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A fight over Israel’s Supreme Court is a fight for the soul of the country, and everyone’s piling in.
Also in today’s Sensemaker: India’s blind spot about Modi’s past, and HS2 may never get to Euston.
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🚨Episode 3 of Real Money: the hunt for Tether’s billions, is out now.
In this episode, Aleks meets the men who handle Tether’s cash… and asks: where is it?
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In the shadows of the tragic cases of Alfie Evans and Archie Battersbee was the Christian Legal Centre.
In this Slow Newscast, asks: are they turning British courts into a battleground, and using vulnerable families in these cases to pursue their own agenda?
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"Google, Microsoft and OpenAI will all accelerate consumer-facing AI product development in 2023.
"It’s not yet clear who’ll win. What is clear is that the consumer AI era has begun."
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The Conservative Party chairman’s tax affairs have been under scrutiny after it was revealed he settled a multimillion-pound tax dispute with HMRC while he was chancellor.
Listen to today’s Sensemaker episode.
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In this week’s News Meeting, we discuss…
🇨🇳China's crumbling Belt and Road projects
⛺The Dartmoor wild camping ban
🇺🇦Germany (finally) sends tanks
, & are in the hot seats, but which story should lead the news?
linktr.ee/TheNewsMeeting
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When it comes to banking, how do you know that money is *really* there?
In episode 3 of our podcast series Real Money, Aleks meets the men who handle Tether’s cash...
🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rea
🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1GI1nd
🎧Amazon Music: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/667bd
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“It is hard to see how Richard Sharp’s position is tenable. But – this being the Age of Impunity – it would be foolish to predict that he will do the honourable thing and put the reputation of the world’s greatest public service broadcaster first.”
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The right to camp wild in England and Wales is under threat.
In this week’s Net Zero Sensemaker, looks at the relationship between land ownership and net zero.
In 2022, the NHS announced it was closing the Gender Identity Service for children and young people based at the Tavistock Clinic.
spent months trying to clarify misconstrued or misreported aspects of the GIDS road to closure.
Join the conversation on 31 January:
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The Christian Legal Centre is behind some of the most tragic cases in the British courts helping parents fight against hospitals in life support cases.
Who are they – and what do they want?
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ChatGPT poses a significant threat to Alphabet's Google.
It's caused it to issue the first "code red" warning to a single product in a decade. What does this mean?
Read more in this week's Tech States Sensemaker.
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When it comes to banking, how do you know that money is *really* there?
In episode 3 of our podcast series Real Money, Aleks meets the men who handle Tether’s cash...
🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rea
🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1GI1nd
🎧Amazon Music: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/667bd
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A group of families evacuated from Afghanistan have taken the Home Office to court for mismanaging the scheme set up to support them.
What does it tell us about the lives of the people who came to the UK after fleeing the Taliban takeover?
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"As The Fabelmans makes explicit, the deepest source of Spielberg’s movie-making has been a lifelong reckoning with trauma."
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Steven Spielberg's is an epic cinematic memoir - and reflects the importance of childhood trauma in the director's movies over the past half century. The new #CreativeSensemaker
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The granite, fog and wild ponies of Dartmoor offer a glimpse of a seemingly primaeval world in the heart of Britain.
Last weekend, it became the scene of an unusual protest that touched on money, power and how we tackle the climate crisis.
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Want to work with us here at Tortoise? We are looking for a Senior Development Producer (audio), Data Scientist, and Data Product Manager.
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“The government’s sluggish response to accusations of financial impropriety is not only ethically indefensible; it is electorally crazy.”
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🚨Episode 3 of Real Money: the hunt for Tether’s billions, is out now.
In this episode, Aleks meets the men who handle Tether’s cash… and asks: where is it?
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In the shadows of the tragic cases of Alfie Evans and Archie Battersbee was the Christian Legal Centre.
In this Slow Newscast, asks: are they turning British courts into a battleground, and using vulnerable families in these cases to pursue their own agenda?
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"Google, Microsoft and OpenAI will all accelerate consumer-facing AI product development in 2023.
"It’s not yet clear who’ll win. What is clear is that the consumer AI era has begun."
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A group of families evacuated from Afghanistan have taken the Home Office to court for mismanaging the scheme set up to support them.
In today's Sensemaker episode, we speak to at the about the Afghan evacuees challenging Government.
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🎧 "The #HomeOffice has argued that the #HomeSecretary doesn't have any duty to consider the best interests of the children... that she is moving hundreds of miles across the country"
The Afghan evacuees challenging Govt - spoke to :
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A group of families evacuated from Afghanistan have taken the Home Office to court for mismanaging the scheme set up to support them.
What does it tell us about the lives of the people who came to the UK after fleeing the Taliban takeover?
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When it comes to banking, how do you know that money is *really* there?
In episode 3 of our podcast series Real Money, Aleks meets the men who handle Tether’s cash...
🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rea
🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1GI1nd
🎧Amazon Music: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/667bd
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Today at lunchtime, join us in the Tortoise newsroom or online as we try to make sense of striking Britain and ask: has the government lost control?
Book your place here:
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Tomorrow lunchtime, join us in the Tortoise newsroom as we try to make sense of striking Britain and ask: has the government lost control?
Book your place here:
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Mike Pence and Joe Biden have been careless with documents, giving Trump a break that could boost his chances of retaking the White House.
Also in today’s Sensemaker: tanks to Ukraine and a booze ban in Alice Springs.
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“It is hard to see how Richard Sharp’s position is tenable. But – this being the Age of Impunity – it would be foolish to predict that he will do the honourable thing and put the reputation of the world’s greatest public service broadcaster first.”
🖊️
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The right to camp wild in England and Wales is under threat.
In this week’s Net Zero Sensemaker, looks at the relationship between land ownership and net zero.
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In 2022, the NHS announced it was closing the Gender Identity Service for children and young people based at the Tavistock Clinic.
spent months trying to clarify misconstrued or misreported aspects of the GIDS road to closure.
Join the conversation on 31 January:
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The Christian Legal Centre is behind some of the most tragic cases in the British courts helping parents fight against hospitals in life support cases.
Who are they – and what do they want?
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When it comes to banking, how do you know that money is *really* there?
In episode 3 of our podcast series Real Money, Aleks meets the men who handle Tether’s cash...
🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rea
🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1GI1nd
🎧Amazon Music: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/667bd
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ChatGPT poses a significant threat to Alphabet's Google.
It's caused it to issue the first "code red" warning to a single product in a decade. What does this mean?
Read more in this week's Tech States Sensemaker.
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Artificial intelligence is being used to create works of art in seconds.
What can human artists do to protect their livelihoods against machines?
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The Review is your chance to take part in an editorial meeting like no other: it’s open to the public and you’re in control of what we talk about.
Tomorrow, join Tortoise editor and special guests & , Head of Publishing .
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For the next edition of Tortoise Lates, we're asking: what is 'masculinity' and what does it mean to be a man today?
Join Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Richard K Herring, Sam Delaney and Tom Allen in the Tortoise newsroom for an evening of conversation, ideas and entertainment.
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Tomorrow lunchtime, join us in the Tortoise newsroom as we try to make sense of striking Britain and ask: has the government lost control?
Book your place here:
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