Phoebe Davis is a reporter with a particular focus on women’s health. She has covered UK and US abortion rights, sexual harassment training in the Premier League and women’s rights in Afghanistan. Before joining Tortoise she worked as a freelance researcher for Unreported World and Channel 4 Dispatches. She was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 and shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at The Press Awards 2024.
Phoebe Davis
Reporter
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Tuesday 4 October 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Paying for uni: do students loans work?
Join us for a ThinkIn where we try to make sense of the mess of student loans, and ask: what are the alternatives?
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Wednesday 17 March 2021
18:30-19:30 GMT
The Battle for Truth: Is local the answer?
Join us for a ThinkIn with local news innovators to discuss the future of local news.
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Thursday 5 November 2020
17:00-18:00 GMT
How to write with award winning poet Anthony Anaxagorou
Join our NextGen ThinkIns, created especially for students and apprentices.
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Thursday 29 October 2020
17:00-18:00 GMT
How to start a movement with anti-discrimination activist Alex Holmes
Alex Holmes used his personal experience of racism to start a grassroots movement that later saw him become deputy CEO in the charity sector.
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Wednesday 6 November 2024
Florida fails to overturn six-week abortion ban
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Wednesday 6 November 2024
Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target battleground states
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Monday 4 November 2024
Two more pregnant women die from US abortion bans preventing medical care
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Friday 1 November 2024
The Message: not comprehensive but stimulating all the same
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Thursday 31 October 2024
Afghanistan: ‘alarming’ rise in use of public flogging says UN report
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Friday 25 October 2024
Lucy Letby appeal denied but case heads to further review
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Friday 25 October 2024
American Idiot by Green Day (20th anniversary)
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Thursday 24 October 2024
Pelicot rape trial may change French consent law
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Thursday 24 October 2024
Alzheimer’s drug too dear for UK health service
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Wednesday 23 October 2024
David Gauke to lead prison sentencing review
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Tuesday 22 October 2024
UK introduces ‘patient passport’ laws to keep data in one place
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Friday 11 October 2024
Accusations mount against Harrod boss Al Fayed
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Friday 11 October 2024
Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat: and in fact even brattier
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Monday 7 October 2024
Study shows Antarctic Peninsula is going green
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Thursday 3 October 2024
Drug company reaches direct deal for HIV prevention
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Thursday 3 October 2024
Hurricane Helene upends US voting
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Tuesday 1 October 2024
Louisiana becomes first US state to criminalise abortion pill prescriptions
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Monday 30 September 2024
Covid inquiry: Data doesn’t show how close NHS came to collapse in Covid
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Friday 27 September 2024
UK not supporting legal action against the Taliban over women’s rights violations
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Friday 27 September 2024
Covid inquiry: patients “rained from the sky”
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Thursday 26 September 2024
Swiss police make arrests over ‘suicide pod’
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Tuesday 24 September 2024
Amber Nicole Thurman: America may never know the full impact of abortion bans
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Monday 16 September 2024
Afghan women demand action against the Taliban
A landmark conference calls gender apartheid a crime against humanity
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Tuesday 10 September 2024
UK prison release plan could trigger crisis in probation service
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Tuesday 10 September 2024
Concern about the Lucy Letby verdict could be about to peak
Court-watchers who sense a miscarriage of justice may not have been paying attention
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Thursday 5 September 2024
Supermodel Elle Macpherson refused chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
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Friday 30 August 2024
Smoking ban plan for spaces outside pubs
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Thursday 29 August 2024
African infectious disease expert concerned about mutated mpox strain
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Wednesday 28 August 2024
Taliban turns Afghanistan’s women into “voiceless shadows”
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Friday 23 August 2024
Taliban bars UN human rights rapporteur from Afghanistan
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Wednesday 21 August 2024
Why Hadley Duvall became a voice of the Harris campaign
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Tuesday 13 August 2024
Eight Olympians fall ill after swimming in the Seine
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Friday 9 August 2024
Teenage terrorist threat linked to IS forces Taylor Swift cancellations
One teenage suspect pledged allegiance to Islamic State as officials warn of growing terror threats in Europe.
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Friday 9 August 2024
The rise and rise of Chappell Roan
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Thursday 8 August 2024
Terror plot causes cancellation of Taylor Swift concerts
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Monday 5 August 2024
Of cats and children: why Americans are having fewer babies
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Monday 5 August 2024
Italy’s fishermen sound alarm over record sea temperatures
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Friday 2 August 2024
GPs vote to strike for better contracts
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Thursday 1 August 2024
UK universities move to ban non-disclosure agreements
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Wednesday 31 July 2024
Southport killings: vigil engulfed by rioters
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Tuesday 30 July 2024
Can AI help discover new copper deposits?
