Communication Breakdown: The MEDIA vs Coronavirus with Raymond Snoddy
Is the pandemic an extinction event for news media, or a strange opportunity? Is trust in journalism really collapsing in the age of populism? And is the BBC still top of Dominic Cummings’ To Destroy ...
29 Kesä 202031min
The COVID cost of the Hostile Immigration Environment – with MINNIE RAHMAN of the JCWI
Immigration is the topic most guaranteed to drive good sense out of the room. Will opinions be changed by COVID’s sobering reminder of the irreplaceable work that immigrants do? Has Black Lives Matter...
26 Kesä 202031min
Daily: Why can’t we go SWIMMING yet?
If shops and pubs can reopen, why can’t pools? Swimming saves the NHS and social care some £357m a year, yet the Government’s mishandling of community sport is a microcosm of its muddled approach acro...
25 Kesä 202015min
Mask Hysteria! plus We’re Only Quarantining Nigel
Are you wearing your facemask? If not, WHY NOT? Plus: Has Britain’s shambolic response to COVID exposed something worse than bad leadership: a deep-seated rot in the British state itself? What’s going...
24 Kesä 202052min
Gigs might fly: LIVE MUSIC’s last chance?
Hundreds of thousands of people should be heading to Glastonbury right now. Instead the live music industry is hanging on by its fingernails, hundreds of venues are threatened with closure, and the Go...
23 Kesä 202027min
Daily: HONG KONG rages against the machine
As China tries to impose its authority on Hong Kong, can the former British colony retain some semblance of independence? What’s behind the creeping authoritarianism of Beijing’s Fugitive Offenders Bi...
22 Kesä 202018min
Daily: INDIA’s twilight of democracy
In India, Narendra Modi’s populist BJP government has stripped back rights further than in almost any advanced democracy. The country’s COVID response has caused nightmarish problems for the world’s m...
19 Kesä 202027min
“We don’t need another racism inquiry. We need action.” MARSHA DE CORDOVA MP speaks
What will it take to translate the unprecedented debate on racism and bias into action? Battersea Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities MARSHA DE CORDOVA talks to Naomi Smit...
17 Kesä 202029min
