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How worried should we be about hantavirus?

2

How will Britain respond to a rise in anti-semitic terror attacks?

3

Is this the worst hay fever season yet?

4

Why are Trump and the Pope feuding?

5

How dangerous is Anthropic’s new AI?

6

Antisemitism and the return of Kanye West

7

How did a woman sue Meta and Google and win?

8

Who’s behind the arson attack on Jewish charity ambulances?

9

Does the US have plans for Cuba?

10

What’s behind the mass displacement of people in Lebanon?

11

What’s in the Mandelson files?

12

Who is the new supreme leader of Iran?

13

How is Shabana Mahmood shaking up the immigration and asylum system?

14

What’s next for Iran?

15

Who are the men taking their looks to dangerous extremes?

16

Has Russia launched World War 3?

17

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

18

Did Russia poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny?

19

Did the government make it harder for graduates to pay off student loans?

20

Why does Keir Starmer face a perilous week ahead?

21

Will Peter Mandelson bring down Keir Starmer?

22

Will Peter Mandelson’s Epstein links see him removed from the House of Lords?

23

Is ChatGPT introducing porn?

24

Is the Trump administration lying?

25

Is brand Beckham on the brink?

26

Donald Trump’s second term one year on

27

How do US immigration agents track people down?

28

What’s really happening on the ground in Iran?

29

Why did the US seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker?

30

What next for Venezuela?

31

What will be the biggest stories of 2026?

32

2025’s biggest stories of the year

33

Palestine Action hunger strikers

34

Who should win Sports Personality of the Year?

35

The terror attack on Bondi Beach

36

What happens if Tehran runs out of water next week?

37

What happens to streaming if Netflix buys Warner Bros?

38

Why has Wes Streeting launched a review into autism and ADHD diagnoses?

39

Why does Benjamin Netanyahu want to be pardoned?

40

Why wasn’t Rachel Reeves’ budget bolder?

41

Why might the government scrap jury trials?

42

Will talks to end the war in Ukraine lead anywhere?

43

Why is a Russian spy ship targeting the RAF?

44

Why is Shabana Mahmood inspired by Denmark’s asylum policies?

45

Why have US politicians released documents on Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump?

46

Can Zohran Mamdani take on President Trump?

47

Is the UK indirectly implicated in the civil war in Sudan?

48

What’s behind Brazil’s deadly police raid?

49

Why is Hurricane Melissa so strong?

50

Does Amazon control too much of the internet?

51

Is Vladimir Putin outsmarting Donald Trump?

52

What did we learn from Virginia Giuffre’s new memoir?

53

Will Donald Trump move the World Cup?

54

Gaza Special: What's next?

55

Will Trump’s Gaza deal lead to lasting peace in the Middle East?

56

Why is the government giving the police more power to stop protesters?

57

What we know about the Manchester synagogue terror attack

58

What’s the point of Labour’s new plan for immigration?

59

Why are top comedians performing at a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia?

60

Why did Donald Trump falsely claim paracetamol causes autism?

61

What does it mean to recognise a Palestinian state?

62

What does Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation tell us about freedom of speech in Trump's America?

63

How did Gen Z in Nepal overthrow a government?

64

What will the consequences of Charlie Kirk’s shooting be?

65

Why are older people risking arrest for Palestine Action?

66

Will Angela Rayner resign?

67

Will an alliance between India and China usher in a new era of global superpowers?

68

Is Israel targeting journalists in Gaza?

69

Have the Epping asylum protestors won?

70

Can Zelensky and European leaders get President Trump back on Ukraine’s side?

71

Is proscribing Palestine Action a PR disaster for the government?

72

Why did Israel target and kill an Al Jazeera journalist?

73

Why is Brigitte Macron suing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens?

74

Are we in a “Hot Reform Summer”?

75

Why is Donald Trump targeting Brazil?

76

Does UK recognition change anything in Gaza?

77

What do the anti-immigration protests tell us about British politics?

78

Has Football Already Come Home?

79

Why has Israel launched a new air and ground attack on Deir al-Balah in Gaza?

80

Why Trump won’t release the Epstein files

81

What's fueling a rise in measles cases in the UK?

82

The Salt Path Controversy: Behind the scenes

83

Will Starmer and Macron make a deal on small boats?

84

Was the Diddy trial a failure to prosecute?

85

Who is the tech billionaire cosying up to Donald Trump?

86

Have we reached peak women’s sport?

87

What next for Iran?

88

Will the MAGA split prevent a US war with Iran?

89

What happens if the Iranian regime falls?

90

What Netanyahu wants Trump to do about Iran

91

Why is Israel striking Iran?

92

Why has Trump turned Los Angeles into a battleground?

93

What’s behind Trump’s latest travel ban?

94

Why is David Attenborough warning us about ocean trawling?

95

Is Ukraine's audacious drone attack on Russia a game changer?

