BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room

The Inequalities of Lockdown

What do we know about the impact of the lockdown on different people and places?

How close to a vaccine are we and how important is mass testing?

The UK fishing industry will be central to EU trade negotiations, starting soon. Why?

Sinn Féin recorded a historic result in the Irish election. Why?

What can be done to stop another convicted terrorist attacking again?

Bluffs, plays and tariff peaks, the UK enters the free trade world.

What lessons do previous pandemics provide about how we should treat the new coronavirus?

The government wants an infrastructure revolution in the north. How will it do that?

What power does Iran's Revolutionary Guard wield and what will they do now?

"The world has changed, none of us can go back."