Polarised: Good Economics for Hard Times
RSA chief executive Matthew Taylor and journalist Ian Leslie are joined by this year's winner of the Nobel prize for economics (shared with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), Esther Duflo.Duflo is ...
19 Nov 201944min
Polarised: Do you understand public opinion as well as you think you do?
Matthew Taylor and Ian Leslie dissect new (and sometimes controversial) research on the divide between 'anarchists' and 'centrists'; the voters who live for drama; and the real reasons people share mi...
10 Okt 201937min
Polarised: The Week Politics Jumped the Shark
The RSA's Matthew Taylor and the author of 'Born Liars' and 'Curious', Ian Leslie, look back on the week in which BBC Parliament had more plot twists than Line of Duty.
7 Sep 201929min
Polarised: Hope vs Fear, Live from Wilderness Festival
Matthew Taylor is joined by a live Wilderness Festival audience and John Harris from The Guardian to explore the battle between the politics of hope and the politics of fear. Hope can be a great motiv...
6 Aug 201937min
Polarised: The Four Deadly Sins of Modern Politics
Ian Leslie and Matthew Taylor analyse Theresa May’s final major speech as prime minister and Donald Trump’s latest racist statements, and try to predict what might happen in the first weeks of a new P...
19 Juli 201940min
Polarised: Utopia and Reality
Just as our reality has seemed to take a dystopian turn, there’s been a resurgence of political imagination. Utopian dreams have returned to the forefront of our politics. How achievable are these uto...
22 Juni 201945min
Elections, Fatalism, and Twitter Storms
Matthew Taylor speaks to French political journalist Marie Le Conte about the European elections, French politics and being in the eye of a Twitter storm; and Paul Mason sets out the dual threats of f...
31 Maj 201944min
Extinction Rebellion: what next?
At long last, for a few weeks in April, climate breakdown finally seemed to be at the top of the political agenda. Extinction Rebellion shut down the streets. School children walked out of classes in ...
18 Maj 201947min
