6×08.8k2.4k75
55Sep 4, '24"That room was more than half empty... how are we supposed to get justice when they don't even care?" Vice-Chair of Grenfell United Karim Mussilhy says he was surprised by how many2.6×259k4.1k1.4k73
56Mar 25, '20“The government should have given funding to existing ventilator manufacturers, and existing companies like us.” Andrew Raynor of MEC Medical, a medical parts manufacturer, says “n2.6×05.8k4k121
57May 16, '18"I was absolutely bowled over by the response" - Lucifer star @tomellis17 on the #SaveLucifer campaign #newsnight2.6×06.9k3k30
59Dec 3, '19We took a closer look at p48 of the Tory manifesto... @maitlis: Is this a shifting away from a legal framework, to a political framework? @LordCFalconer: It is... so if Mr Johnson 2.3×03.5k3.9k106
60Aug 1, '19"As soon as you put a hard border back in again... you undermine the basis of the Good Friday Agreement." Jonathan Powell, chief government negotiator in Northern Ireland 1997-20072.3×05.8k3k195
61Jul 3, '20"What's the difference between an aeroplane and a Theatre. Why is it safe to fly six a breast to Greece but not safe to sit in a theatre? I don't understand that." - questions Nich2.3×08.1k2.4k38
62May 23, '17“I don’t care who you believe in, where you’re from, this city is for everybody” – powerful words from blood donor Ian in Manchester2.2×06.4k3.1k3
63Feb 20, '19"I think she's got a problem with immigration." Anna Soubry MP tells #newsnight that free movement of people is "the only reason" Prime Minister Theresa May will not agree to a sin2.1×05.7k2.4k61
64May 1, '20“I don’t quite understand why… we had four weeks of everybody shrugging their shoulders.” Famed surgeon Dr David Nott says governments were warned about coronavirus at the end of J2.1×06.4k2.8k110
65Oct 31, '25"Threats on the phone, threats to my child...packages at my house." Anouska De Georgiou, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, describes her experience since waiving her rig2.0×195k3.9k1.3k143
66Jun 19, '18“This just happened because a bunch of extraordinary people got together and wanted it to” - @tomellis17 thanks #Lucifans for saving his show Lucifer from cancellation #LuciferSave1.9×06k2.1k71
67Oct 30, '18“This man has done such harm and damage to this country… your treatment of the poorest people in this country has been despicable” Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee makes her feelin1.9×05.3k2.3k53
68Nov 21, '19“Even if you just look at the total amount that Labour currently wants to increase the spending, it would basically bring us still to levels that are lower than France, Norway, and1.9×05.1k2.9k131
69Oct 12, '17“I spent my twenties trying to get old men’s tongues out of my mouth” – Emma Thompson on being a woman in Hollywood1.9×05k2.8k2
70Mar 27, '24"The question we should be asking is ‘where's our money gone?’... The truth is the water industry has simply become a legitimised rip off." Environmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey1.8×179k4.9k1.6k53
71Oct 6, '21Can the prime minister solve the UK's productivity problem by reducing immigration? @lewis_goodall reports #Newsnight1.8×04.9k1.6k460
72Jul 18, '18"BBC, no thank you. F**k off BBC." The moment this Dutch man refuses to speak to #newsnight about free speech and Tommy Robinson1.8×04.8k1.7k71
73Jun 3, '20“The UK now has more daily deaths from Covid than the rest of the entire EU put together.” #Newsnight's Political Editor @nicholaswatt talks us through the latest #coronavirus data1.7×03.7k2.7k98
74Jul 23, '19"My biggest single worry perhaps about Boris Johnson is that he seems to me to be a politician who's inhaled his own legend before he's created it" - political historian Lord Henne1.7×05.1k2.1k80
75Jul 15, '20“What troubles me about this episode… is the mindset it gives about what on earth is going on in Downing Street. Why did they try and manipulate this process?” Former Intelligence 1.6×05.2k2.1k96
76May 7, '19“All my life I have voted Conservative but if I am faced with the choice of a Conservative Brexit candidate I, and I think huge numbers of people like me, will not vote for them” -1.6×05.5k1.8k14
77Oct 4, '22"We will push back with fortitude" Chris Packham on what the response should be to the government's raft of new environmental policies #Newsnight @ChrisGPackham1.6×05.8k1.8k48
78Aug 13, '20“I wanted to make everyone that believed in me proud… I knew I could get those grades if I actually did the exams.” Mithushan Thiagarajah had an offer to read medicine at Cambridge1.6×04.3k1.9k82
