Daily: Much To Do Gets You Nothing – Oliver Burkeman on the cult of productivity
If we stopped trying to do everything, would we finally get chance to do what counts? Do to-do lists create anything but meaningless pressure? Can we ever really get everything done? Journalist Oliver...
25 Aug 202124min
We Shall Fight Them From The Beaches – plus jihadism expert SHIRAZ MAHER
What sort of psychological shock with the fall of Afghanistan cause to the British establishment’s self-image? Will the country again became an incubator of terrorism? And how the hell is Dominic “Sun...
24 Aug 20211h 2min
Goodbye, Special Relationship… Start Your Week with Naomi Smith
Recriminations worsen over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the UK’s indolent response to the refugee crisis. Can Dominic Raab survive as Foreign Secretary – and what does the debacle mean for J...
23 Aug 202125min
Daily: THE GREAT BRITISH MUSLIM – Sarfraz Manzoor on how to bridge a chasm in the UK
Journalist, filmmaker and author Sarfraz Manzoor grew up in two worlds, a son of working-class Pakistani immigrants who told him he’d never be accepted by the white English – yet he immersed himself i...
22 Aug 202131min
Special: Despatch from Kabul
What is the situation really like on the ground in Afghanistan, after the Taliban’s astonishingly swift takeover? Our panelist Arthur Snell talks to one of his contacts, presently in hiding in Kabul. ...
19 Aug 202114min
Daily: How REAGANISM still ruins America – with historian Rick Perlstein
World War II seemed to mark the end of American conservatism, and a new liberal age. Then Reagan came along – and we’re still living with the consequences. What explains the dominance of conservatism ...
18 Aug 202125min
New World Disorder: After Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban has placed thousands of people in mortal danger and traumatised the entire Western security establishment. How did we get it so wrong, and what happens next? Also, the...
17 Aug 202154min
Daily: The Afghanistan Debacle with Arthur Snell
The Afghan Government’s sudden collapse and the return of Taliban rule have both shocked the international community. What happens next? What can Afghan civilians and women especially expect from thei...
16 Aug 202126min
