Burnham gets serious – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison
Setting up the stories for the week ahead… The carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over for Andy Burnham as Parliament returns with tricky questions on defence funding, prisoner release and ...
1 Syys 31min
Parton is such sweet sorrow – Weekly Wrap-Up with Zoë Grünewald
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Dolly Parton’s death leaves the world brokenhearted but reflecting on a true rarity: someone rich, famous and powerful who never stopped being a...
28 Elo 28min
Inside the clickbait storm – Hot Take Time Machine with Jonn Elledge and Miranda Sawyer
Hot Take Time Machine is back with Paper Cuts alumni Miranda Sawyer, Jonn Elledge and Jacob Jarvis sniffing out the strangest, worst – and occasionally best – opinions of the past month. On this epis...
27 Elo 37min
Lightbulb moments – Jonn Elledge on the big ideas that created our world
We’re living through another technological revolution, but it’s easy to take for granted how much of the world around us was once a radical new invention. Author, columnist and Oh God, What Now? regul...
26 Elo 27min
Churchill, JFK, Mao, Alex Ferguson… The “great leader” is a myth, says Jared Diamond
Do great leaders actually matter? Or are they just being carried along by bigger forces – from timing to sheer dumb luck? It’s the question that underpins almost every argument about politics, busines...
25 Elo 28min
Burnham’s summer review – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor
Burnham’s summer is coming to an end, how has his start in office gone? And what problems does he have to look forward to? Plus, there are new hacking concerns for the UK and Trump is back on another ...
24 Elo 21min
Trump’s emotional support dictator – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr
Looking back on the big stories of the past seven days… Donald Trump is once again cosying up to his dictator bestie Kim Jong Un – what’s he got up his sleeve? Plus: Burnham fleshes out plans to tack...
21 Elo 39min
