Talkback with Petrie Hosken

Addicts claiming disability benefits are paid lump sums worth thousands of pounds that they immediately spend on alcohol and drugs, experts say. Almost 18,000 people are claiming Pip with substance or alcohol abuse as...

The U.S. Army has scheduled the execution by firing squad of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan for the 3rd of December. US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, announced that the first public execution in the U.S. since 1936...

In a case that has shocked the world, death row inmate Christa Pike is now conscious and speaking at a hospital after surviving Tennessee's failed execution attempt. Pike’s is the only person in modern U.S. history...

Britain’s political landscape has seen sharp drama as the Conservative Party Conference convened in Birmingham, while the Green Party was plunged into crisis. At the Tory conference, leaders pitched "The Right Way"...

Andy Burnham has said it’s “possible” Labour’s next election manifesto could include an in-out referendum on re-joining the EU in his strongest signal yet of his intentions to repair the damage of Brexit. The prime...

Addressing the Labour Party Conference, PM Andy Burnham pledged a decisive break with "politics as usual," warning that standard political approaches have left the country trailing. In a wide-ranging speech focused on...

With Labour conference underway, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a key foreign policy reset, banning imports from illegal settlements, while Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled legal refugee routes for...

According to a Carers UK report, more than 1,500 Britons quit their jobs every day to care for sick, elderly, or disabled loved ones. Seven years ago. There are 11 million unpaid carers in the UK now, costing the...

The small village of Piddington is set to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers. In response, residents held a symbolic referendum on whether it should remain part of the UK. Between putting asylum seekers in hotels and...

A historic summit in Cardiff has taken place where nationalist leaders from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland declared that Westminster’s time is coming to an end. Marking the first time all three nations...

New analysis reveals an alarming 36% rise in the number of children and young people attending Emergency Departments in England with mental health concerns, with the sharpest and fastest increase of 62% in children...

A significant reduction in UK border crossing has been recorded this summer. Reports are that small-boat crossings have dropped to a six-year summer low, with total arrivals down 43% from the previous year.  With...

How do you stay healthy during a heatwave? Do carbohydrates and sugar make you look older? Just what are postbiotics? Petrie talks through all these, and any other health and wellbeing questions that you have with...

British energy consumers have paid over £1 billion this year to turn off wind turbines when power lines cannot handle the electricity. The electricity grid cannot move all the power from where it is being generated to...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled a controversial criminal justice proposal to deport foreign offenders and rent overseas prison capacity in nations including El Salvador, Kosovo, and the Baltic...