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Sensemaker — 1000 episodes

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Why did a Russian warship fire at a British yacht?

2

Will the UK’s social media ban work?

3

What’s in the US-Iran deal and will it work?

4

How social media is fuelling far-right riots

5

Who’s behind the Nigel Farage crypto scam?

6

The business of climbing Everest

7

What’s behind the protests against the Kushner-Trump luxury development in Albania?

8

Why are football World Cup tickets so expensive?

9

Why is Ghana criminalising LGBTQ+ people?

10

Why is Gen Z increasingly discontent with AI?

11

The fallout from the Henry Nowak case

12

What is Trump’s endgame in Cuba?

13

Why can cold water be so dangerous?

14

The Pope’s AI warning

15

Will an El Niño event cause even hotter summers?

16

Peter Murrell’s embezzlement scandal

17

Why is the government pushing for price caps?

18

Will the UK rejoin the EU?

19

Is social media damaging London’s tourist trade?

20

Could the Married at First Sight allegations change the TV industry?

21

How serious is the new Ebola outbreak?

22

Smart glasses: the new era of covert recordings

23

Why is the Strait of Hormuz still closed?

24

Why are elite athletes doping for the Enhanced Games?

25

Will jet fuel prices ruin your holiday?

26

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

27

How are the police using AI?

28

How much trouble is Keir Starmer in?

29

How could the government tackle antisemitism?

30

Why does South Africa have a xenophobia problem?

31

How could thousands of miscarriages be prevented?

32

Why is Elon Musk suing OpenAI?

33

Are stalking cases soaring in Britain?

34

Will the government’s plan to stop young people smoking work?

35

Why is the Michael Jackson biopic such a hit?

36

How a sub-2 hour marathon finally happened

37

Why your hayfever is getting worse

38

Is Ticketmaster ripping off fans?

39

What does Apple’s new CEO tell us about its future?

40

Why is Keir Starmer on the ropes?

41

Why is the UK paying to switch off wind energy?

42

Trump vs the Pope. What does it mean?

43

Why do Reform councillors keep quitting the party?

44

Who really revealed Banksy’s identity?

45

Why are beta blockers so popular?

46

Why is Israel continuing to attack Lebanon?

47

The downfall of Europe’s great populist

48

We’re losing the race to save the emperor penguin

49

US vs. China: the new space race

50

Will the US-Iran ceasefire hold?

51

Why are art heists on the rise?

52

Is shared ownership housing really an affordable option?

53

Is the Iran War dividing MAGA?

54

How is the Iran war affecting our cost of living?

55

The economics of K-pop and BTS

56

Are war crimes happening in the Iran war?

57

Why are Meta and Google liable for social media addiction?

58

What’s behind changes to the abortion law in England and Wales?

59

Is Cuba Donald Trump’s next target?

60

Are AI chatbots encouraging violence?

61

Why did Scotland reject assisted dying?

62

Why has the Middle East conflict spread to Lebanon?

63

The Meningitis outbreak: How serious is it?

64

Anthropic vs the Pentagon: who decides how AI is used?

65

Why are Iranian footballers refusing asylum?

66

The Mandelson files: How much did Starmer know?

67

How to win an Oscar

68

War in the Middle East: How bad is the economic shock?

69

What went wrong at BrewDog?

70

What does Britain's immigration shake-up mean?

71

How are Dubai’s influencers reacting to conflict in the Middle East?

72

Why are there mixed messages about why the US attacked Iran?

73

Why are maternity services in England in crisis?

74

Who’s the man behind looksmaxxing?

75

What does the bombing of Iran mean for the Middle East?

76

What does the killing of a cartel boss mean for Mexico?

77

Why did the BBC broadcast a racial slur at the Baftas?

78

How a mountaineer's death could change climbing forever

79

Why is youth unemployment in the UK rising?

80

Russia’s war with Ukraine: four years on

81

Is the one-in-one-out asylum policy with France working?

82

What does Andrew’s arrest mean for the royal family?

83

Is Canada doing enough to stop gun violence?

84

The drug 500 times as strong as heroin

85

Why won’t it stop raining?

86

China’s new wave of crackdowns on pro-democracy activists

87

Can the royals distance themselves from Andrew?

88

The UK’s million pound illegal waste problem

89

Why are so many people trapped by student debt?

90

The politics behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance

91

Why are the social media giants on trial?

92

Why does the Peter Mandelson scandal threaten to bring down Starmer?

93

Why is surrogacy controversial?

94

Will we see driverless cars on the streets of London this year?

95

What’s holding up the assisted dying bill?

96

Are British pubs dying?

97

The battle for the heart of chess

98

Is Trump scaling back ICE’s operations in Minnesota?

99

Will the Iranian regime survive?

100

Will Donald Trump’s Board of Peace bring stability to Gaza?

101

Could social media be banned for under 16s in the UK?

102

How far will Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian go?

103

Why are podcasters talking about birth rates?

104

Will Trump set his sights on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard next?

105

Is China’s new London ‘super-embassy’ a threat?

106

Why are thousands of homes in South East England without water?

107

America’s war on immigration

108

How applicants that failed vetting became Met police officers

109

Is high protein food guidance a bad thing?

110

A brutal crackdown in Iran

111

Why do MPs want to boycott Elon Musk’s X over sexualised AI images?

112

The seized oil tankers

113

Why are Brits losing their citizenship?

114

Which countries in Latin America might Trump target next?

115

Are high streets losing the battle against gambling?

116

Why did America attack Venezuela?

117

Can you spot the AI video?

118

Can ChatGPT replace my therapist? (Revisited)

119

The downsides of weight-loss drugs (Revisited)

120

Is the hunt for the 100ft wave over? (Revisited)

121

How to hack Mount Everest (Revisited)

122

Why is Gen Z going to church? (Revisited)

123

Has buy now, pay later gone too far? (Revisited)

124

Why did Bumble drop ‘women making the first move’?

125

Palestine Action’s youngest hunger striker

126

Who controls the Himalayas’ water?

127

Why are doctors striking during a flu outbreak?

128

How does the Employment Rights Bill change sick pay?

129

Why is Trump targeting Venezuela?

130

Rising antisemitism before the Bondi Beach shooting

131

How did Johnny Depp make a comeback?

