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Update: Chaos engulfs the Royal Family
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Just after 8am this morning, patrol cars arrived at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested on suspicion of miscon...
The Board of Peace: the new UN or Trump's vanity project?
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Board of Peace began with the grand ambition of reconstructing Gaza and securing a lasting end to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts....
Why are more young people getting bowel cancer?
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
James Van Der Beek’s death last week at just 48 shocked fans, reignited fears about a disease we still associate with old age. Cases of bowel cancer...
The State of It: Gabriel Pogrund speaks out on the Labour Together scandal
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Labour Together scandal is the latest storm threatening to capsize the government - and Gabriel has been right at the heart. For the first time, h...
‘This is dark s***’: inside the political smear campaign to discredit journalists
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Labour Together, the think tank which helped Sir Keir Starmer become prime minister, has been accused of paying a PR firm to investigate Sunday Times ...
An almighty student debt reckoning has arrived
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Times’ Money desk has been investigating the UK’s student debt system – and has discovered some bombshells. After being promised a loan that...
'We don't understand the consequences' - Why I quit OpenAI - The Sunday Story
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI researcher Zoe Hitzig quit her job at OpenAI this week over “deep reservations” about the company’s strategy, including their decision to pil...
Danny Finkelstein: How the world’s antisemites turned on me - The Saturday Story
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Finkelstein's mother survived Bergen-Belsen. When far-right activist Nick Fuentes began spreading antisemitic, pro-Hitler ideas, our writer chal...
Drugs, oil and power: what Trump is doing with Venezuela
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost six weeks since America launched military strikes against Venezuela and captured its President over claims the country was flooding the ...
What you didn’t know about the Epstein files
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been almost a fortnight since the release of the Epstein files, and since then we’ve learned a lot about the disgraced financier’s connecti...
What happens when Britain's population starts to shrink?
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Office for National Statistics has said that by 2029 it expects more deaths than births in Britain. Simultaneously migration could go into reverse...
The State of It: Wes bottles it and Labour's left grabs the steering wheel
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After a whirlwind week in Westminster, we've decided to bring you an extra dose of Whitehall gossip. Check out this week's episode from our sister pod...
Is Keir Starmer’s premiership terminal?
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a week of chaos in Westminster, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer fights for survival. The crisis he faces reached fever pitch on Sunday with...
Prince William walks a tightrope in Saudi Arabia
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Prince William is making his first visit to Saudi Arabia this week to celebrate “growing trade, energy and investment ties” between the kingdom an...
The royal scandal rocking Norway - The Sunday Story
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The British royal family isn't the only European monarchy in turmoil. In Norway the Epstein files have revealed intimate conversations between the Cro...
I studied the Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt - The Saturday Story
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Times journalist Helen Rumbelow spent two days sifting through the thousands of lurid, criminal and often coded messages between Jeffrey Epstein and h...
Mandelson, Epstein and the fight for survival at No 10
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The fallout from the latest tranche of the Epstein files is causing chaos in Westminster. With his ex-US ambassador Peter Mandelson’s relationship w...
The by-election that could determine the UK's future
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Keir Starmer’s next big test is the Gorton & Denton by-election in three weeks' time; commentators are calling it a three-way race between t...
Britain is in a cancer crisis. Will a new strategy fix it?
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On nearly every metric, the UK is ranked as one of the worst places in the Western world to have cancer. But today, the government is rolling out an a...
Britain's mental health reckoning - part two
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A public inquiry resumes this week to investigate the deaths of over 2000 mental health inpatients in the care of NHS trusts in Essex. We unpick some ...
LATEST: The Epstein files drop — what next for Andrew?
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The latest and possibly final batch of documents was released on Friday by the US Department of Justice in their investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. New...
Britain’s mental health reckoning - part one
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A public inquiry is currently investigating the deaths of over 2000 mental health inpatients in the care of NHS trusts in Essex. The inquiry resumes t...
What happened when a sperm donor met his unknown kids - The Story on Sunday
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1992, Helen Down's brother Richard was studying for a master’s in artificial intelligence at Cardiff University. There, he had a brief side ...
Who is the real Melania? - The Saturday Story
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Melania Trump this week releases her new documentary 'Melania' which takes viewers inside the enigmatic first lady’s second term. Directed and produ...
Could China become the world's policeman?
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer is visiting China, becoming the first UK prime minister to travel to Beijing in eight years. His trip comes amid a queue of world leaders...
Q&A: US warships approach Iran, Trump's ICE climbdown, and Westminster ‘psychodrama’
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a whirlwind start to the year. In just three weeks, tensions between Donald Trump and Iran have escalated, the U.S. captured Venezuela's P...
The State of It: USA – Trump v Iran: what MAGA and the military are saying
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Times is launching another new politics podcast – a sister show to our Westminster offering, but this time across the pond, taking yo...
INVESTIGATION: Undercover in Britain’s immigration black market
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As immigration rules have tightened in recent months, some migrants already working in the UK, whose visas have been cancelled, find themselves in a p...
Starmer v the ‘King of the North’ - who really won?
