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Welcome to the Taco presidency

Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: ‘This is the operative statement. The others...

10.04.2026 10

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Paul Wood

Welcome to the Taco presidency

Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: ‘This is the operative statement. The others...

08.04.2026 10

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Paul Wood

Could Iranian drones bomb Britain?

One night in 1909, in Peterborough, a police constable named Kettle looked up and saw ‘a strange cigar-shaped craft passing over the city’. This...

20.03.2026 10

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Inside the daring plan to reclaim the Chagos Islands

Paul Wood has narrated this article for you to listen to. Peros Banhos on the Chagos archipelago looks like your basic tropical island paradise:...

27.02.2026 10

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Putin's hypersonic missiles are his trump card against the West

24.02.2026 10

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Arctic role: what does Trump really want from Greenland?

22.01.2026 10

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Plane crashes, no medicine and mass panic – how a 'Q-Day' attack on UK would unfold

16.12.2025 20

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Sheikh it off / Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27.09.2025 8

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Sheikh it off / Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27.09.2025 10

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Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27.09.2025 10

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State of fear / The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

08.07.2025 8

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State of fear / The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

08.07.2025 9

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State of fear / The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

03.07.2025 10

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Lost cause / The Kurds have finally given in to Erdogan

15.05.2025 10

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The secrets of ‘God’s influencer’

02.05.2025 10

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Millennial saint / The secrets of ‘God’s influencer’

01.05.2025 10

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War games / Would Trump really bomb Iran?

23.04.2025 9

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Would Trump really bomb Iran?

19.04.2025 20

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Would Trump really bomb Iran?

17.04.2025 10

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Saviour complex: Jonathan Powell is still trying to change the world

11.04.2025 8

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Will Trump join the strongman club?

27.03.2025 30

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Massacre of the innocents: the return of sectarian persecution in Syria

13.03.2025 20

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The strange beauty of the vigil for the Pope

02.03.2025 20

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Vatican notebook / The strange beauty of the vigil for the Pope

28.02.2025 10

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The strange beauty of the vigil for the Pope

27.02.2025 10

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Change of heart / I was convinced by the cholesterol sceptics

24.02.2025 20

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I was convinced by the cholesterol sceptics

23.02.2025 10

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Change of heart / I was convinced by the cholesterol sceptics

21.02.2025 30

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I was convinced by the cholesterol sceptics

20.02.2025 20

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Going rogue / Does Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

19.02.2025 10

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Going rogue / Does Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

17.02.2025 20

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Going rogue / Does Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

17.02.2025 9

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What Trump’s Gaza plan means for the Middle East

14.02.2025 20

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