Why Corona is a feminist issue
Coronavirus has put women out of work more frequently than men, led to a spike in domestic violence, pushed women’s healthcare down the list of priorities, and set the scene for a mental health crisis...
21 Heinä 202030min
Oh, Those Russians: IAN DUNT on Russia Report Week
The Intelligence report into Russian interference in British elections and the Referendum is finally published this week – but what will it mean? Why are Brexiters so keen to discredit it? And are Tor...
20 Heinä 202023min
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Troll: LUKE HARDING on Russia’s new Code War
Hold the front podcast page! The infamous Russia Report could well come out next week. What will it reveal? The Guardian’s Russia correspondent LUKE HARDING, author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem And...
17 Heinä 202031min
Dirty deals with demagogues: ANNE APPLEBAUM on democracy’s betrayers
Why do former democrats and intellectuals so often make the squalid journey from liberalism to hardline nationalism? Historian ANNE APPLEBAUM’s new book Twilight Of Democracy: The Failure Of Politics ...
16 Heinä 202030min
“A Season Of Insanity”: Republicans against Trump
As America faces the dire prospect of a Trump second term, the hardest-hitting, most brutal and effective anti-Trump ads come from the rebel Republicans of Super PAC the Lincoln Project. Former George...
15 Heinä 202049min
“Long COVID” – A new and hidden crisis
Not everyone with COVID ends up in hospital. Sufferers are beginning to report a disturbing post-viral syndrome of deep, extended fatigue, weakness, “brain fog”, anxiety and weird physical sensations ...
13 Heinä 202029min
Peak Hour: How Corona will change TRAVEL IN CITIES
How will transport in cities change after the COVID wave subsides? Will financial worries make high-frequency public transport a thing of the past, just when we need it most? And will we even WANT to ...
13 Heinä 202022min
Daily: COVID, MS and the coming charity crash
COVID’s impact on people with multiple sclerosis has been cruel beyond even the privations experienced by the rest of us. Our panelist Ros Taylor has never spoken about her own MS diagnosis before. In...
10 Heinä 202020min