132

Why is the government concerned about mental health overdiagnosis?

133

Why is there a blockbuster fight for Warner Bros?

134

Will Australia’s social media ban for teenagers work?

135

What does Russia’s latest offensive in Ukraine tell us about the prospect of peace?

136

Why is there controversy surrounding India’s mega zoo?

137

What Spotify Wrapped 2025 tells us about the streaming industry

138

Why is the UAE funding AI projects in Africa?

139

Why has the government scrapped juries for some trials?

140

Why are councils selling off their resources?

141

Why are Europe’s Gen Z heading to the mines of Australia?

142

Why is the army recruiting gamers?

143

Will the Budget bring the cost of living down?

144

Gaza is trapped in limbo

145

What’s behind the US-Russian peace plan for Ukraine?

146

Could Covid lockdowns have been avoided?

147

The Michael Jackson fan dilemma

148

Why is a 2.6 degree temperature rise so catastrophic?

149

How police caught one of the biggest crypto scammers ever

150

Why has Trump sent warships to the Caribbean?

151

Why are nicotine pouches more popular than ever?

152

Why did Republicans release Epstein emails?

153

Can Trump really sue the BBC?

154

Why is Andrew Tate finished?

155

Why is porn showing choking being banned?

156

Could Trump start a new nuclear arms race?

157

What does the renters rights act mean for tenants?

158

Zohran Mamdani: How to topple Trump

159

Will Rachel Reeves raise taxes?

160

Is this the end of TV?

161

Why is there so much AI slop?

162

Why has the violence escalated in Sudan?

163

How did climate change make Hurricane Melissa worse?

164

The Israeli settlers waiting to move in to Gaza

165

Are ultra-processed foods making us ill?

166

Has Trump’s obsession with Greenland helped its people?

167

The Louvre heist: What next?

168

How lawless is London?

169

Why are young people toppling governments?

170

Why did Prince Andrew lose his Royal titles?

171

Is sport Donald Trump’s new political football?

172

Have Reform found that running councils is harder than it looks?

173

Why is Joe Rogan ditching Donald Trump?

174

Why are Britain’s clubs closing?

175

What obstacles does the Gaza peace deal face?

176

Is AI really stealing graduate jobs?

177

Will the ceasefire hold in Gaza?

178

Is Donald Trump declining cognitively?

179

Why is Tony Blair part of Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza?

180

The rise of anti-trans threats in the US

181

Can legal aid survive a cyber attack?

182

What does Europe do about Russian drones?

183

Why are Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall performing in Saudi Arabia?

184

A breakthrough in treating Huntington’s disease

185

Andy Burnham or Jeremy Corbyn: Where next for the British left?

186

What’s really behind Trump’s war on painkillers?

187

Could TikTok become MAGATok?

188

Has JADE broken the girl group curse?

189

What’s Ben & Jerry’s without Jerry?

190

What’s the link between Jimmy Kimmel and Project 2025?

191

Who’s funding Tommy Robinson?

192

Did Trump and Starmer answer the Epstein question?

193

How does Trump rule like a king?

194

Israel launches Gaza City offensive

195

Is meme culture tied to Charlie Kirk's death?

196

Who are the lost artists of Ancient Egypt?

197

Climate scientists vs. Donald Trump

198

How might Nato respond to Russian drones over Poland?

199

Who is the Somali judge with 1.5 million TikTok followers?

200

Who are the winners and losers of the cabinet reshuffle?

201

Who’s the new editor of American Vogue?

202

Who’s behind all the England flags?

203

Why is it so hard to deliver aid to Gaza?

204

The black market for weight loss drugs

205

How did Taskmaster conquer the world?

206

Is the AI bubble about to burst?

207

Why is tanning back in style?

208

How to reconstruct a face

209

Who is football whisperer, Indy Kaila?

210

Have the protestors outside The Bell Hotel won?

211

What happens to women forced to return to Afghanistan?

212

What is Putin’s price for peace?

213

Why are ADHD cases on the rise?

214

Will Nepal’s new plan to ease overcrowding on Everest work?

215

What happened when Trump and Putin met to discuss the Ukraine war?

216

How bovine TB shut down Clarkson’s farm

217

How to fix the world's plastic pollution?

218

The death of a Palestinian activist in the West Bank

219

Should the police reveal the personal details of alleged criminals?

220

Haiti’s cultural heritage at threat from violent gangs

221

The Macrons vs Candace Owens

222

Could age verification make the internet more dangerous?

223

Why is life so tough for migrant workers in Jersey?

224

What’s happening to Palestine Action supporters?

225

Compensated for an exorcism

226

Are credit card companies the biggest force in online content moderation?

227

What are we losing when we turn forests into farmland?

228

How much aid is getting through to Gaza?

229

Can ChatGPT replace my therapist?

230

How did the Lionesses do it again?

231

Can a new drug help us to live longer?

232

Can Donald Trump deport more than a million undocumented migrants?

233

How did Volodomyr Zelensky’s choice of clothing spark a $200 million bet and an online rebellion?

234

What does the Afghan data leak mean for the 18,000 people on the list?

235

Why are sportswomen facing more abuse than ever?

236

Why is Trump splitting with MAGA over Epstein?

237

What next for pro-Gaza protests?

238

Why are rape cases collapsing?

239

Why did Elon Musk’s Grok praise Hitler?

240

How do you fight mosquitos with mosquitos?

241

Why did Christian Horner leave Red Bull’s F1 team?

242

Does Donald Trump support Ukraine?

243

Could this be the end of police racial profiling in France?

244

Can Labour reduce obesity rates?

245

The real Salt Path

246

What happened in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial?

247

Why did so many Labour MPs oppose the welfare reform bill?

248

How did Budapest Pride become a once in a generation protest?

249

Could AI mean the end for influencers?

250

The man behind Tattle Life unmasked

251

Why is Jeff Bezos' wedding sparking protests in Venice?

252

Will the victims of grooming gangs ever get justice?

253

Will France’s new powers stop small boat crossings?

254

Can one woman’s legal victory change the future of fossil fuels?

255

What could happen next after the US bombed Iran?

256

Will Trump bomb Iran’s nuclear fortress?

257

What’s really in your can of tuna?

