The Sunday Debate: It's Time to Break Up Facebook
Whether we call it Facebook or the recently coined Meta, the Silicon Valley tech giant founded by Mark Zuckerberg has rarely been out of the headlines since its inception over a decade ago and rarely ...
16 Jan 202247min
Coming of Age at the End of History, with Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi grew up in Albania during the 1980s and 1990s, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe. Almost impossible to visit and nearly impossible to leave, during that era it was a place of queuing and sc...
14 Jan 202259min
Liberalism in Dark Times
In today's highly polarised political landscape, Liberalism, somewhere in the middle, often comes under attack from both right and left. Joshua L Cherniss is Associate Professor of Government at Georg...
11 Jan 202247min
Business Weekly: How influencers break the internet
Olivia Yallop is a strategist, creative and trend analyser, whose new book Break the Internet lifts the lid on how the influencer economy works. She speaks with Carl Miller, Research Director of the C...
10 Jan 202241min
The Sunday Debate: Verdi vs Wagner
Verdi created some of the most beloved operas of all time. Wagner’s music is in an altogether more intellectual sphere. Back in 2013, Stephen Fry hosted a debate featuring cultural critic and author N...
9 Jan 20221h 40min
Martin Wolf on the World in 2022
2022 looks set to be another seismic year. A new Covid-19 variant threatens to prolong the pandemic. A diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics looks likely to escalate tensions with China. A...
7 Jan 202255min
Poles Apart: Why We Turn Against Each Other
In their recent book, Poles Apart, behavioural scientist Alex Chesterfield, public affairs specialist Laura Osborne and political advisor Ali Goldsworthy look at what factors drive society apart and w...
4 Jan 202256min
Business Weekly: Damian Bradfield, Co-founder of WeTransfer
Damian Bradfield is a tech leader who as co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of WeTransfer steers an essential tool for creatives plus the site's burgeoning culture brand WePresent, too. He joins jo...
3 Jan 202238min
