Artificial intelligence: Bright new future or the end of humanity?
We have entered what many experts are now describing as a golden age of AI. If machines could be our surgeons, our judges and our artists, what would it then mean to be human? Meet the philosophers tr...
22 Feb 202331min
The case for a four-day working week
After a six-month trial, the results of the world’s biggest four-day working week pilot have been published. It found there was no hit to productivity, while staff wellbeing was improved. But could a ...
21 Feb 202323min
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The race is now on to find a replacement for Nicola Sturgeon, who resigned as first minister of Scotland last week. A formidable force in Scottish politics, we trace the triumphs and controversies of ...
20 Feb 202334min
Nicola Bulley and the TikTok detectives
Lancashire Police is facing a backlash this week for sharing personal details about missing mum Nicola Bulley to the general public. The case has received huge public interest since the 45-year-old we...
17 Feb 202334min
Daisy’s Law: One woman’s fight to send her rapist father to jail
Children conceived through rape will be recognised as victims of crime under new government plans. England and Wales will be among the first countries in the world to make this change to the law, ensu...
16 Feb 202336min
Who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?
When the Nord Stream pipelines - that pump gas from Russia to Germany - were damaged in September it didn’t take long for investigators to determine they had been sabotaged. Almost six months on, and ...
15 Feb 202324min
How Italy caught the mafia's last godfather
After 30 years on the run, Italy's most-wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was finally caught in January. A prolific murderer, Denaro once boasted he’d ‘filled a cemetery’. His organisation ins...
14 Feb 202328min
The West Bank children who dream of martyrdom
Turmoil has once again surged in the Middle East. With at least 40 Palestinian deaths and nine Israeli deaths, it's the deadliest start to a year since 2008. For children growing up in a world of endl...
13 Feb 202332min
