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What’s behind the Nepal flash flood?

2

Has Tupac Shakur’s murder finally been solved?

3

How vulnerable is global shipping?

4

How will the drought affect our food supply?

5

Is football’s soul for sale?

6

What's behind India's 'cockroach' protests?

7

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

8

Nigel Farage v Count Binface: Who could win?

9

Is Taylor Swift’s wedding getting women into betting?

10

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

11

Why does the Putney Pusher remain anonymous?

12

What’s driving disorder in Belfast?

13

Who can actually afford to go to the World Cup?

14

Why is Pope Leo against AI?

15

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

16

Who might challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership?

17

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

18

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

19

Is this the worst hay fever season yet?

20

Why are Trump and the Pope feuding?

21

How dangerous is Anthropic’s new AI?

22

Antisemitism and the return of Kanye West

23

How did a woman sue Meta and Google and win?

24

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

25

Does the US have plans for Cuba?

26

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

27

What’s in the Mandelson files?

28

Who is the new supreme leader of Iran?

29

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

30

What’s next for Iran?

31

Who are the men taking their looks to dangerous extremes?

32

Has Russia launched World War 3?

33

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

34

Did Russia poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny?

35

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

36

Why does Keir Starmer face a perilous week ahead?

37

Will Peter Mandelson bring down Keir Starmer?

38

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

39

Is ChatGPT introducing porn?

40

Is the Trump administration lying?

41

Is brand Beckham on the brink?

42

Donald Trump’s second term one year on

43

How do US immigration agents track people down?

44

What’s really happening on the ground in Iran?

45

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

46

What next for Venezuela?

47

What will be the biggest stories of 2026?

48

2025’s biggest stories of the year

49

Palestine Action hunger strikers

50

Who should win Sports Personality of the Year?

51

The terror attack on Bondi Beach

52

What happens if Tehran runs out of water next week?

53

What happens to streaming if Netflix buys Warner Bros?

54

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

55

Why does Benjamin Netanyahu want to be pardoned?

56

Why wasn’t Rachel Reeves’ budget bolder?

57

Why might the government scrap jury trials?

58

Will talks to end the war in Ukraine lead anywhere?

59

Why is a Russian spy ship targeting the RAF?

60

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

61

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

62

Can Zohran Mamdani take on President Trump?

63

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

64

What’s behind Brazil’s deadly police raid?

65

Why is Hurricane Melissa so strong?

66

Does Amazon control too much of the internet?

67

Is Vladimir Putin outsmarting Donald Trump?

68

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

69

Will Donald Trump move the World Cup?

70

Gaza Special: What's next?

71

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

72

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

73

What we know about the Manchester synagogue terror attack

74

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

75

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

76

Why did Donald Trump falsely claim paracetamol causes autism?

77

What does it mean to recognise a Palestinian state?

78

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

79

How did Gen Z in Nepal overthrow a government?

80

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

81

Why are older people risking arrest for Palestine Action?

82

Will Angela Rayner resign?

83

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

84

Is Israel targeting journalists in Gaza?

85

Have the Epping asylum protestors won?

86

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

87

Is proscribing Palestine Action a PR disaster for the government?

88

Why did Israel target and kill an Al Jazeera journalist?

89

Why is Brigitte Macron suing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens?

90

Are we in a “Hot Reform Summer”?

91

Why is Donald Trump targeting Brazil?

92

Does UK recognition change anything in Gaza?

93

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

94

Has Football Already Come Home?

95

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

96

Why Trump won’t release the Epstein files

97

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

98

The Salt Path Controversy: Behind the scenes

99

Will Starmer and Macron make a deal on small boats?

100

Was the Diddy trial a failure to prosecute?

101

Who is the tech billionaire cosying up to Donald Trump?

102

Have we reached peak women’s sport?

103

What next for Iran?

104

Will the MAGA split prevent a US war with Iran?

105

What happens if the Iranian regime falls?

106

What Netanyahu wants Trump to do about Iran

107

Why is Israel striking Iran?

108

Why has Trump turned Los Angeles into a battleground?

109

What’s behind Trump’s latest travel ban?

110

Why is David Attenborough warning us about ocean trawling?

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

Is Trump losing patience with Putin?

122

The government’s race to save British Steel

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

Trump ambushes Zelensky and Starmer takes the lead

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

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

147

How should the media handle Trump 2.0?