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Monday 29 July 2024
US says TikTok collected user views on abortion and guns
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Friday 26 July 2024
Africa and Aids: an injection of hope
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Tuesday 23 July 2024
Kamala Harris’s brat girl summer
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Monday 22 July 2024
Cancer patients ration food due to Creon drug shortage
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Friday 19 July 2024
Covid Inquiry: UK “failed” public by preparing for the “wrong pandemic”
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Thursday 18 July 2024
New test may speed ADHD diagnosis
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Wednesday 17 July 2024
Labour to make drink spiking a specific criminal offence
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Tuesday 16 July 2024
Malaria: new vaccine deployed across Ivory Coast
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Wednesday 10 July 2024
Labour’s prison crisis: one of the most urgent issues facing the new government
Overcrowded prisons have become one of the most urgent items facing the new government.
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Tuesday 9 July 2024
Russia hits children’s hospital in Kyiv
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Monday 8 July 2024
Iran elects its first reformist president in decades
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Friday 5 July 2024
Afghan women excluded from UN-Taliban meeting in Doha
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Wednesday 3 July 2024
Lucy Letby found guilty of trying to murder premature baby girl
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Friday 28 June 2024
Glastonbury – on TV
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Thursday 27 June 2024
Sick note: A broken NHS
The past 14 years have thrown the entire business model of the NHS into doubt.
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Wednesday 19 June 2024
Lidl chicken full of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, say campaigners
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Friday 14 June 2024
Bikini Kill’s reunion tour proves feminist punk is back
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Wednesday 12 June 2024
Identity politics: British voters no longer split between left and right, says survey
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Tuesday 11 June 2024
NHS launches blood donor appeal after hospital cyber attack
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Friday 7 June 2024
Every researcher on a key Wegovy trial declared interests in Novo Nordisk
Science and big pharma are joined at the hip. Does that skew results?
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Thursday 6 June 2024
Morning-after drugs to fight STIs
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Wednesday 5 June 2024
UK election 2024: Who is…Daisy Cooper?
One person, each day, to help make sense of the election.
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Tuesday 4 June 2024
Walkie-talkies? There’s an app for that
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Friday 31 May 2024
Britain’s oldest fly fishing club asked to admit female members
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Thursday 30 May 2024
Junior doctors: how would Labour deal with strike action?
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Thursday 30 May 2024
UK election 2024: Who is…Pat Cullen?
One person, each day, to help make sense of the election.
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Tuesday 28 May 2024
Boy’s sepsis death was “organisational system failure” says NHS board
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Friday 24 May 2024
The UK’s Rwanda scheme is dead – as policy
Conservatives will campaign on deportation flights even though it’s clear none will take off.
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Wednesday 22 May 2024
British teenager tested for abortion drugs after a suspected illegal abortion
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Tuesday 21 May 2024
Microplastics found in human testicles
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Tuesday 21 May 2024
Teachers say children regularly “too hungry to learn”
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Monday 20 May 2024
Tory MP Miriam Cates’ claim on 72 genders looks flimsy
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Friday 17 May 2024
Sex education: age limits proposed for first time
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Thursday 16 May 2024
Graduate visa scheme in UK gets a pass mark
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Wednesday 15 May 2024
Novo trial finds weight loss drug can cut heart attack risk
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Monday 13 May 2024
Children at risk of “enduring harm” from abusive parents if family courts don’t reform, say campaigners
Government minister says reform not “needed” to how parental contact is decided with children
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Friday 10 May 2024
Malaysia sends orangutans on diplomatic mission
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Wednesday 8 May 2024
More safety checks for Boeing
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Friday 3 May 2024
Judge raises “serious concerns” about treatment by Gender GP for young trans people
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Thursday 2 May 2024
White House ready to soften line on marijuana
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Thursday 2 May 2024
Vaccines: good news and bad
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Thursday 25 April 2024
MPs will not vote on decriminalising abortion before election, says Home Secretary
James Cleverly rules out a vote on women being jailed under a Victorian-era law that criminalises abortion.
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Friday 19 April 2024
The Tortured Poets Department: Taylor Swift releases 11th studio album
The world now divides into those who understand Swift and those who will have to find a way
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Wednesday 17 April 2024
Sudan: a country in pieces
The immediate problem is how to save half a million people from starvation.
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Tuesday 16 April 2024
“Obvious” Sydney attacker targeted women say police
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Monday 15 April 2024
Donald Tusk’s coalition moves to overturn Poland’s near-total abortion ban
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Friday 12 April 2024
Vietnam court sentences embezzler to death
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Wednesday 10 April 2024
UK parliamentary groups disband following new transparency rules
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Monday 8 April 2024
US abortion: Trump caught in political tangle
Polling suggests the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade in 2022 is hurting Republicans and boosting support for Democrats
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Thursday 4 April 2024
Uganda court backs new anti-LGBT+ law
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Friday 22 March 2024
Neuralink brain-chip patient plays chess
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Wednesday 20 March 2024
Why Gambia could reverse a ban on female genital mutilation
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Monday 18 March 2024
Sacklers funded research into opioid antidote at King’s College London
The family that made billions from Oxycontin is behind a firm working on a nasal opioid antidote.
