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Sensemaker: Grindr sued
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Apr 26, 2024 |
Trendy: Dating, love and marriage
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Rwanda policy: What difference will it make?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Join us for Trendy Live to make sense of the local election results
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Apr 24, 2024 |
News Meeting: Brexit, austerity and how Labour could fix Britain
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Britain’s mouldy homes
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Why the internet is arguing about flooding in Dubai
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Apr 23, 2024 |
News Meeting: Sunak’s Rwanda showdown and the Met’s apology to an anti semitism campaigner
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Vinicius Jr: the Real Madrid star’s fight against racism
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Editor's Voicemail: David Cameron inspires a rethink
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Apr 19, 2024 |
News Meeting: Christiana Figueres on the Dubai floods and Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban
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Apr 19, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The Swiss women who went to court over climate change and won
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Apr 19, 2024 |
Trendy: What London Thinks
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Apr 18, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The Hull funeral home investigation
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Apr 18, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge
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Apr 17, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
News Meeting: Why Iran attacked Israel and Trump’s hush money trial
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Sensemaker: A health warning from an esports star
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Apr 15, 2024 |
News Meeting: Swiss women win landmark climate case and Zeinab Badawi on a year of war in Sudan
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Apr 12, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry
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Apr 12, 2024 |
Trendy: Local elections 2024: what to expect
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Instability AI
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Why Republicans are blocking aid for Ukraine
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Westminster’s honeytrap sext scandal
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Apr 09, 2024 |
News Meeting: Solar eclipse conspiracy theories and is Thames Water facing the end game?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Threat to life: the Iranian journalist stabbed in London
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Apr 08, 2024 |
News Meeting: Aid worker deaths in Gaza and a Westminster honey trap
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Apr 05, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The aid workers killed in Gaza
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Apr 05, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Bollywood gets political
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The truth about Trump’s Truth Social
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Boeing, Boeing, gone
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Apr 02, 2024 |
News Meeting: Elizabeth Day on Baltimore bridge conspiracies and Trump’s Truth Social
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Mar 29, 2024 |
Trendy: How to fix the NHS
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Mar 28, 2024 |
Sensemaker: When extreme sports turn deadly
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Mar 28, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Who was behind the Moscow terror attack?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Israel and the UN’s Gaza relief agency
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Mar 26, 2024 |
News Meeting: What the Moscow attack means for Putin and Chinese hacking
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Mar 25, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Bitcoin is back
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Mar 25, 2024 |
Editor's Voicemail: Why it's wrong to suggest the BBC is antisemitic
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Mar 22, 2024 |
News Meeting: Men-only clubs and a smoking ban for for some, but not all
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Mar 22, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Frank Hester: The race row and the rise of the mega donor
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Mar 22, 2024 |
Trendy: The general election campaign starts here
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Indefinite jail terms: ‘a stain on our justice system’
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Mar 21, 2024 |
News Meeting: Lessons from a World War Two disinformation campaign
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Introducing...Counter Crisis
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Elon Musk takes on OpenAI
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Putin's sham election
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Mar 19, 2024 |
News Meeting: Boris Johnson’s Venezuela meeting and should we change the way we fund the police?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Family fractured after suspected illegal abortion
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Mar 18, 2024 |
Editor's Voicemail: The princess and the tortoise
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Mar 15, 2024 |
News Meeting: Disgraced Tory donor Frank Hester and has levelling-up made any difference?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Will the US ban Tik Tok?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
Trendy: Where’s all the money gone?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Lee Anderson’s political journey
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Mar 14, 2024 |
News Meeting: Who is the real Keir Starmer?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Kate’s photo-editing experiment blows up
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Mar 13, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Getting aid into Gaza
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Mar 12, 2024 |
News Meeting: That Kate photo and Sathnam Sanghera on slavery reparations
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Sensemaker: How spies recorded a German military meeting
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Editor's Voicemail: An economy built on fellowship
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Mar 08, 2024 |
News Meeting: Starvation in Gaza and why pensioners are the biggest budget losers
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Sensemaker: How Raye broke a Brits record
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Trendy: Britain’s Covid hangover
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Haiti’s state of anarchy
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Why Wayne Couzens wasn't stopped
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Mar 05, 2024 |
