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Trump v Musk: who won?

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The closest of bromances devolved last week into a public cage fight. Where did this come from? And when the richest man in the world and the most pow...

 Welcome to the Manosphere: a journey through modern masculinity

08 Jun 2025

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The journalist James Bloodworth has been exploring the manosphere revealing a hidden world of modern masculinity and the anxieties driving it. Chartin...

The Sunday Edition: How vaping took over Britain

07 Jun 2025

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This episode was originally published two year ago.They are supposed to help adults quit smoking – so why is a Willy Wonka array of disposable vapes...

How To Stop A Spending Review Revolt

06 Jun 2025

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With tough choices facing the government, the political masterminds look at what goes on behind the scenes ahead of a spending review - and how reluct...

The making of Beyoncé — by friends, family and Team Bey insiders

05 Jun 2025

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As Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour comes to the UK, we chart the rise of a shy schoolgirl from Texas who became a record-breaking billionaire. Th...

No water, no power, no comms: the attack Britain should prepare for

04 Jun 2025

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The government’s Strategic Defence Review has set out a vision for Britain’s defence for the next decade. One of its authors, General Sir Richard ...

Why the dollar is crashing – and why you should care

03 Jun 2025

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The dollar has been the global reserve currency nearly a century. But four months into the new Trump administration, could that be about to change?Thi...

 Palmyra: Syria's past, present and future

02 Jun 2025

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Anthony Loyd and the legendary photographer Don McCullin have been to Syria to chronicle the destruction of Palmyra by Islamic State and to see what i...

How Giorgia Meloni became Europe’s political superstar

01 Jun 2025

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Giorgia Meloni has world leaders falling at her feet and the Trump administration in her thrall. But how did she reinvent herself from leader of a min...

The Sunday Edition: Why everyone's going to Japan

31 May 2025

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This episode was originally published last March.Japanese ‘kidults’ revolutionised pop culture in the 90s and 00s, turning to their inner children...

How do you get a refund?

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ever been ghosted by a brand after a bad buy? You're not alone. In this episode of Feel Better About Money, we dive under the cushions of luxury ...

Trump family inc.

29 May 2025

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Since being elected, Donald Trump’s personal fortune has more than doubled, and members of his family are doing well too. The White House says he’...

Is Angela Rayner Labour's answer to Farage?

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Labour MPs increasingly in revolt across a range of policies, the prime minister last week made a surprise u-turn on the winter fuel allowance. A...

Inside Vinted - from Lithuanian start-up to £4 billion empire

27 May 2025

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From its inception at a drunken party seventeen years ago, the second-hand clothing app Vinted is now worth over £4 billion. Nearly sunk by one bad b...

38 years - Britain's worst miscarriage of justice

26 May 2025

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Peter Sullivan has been released from prison after spending 38 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. In 1986, 21-year-old Diane Sindall w...

Trump goes to Hollywood

25 May 2025

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President Trump has announced plans to impose a levy on on American films made outside the country. It's a bold move that could have serious consequen...

The Sunday Edition: Negative tales of motherhood nearly put me off having a baby

24 May 2025

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From bleak TV comedies to #mumtok meltdowns, modern motherhood is often portrayed as joyless, exhausting, and even traumatic. How did fear become the ...

How To Perform A Giant U-Turn

23 May 2025

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Keir Starmer is changing course on the winter fuel allowance - where does it sit in the league table of political U-turns, and will it please anybody?...

Freak-offs and baby oil - the P Diddy trial so far

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In New York, the P Diddy trial is in its second week. The case centres around ‘freak-offs’ - parties where it’s claimed he forced two ex-girlfri...

'People are starving' - How Trump lost patience with Israel

21 May 2025

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As Donald Trump took a tour of the Middle East last week, there was one notable omission from his itinerary - a trip to see America's long term politi...

Trump’s bromance with the ‘world’s coolest dictator’

20 May 2025

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More than 200 migrants from the US are being held in a high-security prison for terrorists in El Salvador, accused of being gang members. How did El S...

The Biden cover-up

19 May 2025

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Former US president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and is now considering his options for treatment. Th...

Britain's richest people - and why they're furious

18 May 2025

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The Sunday Times Rich List 2025 has been one of the hardest to compile in recent years, thanks in large part to President Trump's tariffs. But it’s ...

