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Sensemaker: Haiti’s state of anarchy
Episode 184
Haiti’s prime minister appears to be unable to return to his country after gangs stormed two of its biggest prisons, allowing thousands of criminals …
1 year, 10 months ago
Sensemaker: Border farce: the sacked Home Office inspector
Episode 183
The Home Office has now published 13 reports by the independent immigration and borders watchdog, but only after sacking him for speaking to the medi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sensemaker: Why Wayne Couzens wasn't stopped
Episode 182
An inquiry into the police officer who murdered Sarah Everard has found that there were several opportunities to stop him in his tracks.
To find out m…
1 year, 10 months ago
News Meeting: Hopes for a Gaza ceasefire and Joe Biden’s political problems
Episode 181
What should lead the news? Three people pitch the story they think matters most to Tortoise’s editor-in-chief James Harding.
In this episode, David Rh…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sensemaker: What George Galloway’s return means for British politics
Episode 180
Rochdale’s new MP is a pro-Palestinian agitator who now has a parliamentary platform from which to exploit Labour’s divisions ahead of the general el…
1 year, 10 months ago
Editor's Voicemail: Jacob Rothschild
Episode 179
The financier and philanthropist, who died this week at the age of 87, was an enthusiastic supporter of Tortoise. In this Editor's Voicemail James Ha…
1 year, 10 months ago
News Meeting: The Couzens report, America’s airports and Taylor Swift’s political power
Episode 178
What should lead the news? Three people pitch the story they think matters most to Tortoise’s editor-in-chief James Harding.
In this episode James Har…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sensemaker: A spike in spiking?
Episode 177
A recent report suggested there was a “hidden epidemic” of spiking in the UK, but the data is complicated and often misunderstood. What’s really goin…
1 year, 10 months ago
Trendy: The race for the White House
Episode 176
The US presidential election is shaping up to be a repeat of 2020: Joe Biden vs Donald Trump. How does America choose its candidates and what’s likel…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sensemaker: How to hack the hackers
Episode 175
Last week the world’s largest ransomware gang was taken over in an extensive, international police operation. What does the infiltration of LockBit t…
1 year, 10 months ago