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Nigel Farage v Count Binface: Who could win?

2

Is Taylor Swift’s wedding getting women into betting?

3

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

4

Why does the Putney Pusher remain anonymous?

5

What’s driving disorder in Belfast?

6

Who can actually afford to go to the World Cup?

7

Why is Pope Leo against AI?

8

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

9

Who might challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership?

10

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

11

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

12

Is this the worst hay fever season yet?

13

Why are Trump and the Pope feuding?

14

How dangerous is Anthropic’s new AI?

15

Antisemitism and the return of Kanye West

16

How did a woman sue Meta and Google and win?

17

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

18

Does the US have plans for Cuba?

19

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

20

What’s in the Mandelson files?

21

Who is the new supreme leader of Iran?

22

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

23

What’s next for Iran?

24

Who are the men taking their looks to dangerous extremes?

25

Has Russia launched World War 3?

26

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

27

Did Russia poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny?

28

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

29

Why does Keir Starmer face a perilous week ahead?

30

Will Peter Mandelson bring down Keir Starmer?

31

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

32

Is ChatGPT introducing porn?

33

Is the Trump administration lying?

34

Is brand Beckham on the brink?

35

Donald Trump’s second term one year on

36

How do US immigration agents track people down?

37

What’s really happening on the ground in Iran?

38

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

39

What next for Venezuela?

40

What will be the biggest stories of 2026?

41

2025’s biggest stories of the year

42

Palestine Action hunger strikers

43

Who should win Sports Personality of the Year?

44

The terror attack on Bondi Beach

45

What happens if Tehran runs out of water next week?

46

What happens to streaming if Netflix buys Warner Bros?

47

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

48

Why does Benjamin Netanyahu want to be pardoned?

49

Why wasn’t Rachel Reeves’ budget bolder?

50

Why might the government scrap jury trials?

51

Will talks to end the war in Ukraine lead anywhere?

52

Why is a Russian spy ship targeting the RAF?

53

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

54

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

55

Can Zohran Mamdani take on President Trump?

56

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

57

What’s behind Brazil’s deadly police raid?

58

Why is Hurricane Melissa so strong?

59

Does Amazon control too much of the internet?

60

Is Vladimir Putin outsmarting Donald Trump?

61

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

62

Will Donald Trump move the World Cup?

63

Gaza Special: What's next?

64

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

65

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

66

What we know about the Manchester synagogue terror attack

67

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

68

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

69

Why did Donald Trump falsely claim paracetamol causes autism?

70

What does it mean to recognise a Palestinian state?

71

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

72

How did Gen Z in Nepal overthrow a government?

73

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

74

Why are older people risking arrest for Palestine Action?

75

Will Angela Rayner resign?

76

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

77

Is Israel targeting journalists in Gaza?

78

Have the Epping asylum protestors won?

79

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

80

Is proscribing Palestine Action a PR disaster for the government?

81

Why did Israel target and kill an Al Jazeera journalist?

82

Why is Brigitte Macron suing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens?

83

Are we in a “Hot Reform Summer”?

84

Why is Donald Trump targeting Brazil?

85

Does UK recognition change anything in Gaza?

86

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

87

Has Football Already Come Home?

88

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

89

Why Trump won’t release the Epstein files

90

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

91

The Salt Path Controversy: Behind the scenes

92

Will Starmer and Macron make a deal on small boats?

93

Was the Diddy trial a failure to prosecute?

94

Who is the tech billionaire cosying up to Donald Trump?

95

Have we reached peak women’s sport?

96

What next for Iran?

97

Will the MAGA split prevent a US war with Iran?

98

What happens if the Iranian regime falls?

99

What Netanyahu wants Trump to do about Iran

100

Why is Israel striking Iran?

101

Why has Trump turned Los Angeles into a battleground?

102

What’s behind Trump’s latest travel ban?

103

Why is David Attenborough warning us about ocean trawling?

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

Is Trump losing patience with Putin?

115

The government’s race to save British Steel

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

Trump ambushes Zelensky and Starmer takes the lead

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

How should the media handle Trump 2.0?

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

Sensemaker: Denmark's gold rush town

147

Sensemaker: A hard year for King Charles

148

Sensemaker: Joe Root – the greatest gets better

149

Sensemaker: Nara Smith and the tradwife renaissance

150

Sensemaker: The rise and rise of Kneecap

151

The News Meeting: 2024 Wrapped

152

Sensemaker: How Baby Reindeer rocked British TV

153

Sensemaker: Gaza’s Vlogger

154

Sensemaker: Chappell Roan and the price of fame

155

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

156

Sensemaker: 2024: The year of the sequel

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

Sensemaker: The rise of memecoins

162

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

163

Sensemaker: Who is the lawyer suing Jay-Z?

