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Why aren’t Gen Z buying rounds at the pub?

2

Nigel Farage v Count Binface: Who could win?

3

Is Taylor Swift’s wedding getting women into betting?

4

Why does Andy Burnham want to move part of Downing Street?

5

Why does the Putney Pusher remain anonymous?

6

What’s driving disorder in Belfast?

7

Who can actually afford to go to the World Cup?

8

Why is Pope Leo against AI?

9

Why has Married at First Sight UK been pulled off air?

10

Who might challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership?

11

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

12

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

13

Is this the worst hay fever season yet?

14

Why are Trump and the Pope feuding?

15

How dangerous is Anthropic’s new AI?

16

Antisemitism and the return of Kanye West

17

How did a woman sue Meta and Google and win?

18

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

19

Does the US have plans for Cuba?

20

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

21

What’s in the Mandelson files?

22

Who is the new supreme leader of Iran?

23

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

24

What’s next for Iran?

25

Who are the men taking their looks to dangerous extremes?

26

Has Russia launched World War 3?

27

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

28

Did Russia poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny?

29

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

30

Why does Keir Starmer face a perilous week ahead?

31

Will Peter Mandelson bring down Keir Starmer?

32

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

33

Is ChatGPT introducing porn?

34

Is the Trump administration lying?

35

Is brand Beckham on the brink?

36

Donald Trump’s second term one year on

37

How do US immigration agents track people down?

38

What’s really happening on the ground in Iran?

39

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

40

What next for Venezuela?

41

What will be the biggest stories of 2026?

42

2025’s biggest stories of the year

43

Palestine Action hunger strikers

44

Who should win Sports Personality of the Year?

45

The terror attack on Bondi Beach

46

What happens if Tehran runs out of water next week?

47

What happens to streaming if Netflix buys Warner Bros?

48

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

49

Why does Benjamin Netanyahu want to be pardoned?

50

Why wasn’t Rachel Reeves’ budget bolder?

51

Why might the government scrap jury trials?

52

Will talks to end the war in Ukraine lead anywhere?

53

Why is a Russian spy ship targeting the RAF?

54

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

55

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

56

Can Zohran Mamdani take on President Trump?

57

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

58

What’s behind Brazil’s deadly police raid?

59

Why is Hurricane Melissa so strong?

60

Does Amazon control too much of the internet?

61

Is Vladimir Putin outsmarting Donald Trump?

62

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

63

Will Donald Trump move the World Cup?

64

Gaza Special: What's next?

65

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

66

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

67

What we know about the Manchester synagogue terror attack

68

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

69

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

70

Why did Donald Trump falsely claim paracetamol causes autism?

71

What does it mean to recognise a Palestinian state?

72

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

73

How did Gen Z in Nepal overthrow a government?

74

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

75

Why are older people risking arrest for Palestine Action?

76

Will Angela Rayner resign?

77

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

78

Is Israel targeting journalists in Gaza?

79

Have the Epping asylum protestors won?

80

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

81

Is proscribing Palestine Action a PR disaster for the government?

82

Why did Israel target and kill an Al Jazeera journalist?

83

Why is Brigitte Macron suing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens?

84

Are we in a “Hot Reform Summer”?

85

Why is Donald Trump targeting Brazil?

86

Does UK recognition change anything in Gaza?

87

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

88

Has Football Already Come Home?

89

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

90

Why Trump won’t release the Epstein files

91

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

92

The Salt Path Controversy: Behind the scenes

93

Will Starmer and Macron make a deal on small boats?

94

Was the Diddy trial a failure to prosecute?

95

Who is the tech billionaire cosying up to Donald Trump?

96

Have we reached peak women’s sport?

97

What next for Iran?

98

Will the MAGA split prevent a US war with Iran?

99

What happens if the Iranian regime falls?

100

What Netanyahu wants Trump to do about Iran

101

Why is Israel striking Iran?

102

Why has Trump turned Los Angeles into a battleground?

103

What’s behind Trump’s latest travel ban?

104

Why is David Attenborough warning us about ocean trawling?

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

Is Trump losing patience with Putin?

116

The government’s race to save British Steel

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

Trump ambushes Zelensky and Starmer takes the lead

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

How should the media handle Trump 2.0?

