How Britain can recover from a record economic drop, & London Fashion Week goes digital
Britain’s crippled lockdown economy smashed all records in April when the nation’s output plummeted by more than a fifth. The remarkable 20.4 per cent dive in GDP — even deeper than most City forecast...
12 Jun 202014min
Could scrapping 2m rule save restaurants - plus how Holland saved sex in lockdown
After months of pleading from restaurants, bars, theatres and cinemas, the government could be about to reduce the two metre social distancing rule. Communities minister Simon Clarke's been giving int...
11 Jun 202012min
Why can't the world unite to defeat coronavirus? Save the Children talk about their work battling Covid-19 across borders
Coronavirus has never been so prevalent. Although cases are dropping in Europe, they're soaring in both north and South America, while Africa is struggling to control the infection. Data suggests the ...
10 Jun 202013min
Schools out for Summer, why that's bad news for kids; Plus, should we tear down our past?
The government's announced all primary school children in England will not be sent back to classes before the summer break. It follows a backlash from teachers and unions who warned it would be imposs...
9 Jun 202012min
New Zealand is ‘Covid 19 free’: here’s how they did it. Plus, policing protests in a pandemic
New Zealand is declaring itself covid-19 free and lifting almost all of its lockdown restrictions. It follows the recovery of a woman in her 50s who was the last known person in the country to have th...
8 Jun 202016min
Face masks: why did the UK take so long to make them mandatory?
Why has it taken the UK so long to introduce mandatory face mask wearing on public transport? In this special edition of the Leader podcast, we speak to a physician who has been campaigning for the ch...
5 Jun 20209min
Madeleine McCann: new ‘murder’ suspect named as police say Maddie presumed dead
Police have identified a new suspect in the disappearance. The man, known only as Christian B, is currently in jail in Germany for the rape of a woman in the same Portuguese resort where Madeleine van...
4 Jun 202013min
Coronavirus quarantine rules will hurt ‘already wounded’ airline industry
Despite thousands packing into Hyde Park organisers of the Black Lives Matter protest tried to enforce social distancing measures, aware of concerns about the virus' spread in a mass gathering. Yet, a...
3 Jun 202013min