96

How is for-profit aid shaping the humanitarian crisis in Gaza?

97

Is Elon Musk behind Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims?

98

Did Democrats try to hide Joe Biden’s deteriorating health?

99

Bradley Wiggins admits he was a cocaine addict. What does his struggle with drugs tell us about retired athlete care?

100

What will Keir Starmer’s closer relationship with the EU look like?

101

Why are the Qataris reportedly gifting Donald Trump a $400mn jumbo jet?

102

Are India and Pakistan on the brink of all out war?

103

Ozempic weddings: What are the risks of slimming down for the big day?

104

Why do we lose our local parks to festivals every summer?

105

Is Trump losing patience with Putin?

106

The government’s race to save British Steel

107

What’s behind the allegations of insider trading following Trump’s tariff U-turn?

108

Global stock markets tumble as countries react to Trump’s tariffs

109

Are Trump’s tariffs the beginning of the end for the global economic order?

110

Deborah Frances-White on renters’ rights and the earthquake in Myanmar

111

How did Trump’s top officials accidentally invite a journalist into their group chat?

112

Yalda Hakim on war with China and why did a fire shut down Heathrow airport?

113

Are there plans to remove 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip?

114

How did Trump deport hundreds to a mega prison in El Salvador despite a judge's ruling?

115

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur discusses the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and what this means for free speech in America

116

Why the King wants you to listen to Bob Marley and Reform’s civil war escalates

117

Should Europe seize $220bn in frozen Russian assets and why an Alaskan dog sled race just got even longer?

118

Trump ambushes Zelensky and Starmer takes the lead

119

Should Starmer try to win over Trump and is Zelensky’s mineral deal with the US a smart move?

120

Why has Apple pulled a data protection tool and will Germany stand up to Trump?

121

Why do some young voters buy Trump's lies about Ukraine and what’s behind the violence in the DRC?

122

Is Europe irrelevant in Trump’s new world order and will the UK send troops to Ukraine?

123

The Trump-Putin phone call shocks Europe and mayday for universities in Wales

124

The rise and rise of Reform and the posthumously published diary of Joan Didion

125

The Taliban refuses to return $7bn of US arms and Doge takes on USAID

126

Why is the Royal Family off limits in Parliament and could Trump force Palestinians out of Gaza?

127

An art heist in the Netherlands and will there ever be a third runway at Heathrow Airport?

128

Israeli settlers in the West Bank and the millionaire paying to dodge death

129

Who is the bishop who urged Trump to “have mercy” and why was crypto booming at Davos?

130

Ceasefire in Gaza, allegations against Neil Gaiman, and Donald Trump returns

131

How should the media handle Trump 2.0?

132

The price of Shein’s fast fashion and what’s gone wrong for Rachel Reeves?

133

Why is Mark Zuckerberg changing Meta’s policies and will the LA wildfires make California uninsurable?

134

Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni and Elon Musk muscles in on British politics

135

Sensemaker: Will 2025 be the breakthrough year for AI adoption?

136

News Meeting 2025 predictions: Will Trump and Musk stay friends and could AI help us talk to animals?

137

Sensemaker: Denmark's gold rush town

138

Sensemaker: A hard year for King Charles

139

Sensemaker: Joe Root – the greatest gets better

140

Sensemaker: Nara Smith and the tradwife renaissance

141

Sensemaker: The rise and rise of Kneecap

142

The News Meeting: 2024 Wrapped

143

Sensemaker: How Baby Reindeer rocked British TV

144

Sensemaker: Gaza’s Vlogger

145

Sensemaker: Chappell Roan and the price of fame

146

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

147

Sensemaker: 2024: The year of the sequel

148

The News Meeting: Justice for Gisele Pelicot and are Americans taking all the Guinness?

149

Sensemaker: Luigi Mangione’s alleged 3D-printed gun

150

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

151

Sensemaker: Why has Saudi Arabia been awarded the 2034 World Cup?

152

Sensemaker: The rise of memecoins

153

News Meeting: Rising water bills and the future of the Archbishop of York

154

Sensemaker: Who is the lawyer suing Jay-Z?

155

News Meeting: Syria’s disappeared and Fifa’s 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia

156

Sensemaker: Syria’s prisons

157

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

158

Sensemaker: France’s political tailspin

159

Sensemaker: How did Syrian rebels overthrow Bashar al-Assad?

160

The News Meeting: The end of the house of Assad

161

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

162

The News Meeting: France’s political turmoil and will Musk fund Farage

163

Sensemaker: Are targets for the rollout of electric vehicles too high?

164

Trendy: The big trends that shaped 2024

165

Sensemaker: Syrian rebels take back Aleppo

166

Sensemaker: Banana Art

167

Sensemaker: Russia’s new experimental ballistic missile

168

News Meeting: Rebels advance in Syria and Joe Biden pardons his son

169

Sensemaker: Why has Kate Nash started an OnlyFans?

