How did the British Empire write the rules of today’s economy?
Outside of the frenzied headlines about woke warriors cancelling Jane Austen and stately homes,...
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What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently....
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What did Covid-19 reveal about how our economy is really run?
In the early months of the pandemic, the government shut down whole sectors of the economy and...
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What does the Sunak scandal tell us about our tax system?
A few weeks ago the chancellor presided over a spring budget which ushered in the fastest drop in...
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The UK's response to the refugee crisis
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, over 4 million people have fled the country. Earlier this...
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Are fossil fuels funding the war in Ukraine?
At the time of recording, hundreds, and possibly thousands, of civilians have been killed during...
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Tackling the cost of living crisis
2022 has been dubbed the ‘year of the squeeze’ by the Resolution Foundation. In...
44:21
Families are bracing for less and less money to get by as energy bills rise this spring. In the...
41:21
Closing the Covid-19 vaccination gap
Coronavirus cases are once again rising in Europe and across the world. The World Health...
45:35
A record number of employees have quit their jobs in recent months, in what’s been dubbed...
37:15
Is our digital economy breeding misogyny?
In August this year Jake Davison, a 22-year-old from Plymouth, went on a shooting rampage that...
47:33
If you read mainstream media coverage of the issues facing transgender people in the UK,...
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At the height of the pandemic, politicians promised to do whatever it took to keep the economy...
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What really happens at a UN climate summit?
In a few weeks’ time, 25,000 people will descend on Glasgow. They are coming for the UN...
47:24
The UK has the draughtiest and oldest housing in Western Europe. And our gas boilers pump out...
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Will living standards be frozen this winter?
Over 11m people have been furloughed in the last 16 months, and almost 6m are currently on...
32:54
Where did our immigration system come from?
This week a controversial deportation flight took off for Jamaica. Legal challenges meant that...
40:51
Fighting the climate crisis in the courts
With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five...
31:42
With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five...
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How can we tackle the climate crisis while levelling up?
With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five...
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