POLICY AND PRACTICE - Joe Biden’s Domestic Agenda
Less than two months into his term, President Joe Biden is signing his first major piece of legislation, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. What are his other domestic priorities, and who are...
19 Mars 20211h 18min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Smarter Government
Nick Herbert is a former Minister, and the founder of GovernUp. Last summer he launched the Commission for Smart Government, to tackle the systemic problems of government in the UK: departmental silos...
12 Mars 20211h 14min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - European Perspectives on Brexit - not a Love Story
The British media tend to report on Brexit only from the British point of view. In this seminar we redress the balance by inviting four foreign correspondents based in London to talk about how Brexit ...
8 Mars 20211h 20min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - The Art of Successful Regulation
Deirdre Hutton has experienced all those spheres of regulation, and more, having just stepped down from ten years as chair of the Civil Aviation Authority. In this seminar she is joined by Professor C...
1 Mars 20211h 20min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - How Spies Think
In this seminar he is joined by Ciaran Martin, Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre 2016-2020, to discuss spycraft, how raw intelligence is analysed, and how intelligence officers the...
12 Feb 20211h 14min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - China and Taiwan
China regards the island of Taiwan as a breakaway province; Taiwan’s leaders say it is an independent state. As China rises to superpower status, it has shown greater interest in reclaiming territory ...
4 Feb 20211h 11min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Wake Up: How the Pandemic exposed the Weakness of the West
John Micklethwait is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, and Adrian Wooldridge is political editor of the Economist, and author of their Bagehot column. In their latest book they analyse the disastrous...
1 Feb 20211h 19min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Public attitudes to the state post Covid-19
Government interventions in response to Covid-19 make clear that the state can act as an extremely powerful guarantor of economic and health security. But has the crisis, and the subsequent government...
22 Jan 20211h 27min