170

News Meeting: Kate Nash joins OnlyFans and the nuclear test veterans

171

Sensemaker: Who do the Lords work for?

172

Trendy: How do ethnic minorities in Britain vote?

173

Sensemaker: The crisis in women’s healthcare

174

Sensemaker: Can an AI chatbot cure loneliness?

175

Sensemaker: What are Israel’s plans for northern Gaza?

176

News Meeting: Band Aid backlash and Project 2025 in the White House

177

Sensemaker: Why are there protests over Māori rights in New Zealand?

178

News Meeting: Don’t forget Afghanistan and why farmers are protesting

179

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

180

Trendy: The doctor will see you now

181

Sensemaker: Is the UK’s network 5G a myth?

182

Sensemaker: Does severe flooding in Spain signal a warning for Europe?

183

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

184

News Meeting: Biden authorises strikes into Russia and could Elon Musk make a good diplomat?

185

Sensemaker: The world’s loneliest penguin

186

News Meeting: Gary Lineker’s shock exit from Match of the Day and the endgame in Ukraine

187

Sensemaker: The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury

188

Trendy: Who’s watching the news?

189

Sensemaker: The case for funding climate action before disaster strikes

190

Sensemaker: Musk buys power

191

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

192

News Meeting: Donald Trump begins his transition to power and jeopardy in Ukraine

193

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

194

News Meeting: Why Kamala Harris’s bet on abortion rights didn’t pay off and mass deportations

195

Sensemaker: What lies ahead for Trump 2.0?

196

Trendy: It was the economy, stupid

197

Sensemaker: How did Donald Trump pull it off?

198

The News Meeting: Did the media help Donald Trump win an historic election?

199

Sensemaker: The US election: what’s happened so far?

200

Sensemaker: TikTok and the rise of ‘Algospeak’

201

News Meeting: Trump’s plan to challenge a Kamala Harris win and why both candidates need Pennsylvania

202

Sensemaker: Why is big money backing Donald Trump?

203

News Meeting: Will the Budget fix the housing crisis and what is Jeff Bezos's influence on the Washington Post?

204

Sensemaker: A generational Budget

205

Trendy: Growth? What growth?

206

Sensemaker: The battle of the sexes in the US election

207

Sensemaker: Why doesn’t prison work for women?

208

Sensemaker: Rachel Reeves changes the rules

209

News Meeting: Georgia’s pro-Russia party wins and how to handle Trump’s tweets

210

Sensemaker: North Korean troops join Russia’s fight in Ukraine

211

The News Meeting: North Korean troops in Ukraine and Gisele Pelicot becomes a feminist icon

212

Sensemaker: The press frenzy over Liam Payne’s death

213

Trendy: On the fence

214

Sensemaker: AI goes nuclear

215

Sensemaker: Just Stop Oil protest laws

216

Sensemaker: Why is Israel clashing with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon?

217

News Meeting: Sean "Diddy" Combs allegations and sewage in Lake Windermere

218

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

219

News Meeting: Trump threatens to fight the enemy within and the gender divide splitting US voters

220

Sensemaker: The Canary Island migrant route

221

Trendy: Join the party

222

Sensemaker: The race to save the Amazon

223

Sensemaker: Riots, racism and British society

224

Sensemaker: Who is the real JD Vance?

225

News Meeting: Elon Musk is one step closer to Mars and UN peacekeepers under fire

226

Sensemaker: Too Cleverly? Inside the Conservative leadership race

227

News Meeting: Why hurricanes hit the poor hardest and tactical voting in the Conservative leadership battle

228

Sensemaker: Did climate change make Hurricane Milton stronger?

229

Trendy: Food! Glorious Food!

230

Sensemaker: Will facial recognition technology transform policing?

231

Sensemaker: Big Tech's growing political influence

232

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

233

News Meeting: the UK hands the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius and the anniversary of October 7

234

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

235

News Meeting: Driving test hold-ups and why was Hurricane Helene so damaging?

236

Sensemaker: The elite footballers threatening to strike

237

Trendy: Who should pay for university?

238

Sensemaker: The driving test backlog

239

Sensemaker: American abortion ban leads to woman’s death

240

Sensemaker: The death of Hezbollah’s leader

241

News Meeting: Misinformation about Ukraine in the US election and what does Iran do next?

242

Sensemaker: Can Instagram make itself safe for teens?

243

News Meeting: Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon and the indictment against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

244

Sensemaker: Why is the future of British TV drama in crisis?

245

Trendy: Who votes Conservative?

246

Sensemaker: Is AI capable of reasoning?

