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The Lobbying Scandal: ACOBA on the ropes
Season 1 Episode 103
The relationship between a failing business and a former prime minister, lobbying in British politics, the rules that guide both ministers and civil …
5 years ago
Who Judges The Judges?
Season 1 Episode 102
From runways at Heathrow to leaving the EU, the Government dislikes its decisions being challenged in court. Now it’s putting Judicial Review itself …
5 years ago
Disintegration Nation
Season 1 Episode 101
As street violence convulses Northern Ireland, is the border in the Irish Sea producing exactly the crisis the Government were warned of? And will th…
5 years, 1 month ago
Scandal In The Wind
Season 1 Episode 100
As new details emerge about Boris Johnson’s alleged affair with Jennifer Arcuri, the country seems strangely unmoved. Does personal morality really m…
5 years, 1 month ago
COVID: The Year of Indecision
Season 1 Episode 99
A year on from Lockdown One, what have we learned – if anything – from the response to the once-in-a-century crisis of COVID? A new IfG paper identif…
5 years, 1 month ago
Warheads Revisited – Inside the Integrated Defence Review
Season 1 Episode 98
What’s in the mammoth 114-page Integrated Review of Britain’s defence and foreign policy? Should we really be putting aircraft carriers in the South …
5 years, 1 month ago
The Only Way Is Sussex
Season 1 Episode 97
Will the reverberations from Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey change the Monarchy? Is this a passing PR crisis or an existential momen…
5 years, 1 month ago
Budget 2021: Party like it’s 1969?
Season 1 Episode 96
The highest level of public debt and highest tax burden since the late 1960s, the first increase in corporation tax since 1974, the largest net tax r…
5 years, 2 months ago
Budget: The Four Hundred Billion Pound Man
Season 1 Episode 95
Business was taken aback when Rishi Sunak raised its tax bill in this week’s Budget – but the sums Sunak is dealing with are eyewatering. Is there en…
5 years, 2 months ago
Budget 2021: To recovery and beyond?
Season 1 Episode 94
On 3 March, Rishi Sunak will deliver his second Budget – almost a year on from the moment the government took the unprecedented step last spring to l…
5 years, 2 months ago