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

Sensemaker: Denmark's gold rush town

154

Sensemaker: A hard year for King Charles

155

Sensemaker: Joe Root – the greatest gets better

156

Sensemaker: Nara Smith and the tradwife renaissance

157

Sensemaker: The rise and rise of Kneecap

158

The News Meeting: 2024 Wrapped

159

Sensemaker: How Baby Reindeer rocked British TV

160

Sensemaker: Gaza’s Vlogger

161

Sensemaker: Chappell Roan and the price of fame

162

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

163

Sensemaker: 2024: The year of the sequel

164

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

165

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

166

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

167

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

168

Sensemaker: The rise of memecoins

169

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

170

Sensemaker: Who is the lawyer suing Jay-Z?

171

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

172

Sensemaker: Syria’s prisons

173

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

174

Sensemaker: France’s political tailspin

175

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

176

The News Meeting: The end of the house of Assad

177

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

178

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

179

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

180

Trendy: The big trends that shaped 2024

181

Sensemaker: Syrian rebels take back Aleppo

182

Sensemaker: Banana Art

183

Sensemaker: Russia’s new experimental ballistic missile

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

185

Sensemaker: Why has Kate Nash started an OnlyFans?

186

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

187

Sensemaker: Who do the Lords work for?

188

Trendy: How do ethnic minorities in Britain vote?

189

Sensemaker: The crisis in women’s healthcare

190

Sensemaker: Can an AI chatbot cure loneliness?

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

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Trendy: The doctor will see you now

197

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

198

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

199

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

200

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

201

Sensemaker: The world’s loneliest penguin

202

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

203

Sensemaker: The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury

204

Trendy: Who’s watching the news?

205

Sensemaker: The case for funding climate action before disaster strikes

206

Sensemaker: Musk buys power

207

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

208

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

209

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

210

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

211

Sensemaker: What lies ahead for Trump 2.0?

212

Trendy: It was the economy, stupid

213

Sensemaker: How did Donald Trump pull it off?

214

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

215

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

216

Sensemaker: TikTok and the rise of ‘Algospeak’

217

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

218

Sensemaker: Why is big money backing Donald Trump?

219

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

220

Sensemaker: A generational Budget

221

Trendy: Growth? What growth?

222

Sensemaker: The battle of the sexes in the US election

223

Sensemaker: Why doesn’t prison work for women?

224

Sensemaker: Rachel Reeves changes the rules

225

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

226

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

227

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

228

Sensemaker: The press frenzy over Liam Payne’s death

229

Trendy: On the fence

230

Sensemaker: AI goes nuclear

231

Sensemaker: Just Stop Oil protest laws

232

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

233

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

234

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

235

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

236

Sensemaker: The Canary Island migrant route

237

Trendy: Join the party

238

Sensemaker: The race to save the Amazon

239

Sensemaker: Riots, racism and British society

240

Sensemaker: Who is the real JD Vance?

241

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

242

Sensemaker: Too Cleverly? Inside the Conservative leadership race

243

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

244

Sensemaker: Did climate change make Hurricane Milton stronger?

245

Trendy: Food! Glorious Food!

246

Sensemaker: Will facial recognition technology transform policing?

247

Sensemaker: Big Tech's growing political influence

248

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

249

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

250

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

251

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

252

Sensemaker: The elite footballers threatening to strike

253

Trendy: Who should pay for university?

254

Sensemaker: The driving test backlog

255

Sensemaker: American abortion ban leads to woman’s death

256

Sensemaker: The death of Hezbollah’s leader

257

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

258

Sensemaker: Can Instagram make itself safe for teens?

259

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

260

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

261

Trendy: Who votes Conservative?

262

Sensemaker: Is AI capable of reasoning?

263

Sensemaker: Israel’s new offensive against Hezbollah

264

Sensemaker: Labour’s tricky party conference

265

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

266

Sensemaker: Springfield under siege

267

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

268

Sensemaker: The return of Fyre Festival?

269

Trendy: Who votes Labour?

270

Sensemaker: Crisis at the Jewish Chronicle

271

Sensemaker: A West Bank Warlord

272

Sensemaker: Trump survives apparent assassination attempt

273

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

274

Sensemaker: Why Germany is introducing tighter border controls

275

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

276

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

277

Trendy: Have we reached peak Lib Dem?

278

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

279

Sensemaker: Brazil vs Musk

280

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

281

Sensemaker: Why are prisoners being released early?

282

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

283

News Meeting: Will the Grenfell Tower Inquiry bring justice?

284

Sensemaker: Netanyahu defies his critics

285

Trendy: Do trade unions still matter in the UK?

286

Sensemaker: How the US elects its president

287

Sensemaker: Sextortion on the rise

288

Sensemaker: Why Oasis used dynamic ticket pricing

289

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

290

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

291

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

292

Sensemaker: Why Telegram’s founder is being investigated

293

Sensemaker: SpaceX will return stranded astronauts to Earth

294

Sensemaker: Could Labour's pay deals backfire?

