Daily: PUTIN’S NEMESIS? Navalny’s Big Gamble, with Luke Harding
When opposition figurehead and recovered Novichok target Alexei Navalny flew back to Russia to lead democracy protests, he took an enormous personal risk, of which instant imprisonment was only a part...
12 Feb 202123min
Daily: Read fiction to save democracy, with writer George Saunders
The American writer George Saunders won the 2017 Booker Prize with Lincoln In The Bardo and is an award-winning author of short stories. His new book A Swim In A Pond In The Rain explains how short st...
11 Feb 202130min
Daily: Death Trap Homes – The post-Grenfell cladding scandal
Even after the horror of the Grenfell Fire, millions of people are still living in homes with cheap, inflammable cladding – and the effort to fix it has stalled. Steve Cole, head of corporate strategy...
10 Feb 202127min
Whose Flag Is It Anyway?
Can Keir Starmer re-energise Labour by connecting it to the symbols its old voters admire? And why are progressives so neurotic about patriotism? Plus, with Russia and China distributing Sputnik and S...
9 Feb 202148min
Start Your Week: Every Port’s In A Storm – with Alex Andreou
What to watch out for in the next seven days: Trumpeachment II and the Republicans’ Faustian bargain with their own fantasists, worsening import-export crisis in Britain’s Brexit-battered ports, Labou...
8 Feb 202124min
Daily: LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL – How leadership is changing
Are the rules that make powerful people powerful changing? Can they still bank on the old myth of the superhuman CEO or political leader? Business journalist from the Telegraph, Evening Standard and b...
5 Feb 202119min
Time to end the disastrous democratic experiment? Nick Cohen talks to Jason Brennan
If democracy is so great why does it keep producing such terrible results? Nick Cohen of The Observer talks to Georgetown University political philosopher Jason Brennan, author of Against Democracy, a...
4 Feb 202128min
Daily: JOBS FOR THE DROIDS – the future of work with Dr Carl Benedikt Frey
Technology will displace 47% of all jobs, said Dr Carl Benedikt Frey in a study he co-wrote called The Future Of Employment – a paper so influential that it’s at the centre of jobs policy for governme...
3 Feb 202121min
