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Today marks five years since the first Covid lockdown. We were told that we would never be able to go back to pre-pandemic times: we could only enter a ‘new normal’. Is that what happened? How much did the pandemic change us?
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Host: Luke Jones.
Guests:
Producer: Taryn Siegel.
Further reading: UK’s worst night out? Costly, crime-ridden London
Further listening: The death of clubbing
Clips: The Telegraph.
Photo: Getty Images.
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With news this week on the ongoing attempts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, we thought we'd bring you two interviews Manveen did on Times Radio to help make sense of it all. The first is with Anthony Loyd, who's been covering the war since it began and the second is with General Sir Richard Barron who has been working on the Defence Review and knows better than most whether the country is ready to defence itself.
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Host: Manveen Rana.
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Estonia, one of the Baltic states, sits on Europe's front line with Russia. The country that was, like Ukraine, once part of the Soviet Union is increasingly worried about the threat Putin poses, and has plans in place if there is an invasion. But, if western Europe can no longer rely on the transatlantic alliance, will it work? And what could Britain learn from it?
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Guest: Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Olivia Case.
Further reading:Could Poland and Germany acquire nuclear bombs?
Further listening: ‘A lawlessness that’s deeply alarming’: William Hague on Trump’s new presidency.
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It's predicted that, by the end of this Parliament, four million people in Britain will receive long-term sickness benefits–that’s the equivalent of losing the working-age population of Birmingham from the workforce. Columnist Fraser Nelson thinks it’s the biggest scandal in Britain today. So how did we get here? And can Labour fix it or will they leave already-vulnerable people worse off?
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Guest: The Times & The Sunday Times columnist Fraser Nelson
Host: Luke Jones
Producer: Emily Webb
Further reading: From welfare to warfare can define Keir Starmer
Further listening: Why are so many Gen Zers not working?
Clips: BBC, Channel 4, Roman Styran / YouTube, jascow0 / YouTube
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Donald Trump is coming for Canada. He first raised the prospect of making America's nearest neighbour its 51st state when campaigning for the presidency in 2016. No one was listening. But Canada's new Liberal Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has heard, and he's assembling a coalition of allies to counter the threat. Could this be the beginning of a wider effort to build a Western, anti-Trump, alliance?
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Guest: Josie Ensor US Correspondent, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producers: Edith Rousselot and Olivia Case.
Further reading: Mark Carney’s in-tray as PM: from tariffs to Canadian sovereignty
Clips: CTV News, C-Span, CNN, BBC, ABC News, Guardian News, AP News, CPAC, Global News.
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On the frontline of Mexico’s drug wars, rival cartels are exploiting a decades-old dispute about indigenous land rights and turning local people against each other - with fatal consequences. To appease Trump, the government has downplayed the violence in the south to focus on the US border, but if the cartels continue undeterred, could the US launch a military operation?
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Guest: Louise Callaghan, US Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana
Producer: Sam Chantarasak
Further reading: Watch: inside the town torn apart by Mexico’s cartel violence
Further listening: At the border crossing where Trump’s migrant ban is working
Clips: Al Jazeera, Firstpost, Imagen Noticias.
Photo: Natalia Meneses Alís for The Sunday Times
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The word "unprecedented" is often used to describe Donald Trump's presidency. He's broken with convention repeatedly: from announcing tariffs on allies, to the suggestion that he wants to buy Greenland. But are these moves really without precedent? Or do Trump's politics echo that of 19th century US presidents, but with a more alarming twist?
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Guest: Nick Bryant
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Emily Webb.
Clips: ABC News, CNBC, Niki Ashton Youtube, CBS News, New York Times, FOX, MSNBC, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, NBC, Washington Post, BBC.
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This episode was originally published last August.
The government says it wants to make the UK a global hub for crypto firms. But with the NHS warning it’s being left to ‘pick up the pieces’ as people get addicted to crypto gambling, are Labour’s plans wise? Our reporter visits one of the first clinics in the world, near Edinburgh, that is treating people who have cryptocurrency problems.
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If you’ve got any concerns about gambling, you can contact the national problem gambling charity GamCare's helpline on 0808 8020 133 or visit www.gamcare.org.uk for confidential support, advice and free counselling.
Guest: Lily Russell-Jones, Senior Money Reporter, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Olivia Case.
Photo: Getty Images.
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Hinge CEO, Justin McLeod, joins the podcast to discuss how online dating Apps have changed dating (for good or bad) and how AI may change it even more. While Danny argues that being direct might just be better than tech!
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‘Baby brain’ is real. Increasing evidence suggests having kids causes big changes in our grey matter, and not always for the worse. Sunday Times science editor and frazzled father of two, explains.
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Guest: Ben Spencer, Science Editor, Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Emily Webb.
Further reading: How being a parent physically alters your brain (dads included)
Further listening: We need to talk about what motherhood does to women
Photo: Alamy/Sunday Times illustration
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