Why would Facebook want to crack down on big tech?
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants new rules for social media.Every year politicians and security experts meet in Munich to discuss how to keep the world safe. This year they invited Mark Zuckerberg, the f...
24 Feb 202017min
Has Billie Eilish saved the music industry?
Billie Eilish is on top of the world right now. The 18-year-old recently swept the board at the Grammys, winning five awards including best new artist and song of the year. She also replaced Taylor Sw...
21 Feb 202017min
How should we react to Caroline Flack’s death?
Since Caroline Flack’s death by suicide last weekend, many people have been trying to make sense of it. Yesterday her family released a previously unpublished Instagram post written by Caroline Flack ...
20 Feb 202023min
Why is No 10 hiring ‘weirdos’?
At the beginning of the year Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s senior adviser, put out an unusual job advertisement. In a blog post he asked for “super-talented weirdos” and “wild-cards”. One of...
19 Feb 202021min
Why is Trump standing up for religious teenagers?
Donald Trump is trying to shore up his evangelical support before November's presidential election. Ramping up his Christian outreach, he's been helping teenagers who say they’re being bullied for the...
18 Feb 202020min
How do you track extremists online?
Julia Ebner monitors extremists during her day job as a counter-terrorism expert, where she advises governments and tech companies on how to respond to their activities. Two years ago she decided to g...
17 Feb 202018min
Why can’t we sleep?
Insomnia affects about a third of adults in the UK according to the NHS. It also says adults should be getting between 7 and 9 hours sleep a night, but very few of us actually get that. We speak to ...
14 Feb 202019min
Why are people being deported to Jamaica?
It’s been two years since the Windrush scandal, where at least 164 black British citizens were wrongly deported to countries of their birth or detained in the UK. The scandal has had a lasting impact ...
13 Feb 202019min