142

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

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

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

147

Sensemaker: Denmark's gold rush town

148

Sensemaker: A hard year for King Charles

149

Sensemaker: Joe Root – the greatest gets better

150

Sensemaker: Nara Smith and the tradwife renaissance

151

Sensemaker: The rise and rise of Kneecap

152

The News Meeting: 2024 Wrapped

153

Sensemaker: How Baby Reindeer rocked British TV

154

Sensemaker: Gaza’s Vlogger

155

Sensemaker: Chappell Roan and the price of fame

156

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

157

Sensemaker: 2024: The year of the sequel

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

Sensemaker: The rise of memecoins

163

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

164

Sensemaker: Who is the lawyer suing Jay-Z?

165

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

166

Sensemaker: Syria’s prisons

167

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

168

Sensemaker: France’s political tailspin

169

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

170

The News Meeting: The end of the house of Assad

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

Trendy: The big trends that shaped 2024

175

Sensemaker: Syrian rebels take back Aleppo

176

Sensemaker: Banana Art

177

Sensemaker: Russia’s new experimental ballistic missile

178

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

179

Sensemaker: Why has Kate Nash started an OnlyFans?

180

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

181

Sensemaker: Who do the Lords work for?

182

Trendy: How do ethnic minorities in Britain vote?

183

Sensemaker: The crisis in women’s healthcare

184

Sensemaker: Can an AI chatbot cure loneliness?

185

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

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

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

190

Trendy: The doctor will see you now

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

Sensemaker: The world’s loneliest penguin

196

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

197

Sensemaker: The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury

198

Trendy: Who’s watching the news?

199

Sensemaker: The case for funding climate action before disaster strikes

200

Sensemaker: Musk buys power

201

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

202

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

203

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

204

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

205

Sensemaker: What lies ahead for Trump 2.0?

206

Trendy: It was the economy, stupid

207

Sensemaker: How did Donald Trump pull it off?

208

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

209

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

210

Sensemaker: TikTok and the rise of ‘Algospeak’

211

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

212

Sensemaker: Why is big money backing Donald Trump?

213

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

214

Sensemaker: A generational Budget

215

Trendy: Growth? What growth?

216

Sensemaker: The battle of the sexes in the US election

217

Sensemaker: Why doesn’t prison work for women?

218

Sensemaker: Rachel Reeves changes the rules

219

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

220

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

221

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

222

Sensemaker: The press frenzy over Liam Payne’s death

223

Trendy: On the fence

224

Sensemaker: AI goes nuclear

225

Sensemaker: Just Stop Oil protest laws

226

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

227

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

228

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

229

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

230

Sensemaker: The Canary Island migrant route

231

Trendy: Join the party

232

Sensemaker: The race to save the Amazon

233

Sensemaker: Riots, racism and British society

234

Sensemaker: Who is the real JD Vance?

235

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

236

Sensemaker: Too Cleverly? Inside the Conservative leadership race

237

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

238

Sensemaker: Did climate change make Hurricane Milton stronger?

239

Trendy: Food! Glorious Food!

240

Sensemaker: Will facial recognition technology transform policing?

241

Sensemaker: Big Tech's growing political influence

242

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

243

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

244

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

245

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

246

Sensemaker: The elite footballers threatening to strike

247

Trendy: Who should pay for university?

248

Sensemaker: The driving test backlog

249

Sensemaker: American abortion ban leads to woman’s death

250

Sensemaker: The death of Hezbollah’s leader

251

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

252

Sensemaker: Can Instagram make itself safe for teens?

253

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

254

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

255

Trendy: Who votes Conservative?

256

Sensemaker: Is AI capable of reasoning?

257

Sensemaker: Israel’s new offensive against Hezbollah

258

Sensemaker: Labour’s tricky party conference

259

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

260

Sensemaker: Springfield under siege

261

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

262

Sensemaker: The return of Fyre Festival?

263

Trendy: Who votes Labour?

264

Sensemaker: Crisis at the Jewish Chronicle

265

Sensemaker: A West Bank Warlord

266

Sensemaker: Trump survives apparent assassination attempt

267

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

268

Sensemaker: Why Germany is introducing tighter border controls

269

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

270

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

271

Trendy: Have we reached peak Lib Dem?

272

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

273

Sensemaker: Brazil vs Musk

274

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

275

Sensemaker: Why are prisoners being released early?

276

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

277

News Meeting: Will the Grenfell Tower Inquiry bring justice?

278

Sensemaker: Netanyahu defies his critics

279

Trendy: Do trade unions still matter in the UK?

280

Sensemaker: How the US elects its president

281

Sensemaker: Sextortion on the rise

282

Sensemaker: Why Oasis used dynamic ticket pricing

283

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

284

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

285

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

286

Sensemaker: Why Telegram’s founder is being investigated

287

Sensemaker: SpaceX will return stranded astronauts to Earth

288

Sensemaker: Could Labour's pay deals backfire?

