#60 In Conversation the Makers of Al Jazeera's The Labour Files | Richard Sanders & Peter Oborne

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Leaks, Lies & Spies: The Scandal the UK Media REFUSED to Touch. An Exclusive Conversation with the Makers of Al Jazeera's the Labour Files

Since the mainstream media won’t do its job, we'll do it for them! Mark Seddon is conversation with makers of Al Jazeera's The Labour Files exclusively for Palestine Deep Dive.

Richard Sanders is an award winning film director with over 25 years experience. He was Senior Producer on the Labour Files and made the second film, on antisemitism.

Peter Oborne is an award winning journalist and author who features in the series. He is a former political commentator of the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He now writes about politics for Open Democracy and Middle East Eye. He is the author of The Triumph of the Political Class, The Rise of Political Lying and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism.

0:00 – Start
04:40 – Labour Party Conference 2022: Labour MPs claim not to have seen the Labour Files
06:20 – Richard Sanders on the mainstream media silence over the Labour Files series
10:00 – Al Jazeera clip: Panorama documentary (Seamus Milne email)
17:10 – What do the revelations in this documentary do to the image of the British press?
21:22 – Will the Labour Party respond to this documentary?
22:30 – Leadership’s office in antisemitism investigations: Image vs. Reality
26:44 – The hypocrisy of journalists in the mainstream media when it comes to criticism
29:30 – Al Jazeera clip: Halima Khan: ‘Palestine’ included as a search term in investigations of Antisemitism
31:00 – Is there a “hierarchy of racism” in the Labour Party or even the mainstream media?
35:10 – Democracy in the Labour Party vs. message discipline in winning an election
37:00 – "The Labour party smearing its own members is very troubling"
40:00 – Allegations of hacking and surveillance against Labour Party members
44:40 – The Labour Party appearing to be a closed space to new members and ideas
46:00 – Labour "appears to loath its own members”
48:00 – Allegations that ordinary members were “smeared” needs a response
48:40 – "The complicity of the mainstream media in this is damning"
50:00 – Suspensions of antisemitism under Jenny Formby
51:00 – An attempt to push back on Palestine solidarity in Labour
51:56 – Are Palestinians safe inside the Labour Party under Kier Starmer?
54:14 – The “omerta” of the media silence of the Labour Files
55:00 – “Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files is a landmark piece of journalism”