Young, French, and voting hard-right
French president Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election after his party was soundly defeated by the hard-right opposition in Sunday’s EU elections. The National Rally has been boosted by young vot...
11 Jun 202428min
Why are more young people getting cancer?
It's one of the world's biggest killers but cancer is usually more associated with people in the later stages of life. While that's still largely the case, increasing numbers of younger people seem to...
10 Jun 202428min
Tracing the origin story of Taylor Swift
From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Tennessee, The Times’ Megan Agnew spent three weeks on the Taylor Swift trail, discovering the origins of the supersonic star. How does someone go from teenage guita...
9 Jun 202429min
Planet Hope: Respecting reptiles and rainforests with Romulus Whitaker
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly series each Sunday.The Agumbe, known as one of the ra...
8 Jun 202438min
From the archive: One man’s mission to meet every Second World War veteran
To mark 80 years since D-Day, we revisit the remarkable story of a young man who travel the world to interview surviving World War II veterans. 25-year-old Rishi Sharma sleeps in a rental car and eats...
7 Jun 202438min
France’s #MeToo moment
When the #MeToo movement first emerged in America in 2017, women in France spoke out about their own experiences, but it’s taken until this year to feel things might be changing. Is France’s glitterin...
6 Jun 202430min
What the polls teach us about modern Britain
Is Labour as safe as it seems? Why do some of our votes matter ‘more’ than others? And what do polls tell us about who we really are? We take a deep dive into it all from the man behind the concept of...
5 Jun 202430min
Nigel Farage is standing. Are the Tories in deep trouble?
Nigel Farage has promised to lead a “political revolt” as he announced his return to frontline politics as the new leader of Reform UK - and as a candidate in the Essex seat of Clacton. The Conservati...
4 Jun 202429min
