Ella is a reporter at Tortoise, working mainly on the Sensemaker team. Before Tortoise, she interned at the Economist’s 1843 magazine. Prior to journalism, she worked (briefly) as a researcher for an NGO in Jordan.
Ella Hill
Reporter

“For me, Tortoise is all about storytelling: from the clarity of the daily Sensemaker to our investigations shedding light on urgent, complex stories. It’s a privilege to be part of the reporting team.”
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Monday 19 April 2021
18:30-19:30 BSTCampus Injustice: are women safe on campus?
How do we fix rising sexual abuse on campus? Join us to find out.
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Friday 21 July 2023
Trump faces third indictment over January 6th riot
Donald Trump is on the edge of a third criminal indictment as trial dates start colliding with key dates in the electoral calendar
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Tuesday 8 November 2022
End time for Bidenism
American democracy is about to make American governance grind to a halt again. Barring an upset, the midterms spell the end of Biden’s brief stint as an activist president
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Tuesday 8 November 2022
Sensemaker: End time for Bidenism
What just happened
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Friday 4 November 2022
Sensemaker: American democracy
What just happened
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Tuesday 18 October 2022
Sensemaker: All to play for
What just happened
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Friday 2 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Amazon primed
What just happened
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Thursday 4 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Brides to China
What just happened
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Monday 25 July 2022
Trump dumped
Have Congress’s January 6 hearings served their purpose even if they don’t lead to an indictment?
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Monday 25 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Trump dumped
What just happened
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Monday 20 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: World War Four?
What just happened
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Friday 17 June 2022
Watergate now
A minor burglary started the most famous political scandal of modern times. It still resonates
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Monday 13 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: America’s reckoning
What just happened
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Wednesday 1 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Abortion – the future is already here
What just happened
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Thursday 19 May 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Death spiral of the Lunatics
What just happened
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Monday 25 April 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Macron by a margin
What just happened
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Thursday 14 April 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: The race to save Ukraine
What just happened
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Monday 11 April 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Prosecuting rape in war
What just happened
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Monday 21 March 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Meanwhile, in the rest of the world
What just happened
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Monday 14 March 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: War crimes and punishment
What just happened
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Thursday 10 March 2022
Fortress Britain
How Priti Patel failed to grasp the scale and urgency of the Ukrainian refugee crisis
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Thursday 10 March 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Fortress Britain
What just happened
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Friday 4 March 2022
Putin may not be satisfied with Ukraine, even if he takes it all. So where might he go next?
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Friday 25 February 2022
Russian invasion means new nuclear deal hangs by a thread
Can the delicate balance of the Iran deal withstand the pressure of another geopolitical crisis?
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Friday 18 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Mo’ money
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Thursday 17 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Lessons of Razzlekhan
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Monday 14 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Big Education’s big deal
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Wednesday 9 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Caribbean Clingon
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Monday 31 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Back to work
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Thursday 27 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Voting rights and wrongs
What just happened
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Thursday 20 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Vaccine mandates
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Monday 10 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Peoples’ republics
What just happened
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Thursday 6 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Insurrection reckoning
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Tuesday 5 October 2021
The soil carbon opportunity
Let the world’s farmlands breathe and come alive, and they might just steer the planet to net zero
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Monday 6 September 2021
The resignation of Trinity Hall’s master should be just the start
After a Tortoise investigation into sexual assault and harassment allegations at the Cambridge college, Dr Jeremy Morris quit his post. This should be only the beginning of an institutional and regulatory overhaul in the higher education sector
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Wednesday 18 August 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Vaccine hoarders
What just happened
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Thursday 12 August 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Afghanistan on the brink
What just happened
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Monday 9 August 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Fire season
What just happened
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Tuesday 13 July 2021
Windfall v wind power
Renewables are growing fast, but fossil fuels need to shrink much faster
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Monday 12 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Troppo Bello
What just happened
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Wednesday 30 June 2021
Campus Justice II
Crisis in the colleges
Oxford’s medieval structures create a particular problem with dealing with the assault and harassment crisis
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Tuesday 8 June 2021
Climate? Covid? Or both?
