The Sunday Edition: They said Covid would change everything. Did it?
Today marks five years since the first Covid lockdown. We were told that we would never be able to go back to pre-pandemic times: we could only enter a ‘new normal’. Is that what happened? How much di...
23 Maalis 202531min
The Saturday Edition: Trump and Putin spoke, where are things now?
With news this week on the ongoing attempts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, we thought we'd bring you two interviews Manveen did on Times Radio to help make sense of it all. The first is with Anthon...
22 Maalis 202530min
Why the Baltics are preparing for Putin
Estonia, one of the Baltic states, sits on Europe's front line with Russia. The country that was, like Ukraine, once part of the Soviet Union is increasingly worried about the threat Putin poses, and ...
21 Maalis 202527min
How Britain's benefits system broke
It's predicted that, by the end of this Parliament, four million people in Britain will receive long-term sickness benefits–that’s the equivalent of losing the working-age population of Birmingham fro...
20 Maalis 202527min
The '51st state' fights back
Donald Trump is coming for Canada. He first raised the prospect of making America's nearest neighbour its 51st state when campaigning for the presidency in 2016. No one was listening. But Canada's new...
19 Maalis 202527min
The town ripped apart by Mexico’s new Narcos
On the frontline of Mexico’s drug wars, rival cartels are exploiting a decades-old dispute about indigenous land rights and turning local people against each other - with fatal consequences. To appeas...
18 Maalis 202528min
Trump and the surprising history of American authoritarians
The word "unprecedented" is often used to describe Donald Trump's presidency. He's broken with convention repeatedly: from announcing tariffs on allies, to the suggestion that he wants to buy Greenlan...
17 Maalis 202534min
The Sunday Edition: The gambling addicts hooked on crypto
This episode was originally published last August.The government says it wants to make the UK a global hub for crypto firms. But with the NHS warning it’s being left to ‘pick up the pieces’ as people ...
16 Maalis 202529min
