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The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it

33 mins; April 11, 2024

The honeytrap scandal: Sexting in Westminster

28 mins; April 10, 2024

Fighting the Post Office: Alan Bates at the inquiry

30 mins; April 09, 2024

China's tech battle to control the future

29 mins; April 08, 2024

Gourmet gangster: Could Kinahan be caught by his Google reviews?

27 mins; April 07, 2024

How Israel lost its allies

35 mins; April 04, 2024

Politics at play: Why is nursery still so expensive?

27 mins; April 03, 2024

Could Scotland's hate crime law be the beginning of the end for free speech?

31 mins; April 02, 2024

Sacked, jailed, disgraced: The advisers set to rejoin Team Trump

26 mins; April 01, 2024

Investigation: Undercover at one of the UK's most dangerous prisons

33 mins; March 28, 2024

Hague talks to Rishi Sunak about being a dad, AI, and a terrible political inheritance

37 mins; March 27, 2024

Putin’s ISIS problem

26 mins; March 26, 2024

Lessons from the world's assisted dying capital

27 mins; March 25, 2024

Inside the fentanyl trade

33 mins; March 24, 2024

How To Win an Election... With Taylor Swift (And Other Celebrities)

42 mins; March 22, 2024

Kate-Gate: How the Royals lost control of the narrative

25 mins; March 21, 2024

Every scary thing Meta knows about you

24 mins; March 20, 2024

The five-year road to banning teenage puberty blockers

26 mins; March 19, 2024

Boeing, a dead whistleblower, and the company that crashed to earth

30 mins; March 18, 2024

The unspeakable crime

39 mins; March 17, 2024

What Wagner did next - the rebranding of Putin’s secret weapon

28 mins; March 14, 2024

How street gangs led Haiti’s descent into anarchy

27 mins; March 13, 2024

Who owns the moon? AC Grayling on the question that could start war on Earth

31 mins; March 12, 2024

Kate Middleton, that photo, and a PR nightmare

32 mins; March 11, 2024

Stories of our times is becoming The Story

2 mins; March 11, 2024

What Liz Truss did next

29 mins; March 10, 2024

Prescription Nation: Britain's hidden drug dependency

24 mins; March 07, 2024

Confessions of a millionaire: Should the super-rich pay more tax?

31 mins; March 06, 2024

What if there’s no ceasefire? Manveen Rana reports from Jerusalem

33 mins; March 05, 2024

The Rise of Reform UK - the party the Tories fear

31 mins; March 04, 2024

How Britain’s IRA mole got away with murder

34 mins; March 03, 2024

Cartoons and controversies with Times cartoonist Peter Brookes

28 mins; February 29, 2024

Why won't Nikki Haley quit in the race against Trump?

37 mins; February 28, 2024

Aid in Gaza: A month on, did the ICJ make any difference?

31 mins; February 27, 2024

A by-election circus in Rochdale

29 mins; February 26, 2024

Why young women are falling out of love with the pill

29 mins; February 25, 2024

Her daughter was murdered. Why will the killer be released so soon?

32 mins; February 22, 2024

Is there any hope for Generation Rent?

29 mins; February 21, 2024

Keir Starmer's Gaza problem

28 mins; February 20, 2024

What Navalny’s death means for Russia

30 mins; February 19, 2024

Is ADHD being over-diagnosed?

31 mins; February 18, 2024

A conversation with Christopher Nolan

34 mins; February 15, 2024

How Biden could be replaced

26 mins; February 14, 2024

‘Russian spy in MI6’: the Afghan connection

21 mins; February 13, 2024

Rotten to the core: What’s at the root of Britain’s dental crisis?

28 mins; February 12, 2024

AI, drones, and smartphones: How Ukraine changed warfare

28 mins; February 11, 2024

What the King’s cancer means for Harry, William, Charles and the monarchy

24 mins; February 10, 2024

Taylor Swift and the ‘Super Bowl plot’ to swing the election

26 mins; February 08, 2024

Women watch porn too - so why can’t we talk about it?

26 mins; February 07, 2024

Could the Israeli hostage crisis topple Netanyahu?