The world’s poorer countries are still struggling to vaccinate their citizens, which has made it harder for them to concentrate on tackling the climate crisis. Ahead of COP26 in November, that doesn’t bode well
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Tuesday 1 June 2021
The People v Shell
A big case in the Netherlands dealt a significant blow to the oil multinational last week – one which could soon have major implications for similar companies
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Tuesday 25 May 2021
Retrofitting net zero
Buildings account for around a quarter of the UK’s CO2 emissions – on par with emissions from surface transport. But unlike for transport, there’s no plan to get these emissions to net zero, and that’s a problem
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Monday 24 May 2021
10 minute readOff the deep end
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Tuesday 18 May 2021
The case for net zero
As John Kerry wades into the shark tank of net zero debate, this week’s Net Zero Sensemaker gets behind its name
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Wednesday 14 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Tension in Ukraine
What just happened
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Thursday 8 April 2021
What teenagers are telling us on Everyone’s Invited
Young people have shared 14,000 accounts of rape culture at over 600 different schools. Analysis of their testimonies reveals the challenges children face, and what they want done about it
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Wednesday 7 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Where AstraZeneca went wrong
What just happened
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Thursday 1 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Crisis in Brazil
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Thursday 11 February 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Women and MBS
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Friday 5 February 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Seven year scratch
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Thursday 7 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: DC insurrection
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Tuesday 29 December 2020
The good that happened in 2020: Wealth
2020 wasn’t all bad. And it’s important that we remember that. This series considers the heartening things that happened this year, according to each of Tortoise’s five main themes
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Thursday 10 December 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Biology’s breakthrough
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Friday 4 December 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Brexit: to diverge, or not?
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Wednesday 2 December 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Brexit crunch week part 2
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Monday 30 November 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Eyes off the prize
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Friday 27 November 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Tiers before Christmas
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Tuesday 24 November 2020
Who was failed the most?
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Thursday 19 November 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Conflict in Tigray
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Wednesday 18 November 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Devolution disaster
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Monday 16 November 2020
The lost month: what happened in February?
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Monday 9 November 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Biden’s time
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Friday 6 November 2020
10 minute readSensemaker: Neck and neck
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Friday 30 October 2020
10 minute readSensemaker, 30 October 2020
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Monday 26 October 2020
10 minute readSensemaker, 26 October 2020
What just happened
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Monday 12 October 2020
10 minute readSensemaker, 12 October 2020
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Friday 9 October 2020
10 minute readSensemaker, 9 October 2020
What just happened
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Thursday 8 October 2020
10 minute readTest and trace
A shot in the dark
The prime minister is reaching for the stars, but the test and trace scheme is still in the gutter
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Thursday 1 October 2020
Big Egg
Hatching the egg
Meet the new generation of pioneers in fertility science, technology and ethics
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Wednesday 17 June 2020
The government is unwell
Infection HQ
Britain’s leading politicians are spread across a few buildings and streets in central London. Here’s how – and when – the virus swept through them
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Friday 29 May 2020
Universities in crisis
Safe space?
Making campuses covid-secure is a complex problem and good information is hard to find
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Wednesday 20 May 2020
Social care
A new deal
Could Covid-19 do for social care what World War II did for the NHS?
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Tuesday 18 February 2020
Campus justice
A college with secrets
Sexual assault allegations from three different women against the same man. A grave allegation of sexual assault by a senior academic on a male student. And an historic allegation of sexual assault against another academic.
These three cases all crashed into a Cambridge college within a few months of one another, early in 2018, each more complex than the last.
This investigation asks: does the reputation of an institution and its close-knit group of tutors count for more than the welfare of students in their care?
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Monday 4 September 2023
Can Britain work with China?
Last week James Cleverly was the first British foreign secretary to visit China for five years. What does the trip say about the UK’s relationship with Beijing?