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Monday 18 March 2024
Kate Kniveton: Rape victim urges parliament to cut off abusive parents
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Friday 8 March 2024
Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care
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Friday 1 March 2024
Wayne Couzens: inquiry calls for sexual offences review of all UK police
Angiolini Inquiry finds nothing to stop another Couzens operating in plain sight without “significant overhaul”
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Thursday 29 February 2024
Nude deepfakes disrupt Beverly Hills school
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Tuesday 27 February 2024
Why South Korea’s doctors went on strike
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Monday 26 February 2024
Endometriosis: British women forced to crowdfund for essential healthcare
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Tuesday 20 February 2024
Taliban snubs UN meeting on Afghanistan’s future
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Monday 19 February 2024
What’s so secret about data giant’s NHS deal with Palantir?
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Friday 16 February 2024
Greece became first majority Orthodox Christian country to legalise gay marriage
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Thursday 15 February 2024
Anita Annet Among: Campaigners urge UK to block Ugandan politician’s visa over “extreme” anti-LGBT+ views
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Wednesday 14 February 2024
Over 100 women affected by manufacturing fault at top UK fertility clinic
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Tuesday 13 February 2024
Patients increasingly relying on crowdfunding to pay medical costs
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Friday 9 February 2024
Damning report on Met handling of child sexual abuse claims
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Thursday 8 February 2024
Martha’s Rule: families secure right to second opinion
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Monday 5 February 2024
Women “step up” to sweep Grammy Awards gongs
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Friday 2 February 2024
Plaza Suite
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Wednesday 31 January 2024
US and UK sanction Iran trafficker linked to assassination squad
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Tuesday 30 January 2024
Pope says everyone will gradually accept same-sex blessings
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Monday 29 January 2024
Young men are becoming more conservative
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Friday 26 January 2024
AI nudes of Taylor Swift go viral – what will she do about it?
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Tuesday 23 January 2024
Measles: surge of cases in Birmingham prompts new vaccine drive
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Monday 22 January 2024
NHS staff should not call police after suspected illegal abortions
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Wednesday 17 January 2024
Fujitsu admits “moral obligation” to compensate Post Office victims
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Monday 15 January 2024
UK drug shortages double in two years
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Thursday 11 January 2024
Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to Dubai bars
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Wednesday 10 January 2024
British woman cleared of lockdown abortion charges
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Tuesday 9 January 2024
Ugandan LGBT+ activist’s life “isn’t guaranteed” after stabbing in Kampala
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Tuesday 19 December 2023
Switzerland becomes fourth country to automatically grant asylum to Afghan women
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Monday 18 December 2023
Local councils receive £64 billion package to stave off bankruptcy
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Friday 8 December 2023
42 things we learned at the Covid Inquiry this week
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Wednesday 6 December 2023
10 minute read
Covid inquiry: What we’ve learned so far ahead of Boris Johnson’s appearance
The former prime minister is due to face the Covid inquiry. Here’s what the inquiry has heard so far.
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Friday 24 November 2023
36 things we learned at the Covid inquiry this week
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Thursday 23 November 2023
Far-right populist wins Dutch election
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Tuesday 21 November 2023
Watchdog says poor should not pay for text cuts
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Monday 20 November 2023
Make Argentina great again
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Thursday 16 November 2023
Mexico’s first non-binary magistrate found dead
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Tuesday 14 November 2023
Indi Gregory’s life support removed after long legal battle
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Monday 13 November 2023
Six year-old daughter of Kenyan academic denied UK visa
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Friday 10 November 2023
43 things we learned at the Covid Inquiry this week
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Thursday 9 November 2023
House of Lords doubles threshold for declaring shares
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Tuesday 7 November 2023
Broken childcare promises
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Monday 6 November 2023
Novo goes stateside
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Friday 3 November 2023
80 things we learned at the Covid Inquiry this week
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Wednesday 1 November 2023
Dengue in Europe
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Wednesday 1 November 2023
Covid-19 Inquiry: Cummings comes to London
Dominic Cummings’s contempt for most of his colleagues during the pandemic can’t disguise the fact that he was part of a colossal government failure that cost nearly quarter of a million lives.
