# King Charles opens Parliament as Starmer clings on; Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Beijing and Man City close the gap to Arsenal once again Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/king-charles-opens-parliament-as-starmer-clings-on-trump-and-xi-jinping-meet-in-beijing-and-man-city-close-the-gap-to-arsenal-once-again Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/king-charles-opens-parliament-as-starmer-clings-on-trump-and-xi-jinping-meet-in-beijing-and-man-city-close-the-gap-to-arsenal-once-again.md Podcast: [The Smart 7](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360) Published: 2026-05-14T05:12:44+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/thesmart7/episodes/king-charles-opens-parliament-as-starmer-clings-on-trump-and Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/thesmart7/e/6a0559cd3eb6452356561c7c/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/king-charles-opens-parliament-as-starmer-clings-on-trump-and-xi-jinping-meet-in-beijing-and-man-city-close-the-gap-to-arsenal-once-again Duration seconds: 442 ## Resource The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast, in association with METRO, that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week… With over 20 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we’ve won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...  Today's episode includes the following: https://x.com/i/status/2054552887527694444   https://x.com/i/status/2054514049396723978 https://x.com/i/status/2054573003367698860   https://x.com/i/status/2054595100664091110 https://x.com/i/status/2054753465809744323     https://x.com/i/status/2054615973177520599 https://x.com/i/status/2054677705103229043   https://x.com/i/status/2054526533146992953   https://x.com/i/status/2054581777285456053     Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com   or find out more at www.metro.co.uk   Voiced by Jamie East, using AI, written by Liam Thompson , researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/king-charles-opens-parliament-as-starmer-clings-on-trump-and-xi-jinping-meet-in-beijing-and-man-city-close-the-gap-to-arsenal-once-again/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/king-charles-opens-parliament-as-starmer-clings-on-trump-and-xi-jinping-meet-in-beijing-and-man-city-close-the-gap-to-arsenal-once-again.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.