Before joining Tortoise, Jessica was Foreign Editor at the Telegraph.
Jess Winch
News Editor
“I see Tortoise as an antidote to the deluge of news alerts: a chance to step back and gain a better understanding of the world. I’m proud to be a part of this dynamic and inclusive newsroom.”
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Wednesday 18 October 2023
09:00-10:00 BST
The cost of poverty: how can public policy tackle the UK poverty crisis for the long term?
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Thursday 28 September 2023
Glasgow approves first UK drug consumption room
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Thursday 28 September 2023
Six young people take 32 countries to court
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Wednesday 27 September 2023
JP Morgan settles with Staley over Epstein connection
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Tuesday 26 September 2023
ChatGPT will soon be able to respond to spoken commands
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Monday 25 September 2023
Hollywood writers reach tentative agreement with studios
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Monday 25 September 2023
Nasa’s first asteroid sample return could help solve mystery of life
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Wednesday 20 September 2023
Risky business
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Wednesday 20 September 2023
Watery Sunak
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Tuesday 19 September 2023
Iran hostage swap
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Tuesday 19 September 2023
Debt loops
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Monday 18 September 2023
Thin tankers
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Monday 18 September 2023
Starmer breaks cover
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Thursday 14 September 2023
Romney stands down
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Thursday 14 September 2023
Government backs Martha’s rule
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Wednesday 13 September 2023
Google’s antitrust trial begins
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Wednesday 13 September 2023
The Great White Shark is on the move
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Tuesday 12 September 2023
Thousands feared dead in Libya floods
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Tuesday 12 September 2023
Third of female surgeons assaulted by a colleague
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Thursday 24 August 2023
Trump’s heirs
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Thursday 24 August 2023
Parking profits
Britain’s private car parks need a code of practice
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Wednesday 23 August 2023
Nepo baby politics
Cambodian leader hands power to son after 38 years
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Tuesday 22 August 2023
Ikea opens store in Downtown San Francisco
The move defies current retailer trends
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Tuesday 22 August 2023
British chip designer Arm files for blockbuster US IPO
Masayoshi Son’s big bet
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Tuesday 22 August 2023
Saudi forces kill hundreds of Ethiopians on border, says report
Rights group claims Saudi forces use small arms and explosives in “deliberate escalation”
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Monday 21 August 2023
Can’t buy me nature
National Trust urged to ditch Barclays
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Monday 21 August 2023
Lucy Letby sentenced
Jurors as well as judges deserve counselling
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Monday 21 August 2023
China cuts key interest rate
China leaves key interest rate unchanged
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Friday 18 August 2023
F-16s for Ukraine
But not in time for the current counter-offensive
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Friday 18 August 2023
Cheesy chips
Italy’s latest ruse to protect parmesan
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Friday 18 August 2023
The price of inaction
Investors have not priced in climate risk
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Thursday 17 August 2023
Yes, we have no tomatoes
India’s Burger King stops selling tomatoes due to rising prices
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Wednesday 16 August 2023
Small win
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Tuesday 15 August 2023
Montana ruling
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Tuesday 15 August 2023
Cry for Argentina
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Monday 14 August 2023
Hawaii’s deadliest disaster
Search teams reach 3 per cent of disaster zone
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Friday 11 August 2023
Israel-Saudi deal
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Friday 11 August 2023
One orb to rule them all
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Thursday 10 August 2023
Chipping in
World’s biggest chipmaker invests in Germany
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Thursday 10 August 2023
One Direction
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Wednesday 9 August 2023
New UK sanctions are overdue and undermined
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Tuesday 8 August 2023
Pakistan’s democracy
Pakistan moves to delay national elections
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Tuesday 8 August 2023
Mental privacy
Musk’s Neuralink raises $280 million
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Tuesday 8 August 2023
Zoom back
Zoom wants staff back in the office
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Friday 4 August 2023
Oil cloth and ashes
Protesters wrap PM’s house in oil-black cloth
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Friday 4 August 2023
Trump pleads not guilty (again)
The next step is a timetable to trial
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Monday 31 July 2023
Blast in Pakistan
44 dead in political suicide bombing
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
AI in the newsroom
Artificial intelligence could soon be producing news stories. Should journalists fear it or embrace it?
