Wright on the Nail

In this week’s Deep Dive episode, host Chris Wright joins Bill Roedy, former chairman and chief executive of MTV Networks International. Bill and his team built a global operation comprising 200 channels and 20 brands in 200 countries.  Before joining MTV, he spent ten years at HBO as their vice president and was part of the United States Army, a veteran of the Vietnam war, and commander of three...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright joins Isabelle Oakeshott, political journalist and commentator; Peter Cardwell, TalkRadio presenter and political editor; and Matthew Stadlen, presenter and political commentator. The episode begins with the panel sharing their reactions to the local election results so far to discuss how the Conservatives suffered significant losses in W...

In this week’s ‘ News Roundtable ’ episode, host Chris Wright joins Joe Mayes, UK Politics reporter for Bloomberg; Alex Haege, economist and a regular contributor to The Australian; Marina Purkiss, political commentator, and Dawn-Maria France, broadcaster and Editor-in-chief of Yorkshire Women's Life. The episode begins by discussing the unravelling care home scandal following the High Court’...

In this week’s ‘ News Roundtable ’ episode, host Chris Wright joins Caroline Frost, journalist and broadcaster; Richard Vaughan, chief political correspondent at the i Newspaper; Chris Curtis, head of political polling at Opinium Research; and Liz Webster, chair of Save British Food. The episode begins by discussing Boris Johnson’s official visit to India against the partygate backdrop, to debate...

In this week’s  ‘ News Roundtable ’ episode, host Chris Wright joins political correspondent at PA Media Geri Scott, former Sunday Mirror editor and director of communications at UK music Vincent Moss, and economist Vicky Pryce. The episode begins by discussing the lorry queues and chaos in Dover to debate whether this is a sign that Brexit is expensive and damaging to the economy. They consider w...

In this week’s ‘ News Roundtable ’ episode, host Chris Wright joins Kevin Schofield, political editor of HuffPost UK, and Arieh Kovler, writer, political analyst and communications consultant. The episode begins by discussing the Russian army's recent atrocities committed in Bucha, Ukraine, and the extreme reporting within the Russian media. They delve into the impact that fake news and disin...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright joins Will Jennings, professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southampton; Richard Taylor, political commentator, and broadcaster; and Angela Epstein, journalist, broadcaster, and commentator. The episode begins by discussing “partygate” and the Met's announcement that they will be issuing 20 fixed-penalt...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright joins David Henig, UK Director at ECIPE, who leads thinking on future UK trade policy; Christina Patterson, journalist, writer, and broadcaster; and Neil Mackay, author, filmmaker, and broadcaster. The episode begins by discussing the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker who was arrested and detained in Tehran in 2016. T...

In this week’s ‘Deep Dive’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Bill Roedy, former chairman and chief executive of MTV Networks International. Bill and his team built a global operation comprising 200 channels and 20 brands, in 200 countries.  Prior to joining MTV, he spent 10 years at HBO as their vice president, and before this, was part of the United States Army, a veteran of the Vietnam war...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Dawn-Maria France, editor-in-chief at Yorkshire Women’s Life; Duncan Weldon, an economist and writer; and John Inverdale, a broadcaster who presented coverage of many major sporting events including the Olympic Games and Wimbledon. The episode begins by analysing the UK’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, to dis...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Matthew Stadlen, radio and TV presenter; Marta Dzhumaha, PR specialist at BetterMe; Fredrik Erixon, economist and director of ECIPE; and Oz Katerji, freelance conflict journalist and filmmaker. Following the devastating attack which Russia launched on Ukraine, Chris opens the discussion by speaking with Marta Dzhumaha, a civi...

In this week’s ‘Deep Dive’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Philip Davies, Conservative MP Shipley; Jon Bryan, poker player and gambling writer; and Emmet Kennedy, presenter and producer of ‘The Final Furlong Podcast’.  The conversation begins by discussing the catalyst for changing the laws relating to gambling, one of mankind’s oldest activities, to consider how the growth of online gambl...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by journalist and author Otto English, journalist and broadcaster Jemma Forte, and writer, broadcaster and commentator, Jonathan Sacerdoti. The conversation begins by observing a quieter week in the news for Boris Johnson as Ukraine tensions otherwise heat up, to debate whether he will be able to draw a line under the partygate...

