The Capitalist

For the last two weeks the great and the good have descended on Glasgow to try to thrash out a climate deal at what's been billed everywhere as a make or break 'COP26'. For those of you who aren't fam...

12 Nov 202123min

Is economics fit for the modern world?That’s the basic question posed in Cogs and Monsters, the new book from Diane Coyle, one of Britain’s most eminent economists and our guest this week.Part critiqu...

4 Nov 202136min

Rome was the greatest city of the ancient world, commanding an empire that spread from Damascus to York and encompassed a quarter of the world’s population. It’s a civilisation whose splendour and eve...

15 Okt 202126min

It's a very special edition of the podcast this week as we take you inside Tory conference in Manchester for a fascinating, fun-packed conversation with the one and only Jacob Rees-Mogg and our editor...

8 Okt 202135min

Most us know about Henry VIII, Napoleon and Churchill, but what about history's unheralded heroes? In his new book Lessons from History, political commentator and self-declared amateur historian Alex...

30 Sep 202136min

There's a new, invisible force at work in the highest ranks of corporate America and it's behind what may be the defining scam of our era. By co-opting social causes and embracing 'wokery' America's b...

15 Sep 202130min

Why is the British economy the way it is today?That's the rather daunting exam question The Economist's Duncan Weldon sets himself in his newly released book 200 Years of Muddling Through - The surpri...

27 Aug 202144min

Long before the Red Wall became a part of our everyday political lexicon, David Skelton was talking and writing about the disconnection between post-industrial Britain and the country's political clas...

16 Juli 202147min