79Jun 16, '25CONTENT WARNING: MENTIONS OF ABUSE "If you have penetrative sex with a child we will come at you with rape [charges]." Baroness Louise Casey states that the law must be tightened s1.6×154k6.1k938131
80Jan 29, '19“We’ve had pitiful leadership… people are not putting their country first and foremost… I despair of what is happening to our country” - Conservative MP Anna Soubry tells our polit1.6×04.3k1.4k14
81Dec 3, '19“I was a police officer for more than 25 years and I regard domestic violence as terrorism on an epic scale. It’s a disease on pandemic proportions.” Fmr police chief superintenden1.5×04.1k2.1k94
82Apr 1, '19“We’ve got the worst prime minister since Anthony Eden. “We’ve got the worst leader of the opposition in the entire history of the Labour Party “And we’ve got the worst Parliament 1.5×04.4k1.7k26
83Nov 21, '18"I can't forgive them for what they've done... I've never seen human suffering like this." Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on why he won't be friends with the Conservative party. 1.5×04.1k1.8k27
84Sep 27, '19"Racism to me is like gravity. You know, there is a position that is correct and there is a position that is incorrect" Comedian Nish Kumar on the BBC's decision to partly uphold a1.5×05.2k1.6k72
85Mar 28, '19Emily Maitlis: "You didn't say well I'm not quite sure - you said it would turn the UK into a slave state and then you consider voting for it!" Emily Matilis grills Jacob Rees-Mogg1.4×04k1.4k61
86Oct 12, '21“I was accused of being a hysterical populist." Former cabinet minister @RoryStewartUK says in 2020 the UK government asked him to stop publicly advocating the use of masks #Newsni1.3×04.7k1.4k108
87Jan 28, '22Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption says the Metropolitan Police have effectively “obstructed or delayed” MPs performing their constitutional function of holding the governm1.3×03.5k1.8k100
88Jun 3, '20We’re live now on @BBCTwo with Emily Maitlis – you can also watch online at #Newsnight | @maitlis1.3×04.2k1.3k36
89Nov 10, '21"We shouldn't be living with the consequences of [the PM's] broken promises." Husband of Iran detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Richard Ratcliffe who is on a hunger strike, says 1.2×03.7k1.7k31
90Jul 14, '21“It’s now the Brexit Party, effectively, but with this populist, Trumpian-type style”. Former Tory MP @Anna_Soubry says “The Conservative party has lost its moral compass” #Newsnig1.2×04k1.1k58
91Nov 11, '22"If you cut that [spending] too much you actually make it worse" Economist Ha-Joon Chang warns against austerity, saying that Britain has failed to invest in "productive capabiliti1.2×03.9k1.4k162
92Oct 1, '19“The point of this is not how long it takes a lorry to cross the border in Northern Ireland. The issue is identity.” Jonathan Powell, Good Friday Agreement negotiator, says the abi1.2×03.5k1.5k53
93Jun 21, '19“I question the motives of the neighbours who stood there with a microphone pressed against the wall recording somebody’s row… so concerned were they, they went to The Guardian” – 1.1×03.4k1k13
94Jun 18, '19“It was a deeply depressing occasion… I’m disenfranchised.” Former Deputy PM Lord Heseltine says tonight's debate “was a masterclass in avoiding the answers to questions… and there1.1×03.8k1.3k23
95Sep 1, '22"He needed to look at his own reflection... he was conning people throughout his time in office" Former attorney general Dominic Grieve hits out at his former colleague over his re1.1×03.2k1.3k94
96Sep 27, '19"Racism to me is like gravity. You know, there is a position that is correct & there is a position that is incorrect" Comedian Nish Kumar tells #Newsnight following the BBC's d1.0×03.6k1.1k50
97Jan 24, '22"My family stuck to the rules. Every other family stuck to the rules. The Royal Family stuck to the rules. Why couldn't Boris Johnson?" Shadow cabinet minister Peter Kyle says a re1.0×04k92924
98Jan 5, '21"You shouldn't be publishing it, you have no basis to do it and I don't know how I'd sleep at night if I was someone writing it myself." @IanDunt challenges lockdown sceptics on th1.0×03.9k80997
99Jun 15, '20"He’s a 22 year old footballer. He shouldn’t be the one having to do this. But the fact that he is, is important. It’s impressive... there are a lot of children in this country goi1.0×04.1k82421
100Aug 8, '22“If they call it, we’ll support it” Mick Lynch @RMTunion tells #Newsnight what would happen if the TUC calls for a general strike and that housing costs, interest rates and food po0.9×03.4k94042

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