Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Sensemaker
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Sensemaker
Sensemaker episodes
- Ep 180: Will the lights stay on?The looming energy crisis erupted this week. Gas prices rocketed and more energy suppliers went bust. So why didn't we see it coming?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 min - Ep 179: The Kremlin v big techWhy Apple and Google removed a voting app developed by the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, just as Russians head to the polls.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 min - Ep 178: Andrew Neil's minority of oneGB News faces an uncertain future. Its star and chairman, Andrew Neil, has left. Viewer figures make for grim reading. So is there an audience for an 'anti-woke', Fox News style channel?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 min - Ep 177: Shamima Begum’s new lookThe story of Shamima Begum is one of the most notorious examples of radicalisation in Britain. Now she’s back in the news, why is her appearance getting so much attention?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 min - Ep 176: Instagram's big problem
When an internal presentation by Instagram was leaked this week, it showed the social media giant knows how harmful its platform can be. So why aren't they being transparent about it?
The aim of the Molly Rose Foundation is suicide prevention, targeted towards young people under the age of 25. The foundation connects those suffering with the help, support and practical advice they need: https://mollyrosefoundation.org/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 min - Ep 175: Winter is coming...
... so how is Boris Johnson going to prepare for the possible rise in Covid cases? This week, he announced his plan. The question is: will it work, and will we avoid another lockdown?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 min - Ep 174: Danger in the ChannelThe UK's home secretary, Priti Patel, has announced plans to authorise "pushbacks" of migrant boats in the English Channel. It is a policy condemned as dangerous and... possibly, illegal.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 min - Ep 173: A football World Cup every two years - really?Arsene Wenger, the former Arsenal manager, is leading the charge to hold the World Cup every two years not four. Is this an innovation too far from one of football's change-makers?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 min - Ep 172: Sinister cementWhen Syria descended into a bloody and brutal civil war ten years ago, many multinational companies pulled out of the country. One stayed. Now, it's facing allegations that it was complicit in crimes against humanity.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 min - Ep 171: The crypto countryEl Salvador has become the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. Will it come to regret its decision?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
6 min
About Sensemaker
From the publisher's feed
The Sensemaker from The Observer - one story every day to make sense of the world.
Subscribe to The Observer…
and use the code AUDIO50 to get 50% off your annual subscription:
- Early access, bonus content and ad-free listening to our podcasts
- A daily edition, curated by our editors 7 days a week
- Puzzles from the inventors of the cryptic crossword
- Recipes for every occasion
- Free tickets to join Observer events in our newsroom or online
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More shows like Sensemaker
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
383 Listeners
Politics Weekly UK
266 Listeners
The Audio Long Read
839 Listeners
The Politics Show
129 Listeners
Today in Focus
965 Listeners
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
278 Listeners
The Slow Newscast
161 Listeners
The Story
240 Listeners
James Harding's Editor's Voicemail
3 Listeners
Pariah
28 Listeners
Spiral | Tortoise Investigates
3,447 Listeners
Left to Die: Escape from the Amarula
71 Listeners
The Rest Is Politics
3,043 Listeners
The News Agents
1,118 Listeners
Hoaxed
1,172 Listeners
Londongrad
55 Listeners
The News Agents - USA
408 Listeners
Into The Dirt
45 Listeners
Three doors down
36 Listeners
Sweet Bobby
492 Listeners
The Rest Is Entertainment
889 Listeners
Trendy
1 Listeners
The News Meeting
15 Listeners
Radical with Gabriel Gatehouse
32 Listeners
Eight years' hard Labour
4 Listeners
Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman
169 Listeners
What's Wrong with Democracy?
5 Listeners
The Gas Man
11 Listeners
Real Money
13 Listeners
Elon's Spies
82 Listeners
We Have Notes with Liv Little and Miranda Sawyer
2 Listeners