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Monday 24 July 2023
Up in the air
Spain rejects far-Right in government
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Friday 21 July 2023
Iraq expels Swedish ambassador
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Friday 21 July 2023
China hack
China-linked hackers access emails of US ambassador to Beijing
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Friday 21 July 2023
Mmm Danone
Kremlin tightens grip on western companies
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Thursday 20 July 2023
Russia grain attacks
Russia attacks Black Sea cities
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Thursday 20 July 2023
Thai hopes dashed
Mother jailed after lockdown abortion is released
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Wednesday 19 July 2023
The protests have paused, but Iran’s regime is looking shaky
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Tuesday 18 July 2023
Alzheimer’s drug
Alzheimer’s drug shown to limit cognitive decline
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Tuesday 18 July 2023
Harrods bets on China’s super-rich
Harrods to launch private members’ club in Shanghai
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Friday 14 July 2023
And just like that
UK parliament investigates sexism in The City
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Thursday 13 July 2023
Huw Edwards named
BBC presenter identified in explicit photograph accusations
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Thursday 13 July 2023
Climate fights
Europe’s nature law survives another day
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Thursday 13 July 2023
Chinese deflation
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
Stockpiling salt
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
Twitter unravels
Thread’s launch hurts Twitter
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
Hot summer
UK pay rises faster than expected
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Monday 10 July 2023
BBC calls in the Met
BBC to meet police over presenter allegations
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Friday 7 July 2023
Six more women
Crispin Odey faces more harassment claims
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Friday 7 July 2023
Iran sanctions
UK sanctions Iran over kidnap threats
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Thursday 6 July 2023
Lord it over
Peers inflict 20 defeats on Sunak’s small boats bill
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Wednesday 5 July 2023
China targets Hong Kong’s exiled democrats with bounties
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Tuesday 4 July 2023
Local council funding
Local councils face £2 billion funding shortfall
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Monday 3 July 2023
Washed away
Water cremation arrives in UK
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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
Disappeared in Syria
New UN body to investigate Syria’s missing
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Thursday 29 June 2023
French riots
France revolts after police shoot teenager
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Wednesday 28 June 2023
Powder keg
Honduras military takes over prisons
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Wednesday 28 June 2023
AI chip exports
Biden mulls more AI chip restrictions
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Wednesday 28 June 2023
Murky business
Britain’s water companies are in trouble
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Tuesday 27 June 2023
Fifty, turning 48
South Koreans are getting younger
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Tuesday 27 June 2023
What next for Wagner?
Thousands of Wagner fighters face a choice
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Friday 23 June 2023
Tastes like chicken
US approves lab-grown chicken
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Friday 23 June 2023
Titan implosion
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Friday 23 June 2023
21st Century disease
One billion people could have diabetes by 2050
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Thursday 22 June 2023
Melting glaciers
Himalayan glaciers could lose 75 per cent of ice by 2100
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Thursday 22 June 2023
French sub
A submersible with arms has reached the Titan rescue site
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Tuesday 20 June 2023
Missing sub
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Monday 19 June 2023
US Army overdoses
Fentanyl takes record toll on US army
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Monday 19 June 2023
Outblack
New space telescope to investigate dark matter and dark energy
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Friday 16 June 2023
Taliban tourism
Taliban wants to lure tourists back to statues it blew up
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Friday 16 June 2023
Canada’s wildfires
Fires are still burning in the Great White North
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
Not under control
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
Brace, brace
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Monday 12 June 2023
`Ukraine claims gains
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Friday 9 June 2023
Trump charged (again)
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Friday 9 June 2023
Norway’s deep sea
Norway looks to extract battery metals from ocean floor
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Thursday 8 June 2023
Canada burns, New England Chokes
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Thursday 8 June 2023
Who will buy this British battleship?
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
Directors’ deal
Hollywood agrees AI is not a person
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
Rail boom
Indian crash followed investment surge
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Friday 2 June 2023
AI drone “kills operator”
Artificial intelligence used “highly unexpected strategies” in simulation
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Friday 2 June 2023
Miami to Madrid
Latin American money is pouring into Spain
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Tuesday 30 May 2023
Turkey’s economy
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Friday 26 May 2023
Britain’s Conservatives want fewer immigrants and need more. It’s a problem
The Tory party is tearing itself apart because it has pledged to cut immigration for the past four elections
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Friday 26 May 2023
Water, water, every where
America’s top court reduces clean water protections
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Tuesday 23 May 2023
Kuleba to Africa
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Monday 22 May 2023
Apple bobbing
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Monday 22 May 2023
Mexican army’s airline
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Friday 19 May 2023
Assad’s back
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Friday 19 May 2023
Willow so low
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Friday 19 May 2023
Supreme Court rules
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Wednesday 17 May 2023
Cutting ties
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Tuesday 16 May 2023
Thai elections
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Wednesday 5 April 2023
Sensemaker: Finnish line
What just happened
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Monday 3 April 2023
Sensemaker: A bigly circus
What just happened
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Friday 24 March 2023
Sensemaker: Scot free
What just happened
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Wednesday 22 March 2023
Sensemaker: Spent force
What just happened
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Wednesday 1 March 2023
Sensemaker: Childcare in crisis
What just happened
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Monday 20 February 2023
Sensemaker: Munich again
What just happened
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Monday 6 February 2023
Sensemaker: Nato sandwich
What just happened
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Tuesday 17 January 2023
Sensemaker: Tehran’s terror
What just happened
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Monday 16 January 2023
Sensemaker: Small boats, big picture
What just happened
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Friday 6 January 2023
Sensemaker: A bug in the system
What just happened
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Monday 28 November 2022
Sensemaker: Exit strategy
What just happened
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Thursday 17 November 2022
The Responsibility100 Index: The findings
The Responsibility100 Index assesses FTSE 100 companies on their actions and commitments toward a more sustainable future. Here’s what we found in our 2022 update
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Wednesday 16 November 2022
The grandchildren of Iran’s revolution believe it’s now their turn
The protests that have filled the streets of Iran’s cities and defied its clerical rulers since September are the most serious challenge to the Islamic republic since its birth in 1979
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Wednesday 16 November 2022
Sensemaker: Grandchildren of the revolution
What just happened
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Friday 11 November 2022
Sensemaker: Strikes, everywhere
What just happened
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Monday 31 October 2022
Sensemaker: Look who’s back
What just happened
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Tuesday 27 September 2022
Sensemaker: Mamma mia
What just happened
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Tuesday 30 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: No way to choose
What just happened
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Wednesday 3 August 2022
Orbán does Dallas
Will Viktor Orbán go full tonto? The Hungarian PM gave a nakedly racist speech last week in Transylvania and will address American conservatives in Dallas tomorrow
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Wednesday 3 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Orbán does Dallas
What just happened
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Friday 22 July 2022
What do Tories want?
