What's really going on in Britain’s dodgy “vape shops”
Is that mini-mart laundering money? Why have five barbershops opened on the same street? And how can suspiciously empty phone repair shops afford to run? For years, rumours have swirled about Britain’...
3 Sep 26min
Roy Cohn – The monster who created Donald Trump
Amoral attack dog for Senator Joe McCarthy during America’s Red Scare of the ’50s. Corrupt mob lawyer, cruel swindler and powerbroker. Racist. Closeted but extremely sexually active gay man who in pub...
2 Sep 28min
Burnham gets serious – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison
Setting up the stories for the week ahead… The carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over for Andy Burnham as Parliament returns with tricky questions on defence funding, prisoner release and ...
1 Sep 31min
Parton is such sweet sorrow – Weekly Wrap-Up with Zoë Grünewald
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Dolly Parton’s death leaves the world brokenhearted but reflecting on a true rarity: someone rich, famous and powerful who never stopped being a...
28 Aug 28min
Inside the clickbait storm – Hot Take Time Machine with Jonn Elledge and Miranda Sawyer
Hot Take Time Machine is back with Paper Cuts alumni Miranda Sawyer, Jonn Elledge and Jacob Jarvis sniffing out the strangest, worst – and occasionally best – opinions of the past month. On this epis...
27 Aug 37min
Lightbulb moments – Jonn Elledge on the big ideas that created our world
We’re living through another technological revolution, but it’s easy to take for granted how much of the world around us was once a radical new invention. Author, columnist and Oh God, What Now? regul...
26 Aug 27min
Churchill, JFK, Mao, Alex Ferguson… The “great leader” is a myth, says Jared Diamond
Do great leaders actually matter? Or are they just being carried along by bigger forces – from timing to sheer dumb luck? It’s the question that underpins almost every argument about politics, busines...
25 Aug 28min
Burnham’s summer review – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor
Burnham’s summer is coming to an end, how has his start in office gone? And what problems does he have to look forward to? Plus, there are new hacking concerns for the UK and Trump is back on another ...
24 Aug 21min
