{"id":74304,"date":"2026-06-01T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/u-k-bars-left-wing-influencers-from-entering-country-ahead-of-speaking-gigs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:55:25","slug":"u-k-bars-left-wing-influencers-from-entering-country-ahead-of-speaking-gigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/u-k-bars-left-wing-influencers-from-entering-country-ahead-of-speaking-gigs\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. bars left-wing influencers from entering country ahead of speaking gigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive political commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker said they had been barred from entering the United Kingdom to speak at events.\u00a0Uygur, who co-hosts the YouTube series \u201cThe Young Turks,\u201d and his nephew Piker, who broadcasts his commentary on the video platform Twitch, said on social media they had been blocked because of their views about Israel. NBC News&#8217; Sahil Kapur reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive political commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker said they had been barred from entering the United Kingdom to speak at events.\u00a0Uygur, who co-hosts the YouTube series \u201cThe Young Turks,\u201d and his nephew Piker, who broadcasts his commentary on the video platform Twitch, said on social media they had been blocked because of their &#8230; <a title=\"U.K. bars left-wing influencers from entering country ahead of speaking gigs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/u-k-bars-left-wing-influencers-from-entering-country-ahead-of-speaking-gigs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about U.K. bars left-wing influencers from entering country ahead of speaking gigs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}