258

How much energy and water does AI use?

259

Why is Benjamin Netanyahu striking Iran?

260

Why are physician associates attracting so much controversy?

261

Has Rachel Reeves ended austerity?

262

What’s behind Trump’s show of force in LA?

263

Why Musk’s aid cuts will outlast his time in government

264

Is burning waste the answer to the UK’s energy needs?

265

What's really going on with England's Lionesses?

266

How to hack Mount Everest

267

Bottom trawling: fishing’s dirty secret

268

Is Britain ready to shift to a war footing?

269

Is this the end of disposable vapes?

270

Will Trump's Golden Dome work?

271

The renationalisation of Britain’s railways

272

Could the government’s immigration reforms lead to an exodus of international nurses?

273

Who’s polluting the River Wye?

274

Inside the world of Superbikes

275

Is Britain ready to choose prison reform over punishment?

276

Could this be the end of abortion prosecutions?

277

Has Keir Starmer pulled off a Brexit reset with the EU?

278

What did Cassie Ventura’s testimony reveal about Sean “Diddy” Combs?

279

The boxset boom on the silver screen

280

Why is Gen Z going to church?

281

How has President Trump ushered in a new age of corruption?

282

Israel’s new offensive in Gaza

283

What pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of war?

284

The musicians taking on AI

285

Is Trump succeeding in deporting millions?

286

The Met Gala’s anti-MAGA resistance

287

Why Reform is no longer the party of old white men

288

Why do councils rent out their parks for summer festivals?

289

The downsides of weight-loss drugs

290

The other Tate Brother

291

What does the Supreme Court ruling on sex mean in practice?

292

Are Chatbots afraid of dying?

293

Why is Russia relying on North Korean troops?

294

Why is Gen Z obsessed with running?

295

How did Pope Francis tackle child sexual abuse in the church?

296

Harvard University versus Trump

297

What's Behind the Rise of Thin-Fluencers?

298

What’s behind Birmingham’s bin strikes?

299

Why did the UK government rush to save the last remaining steel power plant?

300

Will Donald Trump save the iPhone?

301

Why are your allergies worse this year?

302

Why are American politicians defending anti-abortion activists in the UK?

303

Why do climate change sceptics care about a volcano eruption?

304

What does Trump's tariff mean for your personal finances?

305

What do we know about the killing of paramedics in Gaza?

306

Have you ever fallen for a fake, AI-generated movie trailer on YouTube?

307

Who is the man behind Donald Trump’s war on DEI?

308

What is life like for children and aid workers in Gaza after the ceasefire collapse?

309

What does the earthquake mean for Myanmar?

310

What happens when life at an Antarctic base turns hostile?

311

Has buy now, pay later gone too far?

312

Why does Netflix’s Adolescence hit a nerve?

313

The chancellor’s choices

314

Why does Donald Trump care so much about South Africa?

315

Why is there a measles outbreak in Texas?

316

What is life like in Gaza since the ceasefire collapsed?

317

Why has Israel started bombing Gaza again?

318

Is the hunt for the 100ft wave over?

319

Is Labour’s welfare gamble a risk worth taking?

320

Can Trump really strike a peace deal in Ukraine?

321

Manchester United’s theatre of nightmares

322

Syrian deal gives peace a chance

323

Andrew Tate lands in Trump’s America

324

Why is Romantasy so popular?

325

What are the consequences of Trump’s foreign aid cuts?

326

Can Trump fix America’s eggflation?

327

Musk, Trump, and the secretive government overhaul

328

The ceasefire deadlock: What comes next for Israel and Hamas?

329

Ukrainian fears following the Trump-Zelensky clash

330

Is the music industry ready for AI?

331

How Nasa is tracking the “city-killer” asteroid

332

Is Anora the most radical film at this year’s Oscars?

333

Trump’s purge of the military

334

Is the rise of Germany’s far-right a wake-up call for Europe?

335

Is Trump trading peace for Ukraine’s minerals?

336

How are M23 rebels and mineral smuggling driving violence in the DRC?

337

Melania Trump v Anna Wintour: Who Really Holds the Power?

338

Are Elon Musk’s politics hurting Tesla?

339

Why are at-home rape kits being offered to university students?

340

Is America changing course on Ukraine?

341

Should a writer’s intimate diary be published after their death?

342

Why is Labour taking a harder line on immigration?

343

Who stole ancient treasures from the Drents Museum?

344

Who is really in charge of America: Elon Musk or Donald Trump?

345

Emilia Perez: from Oscar darling to controversy magnet

346

Master: Lawsuit filed against Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

347

Is Trump serious about taking over Gaza?

348

Why did dozens of miners die underground in South Africa?

349

Is Rachel Reeves's Heathrow expansion a green aviation gamble?

350

How DeepSeek shook Wall Street

351

The woman behind Trump’s global anti-abortion agenda

352

Is the West Bank the new front in the Israel-Palestine conflict?

353

Trapped by the lifetime ISA: a costly catch for first-time buyers

354

Why did Donald Trump pardon a convicted "drug kingpin"?

355

Can redefining terrorism stop the lone wolf threat?

356

Hopes and fears for a new Syria

357

Will Trump succeed in deporting millions?

358

The Prince, the press, and the payout

359

Should England’s cricketers boycott Afghanistan?

360

The second age of Trump

361

Inside the fight to shut down an AI-powered “nudify” network

362

A prospect of peace between Israel and Hamas

363

How windfarms unwittingly cause chaos to the UK’s air defences

364

TikTok’s fate: the countdown to a US ban

365

Mark Zuckerberg bows to Donald Trump

366

How Pokémon Go Powers AI

367

Why rising borrowing costs spell trouble for Rachel Reeves

368

The MAGA Effect on South Korea’s Democracy

369

How do you free a killer whale?

370

Gisèle Pelicot – a historic rape trial

371

Will 2025 be the breakthrough year for AI adoption?

372

Denmark’s gold rush town

373

A hard year for King Charles

374

Joe Root – the greatest gets better

375

Nara Smith and the trad wife renaissance

376

The rise and rise of Kneecap

377

How Baby Reindeer rocked British TV

378

Gaza’s Vlogger

379

Chappell Roan and the price of fame

380

The woman behind ITV’s Mr Bates vs. The Post Office

381

2024: The year of the sequel

382

Luigi Mangione’s alleged 3D-printed gun

383

Why does Lucy Letby’s new lawyer think she should be released?

