Giles Whittell and guests debate what stories should lead the news. They discuss calls for Stephen Cottrell to step down over his handling of a sexual abuse case, failures of the UK’s privatised water industry, and ABC News’s $15 million defamation settlement with Donald Trump.

Guests:

• Pete Apps, Inside Housing contributing editor and Orwell Prize winning author • Basia Cummings, editor at Tortoise • Stephen Armstrong, reporter at Tortoise

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor at Tortoise

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Producer: Casey Magloire

Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

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