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'The Influencer' by David McCloskey - The Story on Christmas Day
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this special Christmas Day episode we have an exclusive, brand-new story from acclaimed author, and former CIA analyst, David McCloskey. Commission...
Best of 2025: My son Charlie - and the breakthrough that changed our lives
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re revisiting some of our favourite episodes of 2025. This episode was first published in February.Wh...
Best of 2025: How ketamine’s on the rise and getting into the UK
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re revisiting some of our favourite episodes of 2025. This episode was first published in April.Recre...
The charity that stops prisoners reoffending
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You probably don't need reminding how much of a mess our prisons are at the moment - run-down, overcrowded and sometimes with a revolving door for pri...
Icons of culture, science and politics - the Sunday Story
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this emotionally resonant end of year episode, we take a deep dive into some of most iconic figures we lost in 2025. From the beloved British actre...
The true story of Father Christmas - the Saturday Story
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the weekend before Christmas and millions of people around the world are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Father Christmas. For many, it's feels l...
‘The harassment never ended’: Coldplay kisscam HR boss on 16 seconds that ruined her life
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2025, married mother of two Kristin Cabot was caught on a kisscam embracing her also married boss, Andy Byron, at a Coldplay concert. A video ...
Rob Reiner's death, Trump's reaction and Hollywood politics
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead last Sunday. His son has been charged with their murder. It’s seen an outpouring ...
MI6 chief warns of war with Russia - are we ready?
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MI6 and the UK military issued a stark warning: Britain is already on the front line against Russia. And Moscow’s tactics – from drone ...
Will the doctors strike put lives at risk amid the flu crisis?
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of resident doctors are going on strike today despite a flu outbreak which is already putting hospitals under pressure. The NHS says it’s ...
'I walked right into a massacre': how the Bondi attack unfolded
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is still reeling after Sunday’s terror attack on a Chanukkah event at Bondi Beach. At least 15 people were killed, in addition to one of t...
The police, lost evidence and a search for the truth.
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
19-year-old Edward Cornes was found dead in a hotel room, just two days after he arrived at university. A post-mortem found large amounts of GHB, comm...
The hostage negotiators of the digital age - the Sunday Story
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber-attacks on some of Britain's biggest companies like Marks & Spencer have cost hundreds of millions of pounds. For Jaguar Land Rover, experts...
The sinister US village for whites only - the Saturday Story
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deep in rural Arkansas, far right YouTuber Eric Orwoll has founded 'Return to the Land', an all-white compound. Black people, gays and Jews are not al...
‘It's not an injury, it's a disability’: the soldier blowing the whistle on the army’s Ajax vehicles
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The British army’s new fleet of Ajax armoured vehicles was meant to be their new jewel in the crown: high tech machines for an army of the future. B...
One big Hollywood drama
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warner Bros. Discovery - the revered studio behind Barbie and Casablanca - is up for sale. A bidding war has emerged between Netflix and Paramount. Bu...
Will Australia’s social media ban work?
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From today, under-16s in Australia will be banned from using social media platforms, a world-first. The ban has caused uproar among teenagers and a co...
Will mounting scandals sink Reform?
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From former officials jailed after taking bribes to push pro-Putin propaganda, through to local councillors being expelled for offensive tweets, and l...
‘I took a grenade blast to escape’ - Russian deserters speak to The Times
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Nikolai’s assault unit was told to advance on a Ukrainian position, he decided he’d rather blow up his own arm than continue to fight. Nikola...
Why too much noise is killing us - the Sunday Story
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jet engines, the neighbour's lawnmower, traffic noise - it's all terrible for our health. Yet for many years the issue has been dismissed, described a...
Sex poetry and brain worms: The RFK 'love triangle' shocking America - the Saturday Story
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new book by New York Magazine’s former star political writer, Olivia Nuzzi, has unleashed a chaotic slew of revelations about her alleged transgre...
Why are so many Poles returning home?
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity Movement, campaigning against communism, promised the country’s economy would one day rival Japan....