247

Sensemaker: Israel’s new offensive against Hezbollah

248

Sensemaker: Labour’s tricky party conference

249

News Meeting: US election workers threatened and Labour’s plans to stop migrant gangs

250

Sensemaker: Springfield under siege

251

News Meeting: Exploding pagers in Lebanon and a rape trail that is shocking France

252

Sensemaker: The return of Fyre Festival?

253

Trendy: Who votes Labour?

254

Sensemaker: Crisis at the Jewish Chronicle

255

Sensemaker: A West Bank Warlord

256

Sensemaker: Trump survives apparent assassination attempt

257

News Meeting: Donald Trump doubles down on misinformation and women’s rights in Afghanistan

258

Sensemaker: Why Germany is introducing tighter border controls

259

News Meeting: The fallout from the Trump v Harris debate and Labour’s problem with bad landlords

260

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

261

Trendy: Have we reached peak Lib Dem?

262

Sensemaker: Why Ireland is reluctant to take Apple’s billions

263

Sensemaker: Brazil vs Musk

264

News Meeting: Is Trump beating Harris and does Britain still matter on the world stage?

265

Sensemaker: Why are prisoners being released early?

266

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

267

News Meeting: Will the Grenfell Tower Inquiry bring justice?

268

Sensemaker: Netanyahu defies his critics

269

Trendy: Do trade unions still matter in the UK?

270

Sensemaker: How the US elects its president

271

Sensemaker: Sextortion on the rise

272

Sensemaker: Why Oasis used dynamic ticket pricing

273

News Meeting: Why Oasis can charge so much and Israel’s strike for Gaza hostages

274

Sensemaker: Afghanistan’s new ‘vice and virtue’ laws

275

News Meeting: Biden’s man visits Beijing, sextortion and Telegram’s CEO is arrested

276

Sensemaker: Why Telegram’s founder is being investigated

277

Sensemaker: SpaceX will return stranded astronauts to Earth

278

Sensemaker: Could Labour's pay deals backfire?

279

Sensemaker: What is ketamine infusion therapy?

280

News Meeting: Democrats showcase their wife guys and Starbucks boss is under fire

281

Sensemaker: Indonesia moves its sinking capital

282

Sensemaker: The Ukrainian accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline

283

Sensemaker: New York’s war on rats

284

Sensemaker: The world of MrBeast

285

News Meeting: Africa’s mpox vaccine shortage and Kamala Harris pitches for the presidency

286

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

287

News Meeting: Why Indonesia is moving its capital and the children in care placed far from home

288

Sensemaker: London (Taylor’s Version)

289

Trendy: Keeping the lights on

290

Sensemaker: Ukraine advances into Russia

291

Sensemaker: Rupert Murdoch and the real ‘Succession’ battle

292

Sensemaker: Why GPs are taking industrial action

293

News Meeting: Kamala Harris leads in key states and a call for a fossil-fuel free Olympics

294

Sensemaker: How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?

295

News Meeting: An Olympic star takes flight and Elon Musk spreads fake news

296

Sensemaker: The mystery of Akon City

297

Trendy: Keir Starmer’s mission control

298

Sensemaker: Kamala Harris’s ‘weird’ pick for vice president

299

Sensemaker: How they pulled off an ‘impossible’ prisoner exchange

300

Sensemaker: Gaza ceasefire talks at a standstill

301

News Meeting: The Olympic boxing controversy and how to cover the UK riots

302

Sensemaker: Who are Britain’s far right?

303

Sensemaker: Sha’Carri Richardson and the politics of doping

304

News Meeting: Evan Gershkovich freed in biggest prisoner swap since Cold War

305

Trendy: What Labour and the Conservatives do next

306

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

307

Sensemaker: How Kamala Harris could beat Trump

308

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

309

News Meeting: An unusual start to the Paris Olympics and Just Stop Oil protesters jailed

310

Sensemaker: Historic jail terms for Just Stop Oil protestors

311

Editor's Voicemail: Why the anti-woke backlash presents an opportunity

312

News Meeting: Kamala Harris brat memes and Keir Starmer suspends Labour rebels

313

Sensemaker: Strictly Come Dancing loses its shine

314

Trendy: From Butlins to Barcelona: how Brits holiday

315

Sensemaker: Simone Biles seeks redemption at the Paris Olympics

316

Sensemaker: What we can learn from the CrowdStrike outage

317

Sensemaker: Joe Biden drops out

318

News Meeting: Joe Biden quits the presidential race

319

Sensemaker: The malaria survivor who helped create a new vaccine

320

News Meeting: Trump’s marathon speech and what Labour will do about climate change

321

Editor's voicemail: The price of loyalty to Biden

322

Sensemaker: Brat summer: how Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist

323

Trendy: Double haters and the US election

324

Sensemaker: Donald Trump’s mini-me

325

Sensemaker: India’s mega-wedding

326

Sensemaker: How an attempt to assassinate Trump upended the presidential race

327

The News Meeting: Trump and Biden call for calm after assassination attempt

328

Sensemaker: What is the ‘grey belt’?