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Wednesday 30 August 2023
Oliver Anthony: America’s unlikely star
A previously unknown and unsigned musician has topped the US charts with a song that blames urban elites for the troubles of working-class Americans. How did the right turn “Rich Men North of Richmond” into a hit?
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
A family’s apology for slavery
The descendants of former British prime minister William Gladstone have travelled to Guyana to apologise for their family’s role in the slave trade.
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Monday 21 August 2023
The trials of Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani used to be known as “America’s Mayor”. Now he’s facing criminal charges for helping Donald Trump in his conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election result in the US state of Georgia.
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Wednesday 16 August 2023
Hawaii wildfires: why were they so deadly?
The island of Maui has been devastated by the deadliest wildfires in the US in more than a century. What made them so destructive?
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Friday 11 August 2023
Phoenix’s month from hell
July was the world’s hottest month on record and one city in particular experienced extreme temperatures for a 31-day streak. How are places like Phoenix coping with the affects of climate change?
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Wednesday 9 August 2023
Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit
In 1951 doctors took tissue from a Black woman without her consent. In the decades that followed they contributed to major medical breakthroughs. Now her family has won a settlement from a company they say profited unfairly.
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Saturday 5 August 2023
UFOs discussed in Congress
Lawmakers in the United States have heard evidence from three former military and intelligence officials about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. How did we get here and what did we learn?
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Wednesday 2 August 2023
Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction
It took almost two decades to get his conviction overturned. Now Andrew Malkinson faces a battle to get compensation.
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Friday 28 July 2023
Why Israel’s judicial overhaul is causing unrest
Israel has seen huge protests after its parliament passed a controversial law that will diminish the power of the Supreme Court. Why has it caused so much unrest?
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Tuesday 25 July 2023
Nigel Farage vs. Coutts
A private bank has been forced to apologise after closing Nigel Farage’s account. How did Coutts manage to inspire support for the former UKIP leader?
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Monday 24 July 2023
The Bibby Stockholm: savings or symbolism?
A barge to house asylum seekers arrived on the UK’s south coast last week. The government says it’ll help save money on accommodation costs, but is it really about politics?
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Tuesday 18 July 2023
Wage rise worries
The rate of wage growth is worrying the Bank of England. Who is benefitting and why does it cause a headache for policymakers?
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
Claims and counterclaims about a BBC presenter
The story about a BBC presenter who was alleged to have paid for sexually explicit photographs of a teenager has been thrown into doubt by a statement from the young person’s lawyer. What does this latest revelation change about the story?
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Thursday 6 July 2023
Trouble at Thames Water
Problems at the UK’s biggest water company have raised questions for the whole industry. What brought Thames Water to the brink of collapse?
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Friday 14 April 2023
The Pentagon documents leak
The FBI has arrested a man who they believe is linked to a leak of confidential US defence and intelligence documents. What did we learn from the leak?
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Wednesday 12 April 2023
Virgin Orbit
Richard Branson’s latest space venture was meant to revolutionise the satellite industry. Instead, it went bankrupt. What went wrong?
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Thursday 6 April 2023
The charges against Donald Trump
Former US president Donald Trump is facing criminal charges in New York but he faces more serious legal challenges elsewhere.
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Monday 3 April 2023
Protests in Israel
Why Israel is in turmoil over plans to give politicians more control over the courts.
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Wednesday 28 December 2022
Courting controversy
In 2022 the United States Supreme Court has reshaped America through a series of controversial decisions on the climate; religious rights; gun laws and – most momentous of all – abortion.
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Friday 28 October 2022
Hu Jintao’s mysterious exit
The former president of China was publicly hauled out of an important political meeting last week. The Chinese government says he’d fallen ill, but was it actually a power play by Xi Jinping?
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Thursday 1 September 2022
Man of the Hole
The last member of one of Brazil’s uncontacted indigenous tribes has died. What does his story tell us about Brazil’s indigenous people?
