Where do Labour and the Tories differ on growth? With Bridget Phillipson and Bim Afolami | Conversation
Where do Labour and the Tories differ on growth? With Bridget Phillipson and Bim Afolami | Conversation
Two visions for how Britain can increase productivity and boost growth.Freddie Hayward interviews shadow education secre... Read more
14 Aug 2023
•
27mins
What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith
What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith
The novelist Ali Smith first came across the work of Simone de Beauvoir in an Inverness bookshop, aged 18 or 19, and was... Read more
12 Aug 2023
•
21mins
Similar Podcasts
You Ask Us: Is Starmer haunted by Blair, and how do you raise voter turnout?
You Ask Us: Is Starmer haunted by Blair, and how do you raise voter turnout?
Labour’s dominance in the polls draws obvious comparisons with 1997-era New Labour. But is it fair to compare Keir Starm... Read more
11 Aug 2023
•
15mins
Rishi Sunak's asylum policy is all at sea
Rishi Sunak's asylum policy is all at sea
The first residents have boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge moored off the coast of Dorset. Anoosh Chakelian visited Port... Read more
10 Aug 2023
•
14mins
The Trump trial and the internet conspiracy infecting the world | Conversation
The Trump trial and the internet conspiracy infecting the world | Conversation
An internet hoax conceived on a fringe message board grew into an online conspiracy theory so far-reaching that it spark... Read more
7 Aug 2023
•
30mins
George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair | Audio Long Read
George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair | Audio Long Read
There is one question the environmental journalist and author George Monbiot is asked more than any other: how do you co... Read more
5 Aug 2023
•
15mins
You Ask Us: Is a new party possible, and has Andy Burnham avoided policing scandal?
You Ask Us: Is a new party possible, and has Andy Burnham avoided policing scandal?
Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker answer listener questions.There have been multiple attempts to launch c... Read more
4 Aug 2023
•
25mins
Rutherglen by-election: Labour’s key to unlock Scotland?
Rutherglen by-election: Labour’s key to unlock Scotland?
Yet another by-election could provide a key opportunity for Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour to regain lost seats in Scotla... Read more
3 Aug 2023
•
13mins
All politics is local, with Westminster council leader Adam Hug
All politics is local, with Westminster council leader Adam Hug
When Labour won Westminster Council from the Conservatives in 2022, they made history.Now in power for the first time ev... Read more
31 Jul 2023
•
27mins
The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau | Audio Long Read
The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau | Audio Long Read
The Conservative Private Members Committee, informally known as the 1922 Committee (or the ’22), is the Tory confessiona... Read more
29 Jul 2023
•
26mins