POLICY AND PRACTICE - Lord Phillips, Sir Brian Leveson, Margaret Aldred: Setting Up the Covid Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry is due to start work in the spring, chaired by Baroness (Heather) Hallett, a former Court of Appeal judge. It will be one of the most complex inquiries in legal history, and highly c...
14 Jan 20221h 15min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Politics and the Press, Then and Now
In this seminar four senior political correspondents reflect on what journalism was like at the start of their careers; how it has changed during their lifetimes; and how that has changed the way the ...
26 Nov 20211h 13min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Rory Stewart and Weeda Mehran on Nation Building in Iraq and Afghanistan
Rory Stewart has been a diplomat, soldier, explorer, politician, and is now an academic at Yale. In 2003 he became deputy governor in two remote provinces of Iraq, recorded in his book Prince of the M...
19 Nov 20211h 14min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - The IFS Deaton Review on Inequality
The Covid pandemic has exacerbated many existing inequalities and introduced new ones. There could hardly be a more pressing time to understand how inequalities arise, which ones matter, why, and how ...
5 Nov 20211h 12min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Covid and the Use and Abuse of Statistics
Official statistics and evidence have been central in ensuring that the government has the best possible data, not just on infections and deaths, but on social behaviour, the impact on the economy, et...
29 Okt 20211h 8min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - American Capitalism and American Democracy
This seminar presents – and vigorously critiques – a new edited volume, “American Political Economy”, which aims to reorient our understanding of US politics. Democratic erosions and economic inequali...
22 Okt 20211h 12min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - COP26 and the Political Economy of Climate Change
In this seminar Michael Jacobs will explain the main issues to be discussed at the Summit, the key players, and likely outcomes. He will place COP26 in the wider context of multilateral cooperation an...
15 Okt 20211h 15min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Coronavirus: not the EU’s finest hour?
The covid-19 pandemic has been a severe test for the European Union as well as for its member-states: a test in which European cooperation has often been found wanting, in particular when it came to i...
26 Mar 20211h 19min
