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Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman
Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to... Read more
12 May 2020
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30mins
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Big tech and the future of democracy
Big tech and the future of democracy
The tide of public opinion has turned against the big tech firms. How serious of a threat are these companies to democra... Read more
28 Nov 2019
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35mins
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Is the centre ground dead?
Is the centre ground dead?
Commentators say the financial crisis and its aftermath sounded the death knell for centrist parties. Is the centre grou... Read more
12 Mar 2019
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34mins
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Denialism, with Caroline Lucas MP & Keith Kahn-Harris
Denialism, with Caroline Lucas MP & Keith Kahn-Harris
From climate change to vaccines, there’s a worrying tendency in our culture to bury our heads in the sand, and for a gro... Read more
21 Mar 2019
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41mins
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Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times
RSA chief executive Matthew Taylor and journalist Ian Leslie are joined by this year's winner of the Nobel prize for eco... Read more
19 Nov 2019
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44mins
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Have we reached peak populism or is this just the start of it?
Have we reached peak populism or is this just the start of it?
The British people have spoken. In the first December election since 1923, it’s turned out to be Christmas with all the... Read more
19 Dec 2019
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37mins
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How Change Happens
How Change Happens
Insights from three of the world's leading thinkers on how political and societal change happens: presidential historian... Read more
20 Apr 2019
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37mins
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Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan
Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to... Read more
1 May 2020
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31mins
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Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd
Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to... Read more
21 Apr 2020
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29mins
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Talking to the Enemy, with Michael Sandel & Maria Exner
Talking to the Enemy, with Michael Sandel & Maria Exner
This week Ian Leslie and Matthew Taylor are asking: what's the best way to talk to people we disagree with? If we want t... Read more
13 Feb 2019
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38mins
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The psychology of tribalism, with Jonathan Haidt
The psychology of tribalism, with Jonathan Haidt
Is tribalism an indelible part of human nature? And if it is, can we overcome it? Matthew Taylor speaks to moral psychol... Read more
6 Dec 2018
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33mins
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Elections, Fatalism, and Twitter Storms
Elections, Fatalism, and Twitter Storms
Matthew Taylor speaks to French political journalist Marie Le Conte about the European elections, French politics and be... Read more
31 May 2019
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44mins
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Nervous States, with Will Davies
Nervous States, with Will Davies
Have feelings taken over the world? Have we lost our collective grip on rationality? And what can a panic about nothing ... Read more
18 Oct 2018
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35mins
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How Internet Culture Poisoned Politics, with Whitney Phillips
How Internet Culture Poisoned Politics, with Whitney Phillips
Is it inevitable that the internet and social media drive us to the extremes? Or do they just hold up a mirror to an alr... Read more
20 Jun 2018
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28mins
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Are our broadcasters fit for purpose?
Are our broadcasters fit for purpose?
More than ever our broadcasters are accused of bias and spin, and the subject of wild conspiracy theories. Have they bro... Read more
5 Dec 2019
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44mins
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Identity, with Francis Fukuyama
Identity, with Francis Fukuyama
The phrase ‘identity politics’ has come to be used as a sort of political insult. It’s a short way of accusing someone o... Read more
24 Dec 2018
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36mins
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Do you understand public opinion as well as you think you do?
Do you understand public opinion as well as you think you do?
Matthew Taylor and Ian Leslie dissect new (and sometimes controversial) research on the divide between 'anarchists' and ... Read more
10 Oct 2019
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37mins
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Anger, with Claire Fox
Anger, with Claire Fox
Anger is all the rage, but is anger itself the problem? Some people say we need to push back against anger in our politi... Read more
24 Aug 2018
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30mins
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Stories, Myths and Belonging
Stories, Myths and Belonging
It's been a turbulent week in UK politics. What could possibly happen next? Matthew Taylor and Ian Leslie talk Brexit pr... Read more
21 Nov 2018
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31mins
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Could a citizens' jury help break the Brexit deadlock?
Could a citizens' jury help break the Brexit deadlock?
Two days after the biggest government defeat in the history of the British parliament, Matthew Taylor makes the case for... Read more
17 Jan 2019
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30mins