295

Sensemaker: What is ketamine infusion therapy?

296

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

297

Sensemaker: Indonesia moves its sinking capital

298

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

299

Sensemaker: New York’s war on rats

300

Sensemaker: The world of MrBeast

301

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

302

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

303

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

304

Sensemaker: London (Taylor’s Version)

305

Trendy: Keeping the lights on

306

Sensemaker: Ukraine advances into Russia

307

Sensemaker: Rupert Murdoch and the real ‘Succession’ battle

308

Sensemaker: Why GPs are taking industrial action

309

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

310

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

311

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

312

Sensemaker: The mystery of Akon City

313

Trendy: Keir Starmer’s mission control

314

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

315

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

316

Sensemaker: Gaza ceasefire talks at a standstill

317

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

318

Sensemaker: Who are Britain’s far right?

319

Sensemaker: Sha’Carri Richardson and the politics of doping

320

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

321

Trendy: What Labour and the Conservatives do next

322

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

323

Sensemaker: How Kamala Harris could beat Trump

324

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

325

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

326

Sensemaker: Historic jail terms for Just Stop Oil protestors

327

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

328

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

329

Sensemaker: Strictly Come Dancing loses its shine

330

Trendy: From Butlins to Barcelona: how Brits holiday

331

Sensemaker: Simone Biles seeks redemption at the Paris Olympics

332

Sensemaker: What we can learn from the CrowdStrike outage

333

Sensemaker: Joe Biden drops out

334

News Meeting: Joe Biden quits the presidential race

335

Sensemaker: The malaria survivor who helped create a new vaccine

336

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

337

Editor's voicemail: The price of loyalty to Biden

338

Sensemaker: Brat summer: how Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist

339

Trendy: Double haters and the US election

340

Sensemaker: Donald Trump’s mini-me

341

Sensemaker: India’s mega-wedding

342

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

343

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

344

Sensemaker: What is the ‘grey belt’?

345

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

346

Sensemaker: England reach Euro 2024 final

347

Trendy: Has France rejected the far-right?

348

Sensemaker: The battle over the future of the Tory party

349

Sensemaker: Labour’s radical prisons minister

350

Sensemaker: France’s shock election result

351

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

352

Sensemaker: What will the new government do first?

353

Editor’s Voicemail: A moment of optimism

354

Trendy: What just happened?

355

News Meeting: Starmer drama

356

Sensemaker: Labour's landslide

357

News Meeting: Will Joe Biden step aside?

358

Trendy: The final countdown

359

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

360

News Meeting: Why populist candidates thrive

361

Sensemaker: How the election looks on social media

362

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

363

Editor's Voicemail: Minority rule

364

Trendy: The digital election campaign

365

Could it be true?: The platforms’ dilemma

366

News Meeting: AI warfare and why Tory fundraising has collapsed

367

Sensemaker: The ghost of Boris Johnson

368

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

369

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

370

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

371

Could it be true?: Chaos agents

372

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

373

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

374

Editor's Voicemail: Not rejoining, but returning

375

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

376

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

377

Could it be true?: Sneaky politics

378

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

379

Sensemaker: Ed Davey: the carer and the clown

380

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

381

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

382

Trendy: The Conservatives face their Mount Everest

383

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

384

Could it be true?: Deepfakes

385

News Meeting: Farage shakes up the election campaign

386

Sensemaker: The First Millennial Saint

387

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 5

388

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 4

389

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 3

390

Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 2

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Word for word: Trump on trial - episode 1

392

Editor's Voicemail: The politicisation of the courts

393

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

394

Is climate change to blame for extreme turbulence?

395

Trendy: How is the election campaign going?

396

Sensemaker: All eyes on Rafah

397

Sensemaker: The women facing deportation to Rwanda

398

Sensemaker: Paula Vennells and the Post Office scandal

399

News Meeting: The first days of the election campaign

400

Editor's Voicemail: The course for change

401

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak announces a general election

402

Trendy: What does Gen Z think?

403

Sensemaker: Scarlett Johansson speaks out against OpenAI

404

Sensemaker: Bad Blood

405

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 3

406

Sensemaker: The death of Iran’s president

407

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

408

Sensemaker: England’s ‘Ghost’ Pupils

409

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

410

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

411

Sensemaker: Netflix's Baby Reindeer problem

412

Trendy: Was school better in your day?

413

Sensemaker: The Church tackles climate change

414

Sensemaker: Drake vs Kendrick

415

Word for word: Trump on trial – episode 2

416

Word for word: Trump on trial

417

Sensemaker: What’s left of Hamas in Gaza?