164

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

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Sensemaker: Syria’s prisons

166

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

167

Sensemaker: France’s political tailspin

168

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

169

The News Meeting: The end of the house of Assad

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

Trendy: The big trends that shaped 2024

174

Sensemaker: Syrian rebels take back Aleppo

175

Sensemaker: Banana Art

176

Sensemaker: Russia’s new experimental ballistic missile

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

178

Sensemaker: Why has Kate Nash started an OnlyFans?

179

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

180

Sensemaker: Who do the Lords work for?

181

Trendy: How do ethnic minorities in Britain vote?

182

Sensemaker: The crisis in women’s healthcare

183

Sensemaker: Can an AI chatbot cure loneliness?

184

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

185

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

186

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

187

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

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

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Trendy: The doctor will see you now

190

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

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

Sensemaker: The world’s loneliest penguin

195

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

196

Sensemaker: The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury

197

Trendy: Who’s watching the news?

198

Sensemaker: The case for funding climate action before disaster strikes

199

Sensemaker: Musk buys power

200

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

201

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

202

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

203

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

204

Sensemaker: What lies ahead for Trump 2.0?

205

Trendy: It was the economy, stupid

206

Sensemaker: How did Donald Trump pull it off?

207

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

208

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

209

Sensemaker: TikTok and the rise of ‘Algospeak’

210

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

211

Sensemaker: Why is big money backing Donald Trump?

212

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

213

Sensemaker: A generational Budget

214

Trendy: Growth? What growth?

215

Sensemaker: The battle of the sexes in the US election

216

Sensemaker: Why doesn’t prison work for women?

217

Sensemaker: Rachel Reeves changes the rules

218

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

219

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

220

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

221

Sensemaker: The press frenzy over Liam Payne’s death

222

Trendy: On the fence

223

Sensemaker: AI goes nuclear

224

Sensemaker: Just Stop Oil protest laws

225

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

226

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

227

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

228

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

229

Sensemaker: The Canary Island migrant route

230

Trendy: Join the party

231

Sensemaker: The race to save the Amazon

232

Sensemaker: Riots, racism and British society

233

Sensemaker: Who is the real JD Vance?

234

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

235

Sensemaker: Too Cleverly? Inside the Conservative leadership race

236

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

237

Sensemaker: Did climate change make Hurricane Milton stronger?

238

Trendy: Food! Glorious Food!

239

Sensemaker: Will facial recognition technology transform policing?

240

Sensemaker: Big Tech's growing political influence

241

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

242

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

243

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

244

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

245

Sensemaker: The elite footballers threatening to strike

246

Trendy: Who should pay for university?

247

Sensemaker: The driving test backlog

248

Sensemaker: American abortion ban leads to woman’s death

249

Sensemaker: The death of Hezbollah’s leader

250

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

251

Sensemaker: Can Instagram make itself safe for teens?

252

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

253

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

254

Trendy: Who votes Conservative?

255

Sensemaker: Is AI capable of reasoning?

256

Sensemaker: Israel’s new offensive against Hezbollah

257

Sensemaker: Labour’s tricky party conference

258

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

259

Sensemaker: Springfield under siege

260

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

261

Sensemaker: The return of Fyre Festival?

262

Trendy: Who votes Labour?

263

Sensemaker: Crisis at the Jewish Chronicle

264

Sensemaker: A West Bank Warlord

265

Sensemaker: Trump survives apparent assassination attempt

266

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

267

Sensemaker: Why Germany is introducing tighter border controls

268

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

269

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

270

Trendy: Have we reached peak Lib Dem?

271

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

272

Sensemaker: Brazil vs Musk

273

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

274

Sensemaker: Why are prisoners being released early?

275

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

276

News Meeting: Will the Grenfell Tower Inquiry bring justice?

277

Sensemaker: Netanyahu defies his critics

278

Trendy: Do trade unions still matter in the UK?

279

Sensemaker: How the US elects its president

280

Sensemaker: Sextortion on the rise

281

Sensemaker: Why Oasis used dynamic ticket pricing

282

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

283

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

284

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

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Sensemaker: Why Telegram’s founder is being investigated

286

Sensemaker: SpaceX will return stranded astronauts to Earth

287

Sensemaker: Could Labour's pay deals backfire?

288

Sensemaker: What is ketamine infusion therapy?

