Why is Prince Andrew being blamed for the China spy? | The News Agents

[@gustavderkits8433]

Boris made a Russian spy a member of the House of Lords and there was relatively small comment from the press at the time.

[@EdwardLindon]

Only certain parts of the press.

[@squeakeroo1]

Ian Hislop's Private Eye magazine reported about him.

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Andrew likes them Yang. Flipping spell checkers

[@rosehart341]

Why does anyone expect an over privileged entitled person from a family far removed from real life, to be clever? If he'd been born into a poor family he'd be struggling to get a job. Any job.

[@Futureshucks]

Prince Andrew said he cut off all ties as soon as H6 was exposed. [Prince Andrew has been staying with H6 for the last week and has gone to see him because he is so honorable]

[@renaissancechambara]

Absolutely a huge risk, the Australians have been well ahead of the UK in coming to terms with Chinese infiltration.

[@lakedistrict9450]

Why is it a huge risk?

[@iandhr1]

@@lakedistrict9450, a spy from a nation hostile to Western interests who has ties to a remember of the royal family? That is a major security risk.

[@clansey1973]

Any chance the Australians can take Prince Andrew?

[@scottharrison812]

Ah… gotta love King Charles’ moral outrage. The same Charles who accepted £2.6m in a carrier bag from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar. Sigh.

[@marisaJ1]

Andrew seems to get on well with the worst people. He lacks discernment. His morality is questionable. I think that could probably be said for a lot of royals though.

[@benw582]

I think it's gone beyond questionable by this point!

[@pookey06]

The only question is, "Where is it?"​@@benw582

[@charcolew]

@@marisaJ1 Birds of a feather are always flocking around together. I'd say Andrew's judgement is sharp - he certainly knows a chancer when he sees one. Seems to surround himself with dodgy dudes, lots of illicit flocking going on.

[@carlpierce2486]

If the spy had moved one of Andrews teddy bears to insert a bug Andrew would have noticed immediately. No sweat !

[@skygod1067]

Andrew should be stripped of all his titles and should become a commoner

[@doreenhollywood7459]

Anything to take the focus away from Charles and his greed

[@rosehart341]

But it's ok for other members of the family to be besties with leaders of countries with appalling human rights records. What about Charles and his carrier bags of cash?

[@ginettedarlington6793]

When I read he was nominally called H6, I also wondered why he'd been named after a pencil 😅

[@TheLucanicLord]

That's a 6H, but thanks for playing.

[@ginettedarlington6793]

😅 Quite right!! So funny

[@susaneaglstein181]

Maybe because hs is built blind that

[@dedebaako2602]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@simmybear31]

That's what it must B - although I didn't realise 5H to simple H had been exposed. Just shows you can't ruler anything out but perhaps they should draw a line under it now 😂😂😂

[@MrBrianNZ]

If I was Andrew Windsor I wouldn't even order a meal from the Chinese from now on.

[@charcolew]

@@MrBrianNZ He could always phone it in under his favourite pseudonym of Andrew Inverness. But the Royal Lodge address would give the game away, so I suppose you're right 👍

[@susaneaglstein181]

He will if China pays the bills

[@nigeh5326]

Why would he? Usually he orders pizza from Pizza Express Woking according to his own words 😉lol

[@LewisSelt]

Emily, your interview with Andrew was quite amazing the most&❤ amazing interview that I’ve seen it would be fantastic for you to invite him onto your current Show can you only just imagine

[@skygod1067]

Andrew is just a loose canon

[@Jan_von_Gratschoff]

When you've got a system in which there is a family of people, who by virtue of birth lottery think of themselves as above the rest and fit to rule, you've got bigger problems to solve than an idiot prince being a national security risk.

[@philjameson292]

Looks like Andy will be singing his favourite Christmas song "it'll be lonely this Christmas"

[@loveisall5520]

I never noticed Lewis Goodall fool with his wedding ring so much, sliding it up and down and pulling it off his ring finger. I'd lose mine if it were that loose!

[@battina]

Take a look at the “Controversies and other incidents” section of Andrew’s Wikipedia article. The average person would be unemployed after 1% of what he gets away with. How can the British people make Andrew unemployed and stop paying for his nonsense?

[@eshaibraheem4218]

The country isn't paying for him, apart from a small RN pension (£20k?). But there seems to be no shortage of 'acquaintances' who are willing to shower him with cash.