Will a review into mental health fix a system in crisis?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is announcing an independent review into rising demand for mental health, ADHD, and autism services. Amid soarin...
What ever happened to Trump’s peace plan for Gaza?
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday the UN General Assembly met to discuss a plan for Palestinian statehood, two months after President Trump announced his twenty-point peace ...
The budget fallout explained: will it bring down Starmer?
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fallout from last week’s budget continues; first chancellor Rachel Reeves was accused of misleading MPs and the public over the state of public ...
Joseph Kony's son escaped his father's militia - now he tells his story
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 so...
Are we becoming a post-literate society? - The Sunday Story
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When an Oxbridge professor says his students are “functionally illiterate”, you know something is wrong. With reading levels in freefall and scree...
The $10m mind-reader who spooked Joe Rogan and Barack Obama - the Saturday Story
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oz Pearlman has guessed Joe Rogan's pin number, freaked out Barack Obama, mind-read Howard Stern’s secret afterlife password and left Richard Branso...
The chaos encircling the Your Party conference
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 poten...
The Budget unpacked
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After weeks of trailing, flip-flopping, and media briefings, the government finally unveiled its budget. And while there were no real surprises, quest...
The forgotten postmaster ‘hounded to death’ by investigators
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of the thirteen sub-postmasters thought to have taken their own lives because of the Post Office scandal, only two have been named publicly. Michael M...
A new peace plan, and a critical moment for Zelensky
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The prospect of peace in Ukraine may be edging closer, after the leak of a controversial 28-point plan to end the war prompted Ukrainian and Western o...
Porn, strangulation and the law
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent survey revealed that more than half of 16 to 34-year-olds have taken part in strangulation during sex, despite the risks of a loss of conscio...
Is the trad wife dream ending in divorce? - The Sunday Story
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the Deep South, women raised to believe marriage was their destiny are now walking out, challenging the religious, cultural and political press...
The world's first AI actress and 'her' creator - the Saturday story
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tilly Norwood, the world's first 'AI actress' has rocked Hollywood, sparking union protests and denounced by actors such as Whoopi Goldberg, George Cl...
The week that cost 23,000 lives
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The findings of the report into the political governance and decision making during the pandemic are damning about Boris Johnson’s government’s at...
Why the Epstein files have split MAGA
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has bowed to pressure from US lawmakers, including those in his own Republican party, to release files related to the investigation in...
Meet Britain’s most charming ‘national security threat’
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an attempt to court the favour of the post-Assad regime in Syria, western countries have recently de-proscribed former terrorist groups. What does ...
‘Repugnant’ or necessary? The new asylum rules
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced sweeping changes to the asylum rules yesterday; the largest overhaul since the Second World War. The changes ...
The teenage girls preparing for war
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From this year, 18 year-old Danish women will have to take part in a conscription lottery and face potentially being called up for an 11 month militar...
Hitler’s shocking DNA discovery – the Sunday Story
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced Adolf Hitler’s DNA, taken from a bloodstain in the bunker where he spent his final days. ...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - A million-hectare conservation vision in Namibia
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
Cop30 - is climate diplomacy cracking
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Negotiations at the annual global climate change conference, or COP, are in full swing. But with consensus on the issue collapsing at home and abroad,...
The new Epstein emails about Trump
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the US House Oversight Committee. One email alleges Donald Trum...
Why the Olympics may ban transgender athletes
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, The Times broke the news that the International Olympic Committee is a step closer to banning transgender women from competing in all femal...
Can the BBC survive?
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the resignations of two of its most senior members of staff, the BBC is being questioned over allegations of institutional bias. Donald Trump ha...
Britain’s Bill Gates, his sunken superyacht, and the bitter fight for £700 million
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, tech billionaire Mike Lynch was given a second chance at life when he was acquitted of criminal fraud charges. But while celebrating with f...