289

Sensemaker: What is ketamine infusion therapy?

290

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

291

Sensemaker: Indonesia moves its sinking capital

292

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

293

Sensemaker: New York’s war on rats

294

Sensemaker: The world of MrBeast

295

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

296

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

297

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

298

Sensemaker: London (Taylor’s Version)

299

Trendy: Keeping the lights on

300

Sensemaker: Ukraine advances into Russia

301

Sensemaker: Rupert Murdoch and the real ‘Succession’ battle

302

Sensemaker: Why GPs are taking industrial action

303

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

304

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

305

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

306

Sensemaker: The mystery of Akon City

307

Trendy: Keir Starmer’s mission control

308

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

309

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

310

Sensemaker: Gaza ceasefire talks at a standstill

311

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

312

Sensemaker: Who are Britain’s far right?

313

Sensemaker: Sha’Carri Richardson and the politics of doping

314

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

315

Trendy: What Labour and the Conservatives do next

316

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

317

Sensemaker: How Kamala Harris could beat Trump

318

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

319

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

320

Sensemaker: Historic jail terms for Just Stop Oil protestors

321

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

322

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

323

Sensemaker: Strictly Come Dancing loses its shine

324

Trendy: From Butlins to Barcelona: how Brits holiday

325

Sensemaker: Simone Biles seeks redemption at the Paris Olympics

326

Sensemaker: What we can learn from the CrowdStrike outage

327

Sensemaker: Joe Biden drops out

328

News Meeting: Joe Biden quits the presidential race

329

Sensemaker: The malaria survivor who helped create a new vaccine

330

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

331

Editor's voicemail: The price of loyalty to Biden

332

Sensemaker: Brat summer: how Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist

333

Trendy: Double haters and the US election

334

Sensemaker: Donald Trump’s mini-me

335

Sensemaker: India’s mega-wedding

336

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

337

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

338

Sensemaker: What is the ‘grey belt’?

339

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

340

Sensemaker: England reach Euro 2024 final

341

Trendy: Has France rejected the far-right?

342

Sensemaker: The battle over the future of the Tory party

343

Sensemaker: Labour’s radical prisons minister

344

Sensemaker: France’s shock election result

345

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

346

Sensemaker: What will the new government do first?

347

Editor’s Voicemail: A moment of optimism

348

Trendy: What just happened?

349

News Meeting: Starmer drama

350

Sensemaker: Labour's landslide

351

News Meeting: Will Joe Biden step aside?

352

Trendy: The final countdown

353

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

354

News Meeting: Why populist candidates thrive

355

Sensemaker: How the election looks on social media

356

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

357

Editor's Voicemail: Minority rule

358

Trendy: The digital election campaign

359

Could it be true?: The platforms’ dilemma

360

News Meeting: AI warfare and why Tory fundraising has collapsed

361

Sensemaker: The ghost of Boris Johnson

362

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

363

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

364

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

365

Could it be true?: Chaos agents

366

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

367

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

368

Editor's Voicemail: Not rejoining, but returning

369

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

370

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

371

Could it be true?: Sneaky politics

372

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

373

Sensemaker: Ed Davey: the carer and the clown

374

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

375

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

376

Trendy: The Conservatives face their Mount Everest

377

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

378

Could it be true?: Deepfakes

379

News Meeting: Farage shakes up the election campaign

380

Sensemaker: The First Millennial Saint

381

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 5

382

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 4

383

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 3

384

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 2

385

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 1

386

Editor's Voicemail: The politicisation of the courts

387

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

388

Is climate change to blame for extreme turbulence?

389

Trendy: How is the election campaign going?

390

Sensemaker: All eyes on Rafah

391

Sensemaker: The women facing deportation to Rwanda

392

Sensemaker: Paula Vennells and the Post Office scandal

393

News Meeting: The first days of the election campaign

394

Editor's Voicemail: The course for change

395

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak announces a general election

396

Trendy: What does Gen Z think?

397

Sensemaker: Scarlett Johansson speaks out against OpenAI

398

Sensemaker: Bad Blood

399

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 3

400

Sensemaker: The death of Iran’s president

401

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

402

Sensemaker: England’s ‘Ghost’ Pupils

403

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

404

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

405

Sensemaker: Netflix's Baby Reindeer problem

406

Trendy: Was school better in your day?

407

Sensemaker: The Church tackles climate change

408

Sensemaker: Drake vs Kendrick

409

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 2

410

Word for word: Trump on trial

411

Sensemaker: What’s left of Hamas in Gaza?

