Is democracy dying?

Is democracy dying?

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Reclaiming the Centre: Is the Old Political Order Dead? (Adrian Wooldridge)

This week, the columnist and author Adrian Wooldridge joins Amol to argue that liberalism is not only the best ideology for the future, but that it’s also under serious threat. Wooldridge sees populist movements on the right and identity-focused politics on the left as potentiall ...  Show more

Can Technology Rescue Reading? (Your Radical Questions with James Marriott)

Amol runs through your questions with the Times columnist James Marriott. They take on whether we could use technology to encourage people to do more reading, pessimism on social media, and whether we risk changing our sense of what it means to be human when we lose our connectio ...  Show more

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