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Keir Starmer has seen off a potential leadership challenge by blocking his rival – Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham – from returning to W...
Can the new Archbishop of Canterbury save the embattled Church of England?
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the new Archbishop of Canterbury is installed on Wednesday she’ll become the first woman to lead the Church of England. But Dame Sarah Mullally...
Kids on screens: Good, bad or the future of learning? - The Sunday Story
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's the debate of our time. How much is too much and what's the impact of screentime for children? With a proposed ban on social media for under 16s ...
An insider explains the Beckham family feud - The Saturday Story
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hadley Freeman was embedded with the Beckhams when she was asked to ghost write a book for Victoria Beckham back in the early 2000s. Now, a colossal f...
Has ICE become the US president's 'private army'?
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since an ICE agent shot and killed US citizen Renee Good on January 7, Minneapolis has erupted in protests. Thousands have taken to the streets as fed...
Trump's Greenland play and the future of transatlantic relations
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump made his much anticipated speech at Davos on Wednesday, saying he was “seeking immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland” but wo...
INVESTIGATION: Could DNA advances overturn one of Britain's most famous murder cases?
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell were brutally murdered in a picturesque village in Kent. It was a case that shocked 90s Britain, an...
Tariffs, Trump and Greenland: 'The end of the world as we know it'?
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has said that Donald Trump’s plan to put tariffs on the UK and seven other countries which oppose his takeover of Greenland is ‘compl...
Is China's mega-embassy a mega-spy base?
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
China is on the cusp of constructing the biggest embassy in Europe– right in central London– despite a growing chorus of concern it could be used ...
The woman erased from the Ozempic story - The Sunday Story
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over forty years ago in a lab in Boston, biochemist Svetlana Mojsov made an astonishing discovery. She'd conjured up a mixture, GLP-1, that successful...
Does male sex drive peak at forty? - The Saturday Story
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A new study has revealed a surprising truth: men’s sex drive peaks in their early forties. As a man hitting this milestone, Ben Machell explores wha...
Jenrick defects: is Reform tearing the Tories apart?
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After a whirlwind day in Westminster, Robert Jenrick announced that he was defecting to Reform UK after being sacked by the Conservatives. But how muc...
The Maccabi fan ban scandal explained - and what next for the police
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The home secretary has said she has lost confidence in West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford, after a "damning" report into the decisio...
Can Nato survive a hostile takeover of Greenland?
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
US secretary of state Marco Rubio will meet the Danish and Greelandic foreign ministers later today amid rising tensions over America’s desire to co...
Everything you need to know about the Iran protests
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Anti-government protests in Iran have entered their third week, with observers saying that thousands may now have been killed in an ongoing crackdown ...
Who is Stephen Miller? Trump's man behind 'America First'
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The 40-year-old adviser to the US president has been the frontman of Trump's recent Greenland grab threats and capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela....
The beginning of the end of the social media age? - The Sunday Story
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bestselling author Sathnam Sanghera was addicted to social media for a decade. Now, like millions of us, he’s switching off. With figures showing th...
Monica Lewinsky: What happened next? - The Saturday Story
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It had it all: sex, lies, FBI stings, and the first presidential impeachment for over a century. Thirty years on from the most famous “office romanc...
The Grok undressing scandal: breaking point for Elon Musk's X?
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In December, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘Grok’ rolled out a new image-editing feature on his social media site, X. It didn’t take long for users t...
Greenland, Colombia, Mexico: where will Trump strike next?
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After hitting Venezuela last week and capturing the country’s president, Donald Trump turned his attention to Greenland - the US says it’ll discus...
The storms coming for Starmer this year
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
2025 was a year of tumult for an increasingly unpopular Labour government, while insurgent parties to their right and left shot up in the polls. But w...
How Trump became America's most powerful president
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today marks five years since the Jan 6 storming of the Capitol, and nearly one year of Trump 2.0. How has the US president already changed American de...
Is Trump's attack on Venezuela about drugs, politics or oil?
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The US has attacked Venezuela and abducted its President, Nicolás Maduro. So why did Donald Trump do it? For democracy, to stop the flow of drugs, or...
What 2026 could teach us about living longer
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Longevity science has been trying to unlock the mysteries of ageing for years; it’s spawned a multi-billion dollar global industry of supplements, a...
Will 2026 be the year of China?
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2025 China continued to flourish. Despite the tariffs, it hit a record trade surplus of over $1 trillion, Chinese companies like DeepSeek took on t...
Is 2026 the year of the AI backlash?
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of us now use AI daily, asking the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini to help with tasks like writing emails or designing logos. But as AI increasin...
Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 3
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in Sept...
Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 2
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in Sept...
Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 1
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in Sept...
Best of 2025: Romance fraud: the cost of loving
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in Apri...
Best of 2025: Why everyone's going to Japan
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in Marc...
Best of 2025: Can you live without a smartphone?
27 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.A ...
The Story presents: Planet Hope - the penguin guardian of Patagonia
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From oil spills to climate change, penguins are on the frontline of environmental change. Pablo García Borboroglu has spent more than three decades r...
'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 ...