384

Why has Saudi Arabia been awarded the 2034 World Cup?

385

The rise of memecoins

386

Who is the lawyer suing Jay-Z?

387

Syria's prisons

388

Could Nigel Farage’s Reform party be backed by mega donors?

389

France’s political tailspin

390

How did Syrian rebels overthrow Bashar al-Assad?

391

The assisted dying bill has passed its first House of Commons hurdle, what happens next?

392

Are targets for the rollout of electric vehicles too high?

393

Syrian rebels take back Aleppo

394

Banana Art

395

Russia’s new experimental ballistic missile

396

Why has Kate Nash started an OnlyFans?

397

Who do the Lords work for?

398

The crisis in women’s healthcare

399

Can an AI chatbot cure loneliness?

400

What are Israel’s plans for northern Gaza?

401

Why are there protests over Māori rights in New Zealand?

402

No men, no sex: A feminist backlash to Donald Trump’s election

403

Is the UK’s 5G network a myth?

404

Does severe flooding in Spain signal a warning for Europe?

405

Will an anti-vaxxer take over America’s department of health?

406

The world’s loneliest penguin

407

The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury

408

The case for funding climate action before disaster strikes

409

Musk buys power

410

Why will HS2 spend £100 million on a bat tunnel?

411

How are Sudan’s neighbours coping with the country’s refugees?

412

What lies ahead for Trump 2.0?

413

How did Donald Trump pull it off?

414

The US election: what’s happened so far?

415

TikTok and the rise of ‘Algospeak’

416

Why is big money backing Donald Trump?

417

A generational Budget

418

The battle of the sexes in the US election

419

Why doesn’t prison work for women?

420

Rachel Reeves changes the rules

421

North Korean troops join Russia’s fight in Ukraine

422

The press frenzy over Liam Payne’s death

423

AI goes nuclear

424

Just Stop Oil protest laws

425

Why is Israel clashing with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon?

426

Assisted dying: how could the law change in England and Wales?

427

The Canary Island migrant route

428

Introducing...The Animal Sensemaker

429

The race to save the Amazon

430

Riots, racism and British society

431

Who is the real JD Vance?

432

Too Cleverly? Inside the Conservative leadership race

433

Did climate change make Hurricane Milton stronger?

434

Will facial recognition technology transform policing?

435

Big Tech's growing political influence

436

One Year On From October 7. Part 2: Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinians

437

One Year On From October 7th. Part 1: The Hostages

438

The elite footballers threatening to strike

439

The driving test backlog

440

American abortion ban leads to woman’s death

441

The death of Hezbollah’s leader

442

Can Instagram make itself safe for teens?

443

Why is the future of British TV drama in crisis?

444

Is AI capable of reasoning?

445

Israel’s new offensive against Hezbollah

446

Labour’s tricky party conference

447

Springfield under siege

448

The return of Fyre Festival?

449

Crisis at the Jewish Chronicle

450

A West Bank Warlord

451

Trump survives apparent assassination attempt

452

Why Germany is introducing tighter border controls

453

Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump: who came out on top?

454

Why Ireland is reluctant to take Apple’s billions

455

Brazil vs Musk

456

Why are prisoners being released early?

457

The “systematic dishonesty” that caused the Grenfell Tower fire disaster

458

Netanyahu defies his critics

459

How the US elects its president

460

Sextortion on the rise

461

Why Oasis used dynamic ticket pricing

462

Afghanistan’s new ‘vice and virtue’ laws

463

Why Telegram’s founder is being investigated

464

SpaceX will return stranded astronauts to Earth

465

Could Labour’s pay deals backfire?

466

What is ketamine infusion therapy?

467

Indonesia moves its sinking capital

468

The Ukrainian accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline

469

New York’s war on rats

470

The world of MrBeast

471

Valdo Calocane and the ‘failures’ in the case of the Nottingham killer

472

London (Taylor’s Version)

473

Ukraine advances into Russia

474

Rupert Murdoch and the real ‘Succession’ battle

475

Why GPs are taking industrial action

476

How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?

477

The mystery of Akon City

478

Kamala Harris’s ‘weird’ pick for vice president

479

How they pulled off an ‘impossible’ prisoner exchange

480

Gaza ceasefire talks at a standstill

481

Who are Britain’s far right?

482

Sha’Carri Richardson and the politics of doping

483

How does a government overspend on asylum by £6bn pounds?

484

How Kamala Harris could beat Trump

485

FlowGPT vs Bad Bunny and the rise of AI-generated music

486

Historic jail terms for Just Stop Oil protestors

487

Strictly Come Dancing loses its shine

488

Simone Biles seeks redemption at the Paris Olympics

489

CrowdStrike: What can we learn from the outage?

490

Joe Biden has dropped out. What now?

491

The malaria survivor who helped create a new vaccine

492

Ep 897: Brat summer: how Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist

493

Ep 896: Donald Trump’s mini-me

494

Ep 895: India’s mega-wedding

495

Ep 894: How an attempt to assassinate Trump upended the presidential race

496

Ep 893: What is the ‘grey belt’?

497

Ep 892: England reach Euro 2024 final

498

Ep 891: The battle over the future of the Tory party

499

Ep 890: James Timpson: Labour’s radical prisons minister

500

Ep 889: France's shock election result

501

Ep 888: What will the new government do first?

502

Ep 887: Labour's landslide

503

Ep 886: The march of the robot army

504

Ep 885: The search for Jay Slater

505

Ep 884: Is there asbestos in makeup?

506

Ep 883: How the election looks on social media

507

Ep 882: The deal to free Assange

508

Ep 881: The election betting scandal

509

Ep 880: Stuck in space

510

Ep 879: The Booker prize winner facing jail for a 14-year old remark

511

Ep 878: The ghost of Boris Johnson

512

Ep 877: Kylian Mbappe’s warning about the far right

513

Ep 876: The Taylor Swift of tech

514

Ep 875: Why Louie Hinchcliffe could be Team GB’s next athletics star

515

Ep 874: What Hunter Biden’s conviction means for his dad

516

Ep 873: Pro-Palestine candidates threaten to take votes from Labour

517

Ep 872: Euro 2024: Gareth Southgate’s last dance?

