Taking care of business – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Jacob Jarvis
After Starmer’s 100 days milestone, focus is turning to a major investment summit this week. Will he manage to keep business on side by vowing to cut red tape, without causing too much unrest in his p...
14 Okt 202425min
Elon Musk’s Twitter two years on: How X was handed to the far-right
Two years after Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover, the platform has become a hotbed for alt-right content. Having lost a fifth of its user base and a mass exodus of advertisers, what happened t...
11 Okt 202429min
Electric cars – Why do right-wingers hate them?
All new cars sold in Britain will be electric by 2030 if we stick to Government plans. But instead of cheering for decarbonisation, our right-wing press pumps out a steady series of angry hit pieces a...
10 Okt 202426min
From American Psycho to Donald Trump: How yuppies shaped US politics
Yuppies, successful and affluent young urban professionals, were a notable demographic in 1980s America. Newsweek declared 1984 the year of the yuppie, and these types of characters were immortalised ...
9 Okt 202424min
China’s broken economy is a global problem. Can Xi Jinping fix it?
China’s economy has been described as “unsustainable” after a model of massive growth in recent decades begins to fail. How does it currently work, how might it change – and is Xi Jinping capable of l...
8 Okt 202423min
Gray matter – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor
The news to look out for this week: Why did Sue Gray have to go and what will her departure mean for Starmer and his government? And the Tory leadership contest rolls on… should we care? Plus, is ther...
7 Okt 202424min
The dirty history of political freebies – with Seth Thévoz
Starmer and his Cabinet caught hell for accepting donations of clothes, accommodation, tickets to see Taylor Swift and Arsenal, and more. But as historian Seth Thévoz explains, this is peanuts compare...
4 Okt 202430min
How Putin’s war ended the Russian business boom
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a new Russia emerged – one that was open for business. Over the next 30 years, huge international companies took advantage of this new global Russia and found immen...
3 Okt 202422min