329

News Meeting: Lucy Letby, Britain’s prisons crisis and Labour’s Gaza problem

330

Sensemaker: England reach Euro 2024 final

331

Trendy: Has France rejected the far-right?

332

Sensemaker: The battle over the future of the Tory party

333

Sensemaker: Labour’s radical prisons minister

334

Sensemaker: France’s shock election result

335

News Meeting: Labour’s policy blitz and gridlock after France’s election

336

Sensemaker: What will the new government do first?

337

Editor’s Voicemail: A moment of optimism

338

Trendy: What just happened?

339

News Meeting: Starmer drama

340

Sensemaker: Labour's landslide

341

News Meeting: Will Joe Biden step aside?

342

Trendy: The final countdown

343

Could it be true?: Is everything we’ve told you a lie?

344

News Meeting: Why populist candidates thrive

345

Sensemaker: How the election looks on social media

346

News Meeting: The Biden problem and is Julian Assange a hero or a villain?

347

Editor's Voicemail: Minority rule

348

Trendy: The digital election campaign

349

Could it be true?: The platforms’ dilemma

350

News Meeting: AI warfare and why Tory fundraising has collapsed

351

Sensemaker: The ghost of Boris Johnson

352

Editor's Voicemail: hope, change and the fiscal rules

353

News Meeting: Polar bears, ice caps, jobs and growth

354

Trendy: (What’s the story) losing Tory?

355

Could it be true?: Chaos agents

356

News Meeting: What Farage wants and Barclays faces anti-Israel protests

357

Sensemaker: Pro-Palestine candidates threaten to take votes from Labour

358

Editor's Voicemail: Not rejoining, but returning

359

News Meeting: Sunak’s aide bets on the election and French politics goes crazy

360

Trendy: Volatile voters and why people don’t trust politicians

361

Could it be true?: Sneaky politics

362

News Meeting: Douglas Ross quits as leader and Scotland’s homeless children

363

Sensemaker: Ed Davey: the carer and the clown

364

News Meeting: Tory superdonor Frank Hester and Vladimir Putin’s latest threat

365

Editor's Voicemail: It's the technology, stupid

366

Trendy: The Conservatives face their Mount Everest

367

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

368

Could it be true?: Deepfakes

369

News Meeting: Farage shakes up the election campaign

370

Sensemaker: The First Millennial Saint

371

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 5

372

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 4

373

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 3

374

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 2

375

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 1

376

Editor's Voicemail: The politicisation of the courts

377

News Meeting: Israel’s attacks on Rafah and Elon Musk’s new AI chatbot

378

Is climate change to blame for extreme turbulence?

379

Trendy: How is the election campaign going?

380

Sensemaker: All eyes on Rafah

381

Sensemaker: The women facing deportation to Rwanda

382

Sensemaker: Paula Vennells and the Post Office scandal

383

News Meeting: The first days of the election campaign

384

Editor's Voicemail: The course for change

385

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak announces a general election

386

Trendy: What does Gen Z think?

387

Sensemaker: Scarlett Johansson speaks out against OpenAI

388

Sensemaker: Bad Blood

389

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 3

390

Sensemaker: The death of Iran’s president

391

News Meeting: Death in Iran and the Infected Blood Scandal Inquiry

392

Sensemaker: England’s ‘Ghost’ Pupils

393

Editor's Voicemail: Should journalism defend democracy or enable it?

394

News Meeting: Protests in Georgia and the carer’s allowance scandal

395

Sensemaker: Netflix's Baby Reindeer problem

396

Trendy: Was school better in your day?

397

Sensemaker: The Church tackles climate change

398

Sensemaker: Drake vs Kendrick

399

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 2

400

Word for word: Trump on trial

401

Sensemaker: What’s left of Hamas in Gaza?

402

News Meeting: Russian advances and Drake versus Kendrick Lamar

403

Sensemaker: My life as a prison officer

404

Editor's Voicemail: Why newsrooms matter

405

News Meeting: Stormy Daniels testifies and gay rights in Ghana

406

Sensemaker: Bumble changes course

407

Trendy Live: The fallout from the local elections

408

Sensemaker: Chaos at Co-op Live

409

Sensemaker: The inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes

410

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

411

The News Meeting: Has Europe weaned itself off Russian oil?

412

Editor's Voicemail: The joy of journalism

413

Sensemaker: The Caitlin Clark Effect

414

Trendy: King and country

415

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

416

Sensemaker: Humza Yousaf’s unforced error

417

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

418

News Meeting: Humza Yousaf resigns as Scotland’s first minister and Macron’s warning

419

Sensemaker: Trump’s first week in court

420

Editor's Voicemail: A new age of rearmament

421

The News Meeting: India’s election and why pupils in England are facing their worst exam results in decades

422

Sensemaker: Grindr sued

423

Trendy: Dating, love and marriage

424

Sensemaker: Rwanda policy: What difference will it make?

