They had told the Israelis they were there. Travelling along a coastal road in Gaza, six aid workers – from the UK, Poland, Australia and Canada – and their Palestinian driver. They had just unloaded more than 100 tonnes of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza for the millions of people at risk of famine … Read more
The business secretary has accused the Post Office chair she sacked of a ‘blatant attempt to seek revenge’ after he made explosive allegations about the governmentâs handling of the Horizon scandal. Kemi Badenoch launched an extended attack on Henry Staunton in the Commons on Monday. The furore began over the weekend after Staunton gave an … Read more
In late 2021, Labour party members were still licking their wounds after a byelection defeat in Hartlepool, and Keir Starmer was at something of a crossroads in his leadership. He needed something big and bold that would excite his party and get the attention of voters. He was under pressure to match the ambition of … Read more
When Michelle Mone sat down for an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg last month it was against the backdrop of serious allegations that she had been facing since 2020. Mone and her husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman, are the subjects of a long-running National Crime Agency investigation into allegations of bribery … Read more
This episode was originally published on 10 May 2021. When the Post Office installed a new accounting system called Horizon across its branches in 1999, it hoped to bring a lumbering and much-loved institution into the 21st century. What happened next resulted in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in English legal history. The … Read more
Cold weather has sparked fears a new Covid variant could result in the UK’s largest-ever wave of infections. Experts raised concerns after one in 16 people were infected in London in mid-December, which was the hardest hit area of the UK. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data revealed that Covid rates doubled in less than … Read more
This episode originally ran on 11 May 2021. The Post Office brought prosecutions against dozens of its employees after accusing them of theft and false accounting based on evidence from its IT system called Horizon. Janet Skinner was one of those who went to jail for false accounting and last month she was one of … Read more
This week we are re-running some of our favourite episodes. Today in Focus will return with new episodes on Tuesday 2 January 2024. For most people in the UK, what happens to your assets when you die is a relatively simple process: you either specify your wishes in a will or your estate passes to … Read more
This week we are re-running some of our favourite episodes. Today in Focus will return with new episodes on Tuesday 2 January 2024. Labour went into the 1997 general election having been in opposition for 18 years. None of the shadow cabinet had any government experience. And yet the party led by Tony Blair was … Read more
Katharine Viner, the Guardian and Observer’s editor-in-chief, tells Nosheen Iqbal about what the news cycle of 2023 looked like from her desk. ‘We are getting used to an extremely intense pace of news these days,’ Viner says. She discusses how the Guardian has focused on humanising the horror of the Israel-Gaza war, the deaths of … Read more
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