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The Doodler Killer - A True Crime

Fifty years after a man with a drawing pad lured gay men to the edge of San Francisco and killed them, the detective who thinks he knows who did it can’t make anyone say so. A true crime podcast.

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The seventieth Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna under one of the largest security operations modern Austria has mounted: a robot dog, an FBI cyber task force on call from New York, and a 1.5-kilometre no-fly ring drawn around three points in the city. We report from inside the perimeter.

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When a German neo-Nazi changed his legal gender to dodge prison, he handed the European far right a weapon no amount of speechmaking could have produced. His arrest at a Czech border village last week has placed the consequences before a judge in Plzeň — and an entire trans community before a gathering backlash.

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On 12 April, Hungarians go to the polls in what Politico has called the EU’s most consequential election of 2026: a vote that will determine whether Viktor Orbán’s sixteen-year experiment in dismantling democracy, capturing the media and criminalising queer visibility inside a European Union member state can be reversed by a ballot.

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The EU is looking to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands as a new continental leader. Donald Trump’s war is made for television. Rob Jetten’s Europe is not. That is the point.

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AI agents are rewriting the rules of knowledge work. Most queer Europeans have not been told the rules have changed.

In today's podcast, we discuss the digital skills of queer GenZ.

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In today's podcast, our host discusses the Anthropic case and the war the Trump administration started against the AI company. 

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In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss.

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