425

News Meeting: Brexit, austerity and how Labour could fix Britain

426

Sensemaker: Britain’s mouldy homes

427

Sensemaker: Why the internet is arguing about flooding in Dubai

428

News Meeting: Sunak’s Rwanda showdown and the Met’s apology to an anti semitism campaigner

429

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

430

Editor's Voicemail: David Cameron inspires a rethink

431

News Meeting: Christiana Figueres on the Dubai floods and Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban

432

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

433

Trendy: What London Thinks

434

Sensemaker: The Hull funeral home investigation

435

Sensemaker: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge

436

Sensemaker: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?

437

News Meeting: Why Iran attacked Israel and Trump’s hush money trial

438

Sensemaker: A health warning from an esports star

439

News Meeting: Swiss women win landmark climate case and Zeinab Badawi on a year of war in Sudan

440

Sensemaker: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry

441

Trendy: Local elections 2024: what to expect

442

Sensemaker: Instability AI

443

Sensemaker: Why Republicans are blocking aid for Ukraine

444

Sensemaker: Westminster’s honeytrap sext scandal

445

News Meeting: Solar eclipse conspiracy theories and is Thames Water facing the end game?

446

Sensemaker: Threat to life: the Iranian journalist stabbed in London

447

News Meeting: Aid worker deaths in Gaza and a Westminster honey trap

448

Sensemaker: The aid workers killed in Gaza

449

Sensemaker: Bollywood gets political

450

Sensemaker: The truth about Trump’s Truth Social

451

Sensemaker: Boeing, Boeing, gone

452

News Meeting: Elizabeth Day on Baltimore bridge conspiracies and Trump’s Truth Social

453

Trendy: How to fix the NHS

454

Sensemaker: When extreme sports turn deadly

455

Sensemaker: Who was behind the Moscow terror attack?

456

Sensemaker: Israel and the UN’s Gaza relief agency

457

News Meeting: What the Moscow attack means for Putin and Chinese hacking

458

Sensemaker: Bitcoin is back

459

Editor's Voicemail: Why it's wrong to suggest the BBC is antisemitic

460

News Meeting: Men-only clubs and a smoking ban for for some, but not all

461

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

462

Trendy: The general election campaign starts here

463

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

464

News Meeting: Lessons from a World War Two disinformation campaign

465

Sensemaker: Elon Musk takes on OpenAI

466

Sensemaker: Putin's sham election

467

News Meeting: Boris Johnson’s Venezuela meeting and should we change the way we fund the police?

468

Sensemaker: Family fractured after suspected illegal abortion

469

Editor's Voicemail: The princess and the tortoise

470

News Meeting: Disgraced Tory donor Frank Hester and has levelling-up made any difference?

471

Sensemaker: Will the US ban Tik Tok?

472

Trendy: Where’s all the money gone?

473

Sensemaker: Lee Anderson’s political journey

474

News Meeting: Who is the real Keir Starmer?

475

Sensemaker: Kate’s photo-editing experiment blows up

476

Sensemaker: Getting aid into Gaza

477

News Meeting: That Kate photo and Sathnam Sanghera on slavery reparations

478

Sensemaker: How spies recorded a German military meeting

479

Editor's Voicemail: An economy built on fellowship

480

News Meeting: Starvation in Gaza and why pensioners are the biggest budget losers

481

Sensemaker: How Raye broke a Brits record

482

Trendy: Britain’s Covid hangover

483

Sensemaker: Haiti’s state of anarchy

484

Sensemaker: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector

485

Sensemaker: Why Wayne Couzens wasn't stopped

486

News Meeting: Hopes for a Gaza ceasefire and Joe Biden’s political problems

487

Sensemaker: What George Galloway’s return means for British politics

488

Editor's Voicemail: Jacob Rothschild

489

News Meeting: The Couzens report, America’s airports and Taylor Swift’s political power

490

Sensemaker: A spike in spiking?

491

Trendy: The race for the White House

492

Sensemaker: How to hack the hackers

493

News Meeting: Chris Anderson on why the internet is making us meaner

494

Sensemaker: How Birmingham went bust

495

Sensemaker: When egg freezing goes wrong

496

News Meeting: Sudan’s forgotten war and Britain’s drink spiking epidemic

497

Sensemaker: The case against Julian Assange

498

News Meeting: Investigating a failing children’s prison and a nuclear missile misfires

499

Sensemaker: The university that contributed to a student’s death

500

Trendy: Good times, bad times

501

Sensemaker: Why Trump is selling golden trainers

502

Sensemaker: How The Body Shop lost its sheen

503

Sensemaker: Russia after Navalny

504

News Meeting: Alexei Navalny’s death and the fake restaurants on Companies House

505

Sensemaker: Biden: too old to be president?