289

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

290

Sensemaker: Indonesia moves its sinking capital

291

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

292

Sensemaker: New York’s war on rats

293

Sensemaker: The world of MrBeast

294

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

295

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

296

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

297

Sensemaker: London (Taylor’s Version)

298

Trendy: Keeping the lights on

299

Sensemaker: Ukraine advances into Russia

300

Sensemaker: Rupert Murdoch and the real ‘Succession’ battle

301

Sensemaker: Why GPs are taking industrial action

302

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

303

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

304

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

305

Sensemaker: The mystery of Akon City

306

Trendy: Keir Starmer’s mission control

307

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

308

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

309

Sensemaker: Gaza ceasefire talks at a standstill

310

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

311

Sensemaker: Who are Britain’s far right?

312

Sensemaker: Sha’Carri Richardson and the politics of doping

313

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

314

Trendy: What Labour and the Conservatives do next

315

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

316

Sensemaker: How Kamala Harris could beat Trump

317

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

318

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

319

Sensemaker: Historic jail terms for Just Stop Oil protestors

320

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

321

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

322

Sensemaker: Strictly Come Dancing loses its shine

323

Trendy: From Butlins to Barcelona: how Brits holiday

324

Sensemaker: Simone Biles seeks redemption at the Paris Olympics

325

Sensemaker: What we can learn from the CrowdStrike outage

326

Sensemaker: Joe Biden drops out

327

News Meeting: Joe Biden quits the presidential race

328

Sensemaker: The malaria survivor who helped create a new vaccine

329

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

330

Editor's voicemail: The price of loyalty to Biden

331

Sensemaker: Brat summer: how Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist

332

Trendy: Double haters and the US election

333

Sensemaker: Donald Trump’s mini-me

334

Sensemaker: India’s mega-wedding

335

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

336

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

337

Sensemaker: What is the ‘grey belt’?

338

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

339

Sensemaker: England reach Euro 2024 final

340

Trendy: Has France rejected the far-right?

341

Sensemaker: The battle over the future of the Tory party

342

Sensemaker: Labour’s radical prisons minister

343

Sensemaker: France’s shock election result

344

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

345

Sensemaker: What will the new government do first?

346

Editor’s Voicemail: A moment of optimism

347

Trendy: What just happened?

348

News Meeting: Starmer drama

349

Sensemaker: Labour's landslide

350

News Meeting: Will Joe Biden step aside?

351

Trendy: The final countdown

352

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

353

News Meeting: Why populist candidates thrive

354

Sensemaker: How the election looks on social media

355

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

356

Editor's Voicemail: Minority rule

357

Trendy: The digital election campaign

358

Could it be true?: The platforms’ dilemma

359

News Meeting: AI warfare and why Tory fundraising has collapsed

360

Sensemaker: The ghost of Boris Johnson

361

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

362

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

363

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

364

Could it be true?: Chaos agents

365

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

366

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

367

Editor's Voicemail: Not rejoining, but returning

368

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

369

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

370

Could it be true?: Sneaky politics

371

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

372

Sensemaker: Ed Davey: the carer and the clown

373

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

374

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

375

Trendy: The Conservatives face their Mount Everest

376

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

377

Could it be true?: Deepfakes

378

News Meeting: Farage shakes up the election campaign

379

Sensemaker: The First Millennial Saint

380

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 5

381

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 4

382

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 3

383

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 2

384

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 1

385

Editor's Voicemail: The politicisation of the courts

386

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

387

Is climate change to blame for extreme turbulence?

388

Trendy: How is the election campaign going?

389

Sensemaker: All eyes on Rafah

390

Sensemaker: The women facing deportation to Rwanda

391

Sensemaker: Paula Vennells and the Post Office scandal

392

News Meeting: The first days of the election campaign

393

Editor's Voicemail: The course for change

394

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak announces a general election

395

Trendy: What does Gen Z think?

396

Sensemaker: Scarlett Johansson speaks out against OpenAI

397

Sensemaker: Bad Blood

398

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 3

399

Sensemaker: The death of Iran’s president

400

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

401

Sensemaker: England’s ‘Ghost’ Pupils

402

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

403

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

404

Sensemaker: Netflix's Baby Reindeer problem

405

Trendy: Was school better in your day?

406

Sensemaker: The Church tackles climate change

407

Sensemaker: Drake vs Kendrick

408

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 2

409

Word for word: Trump on trial

410

Sensemaker: What’s left of Hamas in Gaza?

