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Sensemaker
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Episodes
Why is Keir Starmer talking about a new EU deal?
A murder in Surrey
Hero to Net Zero: why is Rishi Sunak scrapping green policies?
Russell Brand: the allegations, and his response
Bernard Looney’s business relationships
Is climate change to blame for the disaster in Libya?
Kim Jong-un on the Siberian express
The race to combat new Covid variants
Bully XL dog attacks: is a ban the solution?
Chinese spying allegations in Westminster
How weight loss injections are reshaping Denmark
Who is Boris Johnson’s baroness?
Iran: one year on from the death of Mahsa Amini 
Martha’s Rule: how a 13-year-old died unnecessarily from sepsis
Crumbling Britain
What the death of a Ukrainian pilot tells us about the war against Russia
Can Britain work with China?
Luis Rubiales: Spanish football’s MeToo moment?
Disaster averted: defusing the ‘time bomb’ tanker
Oliver Anthony: America’s unlikely star
A family’s apology for slavery
Prigozhin’s plane crash: what next?
Japan’s radioactive water release
Lucy Letby: what happens next?
Spain’s World Cup triumph… overshadowed
The trials of Rudy Giuliani
Missing MP: where is Nadine Dorries?
What happened to the Crooked House pub?
Hawaii wildfires: why were they so deadly?
Sanctions, what sanctions?
Megan Thee Stallion says she’ll “never be the same”
Phoenix’s month from hell
Cookham Wood: a failing youth prison
Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit
Niger’s coup
The Post Office scandal continues
UFOs discussed in Congress
Putin’s useful madman
Trump charged with conspiracy
Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction
Mbappe, Henderson and the Saudi football league
Twitter becomes X: why?
Why Israel’s judicial overhaul is causing unrest
Do clean air zones work?
Actors strike over AI and pay
Nigel Farage vs. Coutts
The Bibby Stockholm: savings or symbolism?
El Niño heats up
Women’s World Cup: equality is the goal
Aspartame and cancer: what the evidence says
Wage rise worries
Joe Biden’s Hunter problem
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta
Just Stop Oil stop play
Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
Claims and counterclaims about a BBC presenter
What is the ‘zombie drug’ xylazine?
Threads takes on Twitter
Trouble at Thames Water
It’s just not cricket
A police killing in France
Meat without murder
Trump’s secret documents
Lukashenko: Putin’s puppet
Why are rents rising?
Prigozhin’s rebellion: what next?
Jeffrey Epstein’s bankers
Confusion over festival drug testing
Who was behind the Nord Stream blast?
Greece’s migrant boat disaster
Boris Johnson’s endgame
Race to the bottom
The allegations against Crispin Odey
Not in Vogue
A truce in golf’s civil war
Nicola Sturgeon arrested
What’s happening with the Covid inquiry?
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: “We are letting our children down”
The Ukraine dam explosion
The war hero accused of war crimes
The politics of Novak Djokovic
Uganda’s tough new anti-gay law
Getting aid into Sudan
Policing mental health
Captagon: Syria’s drug trade
The blood contamination scandal
Net migration hits a record high
The cladding scandal
The gangs matrix
Ultra-processed food
The Hollywood writers’ strike
The United Nations in Afghanistan
Sam Altman testifies
Scotland’s juryless rape trials
Zelensky’s European tour
The case of Simon Case
Ed Sheeran’s legal victory
The Coronation arrests
Tackling online abuse
A Russian war crime
The family that crashed a country
Unstoppable inflation?
Grimsby’s proud East Marshians
A u-turn on torture
The LGBT+ activist
Covid’s bereaved families
The social housing activist
A new Marcos for the Philippines
Netflix’s Tudum problem
Beergate
HRT: the Davina effect?
Trouble in paradise
Time for a windfall tax?
Overturning Roe
Westminster wrongdoing
A Capitol coup attempt?
Invaded: Mariupol’s last defence
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s crusade against WFH
Elon Musk goes shopping
Life under Shanghai’s lockdown
Sinn Fein’s election hopes
France’s choice
The Rwanda plan
Russia’s new commander in Ukraine
Elon Musk vs. Twitter
Partygate: Johnson and Sunak fined
Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history
The chancellor’s non-dom wife
Invaded: Russian atrocities
The conversion therapy conversion
Why can’t the UN do more for Ukraine?
The recovering Russian ruble
The gender pay gap bot
Stan the T-Rex
Partygate spin
The Scheherazade: Putin’s yacht?
Child Q
Nigeria’s endless fuel crisis
P&O all at sea
A degree of controversy
Spring Statement: what does it mean for you?
The hostage left behind
The propagandist and the protestor
Putin: what do we know about him?
Invaded: A family reunited
Nazanin freed
Russia-Ukraine: Whose side is China on?
The Russian convoy
Endurance endures
Invaded: Realities of war
The UK and Ukrainian refugees
Prosecuting Russia’s crimes
The return of Viktor Yanukovych?
Nato says no to Ukraine no-fly zone
Invaded: Escape from Kyiv
Adapt to survive
Germany’s historic shift
Judging Russian dissent
From comedian to wartime president
Invaded: A view from Kyiv
Needle spiking: what really happened?
Nearly bitcoin billionaires
The legacy of Jamal Edwards
The islanders Britain won’t allow home
Russia’s controversial coach
The price of pasta
Olaf Scholz pipes up in Moscow
Insulating Britain from rising bills
A Major intervention?
Macron’s mission
The Oscars diversity drama
An influential kid
Isis loses its leader
Carrie of Downing Street
An iceberg’s climate warning
Johnson’s man in the north
A test for New York’s new mayor
A slow march
The Ukrainian puppet?
The t-shirt ban
Policing partygate
A $3m mistake?
The letter
Mikaela v Petra
A risky game
Virginia
Stop and search on steroids
Boris Johnson breaks another Covid rule
Hunting assassins in Haiti
Partygate and Dominic Cummings
The most expensive drug in the world
The family which captured a country
An old row about a new way of policing drugs
A Kazakh uprising
The rise of the incels
Prince Andrew’s potential problem
Is Plan B working?
2022: Predictions
The dissident journalist
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