News Meeting: Hopes for a Gaza ceasefire and Joe Biden’s political problems
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Mar 04, 2024 |
Sensemaker: What George Galloway’s return means for British politics
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Mar 04, 2024 |
Editor's Voicemail: Jacob Rothschild
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Mar 01, 2024 |
News Meeting: The Couzens report, America’s airports and Taylor Swift’s political power
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Mar 01, 2024 |
Sensemaker: A spike in spiking?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
Trendy: The race for the White House
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Feb 29, 2024 |
Sensemaker: How to hack the hackers
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Feb 29, 2024 |
News Meeting: Chris Anderson on why the internet is making us meaner
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Sensemaker: How Birmingham went bust
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Sensemaker: When egg freezing goes wrong
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Feb 27, 2024 |
News Meeting: Sudan’s forgotten war and Britain’s drink spiking epidemic
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The case against Julian Assange
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Feb 26, 2024 |
News Meeting: Investigating a failing children’s prison and a nuclear missile misfires
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The university that contributed to a student’s death
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Trendy: Good times, bad times
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Why Trump is selling golden trainers
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Sensemaker: How The Body Shop lost its sheen
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Russia after Navalny
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Feb 20, 2024 |
News Meeting: Alexei Navalny’s death and the fake restaurants on Companies House
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Feb 19, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Biden: too old to be president?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
News Meeting: UK in recession and has the vegan bubble burst?
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Labour, Rochdale and the anti-Semitism row
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Trendy: A home of your own
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Zelensky fires his top general
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Asylum hotels: hundreds evicted with a week’s notice
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Sensemaker: EU farmers ramp up protests
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Feb 13, 2024 |
News Meeting: Israel’s Rafah offensive and Keir Starmer under pressure over antisemitism
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Keir Starmer and the mysterious case of the £28bn green plan
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Feb 12, 2024 |
News Meeting: A Labour u-turn and a failed peace agreement
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Sensemaker: 23andMe’s cybercrime crisis
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Trendy: Going places: is social mobility alive and well?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Lewis Hamilton's new era
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Imran Khan imprisoned
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Kemi and the evil plotters
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Feb 06, 2024 |
News Meeting: Strikes against the Houthis and the rising demand for ADHD medication
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Sensemaker: A weightloss journey that ended in tragedy
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Feb 05, 2024 |
News Meeting: What does David Miliband think should lead the news?
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Trendy: The paradox of populism
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The Austrian extremist stirring up controversy in Germany
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Feb 01, 2024 |
News Meeting: Why big events ultimately come down to chance
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Be the best: Britain’s shortage of soldiers
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Sensemaker: A new test for Alzheimer's
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Jan 30, 2024 |
News Meeting: The death penalty and does Iran want a war with the United States?
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Sensemaker: How Trump saw off his rivals
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Jan 29, 2024 |
News Meeting: Trump wins again and why the British military is in such a state
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Jan 26, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Britain’s measles outbreak
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Jan 26, 2024 |
Trendy: Britain’s baby bust
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Why UK universities face testing times
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Fujitsu and the Post Office scandal
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Hizb’ut-Tahrir banned in the UK
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Jan 23, 2024 |
News Meeting: Tata Steel job losses and why are measles cases rising?
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Ecuador’s state of war
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Jan 22, 2024 |
News Meeting: How important will immigration be at the next election?
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Jan 19, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Iceland feels the heat
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Jan 19, 2024 |
Trendy: The welfare state we're in
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Jan 18, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The Bethany Cox abortion case
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Jan 18, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Who is France’s new prime minister?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Bill Ackman and the battle for the future of Harvard
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Jan 16, 2024 |
News Meeting: Iowa decides, but does it matter?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Journalists killed covering Israel-Hamas war
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Jan 15, 2024 |
News Meeting: Who are the Houthis?
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The British Library cyber attack
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Trendy: When everyone hates you for the same reason
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Jan 11, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Boeing's tailspin
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Jan 11, 2024 |
News Meeting: The Westminster Accounts one year on
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Challenging Trump’s presidential run
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Sensemaker: An assassination in Beirut
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Jan 09, 2024 |
News Meeting: The Joe Biden problem and should the Post Office scandal be leading the news?
