Revolting Developments: Why the Govt’s plans won’t solve the HOUSING CRISIS
The Government’s new planning ideas hand a huge advantage to developers, with no-question greenlights for permissions in new “growth” and “renewal” areas. Is this a real fix for the housing crisis or ...
18 Aug 202031min
Daily: RORY BREMNER at the Speed of Thought
What makes comedy happen? Our most celebrated impressionist RORY BREMNER talks to Alex Andreou about how his ADHD drives his own work – plus tracking and tracing Boris Johnson’s offspring, how hard it...
17 Aug 202034min
Jobless Britain? Fighting the return of mass unemployment
Job losses are surging, but the next wave of mass unemployment won’t be like the ones in the 80s, the 90s or the financial crisis of 2008. The Institute for Government’s GILES WILKES – economist and p...
14 Aug 202024min
Belarus: Rebelling against a “democratic” dictatorship
Belarus is convulsed by pro-democracy demonstrations, the opposition leader has fled in fear and the EU is threatening to reimpose sanctions. Yet pig-farmer turned strongman Alexander Lukashenko shows...
13 Aug 202016min
DIRTY CASH: How to stop dark money destroying our politics
Since before the Referendum, rivers of untraceable money have flowed through our politics, washing away accountability and benefiting secretive and powerful people. Peter Geoghegan of openDemocracy jo...
12 Aug 202053min
Going Underground: Paranoia, prepping and the world beneath our feet
There’s a world going on underground. Ethnographer, archaeologist and author of the eerily prescient Bunker: Building For The End Times BRADLEY GARRETT is fascinated by tunnels, chambers and hidden re...
11 Aug 202030min
IMMIGRATION: Reasons to be cheerful? Ian Dunt talks to Jonathan Portes
Priti Patel might be trying to stoke fears with her ludicrous ‘Clandestine Channel Threat Commander’ but as the Brexit madness recedes, is the environment for immigrants moving in an inexorably more l...
10 Aug 202025min
Creasy’s the word: STELLA CREASY MP on making misogyny a hate crime
Some good stuff DID get done during the chaotic COVID Parliament that’s just ended. Walthamstow MP STELLA CREASY tells Ayesha Hazarika about her fight to get misogyny reclassified as a hate crime as p...
7 Aug 202024min
