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The Changes To UK Passports⁠.

Claire’s recommendation: An excerpt from Bob Carr's upcoming book on the loss of his wife Helena, and Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

⁠Kate's recommendation: A podcast interview with Anthropic's inhouse philosopher, who is teaching their AI, Claude, how to be good. Offline with Jon Favreau.

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On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with returning guest Georgie Trickett from Sportish

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Check out the Sportish podcast here

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Kate’s recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfJTX1Y0ynM 

Claire’s recommendation: Banana bread (and if you’re feeling wild, add half a cup of chopped walnuts) https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/banana-bread/10c8bf87-6c19-4ffd-b056-2b87ce915717 

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On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh from The Bookshelf Podcast. Can you best our in-studio guests?

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Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EDwzM_LqjG4

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Getting you across Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is our priority this week. It’s been a challenging one for lots of people, so we’ve tried our best to make sense of it and get you across the facts and different perspectives. Then, we couldn’t look past the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of the NBC TV host who has been missing for over a week now. We’ve got you covered for the Libspill - Sussan Ley is out and Angus Taylor is the new Liberal leader. We’ll also get into our top 3 favourite moments from the Winter Olympics, including the Biathlon Bronze medallist’s cheating confession on international television.

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Kate’s recommendation: Ilia Malinin’s backflip at the Winter Olympics

Claire’s recommendation: Margot Robbie on the Table Manners podcast

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On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Fashion Critical, self-described as ‘the internet’s most amusing and 100% correct fashion critic’, and Lauren Sams, fashion editor at the Australian Financial Review. Can you best our in-studio guests?

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Follow Fashion Critical on Facebook and Instagram

Buy Fashion Critical’s excellent and very funny book

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Read Lauren Sams’ in the AFR

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The US Department of Justice released over 3 million documents in the latest batch of Epstein files. Despite feeling a bit intimidated by digging into it all, we decided we couldn’t look past it, so we’ve done our best to pull out the key details for you. Then, we get into where we’re at with the Liberals and the Nationals - will they get back together, or no? We also wanted to get you across the biggest thing in AI at the moment, Claude Code. And our favourite story from the week had to be the 13-year-old who made a heroic 4km swim to shore to save his family.

Links

Anthropic’s Claude Superbowl ad

Kate’s recommendation: The Guardian’s profile on children’s author Allison Lester

Claire’s recommendation: Justin Bieber’s performance at the Grammys

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This is a Shortcut we made in July 2025 about the backlash towards Trump over the Epstein files. Given the final documents were released this week, we thought it'd be good to resurface it for you here.

US President Donald Trump is dealing with backlash from his political base over the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile and former financier who died in jail before his case could go to trial. There’s a long history to this, and it’s arguably the most significant political issue Trump has had to deal with since he became President again in January. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we’ll cover the history between the 2 men and why it’s become such a headache for Trump.

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Reading: A CNN article: 5 Big Questions about Trump’s Ties to Epstein... It gives a breakdown of their history together.

Listening: This episode on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast about MAGA’s Revolt Over Jeffrey Epstein explores the backlash from Trump’s supporters.

Reading: And we’ve also found this article in the New York Times from the POV of one of Epstein’s accusers, Maria Farmer, suggesting why there’s a possibility that Trump’s and other high-profile names could be in the Epstein files… But just a heads up, you’ll need a New York Times subscription to access it.

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On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Glen James and Rachelle Kroon from the money money money podcast. Can you best our in-studio guests?

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Kate Watson is back! This week, there's a lot going on in Trump's world - threats towards Iran, the release of the Melania documentary, and the administration's shifting position on ICE in Minnesota - we'll try to make sense of that for you. Back at home, parliament sits next week and we're still not sure who will be in charge of the opposition parties. Plus, we cover President Xi's Jinping’s moves to take greater control of the Chinese military, we have some updates on fugitives (and some aspersions cast by Kate), and Claire can't wait to talk to you about Heated Rivalry.

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Claire’s recommendation: Watch Heated Rivalry on HBO Max

Kate’s recommendation: CNN interview with Alex Honnold after climbing Taipei 101 skyscraper

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