The Traitors is rigged, just not in the way you think - the Sunday Story
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the most watched TV show of the year, but The Traitors is much more than just entertainment: it’s a psychological experiment. How did a game,...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - Steve Boyes on resilience, recovery and Africa’s great rivers
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
Why wasn't the Southport attack stopped?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year’s attack on a dance class in Southport killed three young girls and injured a further eight, as well as two adults. The teenager responsib...
INVESTIGATION: The black market for fake driving tests thriving in the UK
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost 700,000 people are waiting to book their driving test in the UK, a record backlog which is being exploited by scammers. Our reporter Emma Kirwa...
The pre-budget back-pedal
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Reeves has paved the way for potential tax rises. In a speech three weeks before the budget, the chancellor refused to commit to Labour’s man...
How the Huntingdon train attack unfolded - and what comes next
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday evening, passengers on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross suddenly found themselves in the path of a man wielding a large kit...
The millennial Mayor who wants to remake New York
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow is election day for the mayor of New York and the frontrunner is 34-year-old Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. But are his plans to remake...
I hired a male escort for my 70th birthday - the Sunday Story
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gail Rice had given up on dating apps and was dreading old age. Then the psychologist had an idea — book a hotel room for a landmark birthday and pa...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - Restoring movement after paralysis
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
Andrew & Epstein - The King acts
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is from The Story's sister podcast The Royals.He will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The man formerly known as Prince...
The children taking Wegovy
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since January, one clinic in the UK has started prescribing the weight-loss medication Wegovy to 12-17 year-olds. For some, the results have been life...
Has China won the trade war?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has threatened 100% tariffs on Chinese goods, while Xi Jinping hit back with export limits on rare earth minerals. As the two leaders com...
Doomed to fail? Labour’s asylum u-turn
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government has announced plans to move migrants out of hotels and into accommodation on military barracks. The same plan Labour opposed when put f...
Brigitte Macron vs the conspiracy theorists
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eight years ago, French bloggers began to claim the President’s wife, Brigitte Macron, was born a man. As the false allegations spread international...
The teenage hackers bringing British industry to its knees
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The cyberattack which shut down Jaguar Land Rover for five weeks this summer, cost Britain nearly £2bn. It was just one of a series of attacks on big...
How thieves pulled off the heist of the decade - the Sunday Story
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been described as the 'crime of the decade'. In just seven minutes, masked thieves stole the French crown jewels in broad daylight, from the...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - Improving sight with a smartphone
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
The financial fight for Ukraine
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump announced sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, saying he hoped it may push Putin to be ‘reasonable’ over ending the Ukr...
Is Trump trying to sway Argentina's election?
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is promising to give Argentina $20 billion to save its struggling economy but only if incumbent President Javier Milei holds onto power i...
Europe’s plan to fight Putin’s drones
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of September 9, sirens sounded across eastern Poland. Around 20 Russian drones had crossed the border, and NATO aircraft were scrambled t...
The continuing fall of Prince Andrew
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Late last week, after new revelations about the relationship between the Duke of York and Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew was forced to relinquish...
The Story presents: The Poppy Day Bomb
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring you the first episode from The Times' new investigative series, The Poppy Day Bomb.On Remembrance Sunday in 1987, an IRA bomb went off ...
The lost children of Tuam - the Sunday Story
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The small Irish town of Tuam is home to one of Ireland's most shocking secrets. During the 20th century, thousands of children born out of wedlock wer...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - Protecting Australia’s Ningaloo Coast
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
Do bond markets rule the world?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In politically unstable times, the whims and worries of the global bond market are having a huge impact on what action governments around the world ca...
Why questions remain about the collapsed China spying case
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the case against two British men accused of spying for China suddenly collapsed, the Government and the Crown Prosecution Service have been play...
Channel chaos laid bare in distress calls
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With increasing numbers of people crossing the Channel in small boats, emergency call logs lay bare the fears faced by those trying to reach Britain. ...
How Trump's Gaza deal could still unravel
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There was a sense of euphoria in Hostage Square, Tel Aviv, yesterday, as all of the living hostages held by Hamas since the October 7th attacks were r...
