Rachel Porter
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Rachel Porter
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Now: Producer, Ukraine: The Latest @telegraph. Then: Weekend @guardian &
BBC Untold Legends: Ora https://tinyurl.com/4wfrf55f Views own
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Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025:

I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince?

Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts.

I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Ukraine: The Latest team have tried to answer some of the perennial questions/opinions that we might all hear over the Christmas season, deployed by those who haven't been following the war, are anti-Ukraine or just like seeing Putin riding horses bareback. Listen here: tinyurl.com/3eejkpyy
Putin vows revenge after oil tanker blown up in Mediterranean & EU plugs Kyiv’s €90bn budget black hole
Podcast Episode · Ukraine: The Latest · 12/19/2025 · 49m
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December 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Remember this as Trump and Big Tech lobbyists try to block AI regulation at both the state and federal level.
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.

We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵

🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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This is extraordinary.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Don't want to jinx it, but my first day at the OBR seems to be going really well.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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What the actual fuck is going on?
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The Nerve is at the Old Bailey today for the sentencing of Nathan Gill. It's a complex story and the Nerve is here with our first print edition - a handy fold out timeline detailing the whole affair...!

More soon...
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Our new podcast is designed to help you cut through all the current AI noise. Professor David Reid and journalist Stephanie Power, present. We are married, so there may be bickering. #futureofwork #ai #aiatwork #marriedtothemachine
Trailer ep here: player.captivate.fm/episode/d254...
Why are we making this?
Quickly and easily listen to Married to the Machine: Living with AI for free!
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November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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A conservative Christian group helped end the constitutional right to an abortion in the U.S. Now, it has taken its playbook to Britain. Here's how the Alliance Defending Freedom became an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and the Reform U.K. party. nyti.ms/3KLqGol
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and Britain’s ascendant Reform U.K. party.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.

We cannot stay silent. 1/5

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Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally
Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally
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September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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★★★★★ "2000 Meters to Andriivka film review — stark Ukraine reportage from Oscar-winning director" - @financialtimes.com.

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2000 Meters to Andriivka film review — stark Ukraine reportage from Oscar-winning director
Much of what ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov documents in this unmissable film comes straight from troops’ bodycams
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July 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me.

So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!!
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July 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Why British women are freezing their eggs abroad: @theguardian.com Science Weekly delves into a growing phenomenon.

Presented and produced by @madifinlay.bsky.social

Listen now.
#podcast #eggfreezing #ivf #fertility

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Why British women are freezing their eggs abroad
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 03/07/2025 · 18m
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July 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In case you missed it, Weekend’s penultimate episode with #MarinaHyde on Vance,
@mchshe.bsky.social on saving the world one debt at a time & @johnharris1969.bsky.social knocks you back with his beautifully written & read piece on his talented autistic son…

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Actor Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts; Marina Hyde on ‘grotesque’ JD Vance; and ‘how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice’ – podcast
Marina Hyde on 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – they’re all more likable than the real thing. The actor Michael Sheen grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cu...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ukraine: The Latest - third anniversary episode
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Air defence defeats largest drone attack of the war & Boris Johnson joins live for third anniversary
Podcast Episode · Ukraine: The Latest · 24/02/2025 · 1h 8m
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February 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
“a remarkable cry of hope from the depths of despair”. Another brilliantly written piece by @shattenstone.bsky.social beautifully read by Kate O’Flynn for Weekend podcast @theguardian.com.

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‘I forgive them for what they’ve done’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of daughter Brianna – podcast
Two years ago, transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. Now her mother has become friends with the parent of one of the murderers. She discusses her extraordinary re...
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February 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Special episode of Politics Weekly America on the inauguration - and the first moves of Trump’s second term, featuring @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
Executive orders, Gulf of America and flags on Mars: Trump’s first day in office – podcast
Jonathan Freedland speaks to the US commentator Molly Jong-Fast about what a virtual declaration of war against an American ally, a promise to “expand America’s territory” and a couple of declarations...
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January 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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How does this make sense?
January 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“In a special episode recorded before his death, David Knowles attends a football match in Ukraine, exploring how 'the beautiful game' has served as an anchor in a country at war”. I was very lucky to produce this with David as one of his last projects.
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Football in wartime, with David Knowles | Ukraine: The Latest Special
Podcast Episode · Ukraine: The Latest · 24/12/2024 · 31m
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December 26, 2024 at 8:50 AM