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Tuesday 31 October 2023
Martin Reynolds
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Monday 30 October 2023
British police testing women for abortion drugs
Forensic reports seen by Tortoise show police requesting tests for mifepristone and misoprostol
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Friday 27 October 2023
The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood
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Thursday 26 October 2023
Meta lawsuit
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Wednesday 25 October 2023
Hospital sepsis failings still causing too many deaths, says watchdog
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Wednesday 25 October 2023
Britain’s Covid inquiry shows disastrous gulf between politics and science
Britain’s Covid inquiry has laid bare the gulf between politics and science that will have to be bridged before any future pandemic. It’s also not showing Rishi Sunak in a good light.
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Tuesday 24 October 2023
Hospitals and doctors are increasingly victims of war
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Monday 23 October 2023
UK government official called Covid response “tragic joke”
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Thursday 19 October 2023
Whitehall needs better policies to tackle poverty
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Tuesday 17 October 2023
UK regulator reduces recommended daily CBD consumption
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Friday 13 October 2023
Swiftonomics
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Thursday 12 October 2023
How (not) to stop smoking
Report stubs out hopes for smoke-free Britain
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Wednesday 11 October 2023
EU warns Musk about X disinformation after Hamas attack
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Tuesday 10 October 2023
Nepalese migrant workers are returning home infertile
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Monday 9 October 2023
Young adults go private in the face of NHS waiting lists
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Thursday 5 October 2023
Qatar doesn’t get much for its £125 million in new Beckham documentary
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Wednesday 4 October 2023
GPs told not to prescribe ADHD medications amidst UK shortage
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Tuesday 3 October 2023
Ten years after being “forced out” of her lab, Katalin Karikó wins Nobel
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Monday 2 October 2023
Ogston and the Met
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Friday 29 September 2023
Vanya
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Tuesday 26 September 2023
Japan approves Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi
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Tuesday 26 September 2023
AFC Wimbledon managing director resigns after sexist comments revealed
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Monday 25 September 2023
Reform plan for sex offence trials an “affront to the principle of open justice”
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Friday 22 September 2023
Former official says ministers sought to digitise the NHS “on the cheap”
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Friday 22 September 2023
Game of AI
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Thursday 21 September 2023
Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of Fox and News Corp
92 year-old hands control of media companies to eldest son Lachlan
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Thursday 21 September 2023
Trans healthcare in England is insufficiently resourced, coroner says
Alice Litman’s mother said the inquest into her daughter’s death “should be a wake-up call”
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Wednesday 20 September 2023
Neuralink trial
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Tuesday 19 September 2023
Rotten barrels
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Monday 18 September 2023
Listen to the children
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Friday 8 September 2023
Autism detection
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Thursday 7 September 2023
Musk threatens to sue the ADL
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Thursday 7 September 2023
Martha’s rule
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Wednesday 6 September 2023
Dengue deaths
Bangladesh outbreak linked to climate change
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Tuesday 5 September 2023
Antony abuse allegations
Manchester United face pressure to suspend player
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Tuesday 5 September 2023
Labour said Martha’s Rule has “got to happen” in English hospitals
The party backed government introduction of a right to a second medical opinion
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Monday 4 September 2023
On the Raac
Sub-par concrete scandal as UK schools reopen
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Thursday 31 August 2023
More women are taking their own lives in Afghanistan than men
Since the Taliban takeover women and girls have accounted for the vast majority of suicides
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Wednesday 30 August 2023
Meddling with Meghan
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
Liberation at a price
Ukrainian troops take Robotyne as losses rise
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
“It’s over”
A non-consensual kiss kick-starts MeToo in Spain
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Friday 25 August 2023
The Braun Identity
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Friday 25 August 2023
Overseas care workers
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Thursday 24 August 2023
Womb transplants
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Wednesday 23 August 2023
Manchester United’s first team squad was not given mandatory sexual consent training
United, which this week reversed a controversial plan to bring back Mason Greenwood, did not follow Premier League rules
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Tuesday 22 August 2023
Letby handed whole-life jail term
Doctors calls for better regulation of NHS managers
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Monday 21 August 2023
Lionesses’ defeated
Spain win women’s World Cup final
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Friday 18 August 2023
Wildfires empty Yellowknife
Residents say Facebook news ban isn’t helping
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Friday 18 August 2023
Birth rate falls
Birth rate in England and Wales lowest in two decades
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Thursday 17 August 2023
Narcan with that?
Restaurants and bars are ready for your OD
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Wednesday 16 August 2023
Fourth woman faces illegal abortion charge as UK prosecutions rise
Bethany Cox is the fourth woman in eight months to appear in a UK court on illegal abortion charges
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Monday 14 August 2023
Legionella on the Bibby
Home Office faces questions
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Friday 11 August 2023
Sacklers blocked
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Friday 11 August 2023
Only half of Premier League teams are prepared to confirm they conducted mandatory sexual consent training
The Premier League season starts today under a cloud. Every club was ordered to give staff and players sexual consent training but only half are prepared to say they have complied.
