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463. Question Time: How Truth Became Optional In Trump’s America

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451. Is Trump Destroying the UN?

452. Question Time: America’s New Martyr and Westminster’s Hidden Spies

453. Trump’s Far Right Allies in Germany: Is History Repeating Itself?

454. Starmer's Farage Fightback and Trump's Unworkable Gaza Plan

455. Question Time: Is Europe Already At War With Russia?

456. Antisemitism, How the Tories Lost Britain, and Gaza

457. Is Trump Planning Regime Change?

The Rise of Rupert Murdoch: Making of a Mogul (Part 1)

458. Can Trump's Peace Deal Actually Work?

459. Question Time: Reform's Potential Upside, Why Bad News Sells & Reasons To Stay Hopeful

A Deal With the Devil? Murdoch and New Labour (Part 2)

460. Inside Trump’s Gaza-Ukraine Playbook: Who Profits from Peace?

461. Question Time: The Tel Aviv Fan Ban & Japan’s New Thatcher

The Phone-Hacking Scandal: How Murdoch's UK Empire Fell (Part 3)

462. Starmer Hits Rock Bottom: Will He Break His Manifesto to Survive?

463. Question Time: How Truth Became Optional In Trump’s America

The Monster He Made: Murdoch, Trump, and the Price of Power (Part 4)

464. Labour’s Tax Timebomb, Climate Backsliding, and Sudan’s Forgotten War

465. Andrew’s Disgrace, Newsnight, and a Centrist Win in the Netherlands (Question Time)

Murdoch's Succession Battle and the Fight for Fox News

466. Crisis Engulfs the BBC: Is this a Coordinated Attack?

467. The Mamdani Method Explained: Could It Shock Britain?

468. Starmer in Crisis: Sabotage From Within? (Question Time)

469. Is Starmer Out of Moves? Asylum Gamble, Tax Chaos, and Open Infighting

470. China vs Japan, the BBC at Breaking Point, and The Future of Satire (Question Time)

471. Rory Stewart: How the Government Tried to Silence Me on Lockdowns

472. Is Trump’s Peace 'Plan’ Forced Surrender for Ukraine?

473. Europe vs. Trump: Competing Visions for a Ukraine Peace Deal (Question Time)

474. Does Reeves' Budget Really Change Anything? What It Means For You

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475. The Budget Backlash – and Trump’s Plan to Profit from Peace in Ukraine

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