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Tortoise News is the home of Tortoise's news podcasts: The News Meeting, Trendy and Sensemaker.


The News Meeting - join Tortoise editor James Harding and 3 journalists, from the Tortoise newsroom and beyond, to discuss the stories that should be leading the news.


Trendy - hear polling expert John Curtice and former Downing Street advisor Rachel Wolf explore the trends that help shape what voters think and politicans do.


Sensemaker - our daily podcast that tells one story every day to make sense of the world.


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