518

Ep 871: The cyberattack on London hospitals

519

Ep 870: Macron’s gamble: why France’s president called a snap election

520

Ep 869: Shein looks to London

521

Ep 868: Ed Davey: the carer and the clown

522

Ep 867: What is GameStop and who is Roaring Kitty?

523

Ep 866: What does Farage’s return mean for the Tories?

524

Ep 865: Mallorca's anti-tourism protests

525

Ep 864: What Trump’s conviction means for the election

526

Ep 863: The First Millennial Saint

527

Ep 862: Is climate change to blame for extreme turbulence?

528

Ep 861: All eyes on Rafah

529

Ep 860: The women facing deportation to Rwanda

530

Ep 859: Paula Vennells and the Post Office scandal

531

Ep 858: Rishi Sunak announces a general election

532

Ep 857: Scarlett Johansson speaks out against OpenAI

533

Ep 856: Bad Blood

534

Ep 855: The death of Iran’s president

535

Ep 854: England’s ‘Ghost’ Pupils

536

Ep 853: Netflix's Baby Reindeer Problem

537

Ep 852: The Church tackles climate change

538

Ep 851: Drake vs Kendrick

539

Ep 850: What’s left of Hamas in Gaza?

540

Ep 849: My life as a prison officer

541

Ep 848: Bumble changes course

542

Ep 847: Chaos at Co-op Live

543

Ep 846: The inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes

544

Ep 845: Toomaj Salehi: the rapper sentenced to death for criticising the Iranian regime

545

Ep 844: The Caitlin Clark Effect

546

Ep 843: No-fault evictions: how the Renters Reform Bill was watered down

547

Ep 842: Humza Yousaf’s unforced error

548

Ep 841: Hersh Goldberg-Polin and the other hostages still in Gaza

549

Ep 840: Trump’s first week in court

550

Ep 839: Grindr sued

551

Ep 838: Rwanda policy: What difference will it make?

552

Ep 837: Britain’s mouldy homes

553

Ep 836: Why the internet is arguing about flooding in Dubai

554

Ep 835: Vinicius Jr: the Real Madrid star’s fight against racism

555

Ep 834: The Swiss women who went to court over climate change and won

556

Ep 833: The Hull funeral home investigation

557

Ep 832: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge

558

Ep 831: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?

559

Ep 830: A health warning from an esports star

560

Ep 829: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry

561

Ep 828: Instability AI

562

Ep 827: Why Republicans are blocking aid for Ukraine

563

Ep 826: Westminster’s honeytrap sext scandal

564

Ep 825: Threat to life: the Iranian journalist stabbed in London

565

Ep 824: The aid workers killed in Gaza

566

Ep 823: Bollywood gets political

567

Ep 822: The truth about Trump’s Truth Social

568

Ep 821: Boeing, Boeing, gone

569

Ep 820: When extreme sports turn deadly

570

Ep 819: Who was behind the Moscow terror attack?

571

Ep 818: Israel and the UN’s Gaza relief agency

572

Ep 817: Bitcoin is back

573

Ep 816: Frank Hester: The race row and the rise of the mega donor

574

Ep 815: Indefinite jail terms: ‘a stain on our justice system’

575

Ep 814: Elon Musk takes on OpenAI

576

Ep 813: Putin's sham election

577

Ep 812: Family fractured after suspected illegal abortion

578

Ep 811: Will the US ban Tik Tok?

579

Ep 810: Lee Anderson’s political journey

580

Ep 809: Kate’s photo-editing experiment blows up

581

Ep 808: Getting aid into Gaza

582

Ep 807: How spies recorded a German military meeting

583

Ep 806: How Raye broke a Brits record

584

Ep 805: Haiti’s state of anarchy

585

Ep 804: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector

586

Ep 803: Why Wayne Couzens wasn’t stopped

587

Ep 802: What George Galloway’s return means for British politics

588

Ep 801: A spike in spiking?

589

Ep 800: How to hack the hackers

590

Ep 799: How Birmingham went bust

591

Ep 798: When egg freezing goes wrong

592

Ep 797: The case against Julian Assange

593

Ep 796: The university that contributed to a student’s death

594

Ep 795: Why Trump is selling golden trainers

595

Ep 794: How The Body Shop lost its sheen

596

Ep 793: Russia after Navalny

597

Ep 792: Biden: too old to be president?

598

Ep 791: Labour, Rochdale and the anti-Semitism row

599

Ep 790: Zelensky fires his top general

600

Ep 789: Asylum hotels: hundreds evicted with a week’s notice

601

Ep 788: EU farmers ramp up protests

602

Ep 787: Keir Starmer and the mysterious case of the £28bn green plan

603

Ep 786: 23andMe’s cybercrime crisis

604

Ep 785: Lewis Hamilton’s new era

605

Ep 784: Imran Khan imprisoned

606

Ep 783: Kemi and the evil plotters

607

Ep 782: A weightloss journey that ended in tragedy

608

Ep 781: The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal

609

Ep 780: The Austrian extremist stirring up controversy in Germany

610

Ep 779: Be the best: Britain’s shortage of soldiers

611

Ep 778: A new test for Alzheimer's

612

Ep 777: How Trump saw off his rivals

613

Ep 776: Britain’s measles outbreak

614

Ep 775: Why UK universities face testing times

615

Ep 774: Fujitsu and the Post Office scandal

616

Ep 773: Hizb’ut-Tahrir banned in the UK

617

Ep 772: Ecuador's state of war

618

Ep 771: Iceland feels the heat

619

Ep 770: The Bethany Cox abortion case

620

Ep 769: Who is France’s new prime minister?

621

Ep 768: Bill Ackman and the battle for the future of Harvard

622

Ep 767: Journalists killed covering Israel-Hamas war

623

Ep 766: The British Library cyber attack

624

Ep 765: Boeing's tailspin

625

Ep 764: Challenging Trump’s presidential run

626

Ep 763: An assassination in Beirut

627

Ep 762: General Calamity

628

Ep 761: Artemis II: sending humans back to the moon

629

Ep 760: Disney’s Mickey Mouse problem

630

Ep 759: The Kamala Harris question

631

Ep 758: Jude Bellingham: England’s golden boy

632

Ep 757: How Dan Wootton became the story

633

Ep 756: Sam Altman: who is the OpenAI boss?

