Will a review into mental health fix a system in crisis?
Today, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is announcing an independent review into rising demand for mental health, ADHD, and autism services. Amid soaring welfare costs and long waiting lists, the govern...
4 Dec 202524min
What ever happened to Trump’s peace plan for Gaza?
On Tuesday the UN General Assembly met to discuss a plan for Palestinian statehood, two months after President Trump announced his twenty-point peace plan for Israel and Gaza. But has the fighting act...
3 Dec 202530min
Will the budget fallout bring down Keir Starmer?
The arguments over last week’s budget continue; first chancellor Rachel Reeves was accused of misleading MPs and the public over the state of public finances, then the chair of the budget watchdog, th...
2 Dec 202529min
Joseph Kony's son escaped his father's militia - now he tells his story
In 2012 Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony went viral thanks to Kony 2012, a documentary about his atrocities. He's been on the run ever since. Today, the son who was groomed to be his father's heir tells hi...
1 Dec 202534min
Are we becoming a post-literate society? - The Sunday Story
When an Oxbridge professor says his students are “functionally illiterate”, you know something is wrong. With reading levels in freefall and screentime rocketing, is the era of mass literacy over? In ...
30 Nov 202530min
The $10m mind-reader who spooked Joe Rogan and Barack Obama - The Saturday Story
Oz Pearlman has guessed Joe Rogan's pin number, freaked out Barack Obama, mind-read Howard Stern’s secret afterlife password and left Richard Branson staring into the middle distance. But behind the v...
29 Nov 202520min
The chaos engulfing the Your Party conference
The inaugural conference of Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party takes place this weekend. But what should have been the coronation of the left’s most potent new force has become a shambles. Will they get it to...
28 Nov 202529min
The Budget unpacked
After weeks of trailing, flip-flopping, and media briefings, the government finally unveiled its budget. And while there were no real surprises, questions– both practical and existential– remain. Has ...
27 Nov 202530min
