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‘A boss move’: Why Trump’s VP pick shows he thinks he can’t lose

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today is the last day of the Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump has been officially crowned as his party’s nomination for president ...

King’s Speech: How Labour plans to change Britain

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The King unveils Labour’s plans for government today surrounded by pomp and ceremony. What is Labour looking to achieve, does it live up to the prom...

The Holly Willoughby trial and a toxic online subculture

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday, 37-year-old Gavin Plumb was sentenced to life in jail after being found guilty of a plot to kidnap, rape and murder the TV presenter, Holly...

Trump shooting: Our eyewitness account

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday evening, news broke that Donald Trump had been the victim of an attempted assassination during a political rally in Pennsylvania. Our...

The rise and fall, and rise again of Gareth Southgate

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

England are through to a historic second Euros  final in as many tournaments - but for Gareth Southgate it hasn’t been an easy journey. The foo...

What now for the Tories?

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The infighting has already begun as party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch called one of Rishi Sunak’s private secretaries a ‘buffoon’ at a shad...

Labour: Meet Starmer's top advisors

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent days Sir Keir Starmer has been appointing his cabinet as the country’s new leadership takes shape. But who are the people you won’t see ...

How France’s left stopped a far-right surge

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Against all predictions, France’s left wing coalition won more seats than Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections. Wi...

Labour: Huge majority, thin support

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Sir Keir Starmer begins his first full week in Downing Street, he must win over a jaded public and see off the twin challenges of Nigel Farage’s ...

Planet Hope: Reconnecting to nature through sound with Michel André

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

Election special: Labour landslide

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A clear landslide. But underneath, the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting; Labour was punished in a string of seats for its stance on Ga...

Election special: Coming soon

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Story team will be up all night watching as the results roll in. A special episode will be dropping into your feed at dawn with reaction from Will...

‘Politics has failed.’ William Hague talks to John Kerry

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Secretary John Kerry served as Obama’s secretary of state and Biden’s climate envoy. He was a senator for decades, a Navy officer and is a three-t...

Will Biden step aside?

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been nearly a week since President Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump. The resulting panic over a Trump presidency intensified am...

Is the hard-right about to take power in France?

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As France’s hard-right National Rally take the lead in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections, will the political spectrum unite...

Will Reform throw a brick in the Tories' red wall?

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives upended decades’ of traditional voting behaviour, as lifelong Labour seats in the north and midlands fell t...

Planet Hope: Strengthening the protection of oceans with Sylvia Earle

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

Who is the real Nigel Farage?

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From his school days to how he made his money, the friends he’s made (and lost) to his wives, mistresses, and allegations of facism and racism, whic...

Trump, Biden and the presidential debate that could change the election

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight, in the first of only two presidential debates, the two oldest candidates in history have a lot to prove. Joe Biden faces serious questions ab...

The election flutters costing the Conservatives

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Five Conservative politicians are now being investigated by the Gambling Commission for allegedly placing bets on the date of the general election. Hu...

Are animals conscious? Why we’re starting to think so

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After centuries of dismissing the rest of the animal kingdom as non-sentient beings, scientists and philosophers are starting to make a new declaratio...

Keir Starmer: Up close and personal

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Critics say the Labour leader is robotic, boring and hard to read, but is that all there is to the man in the running to become the next prime ministe...

Planet Hope: Rewilding the Earth with Kris Tompkins

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

The wipe out scenario haunting the Conservatives

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1993 the Canadian Conservative party went into the election in power but lost all but two of its seats. A party called Reform came to dominate righ...

The TikTok election wars

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s being described as the UK’s first TikTok election - so can a flying pig, Cilla Black, and Nigel Farage have the power to change the result on...

The Green vote: every colour of the rainbow?

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who’s voting Green in this election? There’s the fruit bowl analogy - mangos, melons and figs (we’ll explain) - and, more unkindly, the carpark....

The new science of ageing and the quest to live forever

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The super-rich are trialling innumerable whacky theories to radically extend their lives, from not eating after 11pm to taking hundreds of supplements...