411

News Meeting: Russian advances and Drake versus Kendrick Lamar

412

Sensemaker: My life as a prison officer

413

Editor's Voicemail: Why newsrooms matter

414

News Meeting: Stormy Daniels testifies and gay rights in Ghana

415

Sensemaker: Bumble changes course

416

Trendy Live: The fallout from the local elections

417

Sensemaker: Chaos at Co-op Live

418

Sensemaker: The inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes

419

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

420

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

421

Editor's Voicemail: The joy of journalism

422

Sensemaker: The Caitlin Clark Effect

423

Trendy: King and country

424

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

425

Sensemaker: Humza Yousaf’s unforced error

426

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

427

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

428

Sensemaker: Trump’s first week in court

429

Editor's Voicemail: A new age of rearmament

430

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

431

Sensemaker: Grindr sued

432

Trendy: Dating, love and marriage

433

Sensemaker: Rwanda policy: What difference will it make?

434

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

435

Sensemaker: Britain’s mouldy homes

436

Sensemaker: Why the internet is arguing about flooding in Dubai

437

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

438

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

439

Editor's Voicemail: David Cameron inspires a rethink

440

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

441

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

442

Trendy: What London Thinks

443

Sensemaker: The Hull funeral home investigation

444

Sensemaker: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge

445

Sensemaker: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?

446

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

447

Sensemaker: A health warning from an esports star

448

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

449

Sensemaker: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry

450

Trendy: Local elections 2024: what to expect

451

Sensemaker: Instability AI

452

Sensemaker: Why Republicans are blocking aid for Ukraine

453

Sensemaker: Westminster’s honeytrap sext scandal

454

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

455

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

456

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

457

Sensemaker: The aid workers killed in Gaza

458

Sensemaker: Bollywood gets political

459

Sensemaker: The truth about Trump’s Truth Social

460

Sensemaker: Boeing, Boeing, gone

461

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

462

Trendy: How to fix the NHS

463

Sensemaker: When extreme sports turn deadly

464

Sensemaker: Who was behind the Moscow terror attack?

465

Sensemaker: Israel and the UN’s Gaza relief agency

466

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

467

Sensemaker: Bitcoin is back

468

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

469

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

470

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

471

Trendy: The general election campaign starts here

472

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

473

News Meeting: Lessons from a World War Two disinformation campaign

474

Sensemaker: Elon Musk takes on OpenAI

475

Sensemaker: Putin's sham election

476

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

477

Sensemaker: Family fractured after suspected illegal abortion

478

Editor's Voicemail: The princess and the tortoise

479

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

480

Sensemaker: Will the US ban Tik Tok?

481

Trendy: Where’s all the money gone?

482

Sensemaker: Lee Anderson’s political journey

483

News Meeting: Who is the real Keir Starmer?

484

Sensemaker: Kate’s photo-editing experiment blows up

485

Sensemaker: Getting aid into Gaza

486

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

487

Sensemaker: How spies recorded a German military meeting

488

Editor's Voicemail: An economy built on fellowship

489

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

490

Sensemaker: How Raye broke a Brits record

491

Trendy: Britain’s Covid hangover

492

Sensemaker: Haiti’s state of anarchy

493

Sensemaker: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector

494

Sensemaker: Why Wayne Couzens wasn't stopped

495

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

496

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

497

Editor's Voicemail: Jacob Rothschild

498

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

499

Sensemaker: A spike in spiking?

500

Trendy: The race for the White House

501

Sensemaker: How to hack the hackers

502

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

503

Sensemaker: How Birmingham went bust

504

Sensemaker: When egg freezing goes wrong

505

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

506

Sensemaker: The case against Julian Assange

507

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

508

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

509

Trendy: Good times, bad times

510

Sensemaker: Why Trump is selling golden trainers

511

Sensemaker: How The Body Shop lost its sheen

512

Sensemaker: Russia after Navalny

513

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

514

Sensemaker: Biden: too old to be president?

