The Effluent Society: Budgets, Beaches and Plan B – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou
Metaphor time! Rishi Sunak strains over a painful Budget while Conservative MPs are hammered for voting to allow raw sewage to be released into the sea. What’s coming in the Budget and will Johnson’s ...
25 Okt 202122min
Daily: The Bored Middle Class that's Destroying Democracy from Within
t’s often said that the crisis in Western democracy is caused by those left-behind, but is the greatest threat to security actually a bored middle-class? University Professor and author of Our Own Wor...
24 Okt 202125min
Culture Bunker: Special guest STEVE DAVIS, Dune, Self Esteem, French Dispatch, Beatles
Hear all the music on our podcasts in full on our rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunkThis week: Snooker star turned cosmic DJ STEVE DAVIS tells about his love for out-there avant garde rock and ...
23 Okt 20211h 10min
Daily: Plan B panic stations on COVID
It’s COVID Groundhog Day with cases spiking, the Government dithering and the NHS under critical pressure all over again. As Sajid Javid warns of 100,000 cases a day soon, health commentator Roy Lille...
22 Okt 202124min
Daily: Gene Genius? The pros and cons of DNA modification
Is gene-editing – replacing sections of DNA to make plants and animals more fertile or resistant to disease – really our escape route from the threats of climate change and population growth? Since Br...
21 Okt 202134min
Are MPs Safe?
The horrific murder of Sir David Amess has put MPs’ personal security into sharp relief. But should the Government tighten rules for online speech which, however ugly, seems to have little to do with ...
21 Okt 202154min
Daily: The Kids Aren’t Alright – Why children need a post-COVID plan
Children lost an average of 115 days of schooling under last year’s lockdowns, but that doesn’t capture the scale of trauma and dislocation caused to children by the Government’s bungled handling of t...
21 Okt 202124min
The Killing of Sir David Amess MP – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
A second MP in five years is killed during the performance of constituency duties. Will the death of Sir David Amess change the temperature of political debate? Plus Dominic Raab’s plan to overrule in...
18 Okt 202120min
