Ken Clarke: The Big Beast of British Politics
After 49 years as a Conservative MP, Ken Clarke will be stepping down at the UK general election on December 12. In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast – staged just ten days before the e...
3 Dec 20191h 25min
Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno on Money, Power and a Call for Radical Change
The liberal order is under threat. Increasing inequality, the rise of far-right nationalism and the climate emergency pose unprecedented challenges. It’s time for some radical thinking. In November 20...
29 Nov 20191h 5min
Richard Branson: How I Found My Voice
This is an episode from the second series of How I Found My Voice, a podcast from Intelligence Squared. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the wor...
26 Nov 201945min
P.J. O’Rourke and Lionel Shriver on the Battle for the White House
This episode was from one of our live Intelligence Squared events, featuring satirist P. J. O’Rourke and bestselling author Lionel Shriver. They joined us for a night of withering satire, relentless r...
22 Nov 20191h 4min
Naomi Klein on Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion & the case for a Green New Deal
This is an episode from the second series of How I Found My Voice, a podcast from Intelligence Squared. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the wor...
19 Nov 201944min
Intelligent Times: Dean Baquet and Simon Schama on Trump, Politics and The Future of News
Earlier this week we were joined by executive editor of The New York Times Dean Baquet and historian Sir Simon Schama for an examination of the role of the media in today’s increasingly polarised poli...
15 Nov 20191h 20min
The Survival of Democracy in Eastern Europe, with Ivan Krastev, Timothy Garton Ash and Brian Klaas
In November 1989, 30 years ago this month, the collapse of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era of democracy in Eastern Europe. But today, with populist strongmen like Orban in Hungary and Kaczyński i...
12 Nov 201948min
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns with William Sieghart and Sarah Dunant
William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul was one of the publishing sensations of the past few years. Anyone who came to the event Intelligence ...
8 Nov 20191h 22min
