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| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 1621 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced sweeping changes to the asylum rules yesterday; the largest overhaul since the Second World War. The changes have apparently been inspired by Denmark but will they work or are they - as one Labour MP said - ‘r... more
From this year, 18 year-old Danish women will have to take part in a conscription lottery and face potentially being called up for an 11 month military service. The country is just one of many in Europe aiming to improve military resilience in respon... more
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Reading some of the recent reviews by the intellectually challenged defending the far right, prompted me to finally write a review.
The ads are annoying, but you have a skip button, use it, it’s either ads or a subscription based model.
The stories are thoughtful, well researched and excellently delivered. Additionally, I could listen to Manveen Rana read the phone book and be happy.
Some good episodes, but overly sympathetic to small boats and the various sob stories from those trying to invade the UK.
So many adverts. The content is decent enough, but the shear number of adverts is frustrating. Not only is there a lot of them, they’re narrated by ‘journalists,’ -people with degrees in English language- who use the word ‘bought’ instead of ‘brought’ among other things. It’s sloppy.
The content is really good quality but the ads have become unbearable for me. I skip to three minutes and then finish my listening at the ad break. The ads are so long and delivered to us like we are children in a nursery.
The Suspect series on The Story exposes Saudi ties to the 9/11 attacks and is truly courageous, brilliant journalism. A reminder of how journalism should be done! Would have been 5 star - love Hadley Freeman, but sanitising the Woody Allen/Epstein link let the podcast down
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