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Monday 22 August 2022
Adam Neumann’s comeback
After a failed IPO and multi-billion dollar losses, the founder of WeWork left the company in disgrace in 2019. But Adam Neumann is back in business with a real estate startup. So who’s betting on his latest venture?
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Tuesday 16 August 2022
Donald Trump’s document stash
The FBI discovered 11 sets of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home, some of them were top secret. What will the fallout be for the former president?
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Monday 8 August 2022
Taiwan tensions
Relations between the US and China were already strained before Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. So why did Nancy Pelosi go, despite the warnings?
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Monday 1 August 2022
Trump under pressure
The January 6th hearings might have paused for the summer, but the other investigations into Donald Trump’s actions are only picking up pace. What does it mean for the former president, and will he run in 2024?
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Thursday 28 July 2022
Mass shootings and the media
Since the start of 2022 there have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States. The public rarely sees the violent reality of mass shootings, so when journalists do get hold of images from them, is it their duty to publish them?
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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 12 July 2022
Britain’s fuel protests
High fuel prices are causing pain for motorists. Some have even taken part in “go slow” protests on motorways. Can the cost of petrol and diesel be controlled?
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Friday 1 July 2022
The star witness
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson gave some remarkable testimony about Donald Trump’s behaviour to the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot. But do her revelations make criminal charges against the former president more likely?
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Tuesday 21 June 2022
Liz Cheney’s battle for truth
The Republican party has turned against Liz Cheney for her part in the January 6th committee investigations. But for her, telling the truth about what happened on that day matters more than anything else.
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Tuesday 14 June 2022
Long Covid: What do we know?
Around two million people in the UK are living with long Covid. We know the signs and symptoms but we still don’t know all that much about what exactly causes it – and how patients can get better, sooner.
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Monday 6 June 2022
Hungary for Russian oil
The EU is banning almost 90% of Russian oil imports by 2023. But it stopped short of a total embargo because Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban objected. What impact will it have on Russia’s economy?
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Friday 27 May 2022
Another American school massacre
The gunman who killed 21 people including 19 children at a school in Uvalde, Texas used two AR-15 assault rifles. Why, despite so many mass shootings, can you still buy military-style weapons in America?
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Monday 23 May 2022
Unstoppable inflation?
The governor of the Bank of England warned last week that inflation could get worse – and that most things driving price rises are beyond his control. But others say the Bank was slow to act when prices first started going up. Could it have done more?
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Monday 16 May 2022
The social housing activist
Since 2021, housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa has been travelling up and down the country visiting substandard homes, documenting the conditions and interviewing tenants. His campaigning is making a difference.
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Monday 9 May 2022
Trouble in paradise
The British Virgin Islands has been beset by scandals. The premier was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, and a separate inquiry found evidence of state corruption. How did it come to this?
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Tuesday 3 May 2022
A Capitol coup attempt?
A congressional committee is investigating what happened on January 6th 2021 and in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol. This is what it has uncovered so far.
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Friday 22 April 2022
France’s choice
Marine Le Pen is running Emmanuel Macron closer than before in the French presidential race. What’s behind her popularity?
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Wednesday 20 April 2022
Russia’s new commander in Ukraine
A new phase of Russia’s invasion has begun and Vladimir Putin has put a new general in charge. What do we know about him and what does it mean for the war in Ukraine?
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Wednesday 13 April 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history
History was made last week when Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first ever Black woman to serve as a United States Supreme Court judge. But her confirmation hearings were marred by baseless verbal attacks from Republican Senators. Why did they do it?
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Thursday 7 April 2022
Why can’t the UN do more for Ukraine?
The United Nations is stuck. Russia wields the power of its veto to block any Security Council resolutions condemning its invasion of Ukraine. How did it come to this?
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Monday 4 April 2022
Stan the T-Rex
When a T-Rex fossil was sold to an anonymous buyer in 2020, palaeontologists worried that the skeleton could be lost to science. Eighteen months later, the fossil has reappeared. But is it good news for researchers?
