Hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. My guest today was told that he has a reading age ofjust eight. His dyslexia was so bad he had to return to school to study in his 20s for the exams that he simply couldnt pass when he was there the first time. He is now dr peter kyle, a close ally of keir starmer s and the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, who, if labour comes to power, may find himself having to take a very important decision whether there should be another referendum about the future of the uk. This time it would be about whether Northern Ireland should leave and become reunited with the republic. Peter kyle, welcome to political thinking. Thanks, nick. I say that in the introduction that you have a reading age of eight. Really . And if so, how on earth do you do the job youve got now . Well, ive never known any difference, so i cant describe i cant com
space with afghan women where we could interact with them away from the scrutiny of the taliban. i remember we chatted, we laughed, we had a cup of tea. we got manicures done. we took a photo of of what our nails looked like afterwards, we saw a bride getting ready for her wedding. for that one hour, ifelt like i could be anywhere in the world away from the reality that awaited these women when they stepped outside of the salon into a world where girls are barred from secondary schools in most provinces, where women can t attend university, where women can t work for domestic or international ngos, they are barred from parks, swimming pools, gyms, public baths, where if they have to travel long distances they have to be escorted by a male relative, where they re expected to wear clothing with only their eyes visible. and for this latest restriction, the taliban aren t even giving a reason, especially and women are asking, this was a female only space. there s no interaction b
more confetti has been thrown on court 18 from just stop oil protesters. the british number one katie boulter was playing her match. the second protest of the day. these are the pictures from the first protest because this was also on court 18 and it was also confetti. jigsaw pieces. disrupting the first set of that match for a little while. the organisers of wimbledon had been talking about the prospect of this and they had made appeals for everyone to allow the crowds to enjoy the tennis and not get distracted by any sort of protests because we have seen these protests and other major sporting events, horse racing, snooker, and now tennis and we also saw the one at lord s where the test match was interrupted. this is the second protest byjust stop oil protesters, disrupting another match at wimbledon. we will be with our colleagues in just wimbledon. we will be with our colleagues injust a moment wimbledon. we will be with our colleagues in just a moment at bbc sport to get
neil: demand all they want. the supreme court has ruled against the president s loan forgiveness program. a lot of folks not happy about that. there s options to make the payments more affordable or come up with some other solution. we re expecting to hear from the president of the united states on that. welcome. i m neil cavuto. shannon bream has had a busy day. tell us what s going down. let s talk about the student debt relief program that the supreme court 6-3 said cannot move forward. the chief justice had this to say. that s what the court found here. they said essentially they re waiving away $430 billion in executive loans. dissenting justice kagan said the statute does give the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrower s ability to relieve. the secretary did that. clearly the two sides saw this differently. the bottom line strawberry that program, which the president had expressed it being illegal, the speaker of the house s
will: a blue city in maine has a plan to house their influx of illegal immigrants: put them in rent-free luxury apartments. pete: sweet. rachel: meet the air force pilot that has miss america crown on her radar and gets ready to be first active duty military officer to compete in the pageant. second hour of fox & friends starts now. pete: thought there was going to be a swooshy graphic. will: we re working through the changes. pete: oye. will: exactly. pete: i have my cranberry mocktail. feeling good about that . rachel: i was going to go down and get mine and then it s solid and really good. pete: trying to find cranberry and it s hard. will: one of my n new year s resolutions was to it doesn t. it doesn t. i sent several that day. the it was to reach out and to connect, to maintain relationships and after the show last week, i was sitting around at the lounge at the airport, i might have had a rachel: cranberry cocktail. will: cranberry cocktail, i thought this show