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Today's weekend listen comes courtesy of our sister podcast, Red Box.

While everyone else was waiting for Sue Gray, on Tuesday two of Britain's country's leading political scientists published a major…

In the week that the government announced a major review into England's council-run children's services, a Times investigation has found scores of inexperienced owners in the sector - including those…

As the long-awaited report into lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street is published, we dissect the key points.

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What happened when, after two years of mudslinging, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, the wives of two top footballers, met in court over allegations one had been leaking details of the other’s privat…

A forty year high level of inflation and soaring household bills over the last few months have quickly led to a cost of living crisis. UK businesses are already feeling the squeeze, but what does tha…

Sweden and Finland are putting decades of military non-alignment and neutrality behind them to join NATO but one member of the alliance isn’t prepared to let them join. 

Why is Turkey doing this?’

This…

More than two years after Britain and the EU signed the Brexit withdrawal agreement, one of its stickiest points is suddenly back in the headlines again: the Northern Ireland protocol. Why are we bac…

On Wednesday inflation in the UK hit 9% - the highest since the early 1980s.

A few weeks before in Brussels, Diederik Samsom, the Head of Cabinet in the European Commission, said the age of cheap livi…

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the SNP, has been pushing for Scottish independence since she was elected First Minister seven and a half years ago. The UK government has repeatedly rejected her calls, bu…

For 12 days, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tried to play down claims he’d broken lockdown rules when he’d had a curry and beer with staff. But when the police announced they would investigate whethe…

Johnny Depp’s personal life has been splashed across the headlines thanks to high-profile defamation cases against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Now, the latest trial is playing out in real time, live str…

Today's weekend listen comes courtesy of our sister podcast, Danny In The Valley.

Yesterday, Elon Musk put his $44 billion takeover of Twitter on pause. Some investors now seem sceptical that the deal…

As markets across the globe react to the latest cryptocurrency meltdown, which some warn may go beyond the usual boom-and-bust cycle - today we look at a band of mega-rich crypto enthusiasts who are …

In the year the BBC celebrates its centenary, and Channel 4 its 40th birthday, the government has announced plans for funding models that fundamentally alter the broadcasters. Could these proposals c…

A draft Supreme Court opinion on the law defining a woman’s right to have an abortion in America was leaked last week, causing uproar - and celebration. So, what’s the history of this law - and what …

From people nabbed fleeing the country with suitcases full of bank notes to a former pub landlord accused of cashing his loan and sending it to the terrorist group ISIS, case after case is emerging o…

It's Victory Day in Russia, the annual celebration of victory in the Second World War. But as Putin's tanks parade the Moscow streets, how is his war in Ukraine really playing out - both in Russia an…

The Palace of Westminster has, once again, been rocked by a series of sexual misconduct scandals -- culminating in the revelation that an MP was caught watching porn during a Commons debate. Is this …

Former ministers have broken ranks to describe how successive prime ministers, including Boris Johnson, withheld arms from Ukraine until just weeks before February’s invasion because of fears they mi…

In 2018, the Sunday Times broke the story that then-serving Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke had been accused of rape by a former aide. Elphicke denied the allegation and sued for libel, and the pape…