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Thursday 10 August 2023
Otoniel sentenced
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Thursday 10 August 2023
Hawaii wildfires
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Wednesday 9 August 2023
UK electoral roll hacked
40 million voters’ data put at risk
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Tuesday 8 August 2023
Antibiotic resistance
Pollution linked to increased antibiotic resistance for the first time
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Monday 7 August 2023
Migrant barge
First asylum seekers to be put on Bibby Stockholm
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Friday 4 August 2023
Situation critical
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Friday 4 August 2023
Reggae Girlz
Jamaica’s women through to last 16
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Thursday 3 August 2023
Escape on a rudder
Nigerian stowaways surprised to end up in Brazil
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Wednesday 2 August 2023
A question of memory
Are we entering the scientific epoch of trauma?
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Wednesday 2 August 2023
AI-generated love
Can generative AI help you date?
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Tuesday 1 August 2023
Mercy killing
Pensioner found guilty of manslaughter for killing sick wife
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Monday 31 July 2023
Portland’s problem
The fentanyl epidemic is wrecking cities as well as lives
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Friday 28 July 2023
Dramatic rise in terminally-ill people’s energy bills is cutting lives short
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Thursday 27 July 2023
UK tycoon bailed
Spurs-linked billionaire indicted
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
Predator in a white coat
Manhattan gynaecologist sentenced to 20 years for molesting patients
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
Loeb’s spherules
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Tuesday 25 July 2023
Getting sicker
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Friday 21 July 2023
Barbie – out now
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Thursday 20 July 2023
FCA chief’s resolve
Watchdog pledges to tackle non-financial misconduct
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Wednesday 19 July 2023
Compassion, not punishment
Mother jailed after lockdown abortion is released
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Wednesday 19 July 2023
Tata-factory
Jaguar Land Rover-owner confirms UK gigafactory
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Tuesday 18 July 2023
Is university education still worth it?
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Monday 17 July 2023
A whole new world
By 2050, demographic shifts could change global centres of power
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Friday 14 July 2023
Miss Americana and the billion-dollar tour
The taylor-nomics of being the world’s biggest singer
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Friday 14 July 2023
Bugging out
Air pollution harms bugs more than we thought
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Thursday 13 July 2023
Thai elections
Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to be prime minister in jeopardy
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Thursday 13 July 2023
China hackers
US commerce secretary’s emails hacked by China
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Wednesday 12 July 2023
Glasgow night bus cut
Scotland’s largest city won’t have public transport at night
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Wednesday 12 July 2023
Miracle cure?
Are weight loss jabs worth the cost?
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
Oh mother
The UK’s failing maternity care
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Monday 10 July 2023
Rutte quits politics
Dutch PM to leave politics
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Monday 10 July 2023
ChatGPT sued
US authors sue ChatGPT over copyright infringement
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Thursday 6 July 2023
Thread o’clock
10 million users in a few hours
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Tuesday 4 July 2023
Barbie borders
Vietnam bans Barbie film over South China Sea map
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Friday 30 June 2023
Court rules Rwanda is not a safe country to send asylum seekers
The UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has collided with reality in the form of an appeals court ruling that it would not be safe.
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Friday 30 June 2023
NHS workforce plan
Sunak sets out “historic” plan to sort NHS workforce
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Thursday 29 June 2023
The velvet hammer
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Wednesday 28 June 2023
Malaria in Texas
Malaria is being locally transmitted in America
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Wednesday 28 June 2023
Brexit and the pandemic
Matt Hancock appears at Covid inquiry
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Tuesday 27 June 2023
Cancer closure
National institute to shut for lack of funds
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Monday 26 June 2023
Underperforming NHS
UK has one of the lowest life expectancies among rich nations
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Friday 23 June 2023
Battle of the billionaires
Musk and Zuckerberg to fight in Vegas
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Thursday 22 June 2023
Kagame’s men
Damning UN report links Rwanda to DR Congo rebels
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Tuesday 20 June 2023
Gender apartheid
UN calls it in Afghanistan
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Friday 16 June 2023
The un-graduate
University marking boycotts leaves students without degrees
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Wednesday 14 June 2023
The United Nations has cut its annual aid budget plan for Afghanistan by a third
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
UK abortion laws “out of date” say MPs and campaigners
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Monday 12 June 2023
Blocking puberty blockers
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Friday 9 June 2023
Meta’s Twitter
Zuckerberg plans “sanely run” app to compete with Twitter
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Thursday 8 June 2023
New study finds “lucid dreaming” can significantly decrease PTSD symptoms
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Wednesday 7 June 2023
Afghan school girls
Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
Neuralink
Elon Musk wants to connect brains to supercomputers
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Monday 5 June 2023
100-year gut
Bugs may help you live longer
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Friday 2 June 2023
Menopause standard
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Wednesday 24 May 2023
Texas abortion lawsuit
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Tuesday 23 May 2023
Casserolades
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Monday 22 May 2023
NHS, NHS, NHS
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Monday 22 May 2023
nibs-piano-test
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Friday 19 May 2023
The Love Invention
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Friday 19 May 2023
Ange out, Andy (still) in
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Friday 19 May 2023
Obesity drug
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Thursday 18 May 2023
Cancer screenings
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Tuesday 16 May 2023
UN betrays women in Afghanistan
Afghan women working for the UN in Kabul say they have been betrayed by the organisation’s failure to protect them from the Taliban’s gender apartheid. Also in today’s Sensemaker: why an opposition win in Thailand isn’t quite a win.
