Podcast Episodes
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Season 6 Episode 5
Displacement of civilian populations is a feature of politics in many parts of the world. War is perhaps the most familiar driver of displacement – w…
4 years, 4 months ago
Political Philosophy and Climate Change
Season 6 Episode 4
Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing humans today. Yet politics appears to be failing to deliver the required response.
Students o…
4 years, 4 months ago
Politics in Northern Ireland
Season 6 Episode 3
Most of the UK went to the polls last week, and the vote in Northern Ireland was perhaps particularly significant. Next year will mark 25 years since…
4 years, 5 months ago
Voting Systems and the Representation of Women
Season 6 Episode 2
No democracy in the world has yet achieved equal representation for women in its national parliament. So it’s important to understand what could be d…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Politics of Climate Change
Season 6 Episode 1
Climate change is – as the article we’re discussing this week puts it – ‘the quintessential long-term problem’. Action is needed to avert massive lon…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Origins of the Secular State
Season 5 Episode 10
Some states are secular, while others are based, to a greater or lesser degree, on religion. The difference matters. Secular states are more likely t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Courage in Politics
Season 5 Episode 9
We’re looking this week at the political role of courage. The current, dreadful conflict in Ukraine provides numerous extraordinary examples of coura…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Transformation of British Welfare Policy
Season 5 Episode 8
A new book out this month by our colleague Tom O’Grady begins with a remarkable quotation from a UN Special Rapporteur writing in 2018 about welfare …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Origins of Social Trust
Season 5 Episode 7
We talk a lot about trust – or, more often, the lack of trust – in politics. Often we’re referring to people’s trust in politicians. But social trust…
4 years, 7 months ago
Why did Argentina invade the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982?
Season 5 Episode 6
The fortieth anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War of 1982 is coming up in just a few weeks’ time. There will no doubt be many retrospectives, wh…
4 years, 7 months ago