Science

Professor Peter Openshaw is chair of experimental medicine at Imperial College and sits on the government’s NERVTAG advisory group.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Andy Davies, has met the brave NHS staff speaking out about the online abuse and why they want big tech to do more to stop it.

We spoke to Prof Sir John Bell, from the University of Oxford

Chief Executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning, who also runs a farm producing beef, dairy and pigs as well as cereals, joined us from Wiltshire.

It’s been a turbulent year for our food supply system. From panic buying to free school meals, the pandemic has placed enormous strains on food producers and retailers, not to mention the impact of Brexit. But is there an opportunity now to change how we eat and the impact that our diets have on the…

We spoke to Sir David Attenborough and began by asking whether putting economics and ecology together would succeed where other efforts to mobilise the world have failed.

Our health and social care editor Victoria Macdonald tells us about her experiences over the past year, and looks ahead to an uncertain future. 

Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman, has been to Sweden to figure out why they decided to go it alone – and why it was always a risky strategy.

He promised and he delivered. One of President Biden’s very first actions was to sign the United States back up to the Paris climate accord to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Swiftly followed by a series of green decrees, including scrapping oil drilling in the Arctic and a major oil pipeline. But with…

Throughout the pandemic, Paddy Worrall and his award-winning Channel 4 News FactCheck team have crunched the data and the challenged government soundbites, and he joins us today to discuss how to vaccinate a nation.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has imposed a full lockdown across the mainland from midnight tonight. In a statement to an emergency session of the Scottish Parliament, the first minister said schools would remain closed until February at the earliest, with a legal requirement for everyone to stay at home, except for essential reasons. The…

Christina Pagel is a health research mathematician and member of the Independent SAGE group.

Our North of England Correspondent, Clare Fallon, has been looking at sport and the long-term effects of head injuries.

From getting a third-class degree in chemistry, to inventing what could be the world’s first zero-plastics bottle – it’s been quite a journey for James Longcroft. 

We are joined by Katie Neild from Client Earth, an organisation that fights for environmental causes through the courts, and Gavin Davies from the GMB union, who represents workers at Heathrow Airport.