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The life and death of Virginia Giuffre

01 May 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

The fall of Kanye West

26 Feb 2025

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In recent weeks, Kanye West, now known as ‘Ye’, has pulled off a number of bizarre stunts, including antisemitic rants and an inexplicable Super B...

‘A lawlessness that’s deeply alarming’: William Hague on Trump’s new presidency

25 Feb 2025

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Since his election, Donald Trump has stunned the world with a series of moves that have upended the well-established post-war international order. He ...

Why Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists are getting out of prison

24 Feb 2025

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Last year, 50 men were convicting of raping or sexually assaulting Gisèle Pelicot, including her husband who’d orchestrated the attacks. There was ...

The Sunday Edition: 'Rewilding' the smartphone generation, one school's story

23 Feb 2025

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This episode was originally published in April last year.With young people in Britain and across the world increasingly reliant on smartphones, many t...

How to deal with banking nightmares

22 Feb 2025

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Holly and Lucy are joined by Kat Denham, champion champion for The Times and The Sunday Times, as they navigate the tricky world of bank accounts...

The Labour politician who inspired JD Vance

21 Feb 2025

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Lord Maurice Glasman was the only Labour politician to be invited to Trump’s inauguration after striking up a friendship with JD Vance. So who is he...

What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech

20 Feb 2025

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The British-Indian novelist Sir Salman Rushdie has faced his alleged attacker in court, after he was stabbed multiple times in 2022 during a public le...

How the US signalled a new world order in 5 days

19 Feb 2025

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As the United States and Russia seem to be hurtling towards a bilateral peace negotiation over Ukraine, European leaders gathered in Paris in an attem...

Can you live without a smartphone?

18 Feb 2025

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A year ago Times columnist James Marriott ditched his smartphone to escape the endless notifications from his apps. How has he managed without a devic...

Elon Musk's 'hostile takeover' of Washington

17 Feb 2025

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When Donald Trump took office, he appointed Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government Efficiency - or DOGE - a new agency designed to radicall...

The Sunday Edition: The decline of dating apps, and what could replace them

16 Feb 2025

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Official figures show that for the first time, people are leaving dating apps. So why the exodus? And could future apps - with AI and augmented realit...

An interview with Sam Altman, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI

15 Feb 2025

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Ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit, Katie and Danny are together in London for a special interview with the man who is synonymous with Artificial Int...

How Bridget Jones charmed Gen Z

14 Feb 2025

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Bridget Jones is back in cinemas with her fourth outing Mad About the Boy, 24 years after her film debut. The messy heroine is the quintessential Gen ...

Trump's Gaza bombshell

13 Feb 2025

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President Trump stunned the world and horrified his Arab allies when he proposed that the US should take over Gaza and rebuild it as the "riviera of t...

Why are so many Gen Zers not working?

12 Feb 2025

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The Times has unveiled a landmark survey of Generation Z. What are their attitudes towards modern Britain, sex, drugs and… mental health? 1 in 3 you...

The 'toxic town' and the mothers seeking justice for their poisoned babies

11 Feb 2025

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When the closed steelworks in Corby, Northamptonshire, were being cleaned up ahead of redevelopment, trucks ferrying debris away from the site release...

The organised crime groups stealing your phone

10 Feb 2025

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Have you - or someone you know - had a mobile phone snatched directly from your hand? It's a growing trend in London and other cities across the UK, a...

The Sunday Edition: Inside the fentanyl trade

09 Feb 2025

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On today's Sunday Edition, we're looking back at this episode from March, diving into the fentanyl trade. This week, President Trump cited the fentany...

How To Tell Who's Really In Charge

08 Feb 2025

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This week the political masterminds (and Hugo) are joined by Theo Bertram, who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.After a new bo...

Is there ‘new evidence’ in the Lucy Letby case?

07 Feb 2025

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On Tuesday, a panel of global medical experts convened a press conference. They said they had found a different cause of death in every baby Lucy Letb...

Trade Wars: Trump vs China

06 Feb 2025

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Having implemented - then temporarily rescinded - tariffs on Canada and Mexico after both countries struck last-minute deals, Donald Trump now has his...

The Chagos Islands deal that could threaten the special relationship

05 Feb 2025

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Having ruled the Chagos Islands since the 1800s, the UK now wants to cede sovereignty of the tiny archipelago in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. But on...

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard: I had Mom killed. I hope she’d be proud of me now

04 Feb 2025

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In 2016, 24-year-old Gypsy-Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in the US State of Missouri, for arranging the murder of her mother. Her mother, C...

Who really runs the Labour Party?

03 Feb 2025

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‘ Like an HR manager, not a leader’. This is the description of Sir Keir Starmer from his closest and most influential aide, according to a new ...

The Sunday Edition: Thames Water - the business model built on sh*t

02 Feb 2025

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Tomorrow Thames Water will be going to the High Court in London for the start of hearings to approve a restructuring plan for its debts. So we thought...

The King visits Auschwitz, Kate follows in Princess Diana's footsteps and a new royal baby

01 Feb 2025

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Kate Mansey shares her first-hand account of a historic moment - witnessing the King become the first British monarch to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, mar...

'Don't make Putin make a point' a Russian warns the West

31 Jan 2025

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Nina Khrushcheva, great grand-daughter of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York, s...

DeepSeek: AI’s ‘Sputnik moment’

30 Jan 2025

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A Chinese rival to ChatGPT wiped $700 billion from the value of the world’s largest tech companies in just one day. DeepSeek claims its free, open-s...

The momfluencers embracing ‘Make America Healthy Again’

29 Jan 2025

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. - President Trump's pick as health secretary - begins his confirmation hearings today. He's the man who coined the phrase 'Make A...

The underwater war against Russian sabotage

28 Jan 2025

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Last week a Russian spy ship was spotted off the coast of the UK. The Royal Navy was sent to closely monitor the vessel as it passed through British w...

The controversial money fuelling Britain

27 Jan 2025

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It's that time of year again. The Sunday Times Tax List. So who made it to the top? And is there a bit of a dark side to the list this year?This podca...

The Sunday Edition: 'This twisted lottery', two families' stories

26 Jan 2025

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Last weekend, The Sunday Times' Josh Glancy landed in Tel Aviv, after the ceasefire had just been announced. Israelis held their breath to see if it w...

How to become mortgage-free

25 Jan 2025

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For many, paying off a mortgage is one of their biggest financial goals. So, this week Holly and Lucy are joined by mortgage expert Sarah Tucker from&...

Bannon vs Musk: The battle for the soul of Donald Trump

24 Jan 2025

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When Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon labelled the new kid on the block, Elon Musk, as “racist” and “truly evil”, it hit the hea...

On the frontline of Sudan’s forgotten war

23 Jan 2025

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For almost two years, two armies have fought a brutal civil war in Sudan, Africa’s third largest country. Over 150,000 have died, 11 million have be...

Why wasn't the Southport killer stopped?

22 Jan 2025

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Axel Rudakubana has pleaded guilty to killing three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last July. But why wasn’t the 18 year ol...

We need to talk about debt

21 Jan 2025

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Rachel Reeves travels to the World Economic Forum today to shore up support among CEOs and world leaders in Davos. The chancellor hopes to boost inves...

A second Trump presidency begins

20 Jan 2025

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At 12pm ET today, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. To mark this historic occasion, we’ve gathered together ...