Everything you need to know about 16-17-year-olds getting Covid jabs
The Evening Standard’s political correspondent Sophia Sleigh is on the show to break down reports that 16-17-year-olds are to be offered the Covid-19 vaccination.We discuss why the move’s being made n...
4 Aug 20215min
Is it ‘Older’ workers “duty” to go back to the office?
Our political editor Nicholas Cecil joins the show to tell us about the government minister who says it’s the “duty” of older workers to get back to the office so they can guide their younger colleagu...
3 Aug 20215min
At Heathrow as London “opens to the world”
Evening Standard reporter Rachael Burford tells us what happened at Heathrow when the first passengers arrived following the UK lifting quarantine restrictions for the vaccinated. She tells us about t...
2 Aug 20216min
The Malawi music student who became a Covid hero
In this special edition of the Leader podcast we’re in Malawi to look at how a 24-year-old music student has become a hero in the country’s fight against Covid-19. Maggie Mkandawire had to return to h...
30 Jul 20218min
Simon Calder on what’s really happening with international travel
Leading travel journalist Simon Calder joins the podcast to try to explain what the government’s doing with international travel, as the UK opens up its borders but other countries keep theirs all but...
29 Jul 20217min
England’s opening up borders to more US travellers, when will America do the same?
England’s opening up its borders to double-jabbed US and EU travellers, now will other countries let our tourists in?We speak to travel expert Paul Charles who suggests Washington’s unlikely to budge ...
28 Jul 20217min
Will the pandemic really be over ‘by October’?
The Evening Standard’s political editor Nicholas Cecil takes a look at the stats as one of the country’s leading epidemiologists says the pandemic will be “largely over by October”.Professor Neil Ferg...
27 Jul 20215min
Why was London hit so badly by flooding?
As a huge clean-up begins following a night of flooding in parts of London, people are wondering how one of the world’s leading cities can be hit so badly by rainfall. Evening Standard reporter Rachae...
26 Jul 20215min
