# Hot Topics: The Sudan Crisis, EV Tax, Trans Women In Locker Rooms & The John Lewis Christmas Ad!

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Podcast: [The Midlife Mentors](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-midlife-mentors-1171889)
Published: 2025-11-15T11:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our monthly Hot Topics episode - where we cut through the noise and dive into the stories everyone’s talking about. This week, we’re covering a wide mix: the new pence-per-mile tax proposal for EV drivers, we question why there’s so little noise about the Sudan crisis and Hamas atrocities since the ceasefire. We also look at the controversy over a trans woman using the women’s changing room at Gold’s Gym, the vicar who’s been warned a bible verse o...

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