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Violence and neglect are rife in unregistered schools across the UK. We explore how a legal loophole allows these establishments to operate under the radar, ignoring basic educational and safeguarding standards. With inspectors powerless to intervene, the abuse continues.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Tom Ball, reporter for The Times.Host: David Aaronovitch.Clips: BBC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Attempts at conversion therapy are taking place across the country: in village churches, Harley Street clinics and counsellors' treatment rooms. In this final episode of a seven-part series, reporter Emily Sargent turns her attention to Westminster. What's happened in the three years since the Government pledged to end the practice of conversion therapy?  This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:Switchboard provides an information, support and referral service for anyone who needs to consider issues around their sexuality.Phone: 0300 330 0630 (10am-10pm).Samaritans is available for anyone struggling to cope and provide a safe place to talk 24 hours a day.Phone: 116 123Guests: Matthew Hyndman, co-founder, Ban Conversion Therapy. Jayne Ozanne, director and founder, Ozanne Foundation; chair, Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition.Reverend Jide Macaulay, founding Pastor and CEO, House Of Rainbow.Joe Hyman, LGBTQ+ activist and conversion therapy survivor. Peter Lynas, UK director, Evangelical Alliance.Chris Csabs, co-author and co-founder, SOGICE Survivors.Host: Emily Sargent, journalist.Clips: X-Out-Loud, BBC, Core Issues Trust, ITV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last month Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election, hoping to capitalise on support for his pandemic response. With the election just days away, and polls showing a neck and neck race, could the move become one of Canada's biggest political miscalculations?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Charlie Mitchell, Canada correspondent for The Times and Sunday Times.Host: Calum Macdonald.Clips: Ruptly, CBC, Soheil Koushan, Sun News, Global News, The Canadian Press, Reuters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new law restricting abortions in the state of Texas could spell the end of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which guaranteed access to abortion for women in America. Today: the legal history of abortion in the US, and the effect the new law might have.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.Host: Manveen Rana.Clips: ABC, AP, BBC, CBS, Channel 4 News, CNBC, CNN, Global News, KMUW, NBC, PBS, WFAA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since the internet boom in the mid-90s, San Francisco has become a tech superpower, overtaking Silicon Valley. The city has more billionaires per square mile than anywhere in the US, but it also has more homeless people. Danny Fortson meets the residents of its tent cities.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Danny Fortson, West Coast correspondent, The Sunday Times.Host: Calum Macdonald.Clips: CNBC, CNN, Fox News, CBS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As people return to work and school, and Covid numbers continue to rise, just how normal might this autumn be?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes. Guests:-Jill Treanor, City Editor, The Sunday Times.-Tom Calver, senior data journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times.Presenter: David Aaronovitch.Clips: BBC, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Number 10. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Attempts at conversion therapy are taking place across the country: in village churches, Harley Street clinics and counsellors' treatment rooms. Research suggests that trans people are twice as likely to have been offered some form of conversion therapy than any other group in the LGBTQ+ community.In this sixth episode of a seven-part series, reporter Emily Sargent speaks to Dr Kate Nambiar: an endocrinology specialist at a gender identity clinic, as well as being a trans woman herself. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:Switchboard provides an information, support and referral service for anyone who needs to consider issues around their sexuality.Phone: 0300 330 0630 (10am-10pm).Samaritans is available for anyone struggling to cope and provide a safe place to talk 24 hours a day.Phone: 116 123Guests: -Dr Kate Nambiar, endocrinology specialist at a gender identity clinic.Host: Emily Sargent, journalist.Clips: LBC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next month world leaders will come together in Glasgow for COP26, the annual UN climate change conference, where the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. The summit will be just the culmination of a long process; much of the real work happens now, in the days and weeks beforehand. So, as COP26 draws closer, are negotiations as far along as they need to be?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Rachel Kyte, Dean of Fletcher School at Tufts University.Host: David Aaronovitch.Clips: 5 News, ABC News, BBC, CBS, Channel 4 News, DW News, euronews, On Demand News, PBS, Straits Times, The Royal Family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After 16 years as Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel is exiting the international stage. What did the world's most powerful woman stand for, and what will her legacy be?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes. Guest: Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times.Host: Manveen Rana.Clips: euronews, Channel 4 News, BBC Newsnight, ABC News. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A hundred years ago last month, The Times published a series of articles proving the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a conspiracy theory that Jews were looking to control world governments, were a forgery.In part two, David Aaronovitch dives into The Times archive to find out what happened after the proof was made public and why the conspiracy theory never quite went away. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes. Guests:-Rose Wild, Times writer.-Liane MacIver, Times assistant archivist.Presenter: David Aaronovitch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.