The trappings of Western hyper-liberalism | Conversation
Can liberalism survive the horrors of our modern world?Will Lloyd is joined by John Gray political philosopher and author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism. They discuss how Thomas Hobb...
4 Sep 202329min
Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe | Audio Long Read
In the summer of 1924, a highly regarded painter falls – or is he pushed? – into the canal while celebrating his exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Two young women are heard running away into the nigh...
2 Sep 202320min
You Ask Us: if you're a centrist politician, how do you choose one party over another?
Rory Stewart, Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell: a listener writes in to ask why centrist politicians align themselves with one party over another?But before the team dissects the evolution of centrist po...
1 Sep 202318min
Ben Wallace and Nadine Dorries, the long goodbye
“History will not remember you kindly” Nadine Dorries’ wrote this weekend in her resignation letter to Rishi Sunak. But this is not the only departure which has been looming over the Conservatives for...
31 Aug 202322min
Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren | Audio Long Reads
For those who leave the ultra-conservative Christian sect, separation comes at great personal cost. The New Statesman’s assistant editor Pippa Bailey had always been curious about the Plymouth Brethre...
26 Aug 202343min
You Ask Us: will Labour stop the culture wars, and does the government control what journalists report?
The Conservatives seem intent on fighting the next election on "culture wars" issues. A listener asks, would a Labour government put an end to all that?Also, how does the government control its media ...
25 Aug 202320min
Have Conservatives forgotten education?
GCSE and A Level results are out, and the proportion of top grades have dipped since the pandemic years. It's an opportunity for the government and the opposition to talk about their ambitions for edu...
24 Aug 202321min
Russia’s war on the future | Conversation
After spending several days reporting in Pokrovsk, a small city in eastern Ukraine and the recent target of two missile strikes, Katie Stallard describes the devastating impact of Vladimir Putin’s war...
21 Aug 202328min
