What Are Charities For?
Charities have been drawn into the world of outsourced service provision, with the state as their biggest customer and payment made on a results basis. It is a trend which is set to accelerate with go...
14 Okt 201328min
Edward Snowden: Leaker, Saviour, Traitor, Spy?
Last June, Edward Snowden, a man still in his twenties with, as he put it, "a home in paradise", went on the run. He took with him vast amounts of secret information belonging to the US government's s...
7 Okt 201328min
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Why Did They Fail?
Barely a year after Egypt's post-revolution elections were held, millions of protestors took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Mohammed Morsi. After a short stand-off with army lea...
30 Sep 201328min
The Rule of Law v the Rule of Man
With huge concern over tax avoidance, tax officials are the latest to be given increased powers of discretion. They will be able to penalise people who have obeyed the letter of the law, but who have ...
22 Jul 201327min
Scottish Nationalism: From Protest to Power
Just what does the Scottish National Party want? And what could it mean for the UK? Douglas Fraser investigates the SNP's long search for an independence vision that works. He talks to insiders about ...
15 Jul 201328min
They're Coming for Your Money
Paul Johnson, the director of the widely-respected independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been looking at the latest projections for how much the government will spend in the next five years an...
8 Jul 201328min
Syria and the New Lines in the Sand
Where the Arab Spring overthrew dictators, is the Middle East now dismantling the very 'lines in the sand' imposed by Britain and France a century ago? Edward Stourton investigates.
1 Jul 201327min
Pornography: What Do We Know?
What do we really know about the effects of pornography?Public debate has become increasingly dominated by an emotive, polarised argument between those who say it is harmful and those who say it can b...
24 Jun 201328min