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Tuesday 22 March 2022
The propagandist and the protestor
The Kremlin has near total control over the media in Russia, so when one woman protested the Ukraine war live on air, she disrupted the narrative – and sent shockwaves around Russia.
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Tuesday 15 March 2022
The Russian convoy
A 40-mile column of Russian trucks, tanks and armoured vehicles was a symbol of its military might. But then it got stuck. What does it tell us about the invasion of Ukraine?
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Tuesday 8 March 2022
The return of Viktor Yanukovych?
Ousted in 2014, the corrupt former president could be Vladimir Putin’s pick to replace Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine.
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Monday 21 February 2022
The islanders Britain won’t allow home
The UK expelled everyone who lived on the Chagos Islands more than 50 years ago. Why are they still being blocked from returning?
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Monday 14 February 2022
A Major intervention?
Former Conservative prime minister Sir John Major has launched a scathing attack on Boris Johnson over Partygate. He is known to be a critic of the prime minister, so will it make any difference?
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Tuesday 8 February 2022
Isis loses its leader
Last week the Isis leader was killed during a raid on his hideout in Syria. What will his death do to the strength of the terrorist group he once led?
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Wednesday 2 February 2022
A test for New York’s new mayor
Eric Adams ran for mayor of New York City promising to curb crime, but without over-policing. A spike in shootings is putting that pledge to the test.
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Wednesday 26 January 2022
A $3m mistake?
An anonymous crypto group thought they bought the rights to Dune. They were wrong.
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Wednesday 19 January 2022
Stop and search on steroids
What are Serious Violence Reduction Orders, and why are they controversial?
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Monday 10 January 2022
A Kazakh uprising
An anti-government movement is growing in Kazakhstan. Why are Russian soldiers the ones crushing it?
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Wednesday 29 December 2021
The Facebook whistleblower
Thanks to revelations from one former Facebook insider, 2021 was a year of reckoning for the tech giant.
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Monday 27 December 2021
The death of Zaki Anwari
The day after the Taliban took Kabul, a young man fell to his death from a US airplane. The tragedy revealed a lot about America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Friday 10 December 2021
Boris Johnson’s never-ending Christmas party
It’s the story which refuses to leave at the end of the night: the saga of the Downing Street Christmas party. But how much of a hangover could it cause Boris Johnson?
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Friday 3 December 2021
Parole for Pistorius?
Oscar Pistorius, South Africa’s most famous athlete, was jailed in 2016 for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. He could soon be released on parole.
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Wednesday 1 December 2021
Reproductive rights at risk
For almost 50 years, women in the United States have had the right to have an abortion. But a Supreme Court case could put those rights in jeopardy.
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Monday 22 November 2021
Could there be a war in Europe?
Bosnia has been held together by a complicated peace deal since its civil war 26 years ago. Is it about to fall apart?
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Wednesday 10 November 2021
Big Bird gets a shot
The culture wars over vaccinating kids against Covid in the US have got so fierce that a Sesame Street character has been dragged into the fight.
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Wednesday 3 November 2021
Russia’s HIV epidemic
In much of the world, rates of HIV infection are falling. In Russia, they’re going through the roof.
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Thursday 28 October 2021
A bullish budget?
Inflation is on the rise, and Rishi Sunak’s high-spending budget could push it up further. Will the Bank of England step in?
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Friday 22 October 2021
Time for Covid Plan B
Covid cases are rising fast in the UK, and the government is under pressure to take steps to slow them down. Is it time for the government to turn to Plan B?
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Monday 11 October 2021
The sheikh who spied on his family
A British court ruled last week that Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, had used one of the most powerful surveillance tools available to security services to spy on his ex-wife in the middle of a custody case.
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Wednesday 6 October 2021
Changing a police force for good
After Sarah Everard’s murder, there are now going to be two separate inquiries into the culture of the Metropolitan Police. What chance do they have of bringing about real change?
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Wednesday 29 September 2021
The Huawei hostages
After almost three years, a tit-for-tat row over the arrest of a Huawei executive for fraud has finally come to an end. Two men called Michael paid a heavy price.
