95. The Children's Homes Scandal: Part Two
Robert and Steph catch up after the huge response we’ve had to the Children’s Services special episode and ask the Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Philipson, how she intends to fix the shock...
22 Sep 202441min
94. How To Fix Education
Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson tells us her plans to solve: the skills gap, teacher’s pay needs, early years childcare provision, further education underfunding, the rising deman...
18 Sep 202443min
93. The Children's Homes Scandal
A special episode on the hundreds of millions of pounds of profit disappearing out of our children's homes and into the hands of private investors. With four out of five owned by private companies, an...
15 Sep 202439min
92. Are Labour’s economic plans in trouble?
Robert and Steph discuss how Starmer and Reeves made such a mess of scrapping the winter fuel payment, whether they were also wrong to abolish the social care cap and the risks of their new protection...
11 Sep 202437min
91. Should everyone get free money?
Robert and Steph look at the pros and cons of a Universal Basic Income. They also answer your questions on increasing the income tax threshold to £20k and discuss whether concert goers are being rippe...
8 Sep 202436min
90. How Billionaires Think
Robert and Steph are joined by polling guru Nate Silver to discuss how Silicon Valley investors and tech billionaires are a breed apart from politicians and journalists, how they measure risks before ...
4 Sep 202440min
89. Why are so many young people struggling to get a job?
With joblessness amongst young people the highest it’s been for a decade, Lauren Mistry from Youth Employment UK talk exclusively to Robert and Steph about the disturbing findings of their Youth Voice...
1 Sep 202444min
88. Why are Labour drip-feeding us the bad news?
Steph and Robert discuss Keir Starmer’s gloomy speech that set the tone for a ‘painful’ Autumn budget, look at why short selling the stock market isn’t always a bad thing and team up with The Rest Is ...
28 Aug 202437min