The Sunday Edition: The journalist who exposed Britain’s grooming gangs

17 May 2025

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This episode was originally published in January.Elon Musk has unleashed a huge political row in the UK over whether there should be a national inquir...

Inside the mind of Elon Musk & is the future of EV market Chinese?

16 May 2025

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Katie and Danny are joined for a conversation with Jon McNeil. For a pivotal 30 month period, Jon was President of Tesla and worked closely with Elon ...

Lily Phillips: gang bangs and feminism

15 May 2025

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Lily Phillips, a 23-year-old from Derbyshire, made headlines after claiming to have slept with 101 men in a single day. She rose to household-name sta...

The anti-Trump Pope?

14 May 2025

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Last week, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the first American chosen to lead the Catholic Church. In the weeks running up to his ...

Is Trump turning on Putin?

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New talks on Ukraine continue in Istanbul tomorrow and after months of taking Vladimir Putin's side, President Trump now seems much more supportive of...

My Oscar-winning film exposed violent Israeli settlers. Now they’re the soldiers

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In March this year, a team of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers accepted the Oscar for best documentary. Their film No Other Land is a glimpse into t...

How the Sycamore Gap killers were caught

11 May 2025

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Two men have been found guilty of criminal damage, for the felling of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree in Northumbria. Constance Kampfner sat through the ...

The Sunday Edition: ‘I gave my life to the CIA. They betrayed me.’

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published last November.On Sept 12, 2001, Blerim Skoro was approached by a man and a woman while he was in prison. They tu...

Off Air with Jane & Fi

09 May 2025

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Fi's off today on important business, so Jane M is here! Normal schedule resumes tomorrow... whatever that means. Today, Jane and Jane chat power outa...

India vs Pakistan: the Kashmir conflict explained

08 May 2025

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Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan after 26 people were killed in Kashmir - the disputed region that sits between them. Now, India has fir...

Who's behind the M&S cyber attack?

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do hackers take down a high street staple? What started as a contactless payment outage at Marks and Spencer, quickly became the retail fortnight ...

A high-rise fire killed Catherine. The cladding firm kept selling

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eight years before the Grenfell tragedy, a fire in a high-rise building killed six people. Now a Sunday Times investigation has raised serious questio...

The rise of the 'polygamous worker'

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You could say one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic was the chance to work from home, avoid the daily commute, and get a better work-...

The Sunday Edition: On the frontline of Sudan's forgotten war

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published last January.For almost two years, two armies have fought a brutal civil war in Sudan, Africa’s third largest ...

Binance's new CEO makes the case for crypto (and forgiveness)

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Finally, the crypto episode is here. And after a lowdown on the vibe shift towards the industry in Washington, Katie is joined by Binance's new CEO, R...

The life and death of Virginia Giuffre

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Virginia Giuffre died by suicide last week, aged 41. Jeffrey Epstein’s key accuser was instrumental in putting Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars and had...

P Diddy on trial

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of Sean Combs - the hip-hop producer and rapper otherwise known as P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Love, and a plethora of other aliases - will begin n...

Farage’s hopes for a Reform storm

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nigel Farage is throwing the kitchen sink at Labour and he’s not being subtle about it. As Reform UK ramps up its local election efforts, Farage is ...

The future of de-extinction

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An American Biosciences company claims to have ‘de-extincted’ prehistoric dire wolves. Next they plan to bring back the woolly mammoth and the dod...

Harvard v Trump

27 Apr 2025

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Harvard has sued the Trump administration over multibillion-dollar funding cuts in the biggest escalation yet in the battle between the government and...

The Sunday Edition: The AI that could block kids from social media

26 Apr 2025

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This episode was originally published last December.Australia is the first country to block under-16s from social media -- and age-verification AI cou...

What is the Gen Z gold rush?

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Lucy and Holly ask why a new generation of investors is turning to one of the world’s oldest assets: gold. Joined by Brian Byrnes f...

The four moments that made The Beatles

24 Apr 2025

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The Beatles will be the subject of four interconnected films - one for each member - planned for release close together in April 2028. We asked the au...

Trans ruling: the fall out

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are the practical implications for trans women after the Supreme Court ruled that under equality law, sex means biological sex? And how is the La...

Why I carried a knife

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Times’ crime correspondent David Woode sits down with a 19-year-old man who was recently imprisoned for carrying a knife. We get a rare insight ...

