The full Grenfell report has just been published. It’s huge, but @BBCRadio 4 has just updated a series of 15 minute explainers of what happened. It’s reported by Kate Lamble and it is exemplary journalism. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j…

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This week’s episode of The Briefing Room with David Aaronovitch is available now - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… - expert analysis from Paul Johnson Mehreen Khan Chris Giles Or listen live at 16.00 on BBC Radio 4

I wrote this week on the latest skirmishing in the crypto wars. End-to-end encryption has conquered the world. Governments continue to push back in defence of lawful intercept. But the debate around technical solutions has changed little in years. economist.com/international/…

What geeks can learn from sport: timharford.com/2024/09/what-g…

Listen to this week’s episode of The Briefing Room with David Aaronovitch here - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… - expert analysis from Paul Johnson Mehreen Khan Chris Giles

The international world order is ‘under threat in a way that we haven’t seen since the Cold War’ according to the heads of the UK and US intelligence services. Listen to The Briefing Room three part series on rising global tensions with David Aaronovitch bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Stop what you’re doing and listen to this - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… - Gabriel Gatehouse Lucy Proctor with the second series of The Coming Storm.

Dog reacts to Trump saying they're eating the dogs

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Moscow would regard Western missiles being fired into Russia as a serious escalation of the war. David Aaronovitch Shashank Joshi Michael Clarke Mark Galeotti discussed the risks of escalation in The Briefing Room - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A landslide in remote Greenland caused a mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to an international team co-led by Dr Stephen Hicks 🇪🇺 EarthSciences UCL UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences with Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/sep/…

Best league in the world. Worst officiating in the world. #PremierLeague #TOTARS

Higher tuition fees and direct government funding are needed to halt a growing deficit in England, a group of 141 UK universities says. In this episode of The Briefing Room, David Aaronovitch asks how much trouble universities are in - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Starvation in war-stricken Sudan "is almost everywhere", the head of the World Health Organization has told the BBC's Today programme after visiting the country. In this episode of The Briefing Room, David Aaronovitch looked at how the conflict might end - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Multiple reports say Israel's Mossad spy agency placed explosives in thousands of Hezbollah pagers before they detonated across Lebanon. Last month David Aaronovitch and guests explored the risk of escalation in the Middle East in The Briefing Room - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…