Historic Times in Westminster, Peadar's Party, Paschal's Reprimand
With Hugh to appraise all this week's political news (including high drama in Westminster, the personalised abortion legislation debate, Peadar Tóibín's new political movement and the Fiscal Advisory ...
5 Dec 201840min
Bill Browder on Putin's Kleptocracy & A "Cold War Against Crime"
"Putin and his regime are going to become more hostile, malicious and deadly to the rest fo the world, and we need to understand this".Since the murder in Russia of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Bill B...
30 Nov 201837min
What Really Caused Brexit? With Fintan O'Toole & Professor Helen Thompson
As we wait for UK parliament to vote on Theresa May's deal, Hugh talks to two people with thought-provoking and divergent ideas about what brought about Brexit in the first place: Irish Times columnis...
28 Nov 201850min
Abortion Bill Hurdles, Leo's Tax Promise, Brexit Rubber Stamp
Concerns are growing that the Government’s proposed abortion legislation will not pass through the Oireachtas in time for its planned introduction date in January. Was Minister Simon Harris naive in s...
21 Nov 201843min
Simon Coveney on Brexit, the DUP & No Deal Contingencies / Leo's Big Tax Cut
On the floor at the Fine Gael National Conference, the Inside Politics team interviews Tanaiste Simon Coveney about Brexit, what happens if the deal is not approved by UK parliamentarians and the role...
17 Nov 201837min
The Audacity of Theresa May
With a Brexit deal agreed between Britain and the EU, now all eyes turn to Westminster. Will Prime Minister Theresa May be able to bounce her cabinet, the Commons and the EU into a deal that nobody li...
14 Nov 201840min
Michael Lewis on Cronyism in The Trump Administration & The Unsung Virtues of Civil Servants
Author Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short, The Undoing Project)talks to Hugh about his new book 'The Fifth Risk'. The book concerns the Trump Administration and what Lewis says are astounding lev...
12 Nov 201834min
Patrick Radden Keefe on Murder, Memory and Denial in Northern Ireland
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe has written a book about the killing of mother-of-ten Jean McConville by the IRA in 1972. As well as uncovering new facts about the circumstances around Mc...
9 Nov 201849min