[@carlpierce2486]

@eshaibraheem4218 - officially****

[@Onequietvoice]

There are two sides to this equation. One is Chinese intelligence the other is the British aristocracy. Neither of these have the best interests of the British public at heart. Enormously wealthy / influential people have more in common with other enormously wealthy and influential elites from other countries and will always put their collective interests ahead of the welfare of their own people. Not surprisingly British media, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the establishment, is very happy to see the focus on Andrew and an amorphous Chinese threat.

[@themanwithnonamecalled9667]

A H6 would actually be a rather sharp pencil. A B6 pencil would be duller.

[@marisaJ1]

B6 is a softer pencil. H pencils are much harder so you can get a sharper point for longer. But it's actually about the softness or hardness of the graphite. You can smudge and smear a B pencil very easily because it's so soft & is darker on paper.

[@briansteele2723]

The pencil failed to use a rubber? Or was that a different scandal...

[@iandhr1]

I am an American who likes to observe UK politics. Something tells me that an ordinary British citizen would be in jail for something like this.

[@loveisall5520]

I'm a Texan, I totally agree. With us, it'd be Trump or Musk or some other billionaire buying their way out of the crime.

[@EdwardLindon]

Is that something a UK law degree?

[@iandhr1]

@@EdwardLindon no. Just the knowledge that there seems to be one set of rules for the rich, and one set for the rest of us.

[@charcolew]

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of women of a certain age have been in and out of various royal palaces without registration or authorisation, as late-evening guests of Prince Andrew in the 80s and 90s and even beyond. Not espionage, more like frottage, massage and garbage.

[@pookey06]

Inkster! What an awesome name for a journalist!!!

[@ingerfaber3411]

Funny that this suddenly is made public

[@geezerbutler4582]

Just in time to get Andrew banned from the Royal Xmas … very convenient

[@christinemcneil4499]

Please come to New Zealand guys 🙏🏻

[@stonehengemaca]

The Chinese have some photos too

[@avm9647]

Why should we be surprised if Emily is struggling!

[@philipmcardle2038]

What if America and the UK didn't illegally invade Iraq

[@unclenelvis]

Who’s here hoping for another interview from Emily and Andrew when he explains what an ordinary shooting weekend is?

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Because it is a standard fallacious argument. Just put what you want to discredit next to something/someone who is already seen in a negative light by the public and you don't need to do any heavy lifting to argue your case.

[@EdwardLindon]

I agree. Yang Tengbo should not be vilified just because he's had dealings with a man of such low character.

[@franzsolinas7893]

WELL SAID EMILY ! THEY WANT TO ISOLATE THE PRINCE AND CHARGE HIM OF EVERY POSSIBLE CRIME.... ANDREW IS NOT AT ALL AN INTERESTING CHARACTER, BUT I THINK HE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO BLAME !

[@TheMack671]

Has any of these so-called reporters ever heard of "industrial espionage"?

[@lakedistrict9450]

John is an excitable chap prone to exageration. He says this reminds him of James Bond🙄, which reminds us of both fiction and British overseas spying. They go with H6, which triggers a spy narrative, and then have an MI6 guest, who normally don’t comment, unless it’s to forward a narrative. Well done Emily for steadying the podcast.

[@stevenhunter5799]

Chinese spy. Lol! We in the UK act with such innocence! Or is it ignorance?

[@DE-xt7jv]

China is also dependant on western trade!

[@gordonmcleod941]

It's a bit rich for Emily to accuse other podcasts of flogging product when her show is so heavily sponsored by Ladbrokes

[@nigeh5326]

Re goods from Eastern Europe in the Cold War don’t forget the SW/MW/LW radios the Soviets used to sell cheap to us in the West. I had one as a kid and used to listen to Radio Free Europe and Radio Moscow. They were cheap and rugged.

[@lakedistrict9450]

17:08. Theorising about covid origins is not in and of itself anti vaccination. People who are concerned about the lack of double blind control trials, reviewed in specialist journals, are not anti vaccination, rather concerned about transparency of scientific process, and unintended harm. I’m old enough to remember the poor victims of the Thalidomide drug, which was not a vaccine but did result in much higher standards for pharmaceutical testing.

[@nigeh5326]

How do you stand on RFK Junior’s associate saying the polio vaccine should be withdrawn along with possibly the diphtheria vaccine? To me that is insane

[@lakedistrict9450]

@ I don’t know anything about concerns about those two. Maybe there are new versions out using the NMRA technology? If so that could be the basis of his associates concerns, if those concerns are reported accurately. Strong, robust science should be at the centre of things, but unfortunately politics seems to be effecting discussions.

[@normasarsby1350]

Poor Andrew, just can’t ketch a break.

