About this episode

The episode discusses the impending local election results for Labour, the retrial of Palestine Action activists, and a unionization effort at Google Deepmind.

Labour faces devastating results as voters go to the polls for the local elections. Plus: The retrial of six Palestine Action activists has come to an end, Zack Polanski explains to ITV’s Robert Peston whether he thinks Israel has a right to exist, and we interview an anonymous Google Deepmind worker on the unionization effort within the company’s UK department. With NoJusticeMTG, Dalia Gebrial & Steven Methven.

People in this episode

Guests: NoJusticeMTG, Dalia Gebrial, Steven Methven

Topics covered

• Labour Party
• local elections
• Palestine Action
• unionization
• Israel
• politics

Keywords

• Labour
• local elections
• Palestine Action
• Zack Polanski
• unionization
• Google Deepmind
• Israel
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ITV, Google Deepmind

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