ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT: Police vigil fiasco – plus guest Alex Massie on Scottish politics
The Metropolitan Police’s brutal intervention during Saturday’s vigil Sarah Everard leaves the country aghast. What really happened? What needs to change if British cities are to be safe for women? Sp...
16 Mar 202154min
WILL PROTEST SURVIVE? Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
The Met’s outrageous clampdown on the Sarah Everard vigil on Clapham Common has put Priti Patel’s draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing And Courts Bill under a harsh spotlight. Could a bill that effecti...
15 Mar 202122min
Extra: The DIGITAL FLOOD that drowns democracy – Nick Cohen talks to Peter Pomerantsev
“Peter explains better than anyone I know the new world of Putinesque, Trumpian propaganda.” In a weekend bonus, Nick Cohen of The Observer talks to Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda...
14 Mar 202124min
Daily: From shogun to Sony, JAPAN explained
Few countries exercise such world-wide fascination while being as little understood outside their own borders as Japan. Christopher Harding, author of The Japanese: A History In 20 Lives, talks to Ros...
12 Mar 202125min
Daily: ARABIAN VORTEX – Understanding Yemen’s nightmare
Yemen is suffering the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a conflict that has killed some 100,000 people since 2015 and left 24m in peril. Now it’s dragging countries across the region into its vortex...
11 Mar 202117min
Daily: How the fantasy religion VALKISM powers the Far Right
Amid the chaos of the Capitol Invasion of January 6, keen observers could spot the iconography of Valkism, a weird confected “religion” born out of video game culture that’s now empowering QAnon and f...
10 Mar 202121min
Back In The Jug Agane – Britian’s skools reopen
It’s the end of an era! As parents collapse weeping to their knees in a fug of gin, has home schooling changed how we teach kids? Will in-school testing stick? And will the experience shine a light on...
9 Mar 202155min
International Women’s Day Special: A Bunker Of One’s Own
What does today’s International Women’s Day stand for when we’re in the middle of a new wave of feminism? What can women expect from government when its fill-in Equalities Minister thinks there ought ...
8 Mar 202138min
