Jess Winch

What just happened

What just happened

In this special Christmas episode with Intelligence Squared the Tortoise team are joined by Robert Peston and an audience at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill to discuss the biggest stories of the year.

What should lead the news? Three people pitch the story they think matters most to Tortoise’s editor-in-chief James Harding.

Last year Trudi Warner, 69, stood outside a London court for 30 minutes holding a placard on jury rights. Specifically, her sign informed jurors of their right to acquit a defendant based on their conscience. A judge on Monday found that Warner had not harassed or even talked to anyone entering the court at the …

If the White House wants to know who’s in charge, the answer’s complicated.

Emmanuel Macron hoped for a moment of “clarification” when he called snap parliamentary elections in France this month. He is now facing an ice bath full of it. Marine Le Pen’s far-right party was the clear winner in last night’s first round, with projections putting her Rassemblement National (RN) party on 34 per cent of …

Last September, Canada’s Justin Trudeau accused India’s government of being behind the murder of a Sikh activist who had called for the creation of an independent homeland in northern India. A year later Canada has gone further, saying the killing was part of a campaign of criminal activity against Indian dissidents in the country. Canada …

Yesterday Romanians should have been voting in the country’s presidential election runoff between far-right populist Calin Georgescu and liberal Elena Lasconi. Instead police were busy arresting dozens of armed men who were travelling to the capital Bucharest to join protests, after the country’s top court cancelled the vote following allegations of Russian interference via social …