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Season 7 Episode 5
COP is back. This month, leaders from the worlds of politics, industry, activism, and academia will gather again – for COP27 – in Sharm El-Sheikh in …
3 years, 11 months ago
Parliament’s Role in Brexit
Season 7 Episode 4
Politics in the UK is in a state of turmoil. Every time we think it can’t get any crazier, it finds a way of doing just that. Many of the roots of th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Robots and Immigrants
Season 7 Episode 3
Rhetoric around immigrants ‘stealing people’s jobs’ has become common in contemporary British politics, especially during the debates around the 2016…
3 years, 11 months ago
How to Run Public Administration
Season 7 Episode 2
We’re focusing this week on public administration. While mention of the word bureaucracy rarely lifts hearts, it’s incredibly important for the devel…
4 years ago
The State of the World
Season 7 Episode 1
The podcast has been on its summer break over the last few months, but politics certainly hasn’t stopped. The war in Ukraine has rumbled on. The glob…
4 years ago
The Role of Blame
Season 6 Episode 10
Tackling injustice is one of the main motivations that many people have for getting involved in politics. Whether those injustices relate to income i…
4 years, 3 months ago
Disabilities in the Workplace
Season 6 Episode 9
It is estimated that around a fifth of people working in the UK today are disabled in some way. Many of these people report feeling that their employ…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Limits of Technocracy
Season 6 Episode 8
‘It’s the economy, stupid’. That, famously, was one of the organising principles of Bill Clinton’s campaign for the US presidency in 1992. Thirty yea…
4 years, 4 months ago
Public Opinion in Russia
Season 6 Episode 7
It almost goes without saying that public opinion matters in a democracy, where leaders can be scrutinised in the free press and held accountable at …
4 years, 4 months ago
How to Transform Our Politics
Season 6 Episode 6
Uniquely, this week we are discussing both a new publication and a new institution.
The publication is a book called Out of the Ordinary: How Everyda…
4 years, 4 months ago