Rodney Tiffen, “Disposable Leaders: Media and...

How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research in northeastern Estonia, this book offers vivid answers. The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Es ...  Show more

How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is the core question that my guest, Berkeley economic historian Trevor Jackson, tries to answer in his new book, The Insatiable Machi ...  Show more

Matt Chorley speaks to the former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull on why British politics is similar to down under, Boris Johnson, the monarchy and his tribute to Olivia Newton-John.

Also columnists Oliver Kamm and David Aaronovitch on not having a gover ...

Mike Robinson and Charles Malet speak to Bob Moran, former political cartoonist for The Daily Telegraph, his time in the corporate media, accusations of anti-semitism, divisions amongst dissident groups, the war narrative, immigration and what needs to be done to correct the wron ...  Show more

The first round of the Conservative leadership race has seen Priti Patel leave the race, and Robert Jenrick take poll position. Could he be the Conservatives next leader? And what kind of Tory is he? We talk to Tory watcher and author Ben Riley Smith from the Telegraph. Later, is ...  Show more

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