Reducing re-offending
'The Fix' brings together twelve of the country's bright young minds and gives them just one day to solve an intractable problem. This week we have asked our teams to come up with ways to stop crimina...
30 Aug 201743min
The Fix: Childhood Obesity
The teams have just one day to find solutions to the problem of childhood obesity
23 Aug 201743min
The Fix: Setting Up Home
In the first of a new series, twelve of the country's brightest young minds gather to solve difficult social problems. This week - how do we improve access to affordable housing? Using policy planning...
17 Aug 201743min
Understanding Prevent
David Anderson examines the government's controversial counter-terrorism strategy Prevent
26 Jul 201737min
Minimum Wage: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Has the initial success of the minimum wage meant politicians have extended the policy to damaging levels? All the major political parties agree: the measure has been a success, and in the 2017 electi...
24 Jul 201728min
Yascha Mounk on democracy at risk
An extended interview with the political theorist who argues that liberal democracy is in grave danger. Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School at Oxford, speaks to Harvard scholar Yascha Mounk. He...
17 Jul 201728min
Is work too easy?
Michael Blastland asks if it's desk-bound work, rather than over-eating, which is making more and more of us obese. He hears about remarkable research which, despite received wisdom, suggests that peo...
10 Jul 201728min
Constitutions at Work
Constitutions put controls on the people who run countries - but how are they created and how well do they work?In ordinary times constitutional debate often seems an abstract business without very mu...
3 Jul 201729min
