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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...

Revealed: The hidden crime of sibling sexual abuse

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. The family member most likely to sexually abuse a child is their brother or ...

What Wagner did next - the rebranding of Putin’s secret weapon

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With Russia going to the polls this weekend, and President Putin’s grip on power tighter than ever, any semblance of meaningful opposition has been ...

How street gangs led Haiti’s descent into anarchy

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Haiti’s acting prime minster has resigned, bending to pressure from the US. The move leaves a power vacuum into which has apparently stepped Jimmy ‘...

Who owns the moon? AC Grayling on the question that could start war on Earth

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the Odysseus lander touched down on the lunar surface last month, it became the first US presence on the moon in more than fifty years. But unlik...

Kate, that photo, and a PR nightmare

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new photo of the Princess of Wales released after months of social media speculation about her health has further fuelled conspiracy theories. ...

Stories of our times is becoming The Story

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Tuesday 19th March, Stories of our times will become The Story. Manveen Rana and Luke Jones will be joined on the podcast by Times...

What Liz Truss did next

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After she resigned in 2022, everyone thought Liz Truss would disappear. Not a bit of it. She’s earned more than £300,000 from speeches, has a new b...

Prescription Nation: Britain's hidden drug dependency

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One in four drugs that are prescribed to adults in England are dependency-forming drugs. And while prescriptions for opioids have fallen following the...

Confessions of a millionaire: Should the super-rich pay more tax?

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tax burdens are at the highest level in living memory, yet public services are falling apart. That's why the rich should pay more tax, says our guest:...

What if there’s no ceasefire? Manveen Rana reports from Jerusalem

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We report from Israel during a critical week which might mark a tipping point in the Gaza war. If there isn't a ceasefire by the start of Ramadan this...

The Rise of Reform UK - the party the Tories fear

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Reform UK - a fringe political party founded by Nigel Farage - is unlikely to win many seats, it has little money and its leader has a low profile. Bu...

Stakeknife: How Britain’s IRA mole got away with murder

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday, Operation Kenova, a long running investigation into a man known as Stakeknife, the British Army’s top spy within the IRA, will finally be...

Cartoons and controversies with Times cartoonist Peter Brookes

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

He's been skewering those in power with his drawings for The Times since 1992. In an age where finding the balance between satire and offence can be a...

Why won't Nikki Haley quit in the race against Trump?

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate now looking all but certain, Donald Trump's grip on his party seems to get stronger with ...

Aid in Gaza: A month on, did the ICJ make any difference?

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hamas has been sent a proposal for a new pause in military operations in Gaza, including the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Me...

A by-election circus in Rochdale

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Thursday, Rochdale voters will be asked to cast their vote in a by-election following the death last month of MP Sir Tony Loyd. There is technica...

Why young women are falling out of love with the pill

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the contraceptive pill was introduced in the 1960s, many considered it to be one of the most significant inventions of the 20th Century. Sixty ye...

Her daughter was murdered. Why will the killer be released so soon?

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you murder someone, you get a life sentence. But what does a life sentence actually mean in practice? We speak to a bereaved parent fighting to end...

Is there any hope for Generation Rent?

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With ever-increasing house prices across the country far outstripping the rate at which earnings are rising, millions of young people are now being fo...

Keir Starmer's Gaza problem

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza will be debated in the House of Commons today, all eyes are on Labour. The party has ti...

What Navalny’s death means for Putin's Russia

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alexei Navalny, Russia's opposition leader, is dead. His wife says that President Putin killed her husband while the Russian state denies any involvem...

Is ADHD being over-diagnosed?

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An overwhelming demand for ADHD diagnoses has left the NHS struggling to keep up. What’s behind the rise?Content warning: This episode contains ment...

A conversation with director Christopher Nolan

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Nolan has become a franchise unto himself; one of the few directors who can walk into a studio with an original idea and walk out with the...

How Biden could be replaced

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A special counsel report in the US has again raised questions about Joe Biden’s mental faculties, describing the President as "a well-meaning, elder...

‘Russian spy in MI6’: the Afghan connection

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An alleged Russian spy was an Afghan refugee who had worked his way into the British Foreign Office. According to court documents, he had met two Prim...

Rotten to the core: What’s at the root of Britain’s dental crisis?

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With millions of people across the UK struggling to access NHS dental care, and many being forced to go private or even treat themselves at home, how ...

AI, drones, and smartphones: How Ukraine changed warfare

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cheap drones, robots and AI have all shaped the conduct of the war in Ukraine. Ahead of its second anniversary on 24th February, Manveen talks to emin...

What the King’s cancer means for Harry, William, Charles and the monarchy

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How King Charles’s cancer diagnosis will affect the monarchy and those in it, personally and professionally.This podcast was brought to you thanks t...

Taylor Swift and the ‘Super Bowl plot’ to swing the election

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Super Bowl Sunday in America this weekend. But whispers from some corners of the internet suggest there’s a bigger game afoot. So just how di...

Women watch porn too - so why can’t we talk about it?

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A quarter of people watching pornography are women, but why do we find it hard to comprehend? We speak to the author of a new book who has interviewed...

How the Israeli hostage crisis could topple Netanyahu

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is increasingly embattled, amid protests by the families of hostages calling for him to go. Could this cr...

The Ukrainians desperate to avoid the draft

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an interview over the weekend, President Zelensky announced a major shake up in the Ukrainian army. It comes after a week-long battle between Zelen...

Why are Gen Z stalking their partners?

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We hear the story of one woman who was stalked by her ex-boyfriend, as domestic abuse charities warn that young people are becoming accustomed&nb...

A diary of war: Three months in Gaza

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Palestinian journalist Amal Helles has been reporting for The Times and The Sunday Times from Gaza since the Hamas attacks on Israel, and the beginnin...

Inside the Tory plot to oust Rishi Sunak

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A former adviser to the prime minister is working with a secretive group of Tories to remove him from office before the general election. MPs have bee...

Three US soldiers dead: Has Iran miscalculated?

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday, three American troops were killed in a drone strike on a US base in Jordan. At least 34 were wounded. The group responsible for the attack ...

Cash for places: The backdoor for overseas students into Britain's top universities

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While UK students need straight As to get onto prestigious Russell Group degree courses, their international classmates can buy their way in through s...

Inside California's ‘orgasm commune’

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OneTaste, the organisation behind the practice 'orgasmic meditation', was hailed as visionary at its peak. Since then, its leader, Nicole Daedone, has...

Why the super-rich are paying less tax

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Russian-born trader and a billionaire who admitted to fraud have topped this year’s Sunday Times Tax List, but more than two-thirds of the 100 ind...