Conclave: Electing Pope Francis's successor

21 Apr 2025

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Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, cardinals from across the world will now descend on Vatican City in Rome to choose the next Pope...

The Sunday Edition: The high school class that found a serial killer

19 Apr 2025

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This episode was first published last August.When Alex Campbell suggested to his high school sociology class that they would be investigating a 40-yea...

The global fallout from Trump's tariffs

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Peterson is the CEO of Flexport, a company that plans and manages shipping globally. Perfectly positioned, then, to lay out the inside story on h...

Romance fraud: the cost of loving

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Romance fraud is at an all time high, low-hanging fruit in the growing world of online scams. But what are the methods? Who falls for it? And are ther...

Defining a woman

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Supreme Court has ruled that only people who are born female should be protected from discrimination as women under the Equality Act. What does th...

British Steel: Chinese sabotage, or self-sabotage?

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The government has taken control of one of the last steel-making plants in the UK, after its Chinese owners threatened to close it. Some ministers hav...

How ketamine’s on the rise and getting into the UK

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recreational use of the Class B drug doubled in 2024. A Sunday Times investigation has looked into where it's coming from and why it's so hard to poli...

Can Trump run for a third term?

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US Constitution seems to be clear, but that hasn’t stopped President Trump and his allies from dangling the possibility that Trump won’t vacat...

The Sunday Edition: Why young Brits are turning to Dubai

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published last November.As inquiries about relocating to the Emirati city from the UK have risen four-fold in the past fiv...

How To Run Number 10

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

10 Downing Street is a rabbit warren of offices in a Georgian townhouse, and the centre of power in Britain. But how much control does it really exert...

How China is playing Trump

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are locked in a tit-for-tat trade war, as both sides refuse to back down from retaliatory tariffs. China was hit with a wh...

Trump vs Iran: deal or war?

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As news unexpectedly emerged that the US and Iran are to hold talks in Oman this weekend, President Trump warned Tehran that it must either cut a deal...

How to buy a happy chicken

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Britain’s obsessed with chicken - we eat more than a billion birds a year. And to (literally) feed our hunger, many farmers have turned to fast-grow...

How Trump’s tariffs are splitting his base

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stock markets around the world have taken a beating since Donald Trump unveiled his new tariffs. And it's not just the president's blue-collar base wh...

The problem with the theory behind Trump's tariffs

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly all countries, including ones that don't have any human inhabitants. In the process, T...

The Sunday Edition: The Chagos Islands deal that could threaten the special relationship

05 Apr 2025

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This episode was originally published in February.Having ruled the Chagos Islands since the 1800s, the UK now wants to cede sovereignty of the tiny ar...

Harry's war of words continues as a new Court appearance looms

04 Apr 2025

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This week has provided no respite in the saga surrounding Prince Harry's resignation from the charity he founded, as news broke that he he will be in ...

How Marine Le Pen’s conviction could strengthen the far-right

03 Apr 2025

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The conviction of France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen for embezzling European Union funds came as a major blow to her, preventing her from runni...

The man arrested over a dispute with his daughter's school

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Maxie Allen complained to his daughter’s primary school about the recruitment process for a new head teacher, he hoped it would result in more ...

Trump's tariffs: Liberation day or demolition derby?

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump will reveal his much-awaited tariffs today on a day he’s called ‘Liberation Day’, as world leaders and the global markets brace for...

What happens when the company that owns your DNA goes bust?

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pioneering DNA testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy after failing to live up to its six billion-dollar promise. What does that mean for th...

Donald Trump and the campus speech wars

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of a crackdown by the Trump administration on universities with threats to withhold funding following protests on campuses, Manveen Rana t...

The Sunday Edition: Donald Trump’s imperial ambitions

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published in January.The US president-elect has sparked a series of diplomatic rows after saying he was willing to use mil...

What Rachel Reeves's Spring Statement means for your money

29 Mar 2025

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her Spring Statement - but what does it really mean for your money? Holly Mead is joined by Jo Noble, Chris Eth...

Why everyone's going to Japan

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Japanese ‘kidults’ revolutionised pop culture in the 90s and 00s, turning to their inner children to cope with economic crisis and post-industrial...

 Team Trump’s leaked war plans

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been called "a big mistake", "reckless" and "the highest level of f**kup imaginable" - but just how did a senior journalist come to be added to a...

