Start Your Week: LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN with Naomi Smith
As Britain approaches the horrific landmark of 100,000 COVID deaths, will lockdown hawks force the Government to reopen the economy too soon – again? Plus the worsening mess in customs, import and exp...
25 Jan 202126min
Special: England’s divided soul – Nick Cohen talks to JAMES HAWES
What does Englishness even mean in a land so splintered by class, geography, language and even post-colonial neuroses that it barely understands itself? And how far back would you draw the North-South...
24 Jan 202130min
Daily: CAPTAIN AMERICA – Biden vs the Four Horsemen
America’s new President faces four overlapping crises – the COVID pandemic, the teetering economy, festering racial inequality and looming climate change. Does Joe Biden have the political resources t...
22 Jan 202125min
Daily: Will the real GEORGE ORWELL please stand up? DJ Taylor talks to Dorian Lynskey
Few writers’ words and ideas are abused daily on the Internet as much as George Orwell’s – and now most of his work is out of copyright. On the anniversary of Eric Blair’s death, we present a champion...
21 Jan 202129min
Daily: Donald Trump – The Final Word with Mary Trump
On the last day of Donald Trump’s warped presidency, his niece Mary Trump – psychologist and author of Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man – reflects on the...
20 Jan 202131min
Republic Enemy: Trumpeachment And Beyond
As the Trump Presidency finally, finally ends, will the Republican Party be forced to choose between American democracy and the madness of the Trump-enraged base? Can Biden convince the world that Ame...
19 Jan 202156min
Start Your Week: TRUMP SEASON FINALE with Alex Andreou
As America prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as President, can his predecessor squeeze any more crookedness into his remaining days in power? And will the feared violence in American state capitols mat...
18 Jan 202125min
Bonus: JOHN CURTICE on politics after the pandemic
In a special extra edition we ask, what will our politics be like after COVID (eventually) lifts? Will we find, like in 1945, that suddenly everything has changed? John Curtice, politics professor at ...
17 Jan 202125min
