Will the conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein divide Trump from his MAGA supporters? Can British culture accept genetically modifying embryos to prevent serious diseases? And why have we only just learned of the data breach involving Afghan refugees?
Giles Whittell is joined by The Observer’s Head of Audio Jasper Corbett, reporter Phoebe Davis and producer Poppy Bullard.
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- Sarina Wiegman, the tough England manager who could win us the Euros
- Illiberal land: Hungary’s empire of ideas
- ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
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