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Monday 13 September 2021
Sinister cement
When Syria descended into a bloody and brutal civil war ten years ago, many multinational companies pulled out of the country. One stayed. Now, it’s facing allegations that it was complicit in crimes against humanity.
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Monday 6 September 2021
Justice at the end of the opioid epidemic?
A big opioid case has been settled in court. Purdue Pharma, one of the drugs companies behind the opioid epidemic has been dissolved, and the family that ran it agreed to pay a mammoth $4.5 billion court settlement. The payout will go to help victims of the crisis, but is money enough? What about justice?
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Tuesday 31 August 2021
The trial of Elizabeth Holmes
She was once a female Silicon Valley icon. The world’s youngest female self-made billionaire. Now, she’s a disgraced former CEO, on trial for fraud. Is this where the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos finally ends?
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Monday 23 August 2021
Haiti’s double disaster
Haiti was hit by a deadly earthquake and then, a few days later, a huge storm. It’s not the first time the country has faced a catastrophe…
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Tuesday 17 August 2021
Australia’s third wave
Australia’s triumphant Olympians are returning to a month-long quarantine as the country hits its third wave of Covid infections. What’s gone wrong?
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Thursday 12 August 2021
The Taliban returns
Just months after US President Joe Biden announced he’d be withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, the country is in chaos. How serious is the Taliban threat?
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Wednesday 4 August 2021
The Olympian who won’t go home
Krystsina Timanouskaya is a Belarusian sprinter who fell out with her coaches in Tokyo. She got so worried about the fall-out that she’s applied for political asylum.
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Monday 19 July 2021
Why South Africans are rioting
South Africa has seen an outbreak of widespread violence and looting. What’s going on?
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Wednesday 14 July 2021
A horror in Haiti
Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in his own home last week. But who was behind it all? And why did they want to kill him?
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Thursday 8 July 2021
Slow justice for the Stockwell Six
Why it took 50 years for a set of unjust convictions – made by a corrupt copper – to be overturned.
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Tuesday 6 July 2021
A tragedy in Miami
As 28 people are confirmed dead and 117 are still missing in the rubble, America is asking: what went wrong at Miami’s Champlain Towers?
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
A political affair
Matt Hancock’s resignation as Health Secretary has triggered a bout of political infighting. Who’s going to win?
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Monday 28 June 2021
DIY justice
How one woman was asked to deal with an allegation of rape by herself
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Thursday 24 June 2021
Drama in the DUP
In just two months, Northern Ireland’s DUP has toppled a leader, elected a new one, forced him to resign and now they’re electing another one. Huh?
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Monday 14 June 2021
When a billion isn’t enough
The world’s richest countries have promised a billion vaccine doses to poorer nations. It sounds a lot. Is it?
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Thursday 3 June 2021
The risk of reopening
The last Covid restrictions are supposed to be lifted in about three weeks. Is it safe to lift them?
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Saturday 29 May 2021
A political assassination attempt
Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s old adviser, tried to finish off the health secretary’s career this week. Will he succeed?
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Wednesday 26 May 2021
Ready, set…stop? The Tokyo Olympics
The Tokyo Olympic Games are supposed to start in July. They’ve already been postponed from last year because of Covid. Could it happen again?
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Wednesday 19 May 2021
Bill Gates’s halo slips
Bill Gates is one of the world’s greatest philanthropists. But since we learned he’s getting divorced there’s been nothing but bad news.
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Wednesday 12 May 2021
Fist fights at 36,000 ft
There’s been an increase in brawls and bad behaviour on planes. What’s fuelling the fury?
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Tuesday 11 May 2021
Making a murderer
A child soldier grows up to commit terrible crimes. Was his childhood entirely to blame?
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Wednesday 5 May 2021
The oracle of Omaha
The richest 90-year-old man on earth, Warren Buffett, has announced his succession plan for the company he runs. But he’s not retiring just yet.
