Best of Today Episodes Episode guide
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‘This was perhaps the most consequential speech of his presidency...and I think his tone was perfect pitch’
Campaign advisor Mica Mosbacher on Trump's speech to the Republican national convention
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‘This violence has to stop’
Mother pleads for end to violence as Huddersfield teens jailed over schoolboy stabbing
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‘They will capture me. They will kill all my family.’
Foreign Office Minister James Cleverly responds to a stranded Afghan interpreter.
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‘The Rule of Six will stay in place’
Michael Gove says the ‘Rule of Six’ remains but more restrictions will be announced
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‘The rescue boat was too small’
Survivors of the Greek migrant boat tragedy speak about the fatal voyage.
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‘The postponement decision was taken to maintain a high ambition COP’
Mark Carney says transitioning to a net zero economy can be part of economic recovery
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‘The degree of child abuse is unprecedented'
HMI Dru Sharpling on how police deal with #childprotection.
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‘The data suggests the rate of infection is slowing, although we remain at a very critical period’
Professor Paul Elliott, director of the React study, says the R number may have fallen
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‘The club really does put the town on the map and that goes for every one of the 71 other clubs in the football league’
Rochdale FC chairman David Bottomley on the value of smaller football clubs
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‘Reinterpretation the mark of a good play’
Picture of dead toddler on beach spurs call for migration crisis response
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‘Police need to restore trust with the public’
With several English police forces in special measures, what has gone wrong?
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‘Our grades are significantly lower than any grades we've ever received in the history of the school’
Headteacher of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, Bucks, on the A Level grading crisis
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‘No evidence’ Omicron is less severe than Delta
Concerns grow as record number of coronavirus cases were reported yesterday.
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‘New sepsis rules could have saved my son’
Melissa Mead, whose son died of sepsis, says new guidance could have saved his life.
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‘My incredible doctor brother’
Dr Amir Halim pays tribute to his brother, Irfan, who has died of Covid-19.
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‘Joe Biden doesn’t understand the whole grudge concept’
Senator Ted Kaufman says Joe Biden will hold no grudges against Boris Johnson
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‘It’s what they do in Russia’: MPs block the suspension of a former Conservative minister
MPs block the suspension of a former minister found to have breached lobbying rules.
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‘It’s my country, my land, my people’
Nick Robinson presented from Kyiv this week, as Russia launched an attack on Ukraine
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‘It's the children who are missing out here and paying the penalty'
The Children's Commissioner on plans to delay fully reopening English primary schools
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‘It was wrong and it was an act of criminal damage’
Kit Malthouse reacts to a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston being pulled down
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‘It was announced in the House of Commons and we were not told beforehand that announcement was going to be made’
Gateshead Council Leader Martin Gannon on the new Covid restrictions for the North East
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‘It was a great team effort’
Flight Lieutenant Timothy Eddy will receive the Air Force Cross for great courage.
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‘It hasn’t stopped’: relentless shelling of Mariupol continues
We hear from the Mariupol patrol police chief who's defending the city
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‘If you want children to catch up, it can’t just be over the month of August, it has to be longer term over the academic year’
Education Minister Nick Gibb on how to help pupils make up for missed schooling
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‘If we quadrupled the testing capacity that we are currently planning, you would be able to test everyone once a month’
Jeremy Hunt says the government should expand testing capacity to two million per day
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‘If we are better than the very best case scenario, how much better do we have to be?’
What are the implications of an extension of COVID restrictions?
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‘If I go now, it’s forever’ - Sofia’s decision to leave her country.
Nick Robinson speaks to Sofia Koczmar, about leaving her country.
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‘I won’t be promoting my new book’ - Shantaram author
The author of Shantaram has announced he will not be promoting his sequel to the novel.
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‘I suspect the R number will not be under 1 by Christmas’
Epidemiologist Professor John Edmunds says stricter Covid measures may be needed
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‘I ran an Iraqi province with no experience’
British diplomat Emma Sky volunteered to help in the reconstruction of Iraq after the war