515

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

516

Sensemaker: Labour, Rochdale and the anti-Semitism row

517

Trendy: A home of your own

518

Sensemaker: Zelensky fires his top general

519

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

520

Sensemaker: EU farmers ramp up protests

521

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

522

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

523

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

524

Sensemaker: 23andMe’s cybercrime crisis

525

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

526

Sensemaker: Lewis Hamilton's new era

527

Sensemaker: Imran Khan imprisoned

528

Sensemaker: Kemi and the evil plotters

529

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

530

Sensemaker: A weightloss journey that ended in tragedy

531

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

532

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal

533

Trendy: The paradox of populism

534

Sensemaker: The Austrian extremist stirring up controversy in Germany

535

News Meeting: Why big events ultimately come down to chance

536

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

537

Sensemaker: A new test for Alzheimer's

538

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

539

Sensemaker: How Trump saw off his rivals

540

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

541

Sensemaker: Britain’s measles outbreak

542

Trendy: Britain’s baby bust

543

Sensemaker: Why UK universities face testing times

544

Sensemaker: Fujitsu and the Post Office scandal

545

Sensemaker: Hizb’ut-Tahrir banned in the UK

546

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

547

Sensemaker: Ecuador’s state of war

548

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

549

Sensemaker: Iceland feels the heat

550

Trendy: The welfare state we're in

551

Sensemaker: The Bethany Cox abortion case

552

Sensemaker: Who is France’s new prime minister?

553

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

554

News Meeting: Iowa decides, but does it matter?

555

Sensemaker: Journalists killed covering Israel-Hamas war

556

News Meeting: Who are the Houthis?

557

Sensemaker: The British Library cyber attack

558

Trendy: When everyone hates you for the same reason

559

Sensemaker: Boeing's tailspin

560

News Meeting: The Westminster Accounts one year on

561

Sensemaker: Challenging Trump’s presidential run

562

Sensemaker: An assassination in Beirut

563

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

564

Sensemaker: General Calamity

565

Sensemaker: Artemis II: sending humans back to the moon

566

Sensemaker: Disney’s Mickey Mouse problem

567

Sensemaker: The Kamala Harris question

568

Sensemaker: Jude Bellingham: England’s golden boy

569

News Meeting: 2024 predictions

570

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

571

Sensemaker: How Dan Wootton became the story

572

Sensemaker: Sam Altman: who is the OpenAI boss?

573

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift Era

574

News Meeting: What was the biggest story of 2023?

575

Sensemaker: Sports Illustrated and its AI-generated authors

576

Sensemaker: Hostage deaths put pressure on Netanyahu

577

Sensemaker: Prince Harry hacked

578

Sensemaker: Zelensky’s fight for funding

579

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

580

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

581

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

582

Sensemaker: The end of fossil fuels?

583

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak’s hollow victory

584

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

585

News Meeting: How to fix the economy

586

Sensemaker: Infected blood scandal: a government defeat

587

News Meeting: How Russia wins

588

Sensemaker: Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry

589

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

590

Sensemaker: A revolting week for Rishi Sunak

591

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

592

Sensemaker: India implicated in New York assassination attempt

593

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

594

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

595

Sensemaker: Attacks in the Red Sea

596

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

597

Sensemaker: How close are we to green air travel?

598

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

599

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

600

When is a tax cut not a tax cut?

601

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

602

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

603

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

604

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

605

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

606

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

607

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

608

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

609

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

610

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

611

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

612

Israel-Hamas war: what role can diplomacy play?

613

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

614

Israel and Gaza: what happens next?

615

Israel at war

616

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

617

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

618

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

619

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

620

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

621

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

622

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

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

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

627

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

628

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

629

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

630

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

631

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

632

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

633

Leaving the ECHR and Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture

634

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

635

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

636

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

637

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

638

Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood

639

Post Office scandal, Starmer benefit row, and grain deal

640

European heat storm, inheritance tax, and Hollywood strikes

641

El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats

642

Bonus episode: the BBC presenter and privacy

643

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

644

Threads vs. Twitter, OnlyFans billboard, and Horizon membership

645

France riots, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and affirmative action

646

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

647

Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children

648

Jailed for abortion, Pacific warming and peerages

649

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

650

Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sportswashing and economic policy

651

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

652

Cardiff riots, rape trials and Tina Turner

653

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

654

Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse

655

Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike

656

Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden

657

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

658

Pentagon leaks, China’s war games and sewage dumping

659

Pork fraud, Trump arrested and a lonely death

660

Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers

661

Boris Johnson, Met Police report and life expectancy

662

Cladding crackdown, the collapse of SVB and Xi Jinping

663

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

664

Hancock's WhatsApps, Fox News and bird flu

665

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

666

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

667

Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Man City and BP

668

Dominic Raab, Adani vs. Hindenburg and the British Army

669

German tanks, Dartmoor and Chinese infrastructure

670

Britishvolt, David Carrick and online harms

671

Prince Harry, Brazil and the Westminster Accounts

672

NHS crisis, Congress chaos and the Parthenon marbles

673

Fusion breakthrough, FTX boss arrested and a corruption scandal

674

German plot, ChatGPT and the World Cup

675

Balenciaga, Alzheimer’s drug and protests

676

World Cup, winter of discontent and a Disney hero?