Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?
The Interview6 Jan 2021

Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?

Stephen Sackur speaks to British epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson, whose early modelling of Covid-19 made him an influential advocate of the lockdown strategy. The UK is back in lockdown and infections are surging. What has gone wrong, and why have other countries done better?

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Paolo Gentiloni: Can Europe's economy recover?

Paolo Gentiloni: Can Europe's economy recover?

The economic fallout of Covid-19 has been tough, and with new waves of the virus appearing, restrictions on economic activity are being reimposed in many countries. Zeinab Badawi speaks to Paolo Genti...

30 Sep 202023min

Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system

Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system

Yusef Salaam was just 16 when he and four other black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of the rape and assault of a woman jogging in New York’s Central Park. Even before their trial the th...

28 Sep 202023min

Leonid Volkov: What next for Russia's opposition?

Leonid Volkov: What next for Russia's opposition?

As soon as he emerged from his coma Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition leader apparently poisoned by novichok nerve agent, expressed his determination to return to Moscow. But what future is there...

23 Sep 202023min

Thomas Chatterton Williams: Race, identity and power

Thomas Chatterton Williams: Race, identity and power

Not just in the United States, but across the world the Black Lives Matter movement has prompted debate about race, identity and power. It is a campaign predicated on ideas about what it means to be b...

18 Sep 202024min

Rafael Grossi: Is the world's nuclear watchdog being undermined?

Rafael Grossi: Is the world's nuclear watchdog being undermined?

What is the point of the world’s nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency? Its task is to ensure that countries intent on developing nuclear power don’t use their programmes as cover fo...

16 Sep 202024min

Douglas Ross: Can the new Scottish Conservative leader preserve the UK?

Douglas Ross: Can the new Scottish Conservative leader preserve the UK?

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces momentous challenges. The coronavirus pandemic, an economic slump and a looming moment of truth for Britain’s relations with the EU. In the midst of this turbulen...

13 Sep 202022min

Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?

Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?

Will Moscow’s will prevail in Belarus, or will people power take the country in a new direction? Stephen Sackur speaks to Gitanas Nausėda, the president of neighbouring Lithuania. The daily street pro...

11 Sep 202024min

Frank Luntz: Can Donald Trump win?

Frank Luntz: Can Donald Trump win?

With just two months until the US presidential election, the polls show the incumbent Donald Trump trailing Democrat Joe Biden by a significant margin. This is an extraordinary election year marked by...

8 Sep 202022min

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