Race against time to contain wildfires in France and Spain – The Latest
Firefighters in France and Spain are facing another day battling wildfires that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated, with another heatwave expected to hit this week. Frenc...
27 Jul 12min
How Palantir got into the NHS
The investigative journalist Lucas Amin reports on how the tech company Palantir won a £330m contract with the NHS … and what happened once its software was introduced. Help support our independent jo...
27 Jul 29min
Charli xcx: does new album hit as hard as Brat? – The Latest
After a decade in the pop fringes, Charli xcx was propelled to global stardom by her 2024 album Brat. Then came an acid-green ‘brat summer’, a Glastonbury headline slot and ‘brat’ as Collins’s word of...
24 Jul 10min
The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government
South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen on the Cockroach movement – and the students driving India’s biggest protests in years. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocu...
24 Jul 25min
Gary Lineker joins calls for wealth tax - The Latest
Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker are asking Andy Burnham to tax their wealth more. More than 100 wealthy Brits have signed an open letter to the prime minister, saying: ‘We want y...
23 Jul 11min
What does the BBC do for you?
Media critic Mark Lawson discusses with Nosheen Iqbal why even the BBC director general has lost faith in the current licence fee model, and explore what options the national broadcaster has to secure...
23 Jul 26min
Zelenskyy ousts Ukraine army chief after protests - The Latest
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up in two years. Nationwide protests broke out after Zelenskyy sacked Mykhailo Fedorov as d...
22 Jul 10min
The man building swimming pools in Gaza
Journalist Amjed Tantesh talks about his project to teach Gaza’s children how to swim. With reporting from our chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison. Help support our independent journ...
22 Jul 33min