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Friday 12 May 2023
The Truth Teller
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Friday 12 May 2023
Tavistock delay
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Wednesday 10 May 2023
3 DNA
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Tuesday 9 May 2023
Sober Putin
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Wednesday 12 April 2023
Battleground abortion
What just happened
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Wednesday 22 March 2023
Sensemaker: Spent force
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Tuesday 14 March 2023
Sensemaker: NHS receipts
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Friday 10 February 2023
Sensemaker: England at prayer
What just happened
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Thursday 2 February 2023
Sensemaker: Code red
What just happened
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Sunday 8 January 2023
Come fly, MP
Hidden in plain sight: David “Airmiles” Morris
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Friday 25 November 2022
Sensemaker: Winner takes it all
What just happened
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Friday 30 September 2022
Sensemaker: Chess conspiracies
What just happened
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Friday 16 September 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Standstill Britain
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Monday 27 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: No Roe
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Wednesday 1 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Abortion – the future is already here
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Thursday 12 May 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Who abortion bans hurt
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Wednesday 27 April 2022
Afghanistan 8 months on
Eight months after the US-led withdrawal from Kabul, the man who led President Obama’s surge there a decade ago laments a “heartbreaking failure”
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Wednesday 27 April 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Afghanistan 8 months on
What just happened
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Monday 11 April 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Prosecuting rape in war
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Wednesday 6 April 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The pay gap gap
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Wednesday 23 March 2022
Still Covid
In the two years since Boris Johnson told the UK to stay at home, Covid has claimed more than 160,000 lives. Vaccines have saved lives across the world, but many fewer than they might have if fairly distributed
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Wednesday 23 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Still Covid
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Wednesday 2 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Exodus
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Thursday 24 February 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Russia invades
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Wednesday 23 February 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Money balks
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Wednesday 26 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Psychedelics on the NHS?
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Friday 21 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Gas and hot air
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Thursday 13 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Case not dismissed
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Wednesday 12 January 2022
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Sensemaker: Geneva showdown
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Tuesday 4 January 2022
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Sensemaker: Happy New Year?
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Friday 17 December 2021
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Sensemaker: Staring into space
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Thursday 16 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Nuclear Biscuit
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Monday 13 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Griffiths v Griffiths
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Friday 10 December 2021
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Sensemaker: Sticker shock
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Wednesday 8 December 2021
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Sensemaker: French connections
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Tuesday 7 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Dysfunction and chaos?
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Friday 3 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker Special: Boosters vs vaccinating the world
What just happened
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Wednesday 1 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Taliban murders
What just happened
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Monday 29 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vax v variant
What just happened
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Friday 26 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Channel quarrel
What just happened
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Thursday 25 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Channel drownings
What just happened
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Wednesday 24 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Great Migration
What just happened
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Tuesday 23 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: No Bojo mojo
What just happened
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Tuesday 16 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: New lockdowns
What just happened
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Wednesday 10 November 2021
Counting carbon
The amount of carbon put out needs to decrease, the amount taken in to increase. To do that you need to count carbon. Welcome to remote sensing.
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Saturday 6 November 2021
Greta 2.0
The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?
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Tuesday 26 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Got your back
What just happened
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Tuesday 19 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Great Resignation
What just happened
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Thursday 14 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The protocol stand-off
What just happened
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Tuesday 12 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Noble economics
What just happened
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Monday 11 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Britain and Europe: red lines at dawn
What just happened
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Friday 8 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Gas and hot air
What just happened
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Tuesday 5 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Facebook down
What just happened
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Friday 1 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Abortion in America
What just happened
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Thursday 23 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Nevergrande
What just happened
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Tuesday 21 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: America first, Haiti last
What just happened
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Thursday 16 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Long Johnson
What just happened
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Wednesday 15 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: News about news
What just happened
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Tuesday 14 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Taliban words and actions
What just happened
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Friday 3 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Back to school
What just happened
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Tuesday 24 August 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Zero Covid v Delta
What just happened
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Monday 23 August 2021
10 minute read Sensemaker: It’s not over in Panjshir
What just happened
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Thursday 19 August 2021
Slow Reviews Part IV
Heathers
Phoebe Davis on a movie that showed the really, really dark side of teenage life
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Wednesday 18 August 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vaccine hoarders
What just happened
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Friday 13 August 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Football and racism
What just happened
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Tuesday 10 August 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Hungaro-Polexit?
