This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston looks at the British Party Conference season which never fails to entertain and this week was no different. Lucy Fisher who is the Financial Times Whitehall Editor tells us all about the Tory Party conference this week.

Crypto Goes on Trial as Sam Bankman-Fried Faces his reckoning and we hear the latest from WIRED’s Joel Khalili.

There were unprecedented scenes in the House of Representatives as their speaker is unceremoniously sacked and Mandy is joined by the US Guardian correspondent Joan Greve to find out what happens next.