Podcast Episodes

'A culture of cover-up': the NHS maternity crisis exposed

The NHS is facing one of its deepest crises - a string of maternity scandals, from Shrewsbury to Nottingham, Oxford to Leeds. Hundreds of babies have died or been left severely injured in hospitals m…

Published on 11 hours ago

Starmer vs Streeting: inside the Labour meltdown

Labour is facing an extraordinary rift at the top of government. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has strongly denied claims that he is plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying that at…

Published on 1 day, 10 hours ago

BBC crisis: right-wing coup or bias crackdown?

The BBC is in meltdown: both the Director General Tim Davie and the Head of News Deborah Turness have quit in the same weekend after a leaked memo accused the corporation of systemic political bias -…

Published on 3 days, 11 hours ago

Mamdani and Polanski: can a new left undo Trump’s climate reversal?

While COP30 gets underway in Brazil - Donald Trump is ripping up climate policy, blasting his allies for falling for what he calls the ‘world's greatest con job’ and trying to get big business to fol…

Published on 1 week ago

China US Trade 'breakthrough': Who blinked first?

After months of a “vicious cycle of mutual retaliation”, as Xi Jinping has put it, Donald Trump and China's president seem to have come to a truce after their first meeting in nearly six years.

Meetin…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Is immigration pushing Labour toward electoral wipeout?

Is Keir Starmer’s immigration strategy doomed to fail? Despite tough language, a one-in-one-out returns scheme with France and speeding up the closure of asylum hotels,  Labour continues to plummet i…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Is UK government complicit in the destruction of Gaza?

Is the UK government complicit in the destruction of Gaza? That's the assertion in the new book by journalist and polemicist Peter Oborne, with both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak under fire for backin…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Could the Ukraine Russia war ever go nuclear? - Serhii Plokhi

As Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s latest meeting reportedly descended into another shouting match, the war in Ukraine feels as volatile as ever - and, according to some, more dangerous for th…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Virginia Roberts Giuffre was ‘gaslit’ by UK government, Met police and Prince Andrew say her family

In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre became known as the most outspoken victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Her campaigning against their abuse and trafficking helped to get justice for man…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

AI boom or bubble? why economists fear a global meltdown

With the IMF warning that we’re in an AI bubble that could be worse than the dot-com crash if it bursts — and even OpenAI’s Sam Altman admitting the market is “kind of bubbly” — what happens to the g…

Published on 4 weeks ago