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Sensemaker: General Calamity
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Artemis II: sending humans back to the moon
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Jan 05, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Disney’s Mickey Mouse problem
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Sensemaker: The Kamala Harris question
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Sensemaker: Jude Bellingham: England’s golden boy
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Jan 02, 2024 |
News Meeting: 2024 predictions
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Jan 01, 2024 |
News Meeting: Robert Peston on why politicians need to get a grip of AI
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Dec 29, 2023 |
Sensemaker: How Dan Wootton became the story
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Dec 29, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Sam Altman: who is the OpenAI boss?
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Dec 28, 2023 |
Sensemaker: The Taylor Swift Era
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Dec 27, 2023 |
News Meeting: What was the biggest story of 2023?
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Dec 22, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Sports Illustrated and its AI-generated authors
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Dec 22, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Hostage deaths put pressure on Netanyahu
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Prince Harry hacked
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Zelensky’s fight for funding
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Dec 19, 2023 |
News Meeting: Michelle Mone’s change of tone and Jimmy Lai on trial
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Dec 18, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Physician associates: what are they and why do we need them?
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Dec 18, 2023 |
News Meeting: Was COP28 a success and why do politicians lie?
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Dec 15, 2023 |
Sensemaker: The end of fossil fuels?
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Dec 15, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Rishi Sunak’s hollow victory
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Sensemaker: El loco: Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president
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Dec 13, 2023 |
News Meeting: How to fix the economy
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Infected blood scandal: a government defeat
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Dec 12, 2023 |
News Meeting: How Russia wins
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Trendy: Oh Come, All Ye Faithful: religion, politics and values
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Dec 08, 2023 |
Sensemaker: A revolting week for Rishi Sunak
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Dec 08, 2023 |
News Meeting: Rishi’s Rwanda revolt and Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Sensemaker: India implicated in New York assassination attempt
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Sensemaker: A new era for women’s football in England
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Dec 06, 2023 |
News Meeting: James Harding on Tortoise's case against the Tory party
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Sensemaker: Attacks in the Red Sea
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Dec 05, 2023 |
News Meeting: Assassination attempt strains US-India relations and Farage in the jungle
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Dec 04, 2023 |
Sensemaker: How close are we to green air travel?
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Dec 04, 2023 |
Was Henry Kissinger a force for good and has Elon Musk finally gone too far?
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Dec 01, 2023 |
The Elgin marbles debate and could a pause in fighting become a ceasefire in Gaza?
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Nov 27, 2023 |
When is a tax cut not a tax cut?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
Open warfare at OpenAI and Jess Phillips on why she voted for a ceasefire in Gaza
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Nov 20, 2023 |
After Rwanda, what next and could Israel’s raid on a Gaza hospital be a turning point?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
Bonus episode: Rory Stewart on Westminster’s failures and his political future
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Rory Stewart on David Cameron’s return and Suella Braverman’s sacking
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Nov 13, 2023 |
Bonus episode: James O’Brien on the people who broke Britain and how we fix it
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Nov 10, 2023 |
James O’Brien on Suella Braverman and why Shell is suing Greenpeace
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Nov 10, 2023 |
Should pro-Palestinian marches go ahead on Armistice Day and can we feel sorry for Sam Bankman-Fried?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
What we learnt from the Covid inquiry and what’s been happening at Bletchley Park?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
The Dagestan airport riot and who is the new US House Speaker?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
What does Saudi Arabia want and are we facing an AI election?
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Oct 27, 2023 |
What’s delaying Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
Israel-Hamas war: what role can diplomacy play?
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Israel and Gaza: Blinken’s diplomacy and Netanyahu’s next move
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Oct 16, 2023 |
Israel and Gaza: what happens next?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Israel at war
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Oct 09, 2023 |
How should we cover migration stories and why did Rishi Sunak cancel part of HS2?
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Sunak’s divided Conservatives and why do water companies want to increase bills?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
Why are six young people taking 32 countries to court and what is Suella Braverman up to?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
What’s happening with HS2 and should we celebrate Adidas’s new super-shoe?
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Are journalists too obsessed with bad news and did Rupert Murdoch make a secret deal with Prince William?
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Sep 22, 2023 |
The Russell Brand allegations and is climate change to blame for the Libya disaster?