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Monday 3 May 2021
Trump’s keeper of the keys
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Tuesday 27 April 2021
India’s Covid crisis
How much responsibility does India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, bear for the country’s catastrophic coronavirus outbreak?
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Monday 19 April 2021
Russia vs Ukraine, take 2
Seven years after Russia annexed Crimea, Russian forces are assembling on the border with Ukraine once again. So what does President Vladimir Putin want this time?
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Tuesday 13 April 2021
The ambassador who got locked out
Kyaw Zwar Minn is the Myanmar ambassador to the UK. But, as a military takeover seizes power at home, he has been locked out of his own embassy in London. Why?
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Thursday 8 April 2021
A royal squabble
A high-profile prince has fallen out with the king of Jordan. Does it spell trouble in a usually calm Middle Eastern country?
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Wednesday 7 April 2021
AstraZeneca’s PR woes
What had been a huge success for the vaccine maker is now looking more like a comms disaster… how did it go so wrong?
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Thursday 1 April 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell’s future
Ghislaine Maxwell’s charge sheet just got longer: Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend is now accused of sex trafficking, too.
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Tuesday 23 March 2021
A dangerous love story
The story of Jang Yeong-jin’s escape from North Korea, a country where citizens are told that homosexuality doesn’t exist
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Friday 19 March 2021
Europe’s vaccine battles
She seemed like the perfect candidate to oversee the EU’s vaccine rollout…what went wrong for Ursula von der Leyen?
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Tuesday 16 March 2021
John Hollis’s exciting antibodies
An American man caught Covid – and his body responded by making some amazingly powerful antibodies. It could be a breakthrough for medicine.
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Friday 12 March 2021
Who’s in charge in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong is meant to have some independence from China. But those days are nearly over.
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Wednesday 10 March 2021
Is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe coming home?
After five years locked up in Iran, the British-Iranian mother’s sentence has come to an end. But returning to her family might still be a way off.
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Monday 8 March 2021
A reckoning for New York’s governor
Two serious scandals are unfolding around Andrew Cuomo. For now, he’s staying in office. But how long will he last?
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Tuesday 2 March 2021
The missing patient
Someone, somewhere in England, has the super-infectious Brazil variant of Covid-19 – and the authorities are racing to track them down.
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Monday 1 March 2021
The story of Shamima Begum
She left London to join Isis in Syria when she was 15. Now, she’s been stripped of her British citizenship and denied any chance to return home. But is Shamima Begum a victim, or a threat?
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Wednesday 24 February 2021
Harry, Meghan and the Royals: why couldn’t they work it out?
Prince Harry and Meghan’s trial separation from the Royal family has just been made permanent. It’s not the outcome anyone involved wanted. So why has it turned out this way?
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Monday 22 February 2021
India cracks down
A 22-year-old activist has been jailed in India for supporting poor farmers. What’s going on?
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Wednesday 17 February 2021
Vaccines Inc
How a horse-racing family created the biggest vaccine-maker in the world
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Monday 15 February 2021
Driving for freedom in Saudi Arabia
Loujain al-Hathloul spent three years in jail in Saudi Arabia for “driving while female”. Why has she just been released?
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Tuesday 9 February 2021
What next for the world’s richest man?
Jeff Bezos is stepping down from running Amazon day to day. What will he do next?
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Thursday 4 February 2021
The Russian vaccine
Russia rushed to develop its Sputnik V Covid vaccine. Can we trust it?
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Tuesday 2 February 2021
The never-ending power struggle
The army seizes control in Myanmar.
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Monday 25 January 2021
87 years in jail for criticising the king
Thailand’s playboy monarch cracks down on his critics.
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Thursday 21 January 2021
One man’s war against the mafia
A fearless Italian prosecutor is trying to free the country from the grip of organised crime.
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Tuesday 19 January 2021
The bravest man in the world?
The Russian secret service tried to kill politician Alexei Navalny but he doesn’t seem intimidated. He’s gone back to Russia regardless.