412

News Meeting: Russian advances and Drake versus Kendrick Lamar

413

Sensemaker: My life as a prison officer

414

Editor's Voicemail: Why newsrooms matter

415

News Meeting: Stormy Daniels testifies and gay rights in Ghana

416

Sensemaker: Bumble changes course

417

Trendy Live: The fallout from the local elections

418

Sensemaker: Chaos at Co-op Live

419

Sensemaker: The inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes

420

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

421

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

422

Editor's Voicemail: The joy of journalism

423

Sensemaker: The Caitlin Clark Effect

424

Trendy: King and country

425

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

426

Sensemaker: Humza Yousaf’s unforced error

427

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

428

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

429

Sensemaker: Trump’s first week in court

430

Editor's Voicemail: A new age of rearmament

431

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

432

Sensemaker: Grindr sued

433

Trendy: Dating, love and marriage

434

Sensemaker: Rwanda policy: What difference will it make?

435

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

436

Sensemaker: Britain’s mouldy homes

437

Sensemaker: Why the internet is arguing about flooding in Dubai

438

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

439

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

440

Editor's Voicemail: David Cameron inspires a rethink

441

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

442

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

443

Trendy: What London Thinks

444

Sensemaker: The Hull funeral home investigation

445

Sensemaker: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge

446

Sensemaker: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?

447

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

448

Sensemaker: A health warning from an esports star

449

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

450

Sensemaker: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry

451

Trendy: Local elections 2024: what to expect

452

Sensemaker: Instability AI

453

Sensemaker: Why Republicans are blocking aid for Ukraine

454

Sensemaker: Westminster’s honeytrap sext scandal

455

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

456

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

457

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

458

Sensemaker: The aid workers killed in Gaza

459

Sensemaker: Bollywood gets political

460

Sensemaker: The truth about Trump’s Truth Social

461

Sensemaker: Boeing, Boeing, gone

462

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

463

Trendy: How to fix the NHS

464

Sensemaker: When extreme sports turn deadly

465

Sensemaker: Who was behind the Moscow terror attack?

466

Sensemaker: Israel and the UN’s Gaza relief agency

467

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

468

Sensemaker: Bitcoin is back

469

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

470

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

471

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

472

Trendy: The general election campaign starts here

473

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

474

News Meeting: Lessons from a World War Two disinformation campaign

475

Sensemaker: Elon Musk takes on OpenAI

476

Sensemaker: Putin's sham election

477

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

478

Sensemaker: Family fractured after suspected illegal abortion

479

Editor's Voicemail: The princess and the tortoise

480

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

481

Sensemaker: Will the US ban Tik Tok?

482

Trendy: Where’s all the money gone?

483

Sensemaker: Lee Anderson’s political journey

484

News Meeting: Who is the real Keir Starmer?

485

Sensemaker: Kate’s photo-editing experiment blows up

486

Sensemaker: Getting aid into Gaza

487

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

488

Sensemaker: How spies recorded a German military meeting

489

Editor's Voicemail: An economy built on fellowship

490

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

491

Sensemaker: How Raye broke a Brits record

492

Trendy: Britain’s Covid hangover

493

Sensemaker: Haiti’s state of anarchy

494

Sensemaker: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector

495

Sensemaker: Why Wayne Couzens wasn't stopped

496

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

497

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

498

Editor's Voicemail: Jacob Rothschild

499

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

500

Sensemaker: A spike in spiking?

501

Trendy: The race for the White House

502

Sensemaker: How to hack the hackers

503

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

504

Sensemaker: How Birmingham went bust

505

Sensemaker: When egg freezing goes wrong

506

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

507

Sensemaker: The case against Julian Assange

508

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

509

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

510

Trendy: Good times, bad times

511

Sensemaker: Why Trump is selling golden trainers

512

Sensemaker: How The Body Shop lost its sheen

513

Sensemaker: Russia after Navalny

514

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

515

Sensemaker: Biden: too old to be president?

