In this week's podcast, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by science writer and author, Tom Chivers, and political journalist Jane Merrick, to discuss under-reported stories from across the week.

Tom highlights the subject of his recent piece for UnHerd: the risk posed by AI becoming competent. Jane raises the issue of sugar and asks, are we worrying about it too much?

The panel also discuss their hero of the week, Margret Hodge MP and their villain, Julian Smith MP.