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Good evening welcome to newsnight for insights and interviews. The Prime Minister told us all today things will get worse before he said they would get better we already know that means tax rises, but well ask a labour Treasury Minister if it also means austerity is back in some form. Well ask what advice he has for a newsnight viewer whos nearly 80 and is having his winter fuel payment taken away, and we ask about accusations of cronyism. Is cronyism bad under a conservative government but ok u...

♪ >> greg: that is true! happy thursday, everybody. thank you. so disney has announced that the next star wars movie will be directed by a woman. you heard that right. disney admits they can define a woman. but the new directors not just any woman, no, shes a pakistani canadian feminist activist. exactly the kind of person the star wars franchise needs. the kind whos idea of fun is lecturing you about oppression while combing dandruff out of her armpits. not her, somebody like that. ...

the winner of the democratic primary is very, very likely the next member of congress throughout this week. we have a new youngest member of the house representatives in january. he was on this program last night, we are going to try to find him somewhere in the celebration at the end of the hour. see if we can get a couple of minutes with him on the phone at the end of this hour tonight. >> it is a good news story. i love it, jen see in the house. it is time, this is what changes demo...

Has some, what do you call that? >> tyrus: ups. but hes going to have a few downs, too. this is a horrible thing that happened. even three grown men had a hard time getting him off. but this is the result of ham whole no cash bail, no consequences, youre released and criminals are expecting that now. >> greg: yes. >> tyrus: their attorneys are expecting that now. if you look at his rap sheet there was no way in hell probation should have been mentioned but because everyone is doing the new progr...

Buzz among young people and drive our conversation about national policy. we are still talking about the green new deal even though she first proposed it months ago. students are being pushed socialism by their teachers and educators and a humanitarian kind idea to solve everyones problems and since they are not getting a well-rounded education and a historical view of socialism and the downfalls of it they are not understanding what these movements can lead to and it makes them more prone to wa...