48: Alex de Ruyter on setting up a Centre for Brexit Studies
In January, Birmingham City University launched the world’s first and only Centre for Brexit Studies. So of course, we had to bring on the centre's head and the director of research at BCU’s Business ...
7 Mar 201718min
47: Paul Coleridge on how Brexit might improve family stability and marriage rates
Once again, today's episode provides a platform for quite a controversial opinion. Paul Coleridge, a former high court judge and founder of the Marriage Foundation, recently penned an article for The ...
2 Mar 201724min
46: Dr Martin Glynn on how Brexit is affecting racial and prison politics
To describe Dr Martin Glynn as a jack of all trades might be an understatement. Beyond being a theatre director, poet and children's book author he is also a lecturer in criminology at Birmingham City...
28 Feb 201748min
45: Sally Hunt on how Brexit risks an exodus of EU students and academics
The role of British universities as places for building and nurturing multicultural communities might be at a risk as a result of Brexit. Canada has recently overtaken the UK as the most desirable des...
23 Feb 201718min
44: Blair toxic for Brexit? Kieran Pedlay on the impact of former PM
Just how unpopular is Tony Blair? (Well, he might not want to tune in for this one!) After the former prime minister threw his weight into the Brexit debate with an impassioned pro EU speech on Frida...
21 Feb 201723min
43: Conor Devine on whether Northern Ireland's future is going up in smoke
Even in the most remarkable of years, it seemed unbelievable that Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement - ushered in by the Good Friday agreement of 1998 - could be brought to its knees by a rene...
16 Feb 201726min
42: Education, ethnicity, age - BBC's George Greenwood digs into why Britain voted for Brexit
Since the EU referendum we’ve been hearing a lot of generalisations about voting patterns. If the general consensus was to be believed, all major metropolitan areas and minority ethnic groups would ha...
14 Feb 201723min
41: Jim Duffy & Lucy-Rose on the business mind-set required to make Brexit a success
Can the right mind-set help businesses cope with Brexit? Two CEOs join Tim and Jen for this episode, as we welcome Lucy-Rose Walker, the chief exec of Edinburgh-based Entrepreneurial Spark, and Jim Du...
9 Feb 201726min