Could the 'blue wall' fall?

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Surrey has always been a bastion of support for the Conservatives but this election the Liberal Democrats believe they stand a chance of taking some o...

Planet Hope: Solving hidden hunger with Felix Brooks-Church

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

The UK economy’s broken. Can Labour fix it?

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Election Day looms, the one thing everyone can agree on is that the British economy is in a pretty parlous state. So, what's Labour offereing to ge...

Football’s civil war: Man City vs Premier League

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City, England's top club, has launched unprecedented legal action against the Premier League - the league it plays in. With...

Young, French, and voting hard-right

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

French president Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election after his party was soundly defeated by the hard-right opposition in Sunday’s EU electio...

Why are more young people getting cancer?

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's one of the world's biggest killers but cancer is usually more associated with people in the later stages of life. While that's still largely the ...

Tracing the origin story of Taylor Swift

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Tennessee, The Times’ Megan Agnew spent three weeks on the Taylor Swift trail, discovering the origins of the sup...

Planet Hope: Respecting reptiles and rainforests with Romulus Whitaker

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

From the archive: One man’s mission to meet every Second World War veteran

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To mark 80 years since D-Day, we revisit the remarkable story of a young man who travel the world to interview surviving World War II veterans. 25-yea...

France’s #MeToo moment

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the #MeToo movement first emerged in America in 2017, women in France spoke out about their own experiences, but it’s taken until this year to ...

What the polls teach us about modern Britain

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 Is Labour as safe as it seems? Why do some of our votes matter ‘more’ than others? And what do polls tell us about who we really are? We tak...

Nigel Farage is standing. Are the Tories in deep trouble?

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nigel Farage has promised to lead a “political revolt” as he announced his return to frontline politics as the new leader of Reform UK - and as a ...

Trump is guilty. Will anything change?

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

He's the first ever former president in American history to be a convicted felon. Found guilty on 34 separate counts, Donald Trump could now face jail...

Sir Keir Starmer, the man who could be Prime Minister

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A week into the election campaign, Labour is leading the polls by around twenty points. If Labour do win on 4th July, Keir Starmer will be moving to N...

Planet Hope: Rekindling our connection to clothing with Denica Riadini-Flesch

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

Rafah, red lines, and the Biden presidency

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Israeli airstrike that killed at least forty-five displaced Palestinians in Rafah has once again focused the world’s attention on the war in Gaza...

Drake vs. Kendrick and the rap beef of the century

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two of the century’s biggest artists are exchanging diss track blows in a beef that has engulfed the internet. But how has rap moved on since the vi...

Could a Labour Government mean the end of private schools?

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the election now just around the corner, Labour says that if it wins, it’ll take away the tax breaks Britain’s private schools have benefited...

Thames Water: the business model built on sh*t

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The state of our rivers is set to be one of the discussion points of the election and time’s ticking on Thames Water’s request for a 56 per cent i...

William Hague on Taiwan and the fight for the world’s most critical technology

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our modern world is built on chips; they control everything from our cars to the stock market, dishwashers to missile systems, computers to - potentia...

Planet Hope: Safeguarding West Africa’s last untouched rainforest with Inza Koné

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

Felony or witch hunt: Who told the best story at Trump’s trial?

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump’s 'hush money' trial is in its final stages as the prosecution and defence teams have both now rested their cases. The jury will return...

Sunak's summer gamble

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rishi Sunak has announced a general election for July 4 after a day of fevered rumour in Westminster. The prime minister addressed the nation from out...

Could the Butcher of Tehran's death signal danger for the Iranian regime?

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

President Raisi’s death has been met with celebrations by those who hate the regime and mourning by those who love it. But could the vacuum left by ...

A bloody disgrace: How the infected blood victims were betrayed by a cover-up

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After decades of buck-passing and over 3000 deaths the infected blood inquiry published its final report finding that patients were betrayed by 'cover...

Why the super-rich are falling out of love with London

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Hinduja family still leads the Sunday Times Rich List. But this year’s list records the largest fall in the billionaire count in the guide’s 3...

