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Anushka Asthana

Anushka Asthana is a former Guardian editor-at-large and former host of the daily news podcast, Today in Focus 

June 2024

  • A scrum of people holding cameras and microphones surrounds Anushka Asthana and Keir Starmer

    Exciting, unpredictable and unique: what it’s like to cover the UK election on TV

    Anushka Asthana
    The deputy political editor of ITV News has reported on six elections but 4 July will potentially be the most significant

January 2024

  • Anushka Asthana walking alongside Keir Starmer

    I talked to Keir Starmer for three months: this is what I learned

    ITV’s deputy political editor had exclusive access to the Labour leader for a TV profile to be aired this week. Is he fit to be Britain’s next PM?
  • A Post Office sign

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: The Post Office scandal – part 2

    Janet Skinner was jailed for false accounting after being wrongfully accused by her employer, the Post Office, of responsibility for the loss of more than £59,000. Now, with her conviction quashed, she and others are demanding answers
  • Janet Skinner outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: the Post Office scandal – part 1

    When a computer system installed by the Post Office malfunctioned, it led to the convictions of scores of subpostmasters for theft and false accounting. Lives were wrecked. After an ITV dramatisation brought new attention to the case, the Metropolitan police said they had commenced a criminal fraud investigation in relation to the Post Office. Today we re-run our episodes from 2021 on the scandal in full

December 2023

  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: a conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah

    The British poet, who died this week, talked in 2020 with George the Poet about why, having been born a generation apart, their work was exposing racial injustice

March 2022

  • A graveyard near Van, Turkey, and the Turkey-Iran border. The people buried here crossed the border without documentation, so their headstones are numbered and rarely have names.

    Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine: how many refugee crises can the world cope with?

    Anushka Asthana
    On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyranny, says Anushka Asthana of ITV News

July 2021

  • Boris Johnson speaks to the media in 2018.

    Today in Focus
    Marina Hyde on the political circus of the last five years

  • Tom Bosworth in the men's 5000m race walk at the Spar British Athletics Indoor Championships in February 2020.

    Today in Focus
    Inside the mind of an Olympic athlete one week before the games

  • A screenshot from the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

    Today in Focus
    Is it possible to make the internet safe for children?

  • A woman alone looking out to sea.

    Today in Focus
    The people searching for missing family members during the pandemic

  • Today in Focus
    The government’s rape review: an apology, but will anything change?

  • Today in Focus
    Euro 2020: what would it mean if England could actually … win?

  • Today in Focus
    Why do powerful men have affairs?

June 2021

  • Batley byelection posters

    Today in Focus
    How the Batley and Spen byelection turned toxic

  • Matt Hancock. (Photograph: Steve Reigate/Daily Express/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
    Matt Hancock’s downfall

  • Harriet Gibsone

    Today in Focus
    Young, hot and bothered: going through menopause in my 30s

  • A loyalist protest in Newtownards, County Down, against the Northern Ireland protocol.

    Today in Focus
    The new Brexit crisis for Northern Ireland’s unionists

  • Today in Focus
    Police corruption and the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan

  • Today in Focus
    Do we have to learn to live with Covid-19?

  • Full Story
    Egypt’s crackdown on human rights workers

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