418

News Meeting: Russian advances and Drake versus Kendrick Lamar

419

Sensemaker: My life as a prison officer

420

Editor's Voicemail: Why newsrooms matter

421

News Meeting: Stormy Daniels testifies and gay rights in Ghana

422

Sensemaker: Bumble changes course

423

Trendy Live: The fallout from the local elections

424

Sensemaker: Chaos at Co-op Live

425

Sensemaker: The inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes

426

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

427

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

428

Editor's Voicemail: The joy of journalism

429

Sensemaker: The Caitlin Clark Effect

430

Trendy: King and country

431

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

432

Sensemaker: Humza Yousaf’s unforced error

433

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

434

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

435

Sensemaker: Trump’s first week in court

436

Editor's Voicemail: A new age of rearmament

437

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

438

Sensemaker: Grindr sued

439

Trendy: Dating, love and marriage

440

Sensemaker: Rwanda policy: What difference will it make?

441

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

442

Sensemaker: Britain’s mouldy homes

443

Sensemaker: Why the internet is arguing about flooding in Dubai

444

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

445

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

446

Editor's Voicemail: David Cameron inspires a rethink

447

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

448

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

449

Trendy: What London Thinks

450

Sensemaker: The Hull funeral home investigation

451

Sensemaker: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge

452

Sensemaker: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?

453

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

454

Sensemaker: A health warning from an esports star

455

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

456

Sensemaker: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry

457

Trendy: Local elections 2024: what to expect

458

Sensemaker: Instability AI

459

Sensemaker: Why Republicans are blocking aid for Ukraine

460

Sensemaker: Westminster’s honeytrap sext scandal

461

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

462

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

463

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

464

Sensemaker: The aid workers killed in Gaza

465

Sensemaker: Bollywood gets political

466

Sensemaker: The truth about Trump’s Truth Social

467

Sensemaker: Boeing, Boeing, gone

468

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

469

Trendy: How to fix the NHS

470

Sensemaker: When extreme sports turn deadly

471

Sensemaker: Who was behind the Moscow terror attack?

472

Sensemaker: Israel and the UN’s Gaza relief agency

473

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

474

Sensemaker: Bitcoin is back

475

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

476

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

477

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

478

Trendy: The general election campaign starts here

479

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

480

News Meeting: Lessons from a World War Two disinformation campaign

481

Sensemaker: Elon Musk takes on OpenAI

482

Sensemaker: Putin's sham election

483

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

484

Sensemaker: Family fractured after suspected illegal abortion

485

Editor's Voicemail: The princess and the tortoise

486

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

487

Sensemaker: Will the US ban Tik Tok?

488

Trendy: Where’s all the money gone?

489

Sensemaker: Lee Anderson’s political journey

490

News Meeting: Who is the real Keir Starmer?

491

Sensemaker: Kate’s photo-editing experiment blows up

492

Sensemaker: Getting aid into Gaza

493

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

494

Sensemaker: How spies recorded a German military meeting

495

Editor's Voicemail: An economy built on fellowship

496

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

497

Sensemaker: How Raye broke a Brits record

498

Trendy: Britain’s Covid hangover

499

Sensemaker: Haiti’s state of anarchy

500

Sensemaker: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector

501

Sensemaker: Why Wayne Couzens wasn't stopped

502

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

503

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

504

Editor's Voicemail: Jacob Rothschild

505

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

506

Sensemaker: A spike in spiking?

507

Trendy: The race for the White House

508

Sensemaker: How to hack the hackers

509

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

510

Sensemaker: How Birmingham went bust

511

Sensemaker: When egg freezing goes wrong

512

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

513

Sensemaker: The case against Julian Assange

514

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

515

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

516

Trendy: Good times, bad times

517

Sensemaker: Why Trump is selling golden trainers

518

Sensemaker: How The Body Shop lost its sheen

519

Sensemaker: Russia after Navalny

520

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

521

Sensemaker: Biden: too old to be president?

