🎇 As the clock ticks towards midnight, George Galloway presents a special New Year’s Eve edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows. With 2026 just hours away, MOATS looks back at the second half of 2025 — a year of war, repression, resistance, and historic turning points that reshaped the world.
In this extended New Year’s Eve special, George revisits the most powerful interviews, investigations, and warnings from the latter half of the year — moments that defined global politics, exposed injustice, and, in many cases, proved prophetic.
This programme features unforgettable conversations with journalists, analysts, whistle-blowers and witnesses who lived the story as it unfolded:
– Richard Medhurst, the British journalist cleared of terror charges after months on bail under the Terrorism Act — a chilling warning about press freedom in the UK.
– Dr Annelle Rodrigues Sheline, former US State Department fellow, on why she resigned over Gaza and what that revealed about Washington’s moral collapse.
– Colonel Douglas Macgregor, on Ukraine, NATO, Trump’s failed peace efforts, and the moments the world came closest to nuclear war.
– Thiago Ávila, the Brazilian activist aboard the Gaza flotilla, speaking via satellite from the Madleen as aid convoys were blocked.
– Sarah Wilkinson, detained by UK counter-terror police after returning from Gaza, on repression, courage and solidarity.
– Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, on Trump vs Zelensky, Ukraine’s endgame, and the future of war in Europe.
This New Year’s Eve edition is a record of a year when laws were rewritten, journalists were criminalised, wars escalated, and ordinary people paid the price — but also a testament to those who spoke out when silence was safer.
🕯️ As we say goodbye to 2025, MOATS asks: what did we learn — and what must change in 2026?
With closing reflections from George and Gayatri Galloway, this special programme marks the end of one of the most consequential years in modern history.
🕛 New Year’s Eve Special — LIVE and on demand
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