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News Meeting: Starvation in Gaza and why pensioners are the biggest budget losers
Episode 187
What should lead the news? Three people pitch the story they think should lead the news to Tortoise’s deputy editor Giles Whitttell.
Torsten Bell, chi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sensemaker: How Raye broke a Brits record
Episode 186
The singer-songwriter made history when she beat the record for the most wins in one year, but why did she have to ditch her record label to do it?
To…
2 years, 1 month ago
Trendy: Britain’s Covid hangover
Episode 185
Four years on from the start of the pandemic we’re still living with the consequences. In this episode, John Curtice and Rachel Wolf discuss Covid’s …
2 years, 1 month ago
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 …
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month ago