Rory Stewart on Keir Starmer, Liz Truss and the 'unseriousness' of UK politics
Former MP, Tory leadership candidate, author and now host of the UK's biggest politics podcast The Rest is Politics, Rory Stewart is today's guest on Inside Politics. His gripping memoir Politics on t...
25 Okt 202346min
Taking sides on Israel and Palestine, health money pit, flooding hits Cork
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look at the week in Irish politics: Foreign policy came to Dáil Éireann as Government and opposition tried and failed to agree a motion on the cris...
20 Okt 202342min
Northern Ireland's 'Dirty Linen' and the long tail of trauma
From Banbridge, County Down, Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle grew up in the heart of the 'Linen Triangle', home of Northern Ireland's biggest industry, and also within the 'Murder Triangle', a r...
18 Okt 202350min
Michael Lewis on the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Having already amassed a $26 billion fortune at 28, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's richest person under 30. He was also the most prominent advocate of the 'effective alt...
16 Okt 202349min
Horror in the Middle East, Budget aftermath, FFG
The horrific events this week in Israel and the Gaza Strip are the subject of part one of today's podcast. Harry McGee has been watching the conflict, and Ireland's political response to it, unfold.In...
13 Okt 202348min
Deconstructing Budget 2024 - with Pearse Doherty
Budget 2024 was a missed opportunity to invest more in housing and tackle chronic problems in our health system, says Sinn Féin spokesperson for finance Pearse Doherty. Pearse joins Pat Leahy, Jennife...
11 Okt 202343min
Howlin retires, Budget run-in, Starmer pours water on reunification
Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look at the week in politics:If past years are anything to go by, most of the Budget 2024 measures will have been leaked by next Tuesday. The fact the...
6 Okt 202337min
Will 'common sense' policies revive Rishi Sunak's Tories?
On today's podcast:Jack Horgan-Jones on the darkening economic backdrop to next week's delivery of Budget 2024.Mark Paul reports from the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester where Prime Minist...
4 Okt 202328min
