Emily Maitlis has a solution to the chaos in the Middle East: turn down the ‘machismo’ and replace the ‘aggressive’ male leaders with women. Oh, and she has also compared a 30,000-pound missile to a sex toy.
Speaking on The News Agents today, Maitlis said:
“There is so much machismo to the language, to the aggression, to the speed of what is happening right now. I just cannot see any of this happening if there were more women leaders, right? I mean going back to your ‘bunker buster’, which is actually called a Massive Ordnance Penetrator – which sounds frankly more like a sex toy than ammunition…”
“I can’t see ANY of this happening if more women were leaders…
Take the Massive Ordnance Penetrator – which sounds more like a sex toy than a bomb – for example.”@maitlis criticises male-dominated leadership for stoking fears of WWIII through reckless global brinkmanship. pic.twitter.com/CauSMPp7PC
— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) June 20, 2025
Presumably the Israelis and Iranians would all hold hands and sing kumbaya under the Maitlis doctrine of foreign policy…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”