506

News Meeting: UK in recession and has the vegan bubble burst?

507

Sensemaker: Labour, Rochdale and the anti-Semitism row

508

Trendy: A home of your own

509

Sensemaker: Zelensky fires his top general

510

Sensemaker: Asylum hotels: hundreds evicted with a week’s notice

511

Sensemaker: EU farmers ramp up protests

512

News Meeting: Israel’s Rafah offensive and Keir Starmer under pressure over antisemitism

513

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

514

News Meeting: A Labour u-turn and a failed peace agreement

515

Sensemaker: 23andMe’s cybercrime crisis

516

Trendy: Going places: is social mobility alive and well?

517

Sensemaker: Lewis Hamilton's new era

518

Sensemaker: Imran Khan imprisoned

519

Sensemaker: Kemi and the evil plotters

520

News Meeting: Strikes against the Houthis and the rising demand for ADHD medication

521

Sensemaker: A weightloss journey that ended in tragedy

522

News Meeting: What does David Miliband think should lead the news?

523

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal

524

Trendy: The paradox of populism

525

Sensemaker: The Austrian extremist stirring up controversy in Germany

526

News Meeting: Why big events ultimately come down to chance

527

Sensemaker: Be the best: Britain’s shortage of soldiers

528

Sensemaker: A new test for Alzheimer's

529

News Meeting: The death penalty and does Iran want a war with the United States?

530

Sensemaker: How Trump saw off his rivals

531

News Meeting: Trump wins again and why the British military is in such a state

532

Sensemaker: Britain’s measles outbreak

533

Trendy: Britain’s baby bust

534

Sensemaker: Why UK universities face testing times

535

Sensemaker: Fujitsu and the Post Office scandal

536

Sensemaker: Hizb’ut-Tahrir banned in the UK

537

News Meeting: Tata Steel job losses and why are measles cases rising?

538

Sensemaker: Ecuador’s state of war

539

News Meeting: How important will immigration be at the next election?

540

Sensemaker: Iceland feels the heat

541

Trendy: The welfare state we're in

542

Sensemaker: The Bethany Cox abortion case

543

Sensemaker: Who is France’s new prime minister?

544

Sensemaker: Bill Ackman and the battle for the future of Harvard

545

News Meeting: Iowa decides, but does it matter?

546

Sensemaker: Journalists killed covering Israel-Hamas war

547

News Meeting: Who are the Houthis?

548

Sensemaker: The British Library cyber attack

549

Trendy: When everyone hates you for the same reason

550

Sensemaker: Boeing's tailspin

551

News Meeting: The Westminster Accounts one year on

552

Sensemaker: Challenging Trump’s presidential run

553

Sensemaker: An assassination in Beirut

554

News Meeting: The Joe Biden problem and should the Post Office scandal be leading the news?

555

Sensemaker: General Calamity

556

Sensemaker: Artemis II: sending humans back to the moon

557

Sensemaker: Disney’s Mickey Mouse problem

558

Sensemaker: The Kamala Harris question

559

Sensemaker: Jude Bellingham: England’s golden boy

560

News Meeting: 2024 predictions

561

News Meeting: Robert Peston on why politicians need to get a grip of AI

562

Sensemaker: How Dan Wootton became the story

563

Sensemaker: Sam Altman: who is the OpenAI boss?

564

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift Era

565

News Meeting: What was the biggest story of 2023?

566

Sensemaker: Sports Illustrated and its AI-generated authors

567

Sensemaker: Hostage deaths put pressure on Netanyahu

568

Sensemaker: Prince Harry hacked

569

Sensemaker: Zelensky’s fight for funding

570

News Meeting: Michelle Mone’s change of tone and Jimmy Lai on trial

571

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

572

News Meeting: Was COP28 a success and why do politicians lie?

573

Sensemaker: The end of fossil fuels?

574

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak’s hollow victory

575

Sensemaker: El loco: Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president

576

News Meeting: How to fix the economy

577

Sensemaker: Infected blood scandal: a government defeat

578

News Meeting: How Russia wins

579

Sensemaker: Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry

580

Trendy: Oh Come, All Ye Faithful: religion, politics and values

581

Sensemaker: A revolting week for Rishi Sunak

582

News Meeting: Rishi’s Rwanda revolt and Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry

583

Sensemaker: India implicated in New York assassination attempt

584

Sensemaker: A new era for women’s football in England

585

News Meeting: James Harding on Tortoise's case against the Tory party

586

Sensemaker: Attacks in the Red Sea

587

News Meeting: Assassination attempt strains US-India relations and Farage in the jungle

588

Sensemaker: How close are we to green air travel?

589

Was Henry Kissinger a force for good and has Elon Musk finally gone too far?

590

The Elgin marbles debate and could a pause in fighting become a ceasefire in Gaza?

591

When is a tax cut not a tax cut?