634

Ep 755: The Taylor Swift Era

635

Ep 754: Sports Illustrated and its AI-generated authors

636

Ep 753: Hostage deaths put pressure on Netanyahu

637

Ep 752: Prince Harry hacked

638

Ep 751: Zelensky’s fight for funding

639

Ep 750: Physician associates: what are they and why do we need them?

640

Ep 749: The end of fossil fuels?

641

Ep 748: Rishi Sunak’s hollow victory

642

Ep 747: El loco: Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president

643

Ep 746: Infected blood scandal: a government defeat

644

Ep 745: Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry

645

Ep 744: A revolting week for Rishi Sunak

646

Ep 743: India implicated in New York assassination attempt

647

Ep 742: A new era for women’s football in England

648

Ep 741: Attacks in the Red Sea

649

Ep 740: Green air travel: how close are we?

650

Ep 739: Edinburgh’s pandas head home

651

Ep 738: Paying the bill for climate change

652

Ep 737: Should the Conservatives be concerned about Reform UK?

653

Ep 736: Gaza truce: what is Qatar’s role?

654

Ep 735: Covid inquiry: how Rishi Sunak ‘handled the scientists’

655

Ep 734: Five-inch heels: the rise and rise of Nikki Haley

656

Ep 733: Autumn statement: inflation down, but what about taxes?

657

Ep 732: Crispr world first: UK approves gene-editing drug

658

Ep 731: What is going on at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital?

659

Ep 730: Rwanda asylum plan: what is the ECHR?

660

Ep 729: The Captain Tom saga

661

Ep 728: Is there a stalemate in Ukraine?

662

Ep 727: Rishi's reshuffle

663

Ep 726: What happens to Gaza after the war?

664

Ep 725: Michelle Mone admits involvement in PPE company

665

Ep 724: Israel-Hamas war: what’s happening in the West Bank?

666

Ep 723: Why homelessness is rising

667

Ep 722: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup coup

668

Ep 721: Kidnapped by Hamas: the long wait

669

Ep 720: When Rishi met Elon

670

Ep 719: Covid inquiry: the wrong crisis for Boris Johnson

671

Ep 718: Starmer’s Israel dilemma

672

Ep 717: Sacked for a stop and search

673

Ep 716: The Gaza tunnels

674

Ep 715: Giorgia Meloni’s family values

675

Ep 714: Trapped in Gaza: the Scottish First Minister’s family

676

Ep 713: Israel’s hostage envoy: who is Gal Hirsch?

677

Ep 712: Why is shoplifting on the rise?

678

Ep 711: What is Hezbollah?

679

Ep 710: Why are prisons so full?

680

Ep 709: The Gaza hospital blast

681

Ep 708: Game on: what the Microsoft-Activision deal means for gamers

682

Ep 707: Blinken tries to calm the Middle East

683

Ep 706: Kidnapped by Hamas: the story of one Israeli hostage

684

Ep 705: ADHD drug shortages start to bite

685

Ep 704: Netanyahu and the state of Israel

686

Ep 703: Gaza and the West Bank explained

687

Ep 702: What is Hamas?

688

Ep 701: Israel and Hamas at war

689

Ep 700: Why the removal of the US speaker is a win for Trump and Putin

690

Ep 699: Rishi Sunak and the winds of change

691

Ep 698: Don't let the bed bugs bite

692

Ep 697: Musk’s brainchild: Neuralink recruits for human trials

693

Ep 696: A ‘death’ in Crimea

694

Ep 695: How the Hollywood strikes have hit the UK

695

Ep 694: Cancelled: one train and a 186-mile taxi ride

696

Ep 693: Murdoch’s succession: how much power will Lachlan have?

697

Ep 692: The frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis

698

Ep 691: Why is Keir Starmer talking about a new EU deal?

699

Ep 690: A murder in Surrey

700

Ep 689: Hero to Net Zero: why is Rishi Sunak scrapping green policies?

701

Ep 688: Russell Brand: the allegations, and his response

702

Ep 687: Bernard Looney’s business relationships

703

Ep 686: Is climate change to blame for the disaster in Libya?

704

Ep 685: ​​Kim Jong-un on the Siberian express

705

Ep 684: The race to combat new Covid variants

706

Ep 683: Bully XL dog attacks: is a ban the solution?

707

Ep 682: Westminster China spy suspect: what we know so far

708

Ep 681: How weight loss injections are reshaping Denmark

709

Ep 680: Who is Boris Johnson’s baroness?

710

Ep 679: Iran: one year on from the death of Mahsa Amini

711

Ep 678: Martha’s Rule: how a 13-year-old died unnecessarily from sepsis

712

Ep 677: Crumbling Britain

713

Ep 676: What the death of a Ukrainian pilot tells us about the war against Russia

714

Ep 675: Can Britain work with China?

715

Ep 674: Luis Rubiales: Spanish football’s MeToo moment?

716

Ep 673: Disaster averted: defusing the ‘time bomb’ tanker

717

Ep 672: Oliver Anthony: America’s unlikely star

718

Ep 671: A family’s apology for slavery

719

Ep 670: Prigozhin’s plane crash: what next?

720

Ep 669: Japan’s radioactive water release

721

Ep 668: Lucy Letby: what happens next?

722

Ep 667: Spain’s World Cup triumph… overshadowed

723

Ep 666: The trials of Rudy Giuliani

724

Ep 665: Missing MP: where is Nadine Dorries?

725

Ep 664: What happened to the Crooked House pub?

726

Ep 663: Hawaii wildfires: why were they so deadly?

727

Ep 662: Sanctions, what sanctions?

728

Ep 661: Megan Thee Stallion says she’ll “never be the same"

729

Ep 660: Phoenix’s month from hell

730

Ep 659: Cookham Wood: a failing youth prison

731

Ep 658: Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks' family settle lawsuit

732

Ep 657: Niger’s coup

733

Ep 656: The Post Office scandal continues

734

Ep 655: UFOs discussed in Congress

735

Ep 654: Putin’s useful madman

736

Ep 653: Trump charged with conspiracy

737

Ep 652: Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction

738

Ep 651: Mbappe, Henderson and the Saudi football league

739

Ep 650: Twitter becomes X: why?