27 mins; February 06, 2024

The Ukrainians desperate to avoid the draft

31 mins; February 05, 2024

Why are Gen Z stalking their partners?

25 mins; February 04, 2024

A diary of war: Three months in Gaza

34 mins; February 01, 2024

Inside the Tory plot to oust Rishi Sunak

28 mins; January 31, 2024

Three US soldiers dead: Has Iran miscalculated?

23 mins; January 30, 2024

Cash for places: The backdoor for overseas students into Britain's top universities

29 mins; January 29, 2024

Inside California's 'orgasm commune'

37 mins; January 28, 2024

Why the super-rich are paying less tax

23 mins; January 26, 2024

Keir Starmer’s Blairite playbook

27 mins; January 24, 2024

Why measles cases are surging

24 mins; January 23, 2024

Battles, beauty salons and lost friends: Eight years in the Middle East

24 mins; January 22, 2024

Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British imperialism shaped the globe

26 mins; January 21, 2024

Death row execution: Alabama's first suffocation

25 mins; January 18, 2024

South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

32 mins; January 17, 2024

How Mean Girls made ‘fetch’ happen

25 mins; January 16, 2024

Who are the Houthis and will the airstrikes stop them?

28 mins; January 15, 2024

Presidents, princes and sex tapes: What's in the Epstein files?

27 mins; January 14, 2024

Could Taiwan’s election start a war?

30 mins; January 12, 2024

The Post Office scandal: How a TV drama delivered justice

36 mins; January 10, 2024

If the economy’s doing better, why are the ‘vibes’ still off?

25 mins; January 09, 2024

Why we ate our friends: The story of a plane crash

35 mins; January 08, 2024

An unsolved murder, the Troubles, and the British state

30 mins; January 07, 2024

An assassination in Beirut: will the Middle East war spread?

30 mins; January 04, 2024

What to expect from President Trump 2.0

30 mins; January 03, 2024

Stopped and searched: Our crime correspondent’s story

26 mins; January 02, 2024

How to get a good night’s sleep

27 mins; January 01, 2024

Best of 2023: How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991

28 mins; December 30, 2023

Best of 2023: The seven lives of the £2 million fraudster

32 mins; December 29, 2023

Best of 2023: How giant pandas became China’s furry diplomats

26 mins; December 28, 2023

Best of 2023: Cocaine Britain: Traffickers v the police

25 mins; December 27, 2023

Best of 2023: Why British Gas has been breaking into customers’ homes

32 mins; December 26, 2023

The Archbishop of Canterbury in conversation

21 mins; December 22, 2023

“Your wheels are your legs”: The charity changing children’s lives

22 mins; December 21, 2023

Does Gen Z have a problem with Israel?

28 mins; December 20, 2023

2023's best books: Victorian sex, apocalypse and Prince Harry

26 mins; December 19, 2023

Sex work in Sierra Leone: A street child’s story

26 mins; December 18, 2023

How Italy’s hard-right claimed JRR Tolkien

24 mins; December 17, 2023

Investigation: How the tobacco industry has secretly bankrolled vaping

26 mins; December 14, 2023

What happened to the boy who killed James Bulger

35 mins; December 13, 2023

Criminal or artist? The trial of the rapper Young Thug

26 mins; December 12, 2023

Rishi in the dock: Covid and Rwanda

36 mins; December 11, 2023

China’s deadly role in America’s fentanyl epidemic

26 mins; December 10, 2023

Covid Inquiry: Boris on trial

30 mins; December 07, 2023

Does the government’s plan to cut immigration add up?

24 mins; December 06, 2023

Meet Geert Wilders, the Dutch Trump

26 mins; December 05, 2023

'All I know is they want me dead': Iran's web of terror

31 mins; December 04, 2023

Israel-Gaza: When does war become illegal?

29 mins; December 03, 2023

Who should keep the Elgin Marbles?

37 mins; December 01, 2023

Nigel Farage in the jungle: What’s his game plan?

26 mins; November 30, 2023

Israel/Gaza: What happens when the ceasefire eventually ends?

32 mins; November 29, 2023

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