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- Ep 170: A different Covid crisisThere was a real concern at the start of the pandemic that lockdowns would lead to a spike in suicides. But recent figures show an opposite trend. It’s a positive shift, but the question is: why?
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8 min - Ep 169: National Insurance - the misunderstood taxThe government has just put up National Insurance to help pay for the NHS to recover from Covid and to improve social care. Did they choose to increase that particular tax because a lot of us don't know what it is?
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8 min - Ep 168: Understanding the Covid numbers
Schools in England have gone back this week, and there's real worry about a surge in Covid infections. What can we learn from what's happened to infections this summer?
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6 min - Ep 167: Justice at the end of the opioid epidemic?A big opioid case has been settled in court. Purdue Pharma, one of the drugs companies behind the opioid epidemic has been dissolved, and the family that ran it agreed to pay a mammoth $4.5 billion court settlement. The payout will go to help victims of the crisis, but is money enough? What about justice?
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9 min - Ep 166: Knives out for Dominic RaabAs Kabul fell, the Foreign Secretary tripped up. Dominic Raab was famously on holiday. But was it an accident that he became front-page news?
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7 min - Ep 165: How New Orleans weathered the stormNew Orleans gets its fair share of hurricanes and Hurricane Ida was one of the biggest. But it did less damage and killed fewer people than Hurricane Katrina. Is New Orleans finally learning the lessons of past disasters?
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8 min - Ep 164: Beyond Love Island - Molly Mae's brilliant careerHow Molly Mae turned reality TV into real success
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6 min - Ep 163: The trial of Elizabeth HolmesShe was once a female Silicon Valley icon. The world's youngest self-made billionaire. Now, she's a disgraced former CEO, on trial for fraud. Is this where the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos finally ends?
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8 min - Ep 162: The fatal border
A little-known US law, brought back in by Donald Trump, has caused a surge in migrants from Mexico. It's not what President Trump intended.
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9 min - Ep 161: Blame in BeirutMeet Camille Abousleiman, the lawyer trying track down the truth in the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion.
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