740

Ep 649: Why Israel’s judicial overhaul is causing unrest

741

Ep 648: Do clean air zones work?

742

Ep 647: Actors strike over AI and pay

743

Ep 646: Nigel Farage vs. Coutts

744

Ep 645: The Bibby Stockholm: savings or symbolism?

745

Ep 644: El Niño heats up

746

Ep 643: Women’s World Cup: equality is the goal

747

Ep 642: Aspartame and cancer: what the evidence says

748

Ep 641: Wage rise worries

749

EP 640: Joe Biden’s Hunter problem

750

Ep 639: Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta

751

Ep 638: Just Stop Oil stops play

752

Ep 637: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin?

753

Ep 636: Claims and counterclaims about a BBC presenter

754

Ep 635: What is the ‘zombie drug’ xylazine?

755

Ep 634: Threads takes on Twitter

756

Ep 633: Trouble at Thames Water

757

Ep 632: It’s just not cricket

758

Ep 631: A police killing in France

759

Ep 630: Meat without murder

760

Ep 629: Trump's secret documents

761

Ep 628: Lukashenko: Putin’s puppet

762

Ep 627: Why are rents rising?

763

Ep 626: Prigozhin’s rebellion: what next?

764

Ep 625: Jeffrey Epstein's bankers

765

Ep 624: Confusion over festival drug testing

766

Ep 623: Who was behind the Nord Stream blast?

767

Ep 622: Greece's migrant boat disaster

768

Ep 621: Boris Johnson’s endgame

769

Ep 620: Race to the bottom

770

Ep 619: The allegations against Crispin Odey

771

Ep 618: Not in Vogue

772

Ep 617: A truce in golf’s civil war

773

Ep 616: Nicola Sturgeon arrested

774

Ep 615: What’s happening with the Covid inquiry?

775

Ep 614: Frank Cottrell-Boyce: "We are letting our children down"

776

Ep 613: The Ukraine dam explosion

777

Ep 612: The war hero accused of war crimes

778

Ep 611: The politics of Novak Djokovic

779

Ep 610: Uganda’s tough new anti-gay law

780

Ep 609: Getting aid into Sudan

781

Ep 608: Policing mental health

782

Ep 607: Captagon: Syria’s drug trade

783

Ep 606: The blood contamination scandal

784

Ep 605: Net migration hits a record high

785

Ep 604: The cladding scandal

786

Ep 603: The gangs matrix

787

Ep 602: Ultra-processed food

788

Ep 601: The Hollywood writers’ strike

789

Ep 600: The United Nations in Afghanistan

790

Ep 599: Sam Altman testifies

791

Ep 598: Scotland’s juryless rape trials

792

Ep 597: Zelensky’s European tour

793

Ep 596: The case of Simon Case

794

Ep 595: Ed Sheeran's legal victory

795

Ep 594: The Coronation arrests

796

Ep 593: Tackling online abuse

797

Ep 592: The godfather of AI quits with a warning

798

Ep 591: King Charles' Coronation

799

Ep 590: Georgia’s jailed ex-president

800

Ep 589: Microsoft and Activision: game over?

801

Ep 588: The great Pacific garbage patch

802

Ep 587: Jimmy Lai and freedom in Hong Kong

803

Ep 586: The SNP in crisis

804

Ep 585: Sudan on the brink

805

Ep 584: Raab: the backlash

806

Ep 583: Donbas girl

807

Ep 582: North Wales’ Hollywood fairytale

808

Ep 581: Bird flu is back

809

Ep 580: Atlanta’s Cop City protests

810

Ep 579: Ozempic on the NHS?

811

Ep 578: Airports lift the liquids ban

812

Ep 577: The Pentagon documents leak

813

Ep 576: The Battle for Bakhmut

814

Ep 575: Virgin Orbit

815

Ep 574: Au revoir to e-scooters

816

Ep 573: The charges against Donald Trump

817

Ep 572: Prince Harry in court

818

Ep 571: The arrest of Donald Trump

819

Ep 570: Protests in Israel

820

Ep 569: Taiwan tensions

821

Ep 568: A super-wedding gone wrong

822

Ep 567: Scotland’s new first minister

823

Ep 566: Ofsted under pressure

824

Ep 565: Boris Johnson’s political future

825

Ep 564: France's pension crisis

826

Ep 563: Xi, Putin and Russia’s war

827

Ep 562: Can the Met Police survive?

828

Ep 561: Troubled banks

829

Ep 560: Who is funding Boris Johnson?

830

Ep 559: El Salvador’s mega-prison

831

Ep 558: The Budget and free childcare

832

Ep 557: Gary Lineker and the BBC

833

Ep 556: Governments ban TikTok

834

Ep 555: What's happening to Iran's schoolgirls?

835

Ep 554: The small boats plan

836

Ep 553: Nigeria’s new president

837

Ep 552: The Covid lab leak theory

838

Ep 551: Sue Gray's new job

839

Ep 550: The TikTok fuelled school protests

840

Ep 549: Roald Dahl rewritten

841

Ep 548: Will energy bills rise?

842

Ep 547: Is Brexit now done?

843

Ep 546: The great British salad shortage

844

Ep 545: Ohio’s train disaster

845

Ep 544: Invaded: A year at war

846

Ep 543: A year in Ukraine

847

Ep 542: The search for Nicola Bulley

848

Ep 541: North Korea's unlikely leader

849

Ep 540: The energy companies force-fitting prepayment meters

850

Ep 539: Nicola Sturgeon resigns

851

Ep 538: Syria's struggle for aid

852

Ep 537: UFOs shot down by the US

853

Ep 536: A nuisance at the Tate Modern

854

Ep 535: Manchester City charged

855

Ep 534: Andrea Riseborough’s Oscars drama

856

Ep 533: What killed the Teesside crabs?