In this week’s ‘Deep Dive’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Daniel Lippman, Politico reporter covering the White House and Washington; John T. Bennett, CQ Roll Call editor-at-large and former White House-Congress reporter; and Aaron Parnas, White collar attorney and Democratic strategist.  The conversation begins by discussing Donald Trump's involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots,...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by writer and  producer Simon Fellowes; chief executive of ‘Best for Britain’ Naomi Smith; CapX editor John Ashmore; and writer and broadcaster Christina Patterson. The conversation begins by discussing Boris Johnson’s continuous battle to save himself, as more of his senior aides walk out of Downing Street’s doors - including D...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by PA Media  ​​political correspondent Patrick Daly; Scottish political editor at The Times Scotland Kieran Andrews; and senior lecturer in Law at St. Mary's University, Daniela Nadj. The conversation begins by discussing the delay in Sue Gray’s partygate report to consider what a police investigation means for Boris Johnso...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Nazir Afzal, former chief crown prosecutor; John Cotter, lecturer in law at Keele School of Law and Anoosh Chakelian, Britain editor at the New Statesman.   The conversation begins by discussing fresh calls for Boris Johnson’s resignation, and his bid to cling onto power before the critical local elections. They contemplate h...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London; Jamie Jenkins, former head of health analysis at ONS (Office for National Statistics); Alain Tolhurst, chief reporter at PoliticsHome ; and Dawn-Maria France, editor-in-chief at Yorkshire Women's Life.  The conversation begins by discussing Boris Johnson...

This week is our ‘Special Guest’ episode, where host Chris Wright brings you intimate one-to-one interviews with key people in media, business, politics and beyond. In this episode, Chris is joined by Willie Carson, one of the most successful jockeys in Britain's history.  In his 34-year riding career, he was crowned Champion Jockey five times, riding 3,828 winners, which included 17 British...

For our special end of the year episode, Chris is joined by broadcaster Georgina Godwin; journalist Angela Epstein’ and UK director at ECIPE (European Centre for International Political Economy) Davig Henig, to deliberate and crown one influential person as Wright on the Nail’s 2021 ‘British & International Icon Award’ winner. The influential people under scrutiny for their performance through...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by broadcaster and commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti; UK Music communications director Vincent Moss; and senior political correspondent at the Daily Mirror, Rachel Wearmouth. The conversation begins by discussing the Liberal Democrats victory in the North Shropshire by-election, they then consider growing public outrage at governme...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by writer and producer Simon Fellowes; the Evening Standard’s deputy political editor, David Bond; economist and business consultant, Vicky Pryce; and journalist and broadcaster Caroline Frost.  The conversation begins with discussing allegations of Christmas parties being held by Downing Street staff last year, while millions a...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by author, journalist and speaker Charles Arthur; journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu; and  broadcaster, journalist and novelist Jemma Forte. The conversation begins with guests discussing the new Omicron variant, as they chew over the impact of the government's “mixed messages” — including Boris Johnson’s failure to wea...

In this week’s ‘News Roundtable’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by David Wooding, assistant politics editor at The Sun;  Robert Hutton, parliamentary sketch writer for The Critic Magazine; and Nigel Nelson, political editor at the Sunday Mirror & Sunday People. The conversation begins by reviewing Boris Johnson’s much criticised “paper shuffling” speech at the CBI conference, to debate w...

In this week’s ‘Deep Dive’ episode, host Chris Wright is joined by Every Doctor chief executive, Dr Julia Patterson; The Economist’s science correspondent, Alok Jha; health and science journalist, Natalie Grover, and Bureau chief at the Health Service Journal, Ben Clover. The conversation begins by discussing the current Covid situation in the United Kingdom in relation to the NHS, with reports of...