Paul talks about his experiences in the Sedgefield Labour Party selection race, and the team talks Trussonomics and Ukraine.

The Big Story is: How to survive at 40°C    Other Stories:  RMT announces further rail strike & Mo Farah trafficking survivor

We discuss Johnson's resignation as Party leader, NHS birthday woes and Labour's proposed National Care Service

We discuss the potential for a Scottish Independence Referendum, 50 years of UK Pride and those resignations

We discuss whether the rail strikes have been a success or failure, Roe vs Wade being overturned and the Tory by election defeats

As Johnson sacks his ethics adviser, we ask if there is any point in having his role for a clearly unethical political class.

We discuss Prince Charles' comments, rail strikes and raising the age of smoking to 21

We discuss the latest UK Parliamentary debacle as Tory MPs narrowly vote confidence in their disgraced leader Boris Johnson.  We also ask whether policing has become a problem and whether we should extend free school meals.

We talk to Dan Draper about his third in a trilogy of films Manifesto.  Following on from The Nature of the Beast and The Big Meeting.  Along with Alan Gibbons and Michael Hardy, activists from the film.

We discuss plans for student loans to be denied to anybody who has to re-sit English or Mathematics, the fallout of Partygate and the re-writing of the ministerial code and the human cost of the Uyghur detention camps in China