522

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

523

Sensemaker: Labour, Rochdale and the anti-Semitism row

524

Trendy: A home of your own

525

Sensemaker: Zelensky fires his top general

526

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

527

Sensemaker: EU farmers ramp up protests

528

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

529

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

530

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

531

Sensemaker: 23andMe’s cybercrime crisis

532

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

533

Sensemaker: Lewis Hamilton's new era

534

Sensemaker: Imran Khan imprisoned

535

Sensemaker: Kemi and the evil plotters

536

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

537

Sensemaker: A weightloss journey that ended in tragedy

538

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

539

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal

540

Trendy: The paradox of populism

541

Sensemaker: The Austrian extremist stirring up controversy in Germany

542

News Meeting: Why big events ultimately come down to chance

543

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

544

Sensemaker: A new test for Alzheimer's

545

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

546

Sensemaker: How Trump saw off his rivals

547

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

548

Sensemaker: Britain’s measles outbreak

549

Trendy: Britain’s baby bust

550

Sensemaker: Why UK universities face testing times

551

Sensemaker: Fujitsu and the Post Office scandal

552

Sensemaker: Hizb’ut-Tahrir banned in the UK

553

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

554

Sensemaker: Ecuador’s state of war

555

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

556

Sensemaker: Iceland feels the heat

557

Trendy: The welfare state we're in

558

Sensemaker: The Bethany Cox abortion case

559

Sensemaker: Who is France’s new prime minister?

560

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

561

News Meeting: Iowa decides, but does it matter?

562

Sensemaker: Journalists killed covering Israel-Hamas war

563

News Meeting: Who are the Houthis?

564

Sensemaker: The British Library cyber attack

565

Trendy: When everyone hates you for the same reason

566

Sensemaker: Boeing's tailspin

567

News Meeting: The Westminster Accounts one year on

568

Sensemaker: Challenging Trump’s presidential run

569

Sensemaker: An assassination in Beirut

570

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

571

Sensemaker: General Calamity

572

Sensemaker: Artemis II: sending humans back to the moon

573

Sensemaker: Disney’s Mickey Mouse problem

574

Sensemaker: The Kamala Harris question

575

Sensemaker: Jude Bellingham: England’s golden boy

576

News Meeting: 2024 predictions

577

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

578

Sensemaker: How Dan Wootton became the story

579

Sensemaker: Sam Altman: who is the OpenAI boss?

580

Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift Era

581

News Meeting: What was the biggest story of 2023?

582

Sensemaker: Sports Illustrated and its AI-generated authors

583

Sensemaker: Hostage deaths put pressure on Netanyahu

584

Sensemaker: Prince Harry hacked

585

Sensemaker: Zelensky’s fight for funding

586

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

587

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

588

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

589

Sensemaker: The end of fossil fuels?

590

Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak’s hollow victory

591

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

592

News Meeting: How to fix the economy

593

Sensemaker: Infected blood scandal: a government defeat

594

News Meeting: How Russia wins

595

Sensemaker: Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry

596

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

597

Sensemaker: A revolting week for Rishi Sunak

598

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

599

Sensemaker: India implicated in New York assassination attempt

600

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

601

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

602

Sensemaker: Attacks in the Red Sea

603

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

604

Sensemaker: How close are we to green air travel?

605

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

606

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

607

When is a tax cut not a tax cut?

608

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

609

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

610

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

611

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

612

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

613

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

614

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

615

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

616

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

617

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

618

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

619

Israel-Hamas war: what role can diplomacy play?

620

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

621

Israel and Gaza: what happens next?

622

Israel at war

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

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

627

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

628

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

629

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

630

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

631

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

632

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

633

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

634

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

635

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

636

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

637

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

638

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

639

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

640

Leaving the ECHR and Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture

641

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

642

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

643

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

644

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

645

Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood

646

Post Office scandal, Starmer benefit row, and grain deal

647

European heat storm, inheritance tax, and Hollywood strikes

648

El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats

649

Bonus episode: the BBC presenter and privacy

650

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

651

Threads vs. Twitter, OnlyFans billboard, and Horizon membership

652

France riots, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and affirmative action

653

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

654

Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children

655

Jailed for abortion, Pacific warming and peerages

656

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

657

Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sportswashing and economic policy

658

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

659

Cardiff riots, rape trials and Tina Turner

660

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

661

Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse

662

Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike

663

Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden

664

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

665

Pentagon leaks, China’s war games and sewage dumping

666

Pork fraud, Trump arrested and a lonely death

667

Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers

668

Boris Johnson, Met Police report and life expectancy

669

Cladding crackdown, the collapse of SVB and Xi Jinping

670

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

671

Hancock's WhatsApps, Fox News and bird flu

672

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

673

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

674

Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Man City and BP

675

Dominic Raab, Adani vs. Hindenburg and the British Army

676

German tanks, Dartmoor and Chinese infrastructure

677

Britishvolt, David Carrick and online harms

678

Prince Harry, Brazil and the Westminster Accounts

679

NHS crisis, Congress chaos and the Parthenon marbles

680

Fusion breakthrough, FTX boss arrested and a corruption scandal

681

German plot, ChatGPT and the World Cup

682

Balenciaga, Alzheimer’s drug and protests

683

World Cup, winter of discontent and a Disney hero?