What just happened
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Monday 9 August 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Fire season
What just happened
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Thursday 22 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Pandemic of the unvaccinated
What just happened
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Thursday 15 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Farewell Hong Kong
What just happened
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Thursday 8 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vaccinating America
What just happened
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Tuesday 6 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vaccine neighbourhoods
What just happened
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Wednesday 17 March 2021
K2
Further reading
If you’ve been gripped by this week’s File on K2, there’s plenty more to discover. Here we’ve compiled a selection of books, films, articles and more on the Savage Mountain
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Tuesday 16 March 2021
K2
Straight up
Climbing K2 in maps and data
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Friday 12 February 2021
A year of Covid
Further reading
It’s been a year of Covid. Here is some extra reading material to help contextualise that time
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Thursday 14 January 2021
The Vaccine
A user’s guide
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Tuesday 24 November 2020
Downing Street: Cummings, communication & public confidence
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Monday 16 November 2020
What happened in care?
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Wednesday 30 October 2024
Why doesn’t prison work for women?
The UK’s new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has pledged to radically reduce the number of women going to prison in England and Wales.
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Thursday 10 October 2024
Will facial recognition technology transform policing?
The head of the UK’s largest police force says facial recognition technology could be the best new crime fighting tool since fingerprinting. But campaigners have called it ‘dystopian’.
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Monday 9 September 2024
Lucy Letby: the Expert Witness
The story of Lucy Letby’s trial is, in part, the story of how expert witnesses have become critical in criminal cases where hard evidence is in short supply. They can be spectacularly insightful or spectacularly, catastrophically wrong. How is a jury supposed to know which of those versions it’s listening to?
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Monday 2 September 2024
Afghanistan’s new ‘vice and virtue’ laws
After banning a UN official from Afghanistan the Taliban introduced draconian new laws that further restrict the rights of women and girls. What is the world doing about human rights abuses in the country?
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Friday 16 August 2024
London (Taylor’s Version)
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has returned to Wembley Stadium for another five nights, which means she will have performed the show in London more than any other city in the world. Why does London mean so much to the self-styled Miss Americana?
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Wednesday 14 August 2024
Taylor Swift’s London
Taylor Swift is performing more concerts in London than anywhere else in the world. The city’s had a tangible impact on her music, her career and her personal life. So what does London tell us about one of the world’s biggest stars?
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Wednesday 29 May 2024
The women facing deportation to Rwanda
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Monday 13 May 2024
The Sacklers: Getting away with it
The Sackler family made billions from the opioid painkiller OxyContin, which played a significant part in the opioid epidemic. The Sacklers have been blamed for fuelling the crisis, but have they really been held accountable – or are they getting away with it?
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Friday 10 May 2024
Bumble changes course
The dating app Bumble ditched its requirement for women to write the first message. What does the change in tack tell us about the business of modern dating?
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Monday 18 March 2024
Children taken from their mother after a suspected illegal abortion
Tortoise spent six months fighting to report that a British mother being investigated for a suspected illegal abortion had her existing children removed from her care. How did it happen?
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Tuesday 5 March 2024
In plain sight: why Wayne Couzens wasn’t stopped
An inquiry into the police officer who murdered Sarah Everard has found that there were several opportunities to stop him in his tracks.
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Friday 2 February 2024
The Taylor Swift deepfake scandal
When sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift went viral on social media her loyal fans tried to drown them out with other content about the pop star, but it didn’t stop the fakes spreading like wildfire.
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Thursday 18 January 2024
The Bethany Cox abortion case
A 22 year-old woman from Stockton-on-Tees was found not guilty of having an illegal at-home abortion. She is one of six similar cases this year. Why is this happening?
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Wednesday 27 December 2023
The Taylor Swift Era
This year there was one artist who smashed records. But what does Taylor Swift’s monumental success say about the future of the music industry?
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Monday 4 December 2023
Unforgivable: Boris Johnson and Covid’s second wave
From the middle of September 2020 to the end of October, Boris Johnson’s government dithered and delayed the decision over a second national lockdown. This is the story of those 43 days, laid bare at the Covid Inquiry: a story of chaos
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Monday 27 November 2023
Covid inquiry: how Rishi Sunak ‘handled the scientists’
What we’ve learned about his record as chancellor during the pandemic.
