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A week into the election campaign, Labour is leading the polls by around twenty points. If Labour do win on 4th July, Keir Starmer will be moving to No 10. So, what do we know about the party leader? And, after a week of difficult headlines around the selection of candidates, just how has he changed Labour?
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Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor, The Sunday Times and co-author of Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Times Radio, BBC, Labour Party, Plain Jaine' / 'Keep It Light Media, Parliament, LBC.
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This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly series each Sunday.
If the current trajectory continues, fast fashion emissions are set to surge by 50% by 2030. And with textile production becoming a greater contributor to climate change than international aviation and shipping combined, a crucial question remains - how can the textiles industry harness the power of the circular economy to make global change. Environment Editor for The Times, Adam Vaughan is joined by social entrepreneur and Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate Denica Riadini-Flesch, live at the Royal Geographical Society, to hear how she is rekindling our connection to the land and creating societal and environmental change, one stitch at a time. 
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This week, producer Olivia Case takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the newsroom and chats to Jack Clover, assistant foreign editor at The Times and The Sunday Times, to find out about the weird and wonderful things that cross his desk and how his past as a theatre director in Ukraine helps him in his job today.

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An Israeli airstrike that killed at least forty-five displaced Palestinians in Rafah has once again focused the world’s attention on the war in Gaza. The White House insists no red lines have yet been crossed. So where is Biden's red line?
Guests: Robert S. Ford, Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, and former U.S. Ambassador to Syria.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: BBC News; CNN; NBC; C-SPAN; The Guardian; X/Twitter.
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Listen back: What if there’s no ceasefire? Manveen Rana reports from Jerusalem (06 March 2024) - https://pod.fo/e/2242e1

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Two of the century’s biggest artists are exchanging diss track blows in a beef that has engulfed the internet. But how has rap moved on since the violence of the 1990s? With the rappers’ fiery verbal blows raising allegations of domestic violence and sex abuse – how has it got so out of hand? 
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Guest: Blanca Schofield, Assistant Editor of Culture & Books, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Clips: TikTok, YouTube. 
Music credits:
Alright - Kendrick Lamar/To Pimp a Butterfly/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope.
One Dance - Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla/Views/Young Money/Cash Money/Republic.
Hotline Bling - Drake/Views/Young Money/Cash Money/Republic.
All The Stars - Kendrick Lamar/SZA/ Crowd Pleasers, Vol. II/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope.
Swimming Pools (Drank) - Kendrick Lamar/Good Kid, M.A.A.D City/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope.
Humble - Kendrick Lamar/Damn/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope. 
First Person Shooter - Drake featuring J. Cole/For All the Dogs/OVO/Republic.
Like That - Kendrick Lamar, Future and Metro Boomin/ We Don't Trust You/Wilburn Holding Co./Boominati/Epic/Republic.


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With the election now just around the corner, Labour says that if it wins, it’ll take away the tax breaks Britain’s private schools have benefited from for years. The introduction of VAT could push fees up by twenty percent, forcing middle class parents out and putting severe pressure on the sector. So why is Labour making this such a key part of its manifesto, and what could it mean for the future of education?
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Guests:
Nicola Woolcock, Times Education Editor; and,Oliver Wright, Times Policy Editor.Host: Luke Jones.
Clips: Sky News; Herald Institute Media.
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