The Crown - fact or fiction?
Major TV series The Crown is back - series five - and it deals with one of the most painful and excruciatingly public decades of recent Royal history. Diana's tell-all book with Andrew Morton, Charle...
10 Nov 202233min
US Midterms: Has Donald been Trumped?
We've been up all night waiting for the US midterm election results to come through so you could wake up at your leisure. TLDR: Trump-backed candidates didn't really take off, Trump's Republican rival...
9 Nov 202230min
Peerages for pals: The Boris Resignation Honours List.
It's hard to imagine leaving a job in disrepute but then giving 20 of your mates a top honour that allows them to create the laws of this country. Well, maybe it isn't that hard to imagine. It's what ...
8 Nov 202231min
Does Extreme Protest Work - Just Stop Oil? Or Just Stop?
When Liz Truss was looking to galvanise not just the Tory party but the nation in her conference speech, she turned to Just Stop Oil protesters for help. She believed their fractious, disruptive, an d...
7 Nov 202232min
What is Elon Musk doing at Twitter?
Elon Musk has begun laying off staff at Twitter, a week after taking sole control of the company. He says he’s “freed the bird” but does freedom of speech on the platform come at the price of politica...
4 Nov 202230min
Is American democracy on the line? A mid-terms preview
In less than a week America will head to the polls for the midterms - the first national elections of the Biden presidency since the January 6th insurrection.Biden has told Americans that democracy is...
3 Nov 202230min
How Israel's Far Right brought Bibi Netanyahu back
As we record today's episode, Benjamin Netanyahu - currrently on trial for corruption charges - is about to (re)become Israel's PM. He's been in power for 17 years out of the last 25. And this time,...
2 Nov 202235min
Immigration: what's going wrong?
So much heat surrounds the issue of immigration. And the person in charge of decision making is Home Secretary Suella Braverman - and she's at the centre of a political storm over alleged multiple sec...
1 Nov 202237min