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Keir Starmer on the offensive and is the UK in a recession?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
How significant are the China spy allegations and why do we struggle to care about climate stories?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
Is it right to scrutinise Volodymyr Zelensky’s marriage and should The Rolling Stones admit they’re a PR stunt?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
Bonus episode: Is the NHS “fobbing off” the mother of a girl who died of sepsis?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter and how did a 13-year-old girl die needlessly in the NHS?
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Sep 04, 2023 |
Can the US and China be frenemies and is the UK still a Christian country?
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Sep 01, 2023 |
Are the British Museum thefts more than just a whodunnit and is there too much coverage of US politics?
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Aug 25, 2023 |
Bonus episode: After Prigozhin’s reported death, what now?
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Aug 24, 2023 |
Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner and what to make of the women's World Cup final?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
Is Elon Musk “the space dictator” and why is the PSNI data leak so significant?
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Aug 18, 2023 |
Why is King Charles getting a pay rise and what’s happening in Niger?
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Leaving the ECHR and Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture
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Aug 11, 2023 |
What happens when you’re switched at birth and what does Rishi Sunak believe?
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Aug 07, 2023 |
Why is the latest Trump indictment so significant and who cares about wild camping?
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Why should you care about a coup in Niger and what is carbon capture?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
How do you report climate science and should UFOs ever lead the news?
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Jul 28, 2023 |
Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Post Office scandal, Starmer benefit row, and grain deal
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Jul 21, 2023 |
European heat storm, inheritance tax, and Hollywood strikes
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Jul 17, 2023 |
El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats
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Jul 14, 2023 |
Bonus episode: the BBC presenter and privacy
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Jul 11, 2023 |
BBC presenter suspended, NHS & big pharma, and cluster bombs
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Jul 10, 2023 |
Threads vs. Twitter, OnlyFans billboard, and Horizon membership
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Jul 07, 2023 |
France riots, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and affirmative action
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Russian infighting, Thames Water, and Nicola Bulley’s inquest
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Jun 30, 2023 |
Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children
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Jun 23, 2023 |
Jailed for abortion, Pacific warming and peerages
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Jun 16, 2023 |
The News Meeting Live: Trump's toilet troubles, wildfires and the allegations against Crispin Odey
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Jun 12, 2023 |
Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sportswashing and economic policy
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Jun 09, 2023 |
MeToo in the media, Whitehall WhatsApps and deep-sea mining
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Jun 02, 2023 |
Cardiff riots, rape trials and Tina Turner
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May 26, 2023 |
The News Meeting Live: Immigration stats, Ron DeSantis and Zelensky’s European Tour
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May 19, 2023 |
Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse
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May 12, 2023 |
Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike
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May 05, 2023 |
Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden
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Apr 28, 2023 |
The News Meeting Live: Fox settles, Musk's rocket and the SNP
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Apr 21, 2023 |
Pentagon leaks, China’s war games and sewage dumping
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Apr 14, 2023 |
Pork fraud, Trump arrested and a lonely death
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Apr 07, 2023 |
Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers
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Mar 31, 2023 |
Boris Johnson, Met Police report and life expectancy
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Cladding crackdown, the collapse of SVB and Xi Jinping
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Mar 17, 2023 |
Stanley Johnson’s knighthood, river rights and another Met apology
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Mar 10, 2023 |
Hancock's WhatsApps, Fox News and bird flu
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Mar 02, 2023 |
A year of war in Ukraine, the tomato shortage and cash-strapped councils
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Feb 24, 2023 |
Nicola Sturgeon, Ford cuts jobs and BBC offices raided in India
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Feb 17, 2023 |
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Man City and BP
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Feb 10, 2023 |
Dominic Raab, Adani vs. Hindenburg and the British Army
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Feb 03, 2023 |
German tanks, Dartmoor and Chinese infrastructure
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Jan 27, 2023 |
Britishvolt, David Carrick and online harms
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Jan 20, 2023 |
Prince Harry, Brazil and the Westminster Accounts
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Jan 13, 2023 |
NHS crisis, Congress chaos and the Parthenon marbles
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Jan 06, 2023 |
Fusion breakthrough, FTX boss arrested and a corruption scandal
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Dec 16, 2022 |
German plot, ChatGPT and the World Cup
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Dec 09, 2022 |
Balenciaga, Alzheimer’s drug and protests
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Dec 02, 2022 |
World Cup, winter of discontent and a Disney hero?
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Nov 25, 2022 |