EP.141: WAKE UP WITH SONIA POULTON & GUESTS: 25 AUGUST 2025

Journalist and broadcaster Sonia Poulton starts the week with guests, live-chatters, viewer messages and their collective take on news & events. IT'S A BIG ONE!

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0.00 Welcome to Wake Up

3.07 Bank Holiday history & former MP Peter Bone wanting it to be called Margaret Thatcher day

4.55 Anti-migrant protests, Epping Council High Court ruling opposed by Home Secretary, sources tell me special command is in place as police prepare for mass unrest this weekend and today

13.40 What is Mass Fatality Resilience Capability? Ask the Govt they've been doing it for decades

17.37 'Political Prisoner' Lucy Connolly released from prison and on the interview round with various media gatekeepers. Farage taking her case to US Administration in September

21.53 Colin Smyth, Labour Member of Scottish Parliament arrested and charged over allegations of child abuse images

23.23 China wants to build the largest embassy in Europe in London but have submitted plans with blacked out areas. As you do!

24.13 Convict Ghislaine Maxwell looking for a Trump pardon and the transcript of her recent meeting with the US admin has been released - with lots of claims and denials!

26.34 New book from Virginia Giuffre 'speaking from the grave'

28.00 GUEST: Historian and Author Andrew Lownie on his new book 'Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York' about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson

53.10 US Platforms pushing back against OFCOM's Online Safety Act. The same cannot be said about UK platforms who are rolling over and complying despite user concerns

57.30 This is what a DWP whistleblower told me

1.00.28 GUEST: 'Inadvertent Whistleblower' STEPHANIE DAVIES
Former Senior Coroner's Officer Stephanie Davies on her role in the Lucy Letby case - and why she thinks the nurse has suffered a grave miscarriage of justice

1.30.56 Emmanuel Macron speaks on the Candace Owens lawsuit while Owens makes jokes about it. Going to be interesting in court!

1.35.10 Thank you for your comments and response to our Max Clifford deep dive. Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3aP7pqVpaU&t=129s

1.39.00 Wake Up viewer Kurt is upset about the double standards in the Shacarri Richardson 'domestic abuse' case - I agree!

1.45.33 Viewer Emma Beesley is concerned that councils and police are not taking 'serious incidents' in her area seriously

1.48.41 Viewer K refers to a BBC show in which it was claimed that the allegations against former Prime Minister 'have been debunked'. What establishment propaganda!

1.53.35 Chemtrails responses to Paul Burgess from last week's Wake Up

1.56.30 This is where I chill out: viewer Peter Faulder

1.59.40 Thank you everyone who contributes to Wake Up!

2.01.50 Royal Mail postboxes are being sealed up 'waiting for automated services'. What, now?

2.03.37 The Courage to be Disliked. Re-surfaced book has gone viral