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January 22, 2026
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Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

In This Episode

Donald Trump brings his particular brand of terrible speeches to the billionaires and bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Nish and Coco try to work out how Keir Starmer can keep on track when the US President never does, following his latest UK bashing over a lease deal with the Chagos Islands – which the US had previously praised.

 

Liam Thorp, the Liverpool Echo’s Political Editor, is on hand to break down Labour’s big plan to make homes warmer, the fortunes of Reform and the latest delay to the Hillsborough Law

 

Plus comedian Alaa Shehada, fresh from his show ‘The Horse of Jenin’, talks to Nish and Coco about the ‘Palestine Comedy Club’, a documentary which follows a group of Palestinians as they take their comedy show on tour in an occupied state.

 

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GUESTS 

Liam Thorp – Political Editor, Liverpool Echo

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Alaa Shehada – Comedian

 

USEFUL LINKS

 

Palestine Comedy Club collective

Palestine Comedy Club documentary

Starting Feb 27th:

London – Rich Mix and Bertha Doc House 

Tywyn – Magic Lantern Cinema 

Birmingham – Mockingbird Cinema 

Brighton – Komedia 

Gloucester – Guildhall 

Belfast – Queen’s Film Theatre

 

CREDITS

Donald Trump – BBC Online

‘Palestine Comedy Club’ – Tough Crowd

 

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