INVESTIGATION: The forensic expert and the parents accused of murder
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Times has uncovered cases of parents accused of killing their babies, based in part on testimony from a forensic expert who claimed to find eviden...
Jilly Cooper: The queen of the bonkbuster - the Sunday Story
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 40 years. Dame Jilly Cooper was the undisputed queen of the bonk buster, that glorious British blend of sex, scandal and social satire. ...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - Sylvia Earle at 90
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
A breakthrough in Gaza
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump hails 'everlasting peace' in Gaza and promises hostages will be released as early as Monday. But will a ceasefire hold? What changed t...
How Trump’s using the government shutdown to remake America
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US government has been shut down for more than a week, and Democrats and Republicans are locked in a political blame game. Shutdowns are nothing n...
My daughter used ChatGPT as a therapist, then took her own life
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 29-year-old Sophie Rottenberg took her own life, her family later discovered she’d been confiding in a chatbot called ‘Harry’ things that s...
Should pro-Palestine protests be held on October 7?
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two years ago Hamas fighters launched a terror attack on Israel, killing more than 1,000 people and taking around 250 hostage.The Hamas-linked Gaza he...
The Conservative Party is 'dead' - can Kemi Badenoch revive its corpse?
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the future for an unpopular party governed by an unpopular leader? That's the question no one will be asking quite so bluntly at the Conservati...
The girl who was kidnapped by Russia - the Sunday Story
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thousands of children have disappeared from their homes. Separated from their families, many were sent to ...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - unlocking climate secrets in the caves of Greenland
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
EXTRA: A terrorist attack in Manchester
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday morning, a suspected Islamist terrorist, Jihad al-Shamie, was confronted by police outside Heaton Park synagogue in Crumpsall on Yom Kippu...
INVESTIGATION: Why are doctors banned abroad working in the NHS?
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors who’ve been disciplined or had their licence revoked for misconduct or incompetence have been able to work in the NHS. A Times investigation...
The State of It: What ministers won't say in public
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week The Times is launching a new politics podcast. We're dropping the first episode here -- subscribe to The State of It for free, wherever you ...
Trump has a new plan for 'eternal peace' in Gaza. But does either side want it?
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump have agreed to a 20-point peace plan to end the war in Gaza. But hardliners on both sides ...
Are Trump's strikes in Venezuela a 'war on drugs' - or a grab for oil?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Off the coast of Venezuela, a small armada of US navy warships and a fleet of fighter jets have struck several small boats, killing 17 people. The Tru...
Scandals, the economy, migration: the three big problems facing Labour
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the Labour conference ramps up in Liverpool, we bring together three of The Times' keenest political minds to discuss the three biggest problems fa...
The school with no teachers - the Sunday Story
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Alpha School in Austin, Texas is hoping to revolutionise education forever, swapping teachers for laptop lessons and AI, and motivating pupils wit...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - protecting snow leopards
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...
Why everyone is watching women’s rugby (and you should too)
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As England’s Red Roses head into the World Cup final tomorrow, it might be the largest audience that women’s rugby has ever seen. With its TikTok ...
Russia’s next invasion could come via the ballot box
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A geopolitical battle between Russia and the EU will unfold this Sunday as Moldovans vote in a pivotal parliamentary election. The result could steer ...
INVESTIGATION: The charity recommending ‘abortion reversal pills’ to vulnerable women
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An undercover Times investigation reveals how US-inspired Christian activists are running services across the UK, offering pro-life advice to those lo...
Has America turned its back on science?
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has publicly linked the use of Tylenol, or paracetamol, during pregnancy to an increased risk of autism, despite experts saying the co...
Is the UN useless?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK, Australia and Canada have formally recognised Palestine as a state ahead of high level meetings at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly...
Robert Redford: Hollywood's Golden Boy - the Sunday Story
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With his looks, charisma and string of hits, Robert Redford, who died this week, was the face of Hollywood cinema in the 1970's. But he was so mu...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - Omacha, ‘the dolphin who became a man’
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is...