A tiny group of Conservative party members will choose Britain’s next prime minister. Who are they and what do they want in a leader?
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Friday 22 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: What do Tories want?
What just happened
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Monday 18 July 2022
The battle for Ukraine’s grain
A deal to release huge stockpiles of grain from Ukraine’s ports is within reach – but remains in Putin’s gift
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Monday 18 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The battle for Ukraine’s grain
What just happened
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Friday 15 July 2022
Penny Mordaunt’s moment
Penny Mordaunt is the bookies’ favourite to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister. What does she believe?
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Friday 15 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Penny Mordaunt’s moment
What just happened
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Friday 8 July 2022
Situation vacant
Amid howls of protest that Boris Johnson should leave Downing Street immediately, his would-be successors are circling
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Friday 8 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Situation vacant
What just happened
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Friday 29 September 2023
Why are six young people taking 32 countries to court and what is Suella Braverman up to?
Giles Whittell is joined by comedian Andy Hamilton and Tortoise editors Basia Cummings and Jess Winch to discuss Suella Braverman’s speech about migration, the Portuguese young people taking countries to court and why we’re taking more sick days.
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Friday 22 September 2023
Are journalists too obsessed with bad news and did Rupert Murdoch make a secret deal with Prince William?
Steven Pinker, Harvard professor and author of Enlightenment Now, criticises the news machine. Plus whether Prince William reached a secret out of court settlement with Rupert Murdoch and News Group over phone hacking and Canada’s row with India.
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Monday 11 September 2023
Why do we struggle to care about climate stories?
James Harding is joined by Jess Winch, Jeevan Vasagar and parliamentary sketchwriter Rob Hutton. They discuss the researcher arrested over alleged spying for China, Woking council cutting services and efforts to reduce global warming.
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Friday 25 August 2023
Are the British Museum thefts more than just a whodunnit?
Ben Bradshaw joins to discuss the thefts from the British Museum, Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood u-turn and the Republican primary debate
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Friday 11 August 2023
Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture
James Harding and the team are joined by campaigner Zelda Perkins. They discuss claims about the culture at ITV, Conservative grumblings over the ECHR and the Ohio vote that delivered a win for abortion rights campaigners
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Monday 7 August 2023
What happens when you’re switched at birth and what does Rishi Sunak believe?
James Harding and the team discuss the jailing of Imran Khan in Pakistan, two Canadian men who discovered they were switched at birth and dozens of swimmers getting sick at the world triathlon championship.
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Monday 24 July 2023
Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood
In this episode Liz Moseley is in the editor’s chair. The team discusses the Russian attack that damaged Odesa cathedral, the fallout from last week’s by-elections and shocking failures at a young offender institution.
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Friday 23 June 2023
Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children
James Harding is joined by Tortoise editors Jess Winch, Liz Moseley and Giles Whittell. In this episode they discuss the hunt for the missing Titan submersible, British children being shorter than their international peers and the Bank of England’s latest hike in interest rates.
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Thursday 8 June 2023
Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sport washing and economic policy
James Harding is joined by Tortoise editors Jess Winch and Giles Whittell, and Tortoise chairman Matthew Barzun who was US ambassador to London. In this episode they discuss the Kakhovka dam, the real difference between the economic policies of major political parties and golf’s PGA Tour merging with its Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf.
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Friday 28 April 2023
Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden
James Harding is joined by Tortoise news editor Jess Winch, political editor Cat Neilan and audio editor Basia Cummings. In this episode they discuss the escalating situation in Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and US President Joe Biden running for reelection.
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Friday 31 March 2023
Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers
James Harding is joined by Tortoise news editor Jess Winch, head of investigations Alexi Mostrous and head of social media Andrew Butler. In this episode they discuss the sale of Manchester United, Israel’s government pausing a judicial overhaul after protests and attitudes towards asylum seekers around the world
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Friday 24 February 2023
A year of war in Ukraine, the tomato shortage and cash-strapped councils
Three journalists pitch their top story of the week to Tortoise’s editor-in-chief James Harding. In this episode James is joined by Tortoise editors Jess Winch and David Taylor, as well as leading UK barrister Hashi Mohamed.