Planet Hope: Restoring ancient Andean forests with Constantino Aucca Chutas

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

Britain's birth trauma scandal

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Shockingly poor quality” is the verdict of a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s maternity services. It found a system that lacked compassion a...

The King, The Prince and The Duke

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we bring you the first episode of the Times's newest podcast 'The Royals'. Our hugely experienced Royal Editors Roya Nikkhah from The Sunda...

Dubai Unlocked: The convicts secretly investing millions in the Emirates

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Times investigation into leaked records has identified convicts, fugitives and bankrupts who have secretly invested millions in the Emirates. More t...

The far-right plot to overthrow the German state

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of nine suspects accused of plotting to overthrow the German government has begun in Stuttgart. The leaders of the far-right group is a 72-y...

Open relationships: The more the merrier or a recipe for disaster?

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Open relationships are more popular than ever - but what's it like being in one? And what’s the history of non-monogamous, consensual, romantic rela...

Planet Hope: Harvesting drinking water from the air with Beth Koigi

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly ser...

From the archive: The hunt for FBI 'fugitive' Nicholas Rossi

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After an international manhunt, the FBI and Interpol say they have found a man wanted on multiple charges in four US states, who faked his death befor...

Why the campus protests could put Trump in the White House

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pro-Palestinian protests that started at US campuses weeks ago have now spread to the UK and many parts of Europe. The US student protests are reminis...

The SAS murders and the conspiracy to cover them up - Part 2

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Sunday Times’ investigative team, Insight, has combed through 6,000 top secret documents to piece together the story of multiple military and go...

The SAS murders and the conspiracy to cover them up - Part 1

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Sunday Times’ investigative team, Insight, has combed through 6,000 top secret documents to piece together the story of multiple military and go...

Was Soviet double agent Anthony Blunt helping Hitler too?

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The former MI5 double agent, Anthony Blunt, was unmasked as a Soviet mole in 1979 but the full extent of what he did isn’t known. Could he have been...

Salman Rushdie on the attack that changed his life

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Bank Holiday Monday listeners of The Story are treated to an episode of another podcast from The Times 'Off Air with Jane & Fi.' In this epis...

Baby Reindeer: The complicated truth about being stalked

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Netflix's latest hit, Baby Reindeer, is a fictional account of a real-life stalking, which our guest has experienced, too. So what happens in complica...

Tim Shipman on the tears, plots and mating porcupines of Brexit

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

They were some of the most turbulent years of British politics as Prime Minister Theresa May steered her Brexit deal, via unprecedented disasters and ...

The rise and spectacular fall of the SNP

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After 13 months in power, First Minister Humza Yousaf has resigned - and for the second time in as many years the SNP is looking for a new leader. So,...

Why Israel's rogue battalion could be facing US sanctions

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the war in Gaza grinds on, and US President Joe Biden comes under increasing pressure to curb Israel's most serious military excesses, his administ...

How America could descend into civil war

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The prospect of internal conflict, as depicted in Alex Garland’s new film ‘Civil War’, is no longer regarded as an impossibility in America. Wit...

Undercover at Britain’s ‘conspiracy school’

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A group of former teachers and a cryptocurrency trader are teaching at a suspected illegal school, Universallkidz in Manchester, in which children are...

William Hague talks to AI expert Azeem Azhar - ‘Unchecked power ends with bad outcomes’

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

William Hague sits down with Azeem Azhar, entrepreneur, investor and one of the world’s leading thinkers on artificial intelligence, to discuss how ...

Rwanda Bill: the controversy explained

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After two years of legal disputes and political debate, Parliament has approved the government's Rwanda bill to send asylum seekers from the UK to be ...

'Rewilding' the smartphone generation: one school's story

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With young people in Britain and across the world increasingly reliant on smartphones, and many teens now openly admitting they’re addicted to socia...

'Influencer of influencers': Modi's strategy to win the Indian election

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

India's PM Narendra Modi is favoured to win a third term as 970 million voters hit the polls in a six-week general election. Using an aggressive digit...

