What next for a post-Roe America?
It's been just over a week since the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade, overturning Americans' constitutional right to an abortion. And America has already begun to change. What sort of future is ...
4 Juli 202232min
Hong Kong's 25 year slide from democracy
This week marks 25 years since the UK handover of Hong Kong to China, with the promise of ‘one country, two systems’. Then, the former British colony was told its freedom would endure, but has a secur...
30 Juni 202233min
Remembering Dame Deborah James
Dame Deborah James, campaigner and podcast host, whose chronicling of her incurable bowel cancer inspired the nation and raised millions for charity, has died. In the final months of her life, she spo...
29 Juni 202230min
Can an AI bot convince you that it's sentient?
Google engineer Blake Lemoine brought an unusual concern to his company earlier this month: he feared the AI language program he was working with had gained sentience. Even if he's wrong (and Google c...
28 Juni 202232min
Winning at all costs: The toxic culture of British gymnastics
From starving athletes hiding cereal bars in socks to fat-shaming and gaslighting – the findings of the watershed Whyte Review make for grim reading. Why is this scandal so unique to sport – and what ...
27 Juni 202228min
The fight for the Amazon: The long, bloody history to save the forest
When journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Perreira were murdered while on a fact finding trip in the Amazon, it highlighted the threats to those working to protect the forest from explo...
23 Juni 202226min
The beginning of the end for Ireland's billionaire crime family?
For almost two decades the Kinahans have operated one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the world. Now, they’ve been named as some of America’s “most wanted” and people who've been associ...
22 Juni 202227min
Is the Pope planning to quit?
The ailing pontiff has prompted speculation that he will resign with a planned visit to the tomb of a 13th-century pope who quit after five months.Meanwhile, his remarks about foes plotting his replac...
21 Juni 202227min