516

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

517

Sensemaker: Labour, Rochdale and the anti-Semitism row

518

Trendy: A home of your own

519

Sensemaker: Zelensky fires his top general

520

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

521

Sensemaker: EU farmers ramp up protests

522

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

523

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

524

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

525

Sensemaker: 23andMe’s cybercrime crisis

526

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

527

Sensemaker: Lewis Hamilton's new era

528

Sensemaker: Imran Khan imprisoned

529

Sensemaker: Kemi and the evil plotters

530

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

531

Sensemaker: A weightloss journey that ended in tragedy

532

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

533

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal

534

Trendy: The paradox of populism

535

Sensemaker: The Austrian extremist stirring up controversy in Germany

536

News Meeting: Why big events ultimately come down to chance

537

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

538

Sensemaker: A new test for Alzheimer's

539

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

540

Sensemaker: How Trump saw off his rivals

541

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

542

Sensemaker: Britain’s measles outbreak

543

Trendy: Britain’s baby bust

544

Sensemaker: Why UK universities face testing times

545

Sensemaker: Fujitsu and the Post Office scandal

546

Sensemaker: Hizb’ut-Tahrir banned in the UK

547

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

548

Sensemaker: Ecuador’s state of war

549

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

550

Sensemaker: Iceland feels the heat

551

Trendy: The welfare state we're in

552

Sensemaker: The Bethany Cox abortion case

553

Sensemaker: Who is France’s new prime minister?

554

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

555

News Meeting: Iowa decides, but does it matter?

556

Sensemaker: Journalists killed covering Israel-Hamas war

557

News Meeting: Who are the Houthis?

558

Sensemaker: The British Library cyber attack

559

Trendy: When everyone hates you for the same reason

560

Sensemaker: Boeing's tailspin

561

News Meeting: The Westminster Accounts one year on

562

Sensemaker: Challenging Trump’s presidential run

563

Sensemaker: An assassination in Beirut

564

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

565

Sensemaker: General Calamity

566

Sensemaker: Artemis II: sending humans back to the moon

567

Sensemaker: Disney’s Mickey Mouse problem

568

Sensemaker: The Kamala Harris question

569

Sensemaker: Jude Bellingham: England’s golden boy

570

News Meeting: 2024 predictions

571

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

572

Sensemaker: How Dan Wootton became the story

573

Sensemaker: Sam Altman: who is the OpenAI boss?

574

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift Era

575

News Meeting: What was the biggest story of 2023?

576

Sensemaker: Sports Illustrated and its AI-generated authors

577

Sensemaker: Hostage deaths put pressure on Netanyahu

578

Sensemaker: Prince Harry hacked

579

Sensemaker: Zelensky’s fight for funding

580

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

581

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

582

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

583

Sensemaker: The end of fossil fuels?

584

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak’s hollow victory

585

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

586

News Meeting: How to fix the economy

587

Sensemaker: Infected blood scandal: a government defeat

588

News Meeting: How Russia wins

589

Sensemaker: Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry

590

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

591

Sensemaker: A revolting week for Rishi Sunak

592

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

593

Sensemaker: India implicated in New York assassination attempt

594

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

595

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

596

Sensemaker: Attacks in the Red Sea

597

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

598

Sensemaker: How close are we to green air travel?

599

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

600

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

601

When is a tax cut not a tax cut?

602

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

603

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

604

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

605

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

606

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

607

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

608

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

609

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

610

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

611

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

612

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

613

Israel-Hamas war: what role can diplomacy play?

614

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

615

Israel and Gaza: what happens next?

616

Israel at war

617

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

618

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

619

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

620

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

621

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

622

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

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

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

627

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

628

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

629

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

630

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

631

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

632

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

633

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

634

Leaving the ECHR and Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture

635

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

636

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

637

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

638

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

639

Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood

640

Post Office scandal, Starmer benefit row, and grain deal

641

European heat storm, inheritance tax, and Hollywood strikes

642

El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats

643

Bonus episode: the BBC presenter and privacy

644

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

645

Threads vs. Twitter, OnlyFans billboard, and Horizon membership

646

France riots, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and affirmative action

647

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

648

Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children

649

Jailed for abortion, Pacific warming and peerages

650

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

651

Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sportswashing and economic policy

652

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

653

Cardiff riots, rape trials and Tina Turner

654

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

655

Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse

656

Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike

657

Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden

658

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

659

Pentagon leaks, China’s war games and sewage dumping

660

Pork fraud, Trump arrested and a lonely death

661

Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers

662

Boris Johnson, Met Police report and life expectancy

663

Cladding crackdown, the collapse of SVB and Xi Jinping

664

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

665

Hancock's WhatsApps, Fox News and bird flu

666

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

667

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

668

Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Man City and BP

669

Dominic Raab, Adani vs. Hindenburg and the British Army

670

German tanks, Dartmoor and Chinese infrastructure

671

Britishvolt, David Carrick and online harms

672

Prince Harry, Brazil and the Westminster Accounts

673

NHS crisis, Congress chaos and the Parthenon marbles

674

Fusion breakthrough, FTX boss arrested and a corruption scandal

675

German plot, ChatGPT and the World Cup

676

Balenciaga, Alzheimer’s drug and protests

677

World Cup, winter of discontent and a Disney hero?