What happens when antibiotics stop working?
Scientists are on a mission to solve the problem of drug-resistant infections. It’s a race against time: millions of lives could be at risk when antibiotics stop working. The answer could be a century...
7 Jul 202324min
“The culture is rotten”: What is wrong with English cricket?
Today the third Ashes Test between England and Australia gets underway in Leeds. But while fans enjoy England’s national summer sport, last week a damning report found that racism, sexism, classism an...
6 Jul 202330min
How a killing by French police led to a week of riots
Last week a 17 year-old was shot dead at a traffic stop in the French town of Nanterre near Paris. In response, the country erupted in rage and riots. Protesters say the killing is evidence of long-st...
5 Jul 202330min
Just who are Just Stop Oil?
Security measures at Wimbledon have been ramped up to stop the environmental activist group Just Stop Oil from disrupting play. Meanwhile, controversial new police powers came into effect this week in...
4 Jul 202331min
How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991
Vladimir Putin may have averted an armed rebellion by Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin – but if the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 tells us anything, it's that even a failed coup can still spell rui...
3 Jul 202327min
The Wuhan lab (Pt 2): The shadow project
The second of our two-part special on the origins of Covid, drawing from a new Sunday Times investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology.The Insight team has spoken to US investigators who belie...
30 Jun 202338min
The Wuhan lab (Pt 1): Mutant viruses and risky experiments
The first of our two-part special on the origins of Covid, drawing from a new Sunday Times investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Newly declassified US intelligence leaves open the questio...
29 Jun 202335min
The plan to overthrow Europe’s last dictator
Belarus’ dictatorial president Alexander Lukasheko is getting ever closer to the Kremlin - this week he even brokered a truce between the Wagner group and president Putin to prevent a march on Moscow....
28 Jun 202331min
