This is the story of a politician incapable of living within his means but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. It’s the story of how that dependence on others sullied him and them. All of which leads to one simple question: just who is funding Boris Johnson? This is the first episode of a four part series investigating Boris' finances. To listen to episodes two and three early, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts where you will also get ad-free listening ...
Mar 29, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Eight months after his daughter’s wedding to Brooklyn Beckham, billionaire Nelson Peltz filed a lawsuit against two wedding planners demanding a refund. So what happens when you treat a wedding like a billion-dollar business deal? Become a Tortoise member for just £60 a year to receive early and ad-free access to all our award-winning audio journalism, as well as our Sensemaker newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown today. If you’d like to further support s...
Mar 28, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 193
For five years a British citizen has been locked up in an Indian prison, and the British state hasn’t been willing – or not strong enough – to stand up for him Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 21, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 192
What happened inside Fox News in those critical weeks following Donald Trump’s election defeat in 2020? Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 14, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Warning: This episode describes domestic abuse and a death by falling. When a woman falls out of a window, on an estate that’s been abandoned by the council, how do you find out what really happened? And who do you believe? Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Feb 28, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 190
First they were known as the “little green men”, an anonymous private Russian force appearing first in Crimea, then Syria, then in central Africa. Now, they are on the frontline of Putin’s war in Ukraine. Just how powerful is the Wagner Group and their increasingly vocal founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin? Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member. Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and u...
Feb 21, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 189
The Harry show – the bestselling memoir, the Netflix documentary, the rounds of television interviews – isn’t over. In fact, it’s only just begun: the prince’s legal claims against Britain’s biggest media groups are headed to court this summer Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member. Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on ...
Feb 14, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Following a brutal killing in north London in 2016, two innocent men, Patryk and Grzegorz, who had just arrived from Poland, were handed a life sentence for a murder they didn’t commit. This is the story of a remarkable miscarriage of justice, and a feeble effort by the law to correct itself. Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member. Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the...
Feb 07, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 187
What do you do when your children are taken away by your ex-partner? Who do you call for help? And how do you get them back? Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member. Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 31, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 186
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? Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member. Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 24, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 185
Introducing: 'Real Money: The hunt for Tether's billions'. To listen to episode two of the series, click this link. The dream of cryptocurrencies is in danger of imploding along with their value. If the crypto coin that supports the whole market goes under it could drag the entire system down with it. That coin is called Tether. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 17, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 184
Introducing... The News Meeting from Podimo and Tortoise. In every newsroom around the world there’s a daily meeting to decide what leads the news, what follows and in what order. As editor of The Times newspaper, director of BBC News and now editor-in-chief of Tortoise, James Harding has been in countless news meetings behind closed doors. But in this podcast, we’re flinging the doors open so you can hear the argument for yourself. Three journalists pitch the story they think mattered most this...
Jan 13, 2023•9 min
Over £183 million of outside funds has flowed into this parliament alone, with no way of fully understanding who’s getting what, from whom, and why. Until now. This is the story of the money flowing into our politics, hidden in plain sight. To explore The Westminster Accounts tool click on this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 09, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 183
Nasa wants to put people back on the moon, half a century after Apollo 11. Its Artemis moon mission is over-budget, overhyped and underpowered – it might even be the end of Nasa as we know it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 03, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 182
One sleuth, two notebooks – and a 20-year puzzle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 29, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 181
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why? To listen to the 'Londongrad' series follow this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 180
The inside story of a troubled company that was bought by the world’s richest man. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 15, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 179
One of Britain’s richest and most powerful men was cleared of sexual assault last year. Four more women have now come forward with similar allegations that Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Conservative party, sexually assaulted them. Other women allege that he sexually harassed them at the offices of his Mayfair hedge fund company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 05, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 178
Introducing – The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic. In a few months, the Tavistock – the only NHS clinic in England and Wales which treats children suffering from gender dysphoria – will close. This is the story of what happened. This is episode 1 of our new investigative series. To listen to episode 2 today, search The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic or click here: https://podfollow.com/the-tavistock-inside-the-gender-clinic and follow the feed for future episodes You can listen to the f...
Dec 01, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 177
One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has built a hotel in Birmingham at vast cost. Following the threads which explain why it became so wildly expensive leads inevitably to a surprising place: to Liverpool. And to questions which could hurt the Labour party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 24, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Big money and bad science: what happens when science and medical research meet Wall Street? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 17, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 175
The story of one man, fighting to his last breath, to reveal the darkness that lies behind this year’s UN Climate Change Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 10, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 174
The inside story of how the shortest premiership in British history came to an end Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 03, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 173
More than 60 years after the development of the contraceptive pill for women, we still don’t have an equivalent for men. Why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 27, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 172
Introducing Pig Iron: five years after his death on a distant frontline in South Sudan, the truth about what happened to Christopher Allen is still a mystery. Was he a reckless freelancer? A mercenary? Or a young and ambitious reporter, caught in the crossfire? Approached by a family member looking for answers, Basia Cummings begins investigating. This is the first episode in the six part series 'Pig Iron'. To listen to the remaining episodes as they drop weekly, click on this link: https://tort...
Oct 20, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 171
What happened in the 17 days between Kwasi Kwarteng becoming chancellor, sacking the Treasury’s top civil servant, and his fiscal event which crashed the British economy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 13, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 170
What happened when social media platforms banned Andrew Tate, whose misogyny netted him a fortune and millions of online followers? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 06, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 169
When the premier of the British Virgin Islands was arrested in a drugs sting in Miami, what did British government officials know about the operation? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 29, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 168
No war crime is ever inevitable, but it’s possible to make one likely. Russia did exactly that before 53 prisoners of war burned to death at Olenivka. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 22, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 167
Richard Lambert talks to one of the UK’s foremost constitutional experts about the state of the monarchy. If you'd like to read and listen to more of Tortoise's reporting on the Queen, including photo galleries, an obituary by Matthew d’Ancona and daily reporting on a country turning on a hinge of history, visit tortoisemedia.com/thesecondelizabethanage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 16, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 166
