Hosted by Nosheen Iqbal and Michael Safi, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining personal storytelling with insightful analysis, this podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. Today in Focus features journalists such as: Kiran Stacey, Pippa Crerar, Alex Hern, Helen Pidd, Peter Walker, Luke Harding, Andrew Roth, Shaun Walker and Jim Waterson. The podcast is a topical, deep dive, explainer on a story in the news, covering: current affairs, politics, investigations, leaks, and scandals. It might cover, for example, topics such as: the environment, green issues, climate change, the climate emergency and global warming; American politics including: Biden, Trump, the White House, the GOP, the Republicans and the Republican Party, the Democrats and the Democratic Party; UK politics including: parliament, Labour, the Conservative party, the Liberal Democrats, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer; culture; the royals and the royal family, including King Charles III; HS2; the police; Ukraine; Russia; and Bangladesh
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2025-01-21 | Richard Adams reports on the Send funding cliff edge affecting children and their development. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-20 | As Donald Trump returns to the White House, Hugo Lowell and David Smith discuss what to expect from his first few weeks. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-17 | The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Bethan McKernan explains the pact reached between Israel and Hamas to halt fighting. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-17 | The Guardian’s health editor Andrew Gregory explores the promises and challenges of revolutionary technology in the fight against cancer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-16 | Political correspondent Kiran Stacey traces the allegations of corruption against Labour MP Tulip Siddiq that caused her to resign from her ministerial role in Keir Starmer’s government. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocu... |
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2025-01-15 |
‘The entire community is just gone’: inside the Los Angeles wildfires Gabrielle Canon reports from Los Angeles on the wildfires destroying homes and communities. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-14 | Factchecker Jesse Stiller and technology journalist Chris Stokel-Walker explore why Mark Zuckerberg has announced dramatic changes to Meta’s social platforms, and what they will mean for their 3.3 billion users. Help support our independent journalism ... |
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2025-01-13 | Culture critics Lanre Bakare, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Catherine Shoard look ahead to the best of the year in film, TV, books and music. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-10 |
It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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2025-01-09 | Why is Elon Musk increasingly trying to influence UK politics?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus |
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