Daily: Will LYING LEADERS destroy liberalism?
In the age of “reactionary populism”, larger-than-life characters trump competence. Can liberal democracies survive the age of the performative strongman? Political economist and author of This is Not...
2 Des 202025min
Have Yourselves A Mini Little Christmas
Patreon people get the podcast early… As Boris Johnson unlocks Britain for the tiniest Christmas ever, is he just admitting that the public no longer listens to government? What will hacking back the ...
1 Des 202053min
Start Your Week: SUBSTANTIAL MEALS, INSUBSTANTIAL DEALS with Alex Andreou
Are we in for the first parliamentary crisis of the pandemic? Will Boris Johnson have to rely on Labour votes to get his post-lockdown tiers-based restrictions past rebellious Tory MPs? Is the EU deal...
30 Nov 202021min
Daily: Can a TRILLION TREES save Earth’s biodiversity?
The climate emergency brings a nightmare threat to biodiversity, with disastrous knock-on effects to human economies as well as the natural world. Are governments doing enough to protect and restore t...
27 Nov 202021min
Daily: Can Biden remake Trump’s Middle East?
From Israel to Iran, Donald Trump thought he could reset the Middle East. His fixation on the region defined the last four years of US foreign policy. But what will Biden’s presidency mean for America...
26 Nov 202023min
Daily: FAREED ZAKARIA on Trump’s twilight and the post-COVID dawn
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is one of the best-known journalists on the planet, reaching 200m people weekly with Fareed Zakaria’s GPS. He talks to Ros Taylor about the aftermath of Trumpism, Biden’s prospect...
25 Nov 202027min
Along Came A Pfizer
The Labour grief-fest won’t abate. What do the Labour Left actually want? Victory, or just to burn the party down? Now that we’re moving into the pick-up-the-pieces phase of COVID, what have we learne...
24 Nov 202049min
Start Your Week: Winter Blunderland with IAN DUNT
With lockdown about to give way to “it’s not lockdown, it’s tiers,” is it worth another superspreader event to “save” Christmas? Will Rishi Sunak’s spending review be the free-spending Chancellor’s la...
23 Nov 202025min
