
Ben Kentish
@BenKentish
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Presenter “Late Nights with Ben Kentish” @LBC 10pm-1am Mon-Thurs | Ex-Westminster Editor | Columnist @theipaper | Instagram: benkentishlbc | @barnetfc sufferer
Joined June 2010
📈📻 It’s another high! After record-breaking figures last time around, absolutely thrilled to have added a further 33,000 listeners in the last quarter and a total of 111,000 more listeners (⬆️29%) in the last year. Thank you to everyone who joins us each night and a huge thanks
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'The country is selfish.' Caller Gary, who has been living in his car for three years, tells @BenKentish why he disagrees with Kemi Badenoch's plan to cut stamp duty.
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Update: I understand this doctor no longer works in the NHS and has today been referred again to a GMC displinary tribunal. Perhaps this panel will take antisemitism and support for terrorist groups more seriously than the last one.
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Stamp Duty is an absurd tax. Good to see more of our political class finally waking up to that fact.
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Yesterday an NHS doctor openly shared a propaganda video produced by Palestinian Islamic Jihad - a proscriebd terrorist organisation - as well as posts celebrating the 7th October massacre, stating “Glory to our martyrs”. The NHS continues to employ her, paying her with
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The QMUL Action For Palestine student society has just shared this infographic. It states ‘Long Live operation Al Aqsa Flood’ i.e. the October 7 massacre. How can it be legal to so blatantly celebrate a terrorist attack? This is more than just ‘un-British’. It’s criminal.
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Sorry but if you take to the streets to chant “long live the intifada” on the anniversary of 7th October, Prevent should be getting involved.
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“On the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests. This is not who we are as a country,” writes Keir Starmer in The Times. But it is. It didn’t used to be, but sadly it’s exactly who we now are as a country.
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‘I’m an ultra-proud Englishman… but I’m quite scared at the moment.’ Stan Collymore calls @BenKentish with an idea to tackle rising division in the country.
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The AI bubble will pop. Intelligence won't. Our CEO @davidpstout wrote in @FortuneMagazine on why the mega-model economics don't work— and what actually delivers sustainable AI value. While Wall Street chases billion-dollar models, financial firms, healthcare systems, and
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A lot of traditional Labour voters are going to watch this sort of thing and like an awful lot of what they hear. Big challenge from the left for Starmer and Reeves as they prepare for a crucial Budget next month.
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I’m due to be on @lbc just after 10pm with @BenKentish
Tomorrow, Oct 7, on the anniversary of the Hamas massacre which killed 1200 people, mainly civilians, and saw a further 250 taken hostage, Liverpool University will be holding a celebration event. There will be a ‘Palestine bake sale’. The celebratory strapline is ‘time for
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“Tommy Robinson is a thug who represents the very worst of Britain. His presence undermines those genuinely working to tackle Islamist extremism and foster community cohesion. Minister Chikli has proven himself to be a Diaspora Minister in name only. In our darkest hour, he has
In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly with our allies in the United Kingdom. On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to host British patriot @TRobinsonNewEra who will visit Israel in mid-October. Tommy is a
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“We don’t have the power” isn’t going to cut it. As the government, you’re supposed to protect people from racist extremists like this. If the disciplinary processes don’t work, fix them.
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If @wesstreeting really has no power to stop this scumbag working in the NHS, then the government urgently needs to legislate to give him that power. She shouldn’t be let anywhere near patients. https://t.co/iMClM0C77s
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The NHS medic also claimed the temporary closure of A&E to treat the Manchester victims was evidence of ‘Jewish exceptionalism’
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And now a discussion on Islamophobia with six non-Muslims, followed by a debate on homophobia with six straight people. After that, six men debate the problem of misogyny. Wouldn’t happen, would it? So why does this?
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Wrote this back in 2019 about producers inviting loads of people who will never experience antisemitism to debate antisemitism. Clearly still relevant today, sadly. Just wouldn’t happen with other issues.
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Jewish people are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves, so why won't the media let them?
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The two main Sunday politics shows have each invited on three people who aren’t Jewish to debate and discuss antisemitism this morning, despite having no direct experience of it. Really poor.
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This is utterly stupid. Why would the NHS stop primary carers, healthcare workers or people who live with someone who is immunosupressed getting a Covid vaccine? The government and NHS go on about staffing pressures but won’t cough up to protect their own health workers from a
Eligibility for an NHS Covid booster has been HUGELY restricted this Autumn. Studies show that both the acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure. So why are we offering so much LESS protection for Covid? This will cost lives.
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If they’d held placards saying “It was wrong to proscribe Palestine Action”, none of them would have been arrested. They could still have made their point. They deliberately chose to act in way that got them arrested, knowingly forcing the police to divert resources away from
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If they’d held placards saying “It was wrong to proscribe Palestine Action”, none of them would have been arrested. They could still have made their point. They deliberately chose to act in way that got them arrested, knowingly forcing the police to divert resources away from
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