News Watch: ‘Two-tiered justice’ lies, Bournemouth femicide, and blame it on the migrants
Time for another weekly news debrief: we pick apart the most unhinged headlines and try to make sense of the mainstream media, helping you consume the news critically. So many media storm’s blowing u...
3 Apr 202544min
S5E7 Sanctions: Do they help or harm civilians?
We live in the age of sanctions - with Trump dishing out punitive foreign policy willy-nilly, and Russia’s war in Ukraine attracting more sanctions then the next top-sanctioned countries combined. It’...
28 Mars 202537min
News Watch: Adolescence, ICC 'white man's justice', and should ketamine be Class A?
If you need help with drug addiction, you can find support here. Tickets for Unchained Nights here! Time for another weekly news debrief: we pick apart the most unhinged headlines and try to make ...
27 Mars 202548min
S5E6 Pregnant in prison: The case to stop births behind bars
Content warning: baby loss "When a court sentences a pregnant woman to prison, they sentence her to a high risk pregnancy" There are hundreds of pregnant women in UK prisons - a third of them yet ...
21 Mars 202540min
News Watch: Labour's benefit-bashing, Gaza & Yemen airstrikes, and a new nuclear era for Europe
Time for another weekly news debrief: Europe’s surging defence budgets and the hidden realities of the nuclear armament debate (03:09), the attack on benefits in our government and media - which are c...
20 Mars 202538min
TRAILER: The News Meeting x Media Storm
Introducing...The News Meeting from our friends at Tortoise. Your Media Storm hosts Mathilda & Helena were invited on Tortoise's podcast to pitch a story we think should lead the news. Are welfare r...
18 Mars 20252min
Abuse in academia: Are universities protecting predatory professors?
This week, Media Storm investigates how universities handle sexual misconduct cases - when their prestigious professors are at the centre of the scandal. It all started when our intern, a student at ...
13 Mars 202541min
S5E5 Maternity and paternity leave: Why parents are so angry at politics
This week, Media Storm delves into a vastly underreported topic - and one of the biggest potential barriers to gender equality, child welfare and family security. The UK has the least generous patern...
7 Mars 202547min