[@xgonne]

It's easy to name the toxic and the negative voices (Rogan, Peterson, Musk, Tate, Brand). Can you name a positive male voice?

[@maryj5593]

Bernie Sanders.

[@xgonne]

@@maryj5593 Apologies, I should have been more specific; a positive male voice in the same spaces the toxic varietals operate in. Someone who speaks to men's issues in a positive and progressive way.

[@riccardo-964]

Lewis: listen more, talk less.

[@queenirmamay]

Why are countries following teenagers 😂😂😂😂

[@Mumbles274]

Shock horror, hold the front page, businessman's podcast is jsut a way to make money.

[@WillJBailey]

Recommend Naomi Klein's Doppelgänger re wellness and alt right / conspiracy culture. Great book.

[@mariekevanderdonk9726]

Why doesn't King Charles gives Prince Andrew a sufficient allowance? The Windsors are incredibly wealthy, so give him more allowances, so he will not do business in the future with dodgy characters

[@oliverc1293]

Some of this is a bit oddly reported. I visited Buckingham Palace on personal invitation of the office of the Duke of York for a business meeting (years ago, before even the Ghislaine Maxwell revelations), and I a) am absolutely nobody of any note at all, and b) didn't have any access to any interesting secret information. It's important if he was given access to confidential information or if he was given undue access and influence. Let's focus there?

[@EdwardLindon]

FYI 楊騰博 is not pronounced "Yang teng bow" but more like "Yang tongue bwoar". The pinyin is misleading.

[@simonbamford8441]

Ying tong yin tong tiddle I po?

[@DE-xt7jv]

Also Steven Bartlett promotes his own business. Products that made me throw up for days!

[@hayleypbop6997]

Time for another interview? 😂

[@AnilKumarTheSuperConnector]

he also sells alice - health dubious med device and im a pharma guy - its all far fetched

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Was Brandon Lewis not a Russian spy?

[@franzsolinas7893]

I THINK YOU SHOULD CO.E BACK IN EUROPE !

[@bthjf12003]

The main trade between east and west during the Cold War was natural gas and petrol …

[@simonbamford8441]

Russia bad, China worse?

[@ravinderbasra4778]

Why don't you do a piece on your mate Clive Myrie? He has done whatever he wanted to...Define conventional wisdom? What gives you the right to tell people what conventional wisdom is..

[@anamariaflorentino4219]

Can Lewis please open his eyes when talking.

[@EdwardLindon]

TBF I also tend to close my eyes when I'm letting out a crafty SBD. Gotta throttle back if you don't wanna follow through!

[@sandypastiche173]

😊

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

The UK is an autocratic regime with terrible human rights record.

[@EdwardLindon]

Lol no

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

@EdwardLindon It's weird how hard people find it to accept that.

[@mzo.7333]

Im no fan of Steven Bartlett but why cant those with other views shared.. why cant interviewes listen to other views? Steven Bartlett is not a medical expert he is an interviewer his job is to ask questions and listen to the response

[@williama-d6]

the BBC reported on BBC news someone went to prison for creating a group that does slap therapy

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Didn’t someone die?

[@nigeh5326]

Because a lady with diabetes stopped taking her medication because the guy running the slap therapy said she didn’t need to if she used slap therapy. Slap therapy is 100% bs like crystals.

[@williama-d6]

@ yes someone died from slap therapy

[@mzo.7333]

Prince Andrew is no saint at all... But it does wreak of Charles using the media to give Andrew that final push out the door...

[@1pauljs]

Every member of the monarchy has a deeply anomalous position.

[@BernieKolumbus]

Left w

[@bernardkealey6449]

I’m fairly new here. I can’t find the episode where Emily, Jon, & Lewis grill their sponsor HSBC on all their past, current, and ongoing criminal and ethical failures. Because it seems they’re so aware of propriety, judgement, and how terrible it is to be hawking dangerous products. Can someone point me to it?

[@CarterSimon777]

Sound?

[@dannyquinn9128]

No problems here.

[@EdwardLindon]

Saaaaaaaand 👍🏾

[@maximiliandonelly6292]

Sponsored by HSBC does not impress.

[@hardnormalcoyle]

All 3 of you talking over one another. Please slow down

[@donrayjay]

So you’re adding misogyny to the false accusations against Stephen Bartlett now? Get lost, just get lost will you? This is so pathetic. Stop treating your audiences as imbecilic infants. People are well able to determine for themselves what information to accept and what to reject. We don’t need self righteous idiots to filter stuff according to their own prejudices