Investigation: The Tory MP who allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The call came in the dead of night. “Are you on your own?” the man said. “I’ve got in with some bad people and they’ve locked me in a flat a...

Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial, according to Stormy Daniels

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has made history yet again, as the first American president to face a criminal trial. It’s one of four criminal cases against him - and...

The council house row Angela Rayner can't shake

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Police are investigating whether Labour’s deputy leader broke “any offences”, including under electoral law, after Tory MPs alleged that she may...

Are Israel and Iran on the brink of war?

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Israeli government is considering its response to Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack over the weekend. Israel’s allies – led by t...

The P Diddy lawsuits: The downfall of a rap legend

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world’s most successful rappers, Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs is facing multiple lawsuits, with accusations from rape to sex trafficking. So ...

The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In November 2019, a teenager pretending to be the son of a Russian oligarch was found dead by the river Thames. Police investigated but the parents of...

The honeytrap scandal: Sexting in Westminster

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As police investigate the sending of explicit text messages to dozens of politicians, staff and political journalists, and the man at the centre of th...

Fighting the Post Office: Alan Bates at the inquiry

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Bates, the campaigner who took on the Post Office to expose flaws in its IT systems which led to wrongful convictions, has appeared before the pu...

China's tech battle to control the future

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese President Xi Jinping's new slogan, "develop new productive forces," aims to bolster the expansion of high-tech sectors to drive economic growt...

Gourmet gangster: Could Kinahan be caught by his Google reviews?

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Kinahan is the head of a billion dollar international crime cartel and one of the world's most wanted men but he's been sharing his wherea...

How Israel lost its allies

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

President Biden has called for an immediate ceasefire and Rishi Sunak is facing pressure to stop arms sales to Israel after an IDF strike killed aid w...

Politics at play: Why is nursery still so expensive?

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The government says their much anticipated childcare reform, offering two-year-olds 15 hours a week of free childcare, is hitting targets. But parents...

Could Scotland's hate crime law be the beginning of the end for free speech?

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into force on Monday - and within 48 hours at least 800 'hate crimes' had been reported to Scott...

Sacked, jailed, disgraced: The advisers set to rejoin Team Trump

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's official: With Donald Trump confirmed as the Republican nominee, the US presidential race will be a Trump v Biden rematch. And with the primary c...

Investigation: Undercover at one of the UK's most dangerous prisons

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Times investigation has revealed a worrying lack of security at a prison housing dangerous criminals, prompting an urgent investigation by the Minis...

William Hague talks to prime minister Rishi Sunak about being a dad, AI, and a terrible political inheritance

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our new monthly series of interviews, former foreign secretary and Times columnist William Hague speaks to his first guest, prime minister Rishi Su...

Putin’s ISIS problem

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As President Putin repeats his assertion that Ukraine and the West are behind the terrorist attack last week that killed 137 Russians, the evidence is...

Lessons from the world's assisted dying capital

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Keir Starmer has promised he will hold a vote on assisted dying if he wins the general election. In Canada - where it was made legal in 2016 - ove...

Inside the fentanyl trade

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fentanyl kills 200 people a day in America, a deadly epidemic felt throughout the country. We trace the journey of chemicals from China, to the drug l...

How To Win an Election... With Taylor Swift (And Other Celebrities)

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Saturday morning we're sharing an episode of Times podcast How to Win an Election with listeners of The Story.In the US, Taylor Swift could have ...

Kate-Gate: How the Royals lost control of the narrative

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The whereabouts of the Princess of Wales is still under intense scrutiny after footage of William and Kate shopping failed to provide reassurance - an...

Every scary thing Meta knows about you

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Data journalist Matilda Davies opened her first Facebook account when she was 11 years old. Years later, she requested all the information the social ...

The five-year road to banning teenage puberty blockers

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The NHS has announced a ban on puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria. This week, Parliament will debate a bill sponsored by Liz Truss th...

Boeing, a dead whistleblower, and the company that crashed to earth

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The aviation giant, Boeing, is facing intense scrutiny after a series of incidents involving their commercial planes. The company was once a pillar of...