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  • Ep 728: Is there a stalemate in Ukraine?

    What a rift between the Ukrainian president and the country’s top military commander tells us about the state of war with Russia.


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    8 min
  • Ep 727: Rishi's reshuffle

    In a dramatic cabinet reshuffle, Rishi Sunak sacked his Home Secretary and appointed former prime minister, David Cameron, as Foreign Secretary. What does the reshuffle tell us about where the Conservative party is heading?


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    8 min
  • Ep 726: What happens to Gaza after the war?

    Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after its attack on October 7th. But what will happen to Gaza once the war is over?


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    7 min
  • Ep 725: Michelle Mone admits involvement in PPE company

    Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged being involved in a company awarded government contracts to supply PPE during the Covid pandemic.


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    8 min
  • Ep 724: Israel-Hamas war: what’s happening in the West Bank?

    Palestinians in the West Bank face violence from Jewish settlers as war rages in Gaza.


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    9 min
  • Ep 723: Why homelessness is rising

    Suella Braverman’s plan to crackdown on rough sleepers living in tents – and her comments about it being a “lifestyle choice” – mask the reality of Britain’s homelessness problem.


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    9 min
  • Ep 722: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup coup

    The oil-rich Gulf kingdom will host the 2034 men’s football World Cup. How did it win the bid, why is it controversial and what does it tell us about the shift happening in the world’s most popular sport?


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    7 min
  • Ep 721: Kidnapped by Hamas: the long wait

    It has been one month since Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel and took hundreds of people hostage. How are their friends and family coping?


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    7 min
  • Ep 720: When Rishi met Elon

    At the end of the UK’s first AI Safety Summit Rishi Sunak sat down to interview Elon Musk. What did we learn and why were they having the conversation in the first place?


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    8 min
  • Ep 719: Covid inquiry: the wrong crisis for Boris Johnson

    Boris Johnson and his supporters like to say he “got the big calls right” as prime minister, but evidence given to the Covid inquiry has cast doubt on that claim. What have we learnt about his leadership?


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    8 min

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