Lockdown: The Sequel
As COVID cases are back on the rise another lockdown looks likely, but has the Government blown its pandemic response? And how will Britain react to an autumn trapped indoors? Plus, following a scathi...
23 Sep 202047min
Testing Times: Dr DAN POULTER MP on Britain’s COVID long haul
COVID has developed from a short-term emergency into a public health crisis that could define the next half century. As Lockdown II looms, Conservative MP Daniel Poulter, former junior Health Minister...
22 Sep 202018min
Power Chords: TOM MORELLO of Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine’s TOM MORELLO is one of the most charismatic and energising figures in rock’n’roll and politics. He tells Dorian Lynskey about the role of radicalism in rock, protofascism, AO...
21 Sep 202022min
Nudge dread: Does Behavioural Science really work?
Can we really guide and control human activity by constructing networks of carrots, sticks and semi-invisible hints? Behavioural science AKA “nudge” is key to the UK Government’s COVID response yet, a...
18 Sep 202017min
Street Life: Why Britain’s homeless need their stories told
There’s an unseen epidemic of people dying while homeless, and journalist MAEVE McLENAGHAN tells their stories in No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless, out this week. She t...
17 Sep 202025min
The Infernal Market Bill
Boris Johnson wants to blow up the Brexit talks with an Internal Market Bill that shatters international law. Will it blow up in his face?And on the six-month anniversary of Britain locking down for t...
16 Sep 202052min
At War in the Information Battlespace
Digital disinformation from hostile powers is attacking our democracies, but do our politicians even want to stop it? Disinformation expert, security specialist and former US intelligence officer MATT...
15 Sep 202021min
Learning from the Germans: SUSAN NEIMAN on how Germany confronted its past
What can you do when your society is responsible for racist atrocities? What should you do? One country trying to atone for their past is Germany. Susan Neiman, moral philosopher and author of ‘Learni...
14 Sep 202028min