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Friday 3 November 2023
Covid inquiry: the wrong crisis for Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson and his supporters like to say he “got the big calls right” as prime minister, but evidence given to the Covid inquiry has cast doubt on that claim. What have we learnt about his leadership?
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Monday 16 October 2023
ADHD drug shortages start to bite
An estimated 150,000 people are being affected by a UK-wide shortage of ADHD medication. What does running out of pills mean for people with ADHD – and why is there a shortage?
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Monday 5 June 2023
Uganda’s tough new anti-gay law
Uganda’s president has approved a new anti-gay law, which is among the harshest in the world. What does it mean for LGBT+ people in the country?
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Friday 19 May 2023
The United Nations in Afghanistan
Why the UN is under fire from some of its own staff in Afghanistan for its treatment of women staff.
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Thursday 11 May 2023
Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse
James Harding is joined by Liz Moseley, Phoebe Davis and Keith Blackmore to discuss the stories they think mattered most this week.
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Monday 6 March 2023
Family money
This is the story of a politician incapable of living within his means but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. It’s the story of how that dependence on others sullied him and them. All of which leads to one simple question: just who is funding Boris Johnson?
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Monday 25 July 2022
America at the crossroads: abortion in South Bend
The fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse abortion rights is reverberating across America. Arguably nowhere more so than in South Bend, Indiana, a small city in the heart of the Midwest
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
HRT: the Davina effect?
The UK is currently facing a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) shortage. Could it have been avoided?
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Friday 8 April 2022
The conversion therapy conversion
The government’s conversion therapy ban is going ahead, but will not cover trans people. Why?
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Tuesday 5 April 2022
The gender pay gap bot
On International Women’s Day, a Twitter bot drew attention to the gender pay gap in Britain’s biggest companies. But does the data they report tell the full story?
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Thursday 20 January 2022
Virginia
Virginia Giuffre is Prince Andrew’s accuser. She’s fought some of the most powerful people in the world – and, amazingly, she’s won.
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Tuesday 4 January 2022
2022: Predictions
Today, we’re doing something a little different. We’re going to kick off the year by predicting a few big things we think will happen in 2022.
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Thursday 16 December 2021
Europe’s first cannabis country
This week Malta became the first European country to legalise the cultivation and possession of cannabis for personal use. Will this be a trend across the rest of Europe?
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Tuesday 7 December 2021
Dread in Ukraine
Russia is building up troops near its border with Ukraine. Moscow claims there is a growing threat on its western border. It all feels like a return to 2014… why the renewed tensions?
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Thursday 25 November 2021
The blob running Britain?
Kate Bingham is one of many public figures to accuse the government, civil service, and the media of being a “blob” resistant to reform. Is it really a problem?
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Tuesday 26 October 2021
Britain’s tumbling birth rate
In the UK, we’re having fewer children than ever before. What’s going on?
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Monday 18 October 2021
The return of inflation
Inflation – a rise in the cost of living – used to be a huge problem in the UK. Is it about to become one again?
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Friday 24 September 2021
Netflix’s golden ticket
Streaming giant Netflix has bought the rights to children’s author Roald Dahl’s stories. Is this the start of a new cinematic universe?
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Tuesday 24 August 2021
Time’s up for Tokyo?
This week the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games kick off. But with Covid cases on the rise, and the city under its fourth state of emergency, enthusiasm for the Games is beginning to wear thin. So what price are Tokyo’s residents really having to pay for the Games?
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Thursday 19 August 2021
Policing the incels
Jake Davison, an ‘incel’ who was radicalised online, killed five people with a licensed gun. Should social media checks be a part of gun ownership?
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Thursday 22 July 2021
A spy called Pegasus
Pegasus is a piece of spyware that can infiltrate your phone and steal its secrets. This week we learned how governments are using it.
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Monday 24 May 2021
The teenager who filmed George Floyd
Darnella Frazier was just 17 and on her way to the shop when she stumbled across a tragedy: the murder of George Floyd
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Friday 14 May 2021
Donald Trump – not president, still powerful
The sacking of a US politician this week shows that Donald Trump is still the biggest show in town in the Republican Party
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Friday 7 May 2021
Caitlyn Jenner runs into trouble
Caitlyn Jenner, one of the most famous trans people in the world, is running to be governor of California. But mainstream politics and trans rights don’t always sit well together.
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Friday 23 April 2021
Electric dreams in the USA
Joe Biden is pushing hard for action on climate change. Can he get America to drive electric?
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Monday 12 April 2021
The case of Katie Hill
Katie Hill is an American politician whose nude photos were published online by a newspaper. Now, a judge has ruled that these images are in the public interest. Are they?