857

Ep 532: The accusations against Dominic Raab

858

Ep 531: Earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria

859

Ep 530: The hundred billion dollar drop

860

Ep 529: The death of Tyre Nichols

861

Ep 528: OpenAI takes on Google

862

Ep 527: Striking pay gap

863

Ep 526: Probation service failings

864

Ep 525: Germany’s difficult tank decision

865

Ep 524: Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes

866

Ep 523: The Afghan evacuees challenging the government

867

Ep 522: The fight against AI art

868

Ep 521: Joe Biden’s classified documents

869

Ep 520: Flat battery: the collapse of BritishVolt

870

Ep 519: A British citizen executed by Iran

871

Ep 518: David Carrick: a rapist in the ranks

872

Ep 517: Russian splits

873

Ep 516: Healing the Ozone layer

874

Ep 515: On the frontline of the NHS crisis

875

Ep 514: Sport's reckoning with risk

876

Ep 513: What next for the UK’s space industry?

877

Ep 512: Is Prince Harry winning?

878

Ep 511: Riots in Brazil’s Congress

879

Ep: 510 Andrew Tate arrested

880

Ep 509: China’s Covid numbers

881

Ep 508: Within striking distance?

882

Ep 507: War aims

883

Ep 506: 2023 predictions

884

Ep 505: Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta

885

Ep 504: The ghost of Boris Johnson

886

Ep 503: Courting controversy

887

Ep 502: The women who could change Iran

888

Ep 501: Beth Mead's revenge tour

889

Ep 500: Comedian, president, wartime leader

890

Ep 499: Britain’s housing crusader

891

Ep 498: The warrior with a wooden spoon

892

Ep 497: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

893

Ep 496: A union leader for our times

894

Ep 495: Iran’s public executions

895

Ep 494: Taylor’s Swifties fight back

896

Ep 493: Crypto contagion

897

Ep 492: Strike-hit Britain

898

Ep 491: China's Covid gamble

899

Ep 490: The allegations against Crispin Odey

900

Ep 489: Royal race row

901

Ep 488: Dry World Cup stadiums

902

Ep 487: Slavery reparations

903

Ep 486: The Alzheimer’s drug

904

Ep 485: After the final whistle

905

Ep 484: The return of a Disney hero

906

Ep 483: The boy killed by mould

907

Ep 482: China’s Covid protests

908

Ep 481: Big pay for big bosses

909

Ep 480: Brexit is back

910

Ep 479: Fifa’s boss fights back

911

Ep 478: Tech giants cut jobs

912

Ep 477: Life after climate change

913

Ep 476: A brutal killing in the Russia-Ukraine war

914

Ep 475: Hunt's autumn statement

915

Ep 474: Trump is back

916

Ep 473: Campaigners at COP

917

Ep 472: Crypto implosion

918

Ep 471: Reservist NHS army

919

Ep 470: Trump’s enemy within

920

Ep 469: Williamson pays the price

921

Ep 468: Albania’s asylum seekers

922

Ep 467: Recharging Britain’s battery plans

923

Ep 466: Just Stop Oil

924

Ep 465: The return of Suella Braverman

925

Ep 464: Climate talks: blah blah blah?

926

Ep 463: Flexing for Qatar

927

Ep 462: Bird flu flies high

928

Ep 461: Gas price crash

929

Ep 460: Hu Jintao’s mysterious exit

930

Ep 459: Not-so-disposable vapes

931

Ep 458: Policing the police

932

Ep 457: Rish-uffle

933

Ep 456: Disappearing crabs

934

Ep 455: Liz Truss quits

935

Ep 454: China’s beatings on British soil

936

Ep 453: General Armageddon

937

Ep 452: "There hasn't been a coup"

938

Ep 451: The robot artist

939

Ep 450: Iran’s protest movement

940

Ep 449: Mortgage mayhem

941

Ep 448: A bridge too far

942

Ep 447: Little fires everywhere

943

Ep 446: Australia's ISIS brides

944

Ep 445: Bye Bye Try Guy

945

Ep 444: Brazil's next president

946

Ep 443: A mess in chess

947

Ep 442: Shorting the pound

948

Ep 441: The death of Molly Russell

949

Ep 440: Growth gamble

950

Ep 439: Take frack control

951

Ep 438: Cornered rat

952

Ep 437: Maxi budget

953

Ep 436: Starmer’s big pitch

954

Ep 435: Unrest in Iran

955

Ep 434: Mini budget, big money

956

Ep 433: Italy’s far-right firebrand

957

Ep 432: Could there be blackouts?

958

Ep 431: The Queen’s funeral

959

Ep 430: William and Harry: divided in grief

960

Ep 429: The killing of Chris Kaba

961

Ep 428: Is Ukraine winning?

962

Ep 427: Will Charles be a Green King?

963

Ep 426: The rule of King Charles

964

Ep 425: Operation London Bridge

965

Ep 424: Tackling period poverty

966

Ep 423: Troubles for Truss

967

Ep 422: Kim's sister

968

Ep 421: Life on hold

969

Ep 420: Who chooses?

970

Ep 419: Man of the Hole

971

Ep 418: Vaccine wars

972

Ep 417: Justice for justice

973

Ep 416: Invaded: The war at six months

974

Ep 415: The sprinter twice stopped

975

Ep 414: Customers vs. the energy companies

976

Ep 413: Supersonic travel returns

977

Ep 412: Adam Neumann’s comeback

978

Ep 411: The attack on Salman Rushdie

979

Ep 410: The women taking on the Taliban

980

Ep 409: Meta moves

981

Ep 408: Donald Trump’s document stash

982

Ep 407: Labour’s union spat

983

Ep 406: Returning treasures

984

Ep 405: Alex Jones meets the truth

985

Ep 404: NHS crisis: a junior doctor’s view

986

Ep 403: Profiting from energy prices

987

Ep 402: Taiwan tensions

988

Ep 401: Monkeypox: what we know

989

Ep 400: China's trafficked women

990

Ep 399: Boris Johnson: what next?

991

Ep 398: England’s women victorious

992

Ep 397: Trump under pressure

993

Ep 396: Liz Truss’s pitch for PM

994

Ep 395: Mass shootings and the media

995

Ep 394: Holiday homes under the hammer

996

Ep 393: Rishi Sunak’s pitch for PM

997

Ep 392: Zelensky’s purge

998

Ep 391: Return of Q

999

Ep 390: Covid's new sub-variants

1000

Ep 389: The basketball star taken prisoner