Politics

We spoke to Vicki Huddleston, the former acting US Ambassador to Ethiopia.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his soldiers are pushing back rebel forces in a drive to reclaim territory captured by Trigrayan troops. 

Today they chose Valérie Pécresse, a more centrist candidate, over a right-wing challenger.

On today’s podcast we speak to the investigative journalist Ellie Flynn about the widespread police sexual misconduct and police-perpetrated domestic abuse in the UK. 

Liz Bates explains how what started as a slogan has now become important enough to have its own government department. 

This afternoon the Commons approved the government’s new emergency Covid regulations that came into force this morning for England.  

Removing the Queen as head of state is seen as the final step for Barbados in cutting ties with its colonial past, a past haunted by nearly 200 years of brutal enslavement. 

At midnight tonight, Barbados will inaugurate its first president, removing the Queen as the head of state and declaring itself a republic, beginning a new chapter in the country’s history.

News of the changes to his team started to emerge this morning, overshadowing his deputy Angela Rayner as she made a speech on cleaning up politics.

A booster campaign “on steroids”. That’s the government’s first line of defence against the Omicron variant as more cases are confirmed in the UK.

Benjamin talks to Krishnan about ‘that’ Ted talk, why he thinks we need a new language and why he thinks universal collaboration is of utmost importance.

Steven joins Krishnan to discuss his new book, ‘Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems scarce, Why It Matters’ which is billed as a user’s guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason.

A lifetime of devoted public service was remembered today in Westminster at a requiem mass to commemorate Sir David Amess, the MP who was killed in his Southend constituency last month. 

A shortage of trained staff is affecting every part of the NHS, and today a move to oblige the government to publish an independent assessment of staffing every other year was defeated in parliament. 

With cuts to universal credit and to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse rail, how well is levelling up going, and with it Boris Johnson?