Turmoil in Turkey: the people vs Erdogan

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The arrest and jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkey’s main political challenger to President Erdogan, has sent shockwaves across th...

The truth behind the drama Adolescence

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Netflix smash-hit drama is getting everyone talking – including the prime minister. Adolescence centres on the murder of a 13-year-old girl by a...

 Who is the real JD Vance?

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meet JD Vance, man of Munich and the Oval Office onslaught. He thinks Europe is in a death spiral and the future is Catholic-infused post-liberalism. ...

The Sunday Edition: They said Covid would change everything. Did it?

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today marks five years since the first Covid lockdown. We were told that we would never be able to go back to pre-pandemic times: we could only enter ...

The Saturday Edition: Trump and Putin spoke, where are things now?

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With news this week on the ongoing attempts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, we thought we'd bring you two interviews Manveen did on Times Radio to h...

Why the Baltics are preparing for Putin

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Estonia, one of the Baltic states, sits on Europe's front line with Russia. The country that was, like Ukraine, once part of the Soviet Union is incre...

How Britain's benefits system broke

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's predicted that, by the end of this Parliament, four million people in Britain will receive long-term sickness benefits–that’s the equivalent ...

The '51st state' fights back

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump is coming for Canada. He first raised the prospect of making America's nearest neighbour its 51st state when campaigning for the presiden...

The town ripped apart by Mexico’s new Narcos

18 Mar 2025

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On the frontline of Mexico’s drug wars, rival cartels are exploiting a decades-old dispute about indigenous land rights and turning local people aga...

Trump and the surprising history of American authoritarians

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The word "unprecedented" is often used to describe Donald Trump's presidency. He's broken with convention repeatedly: from announcing tariffs on allie...

The Sunday Edition: The gambling addicts hooked on crypto

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published last August.The government says it wants to make the UK a global hub for crypto firms. But with the NHS warning ...

The algorithm says we’re soulmates… Now what?

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hinge CEO, Justin McLeod, joins the podcast to discuss how online dating Apps have changed dating (for good or bad) and how AI may change it even more...

How men's brains change when they become dads

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘Baby brain’ is real. Increasing evidence suggests having kids causes big changes in our grey matter, and not always for the worse. Sunday Times s...

The civil war that could bring down Reform

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nigel Farage has been accused of a ‘vindictive witch-hunt’ by a former Reform MP as part of a messy public row at the top of the party. Rupert Low...

Is Europe ready for war?

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is Europe sleepwalking into disaster? Russia watcher Keir Giles on the rising threat from Putin, NATO’s shaky future, and whether Europe is ready—...

The Sunday Edition: Korea's 4b 'anti-men' movement comes to America

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published last November.No sex, no babies, no marriage, no men. In 2018 a niche feminist movement started in South Korea a...

How To Be PM In A Global Crisis

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Keir Starmer focused on diplomacy over Ukraine, the political masterminds ask if the domestic agenda always has to suffer during major world even...

Why Trump is gambling the US economy on crypto

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has said he will make the US the crypto capital of the world, as investors and CEOs gather at the White House today for his government’...

Why so many planes are crashing in North America

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So far this year, there have been multiple fatal plane crashes and near-misses in North America, leaving 87 dead. President Trump has blamed diversity...

Why the Americans are helping Andrew Tate

05 Mar 2025

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The self-proclaimed misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrived in the US last week, after the American government lobbied for...

At the border crossing where Trump’s migrant ban is working

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

People who once flooded north across the river between Guatemala and Mexico are trickling south again, their dream of reaching the US ended by Preside...

Onslaught in the Oval Office

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the world comes to terms with the fallout from Friday night’s unprecedented Oval Office clash between President Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Z...

The Sunday Edition: ‘We need to talk about what motherhood does to women’

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally published in September 2024.Zoe Blaskey, author of Motherkind, didn’t realise that she was unprepared for the huge psych...

How To Tell Jokes, Deal With Trump, And Welcome Sally

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're welcoming a new political mastermind to the podcast this week - Sally Morgan has been a Labour insider since the days of Neil Kinnock and went o...

My son Charlie - and the breakthrough that changed our lives

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When James Coney's son Charlie missed milestone after milestone, he knew something wasn't right. It would take 12 years before one phone call would ch...

The real reason Trump hates Zelensky

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Zelensky was elected president, Trump said he'd do a 'great job' then called him 'brave' for staying after the Russians invaded. But he's now ter...