592

Open warfare at OpenAI and Jess Phillips on why she voted for a ceasefire in Gaza

593

After Rwanda, what next and could Israel’s raid on a Gaza hospital be a turning point?

594

Bonus episode: Rory Stewart on Westminster’s failures and his political future

595

Rory Stewart on David Cameron’s return and Suella Braverman’s sacking

596

Bonus episode: James O’Brien on the people who broke Britain and how we fix it

597

James O’Brien on Suella Braverman and why Shell is suing Greenpeace

598

Should pro-Palestinian marches go ahead on Armistice Day and can we feel sorry for Sam Bankman-Fried?

599

What we learnt from the Covid inquiry and what’s been happening at Bletchley Park?

600

The Dagestan airport riot and who is the new US House Speaker?

601

What does Saudi Arabia want and are we facing an AI election?

602

What’s delaying Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza?

603

Israel-Hamas war: what role can diplomacy play?

604

Israel and Gaza: Blinken’s diplomacy and Netanyahu’s next move

605

Israel and Gaza: what happens next?

606

Israel at war

607

How should we cover migration stories and why did Rishi Sunak cancel part of HS2?

608

Sunak’s divided Conservatives and why do water companies want to increase bills?

609

Why are six young people taking 32 countries to court and what is Suella Braverman up to?

610

What’s happening with HS2 and should we celebrate Adidas’s new super-shoe?

611

Are journalists too obsessed with bad news and did Rupert Murdoch make a secret deal with Prince William?

612

The Russell Brand allegations and is climate change to blame for the Libya disaster?

613

Keir Starmer on the offensive and is the UK in a recession?

614

How significant are the China spy allegations and why do we struggle to care about climate stories?

615

Is it right to scrutinise Volodymyr Zelensky’s marriage and should The Rolling Stones admit they’re a PR stunt?

616

Bonus episode: Is the NHS “fobbing off” the mother of a girl who died of sepsis?

617

Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter and how did a 13-year-old girl die needlessly in the NHS?

618

Can the US and China be frenemies and is the UK still a Christian country?

619

Are the British Museum thefts more than just a whodunnit and is there too much coverage of US politics?

620

Bonus episode: After Prigozhin’s reported death, what now?

621

Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner and what to make of the women's World Cup final?

622

Is Elon Musk “the space dictator” and why is the PSNI data leak so significant?

623

Why is King Charles getting a pay rise and what’s happening in Niger?

624

Leaving the ECHR and Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture

625

What happens when you’re switched at birth and what does Rishi Sunak believe?

626

Why is the latest Trump indictment so significant and who cares about wild camping?

627

Why should you care about a coup in Niger and what is carbon capture?

628

How do you report climate science and should UFOs ever lead the news?

629

Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood

630

Post Office scandal, Starmer benefit row, and grain deal

631

European heat storm, inheritance tax, and Hollywood strikes

632

El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats

633

Bonus episode: the BBC presenter and privacy

634

BBC presenter suspended, NHS & big pharma, and cluster bombs

635

Threads vs. Twitter, OnlyFans billboard, and Horizon membership

636

France riots, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and affirmative action

637

Russian infighting, Thames Water, and Nicola Bulley’s inquest

638

Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children

639

Jailed for abortion, Pacific warming and peerages

640

The News Meeting Live: Trump's toilet troubles, wildfires and the allegations against Crispin Odey

641

Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sportswashing and economic policy

642

MeToo in the media, Whitehall WhatsApps and deep-sea mining

643

Cardiff riots, rape trials and Tina Turner

644

The News Meeting Live: Immigration stats, Ron DeSantis and Zelensky’s European Tour

645

Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse

646

Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike

647

Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden

648

The News Meeting Live: Fox settles, Musk's rocket and the SNP

649

Pentagon leaks, China’s war games and sewage dumping

650

Pork fraud, Trump arrested and a lonely death

651

Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers

652

Boris Johnson, Met Police report and life expectancy

653

Cladding crackdown, the collapse of SVB and Xi Jinping

654

Stanley Johnson’s knighthood, river rights and another Met apology

655

Hancock's WhatsApps, Fox News and bird flu

656

A year of war in Ukraine, the tomato shortage and cash-strapped councils

657

Nicola Sturgeon, Ford cuts jobs and BBC offices raided in India

658

Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Man City and BP

659

Dominic Raab, Adani vs. Hindenburg and the British Army

660

German tanks, Dartmoor and Chinese infrastructure

661

Britishvolt, David Carrick and online harms

662

Prince Harry, Brazil and the Westminster Accounts

663

NHS crisis, Congress chaos and the Parthenon marbles

664

Fusion breakthrough, FTX boss arrested and a corruption scandal

665

German plot, ChatGPT and the World Cup

666

Balenciaga, Alzheimer’s drug and protests

667

World Cup, winter of discontent and a Disney hero?