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Analysis — 388 episodes
The low pay puzzle
How real is the existential threat from AI?
What would Isambard Kingdom Brunel have done?
Power Drive
How to cure the small town blues
How to Dismantle a Democracy
What is 'British culture'?
Has the family had its day?
What's the future of nudge?
Can reading really improve your life?
Can the UK afford a mental health crisis?
France: a constitutional crisis in the making
What on earth is the national interest?
What makes a good school?
How can we grow the UK economy?
The Democratic Brain
How far should reparative justice go?
Is there a new elite?
Why are so many workers on strike?
Does work have to be miserable?
Do single people get a raw deal?
What’s changing about childbirth?
What are companies for?
Do Boycotts Work?
We know how to stop knife crime, so why don’t we do it?
Lessons from the vaccine task force
Can the Met police change?
Is Britain exceptional?
King Charles' Challenge
Does it matter who our MPs are?
The death of globalisation?
From Brother to Other
Has economic crisis put net-zero plans on the backburner?
Blaenau Ffestiniog and the Foundational Economy
Can we ever really tackle rising public spending?
Why do we assume women care?
Economic Growth - can we ever have enough?
Is 'Political Blackness' gone for good?
Can Effective Altruism really change the world?
How Xi Jinping did it
Is ethical surrogacy possible?
What's the point of street protest?
Addiction in the age of the metaverse
Is the UK the new sick man of Europe?
What is childcare for?
Beyond the cost of living crisis
Cashing in on the green rush
Germany and Russia: It's Complicated
The Advertising Trap
Can Nationalism be a Force for Good?
From Russia with love
The Court of Putin
Can the UK ever be a low tax economy again?
Ending Violence
The case for public service reform
Planning, Housing and Politics
Tackling Inequality
Why worry about future generations?
Can we create a universal Covid vaccine?
Finding Things Out
Baby Boom or Bust
Revenge of the Workers
Parental Alienation
Look who's talking - the rise of ‘voice cloning’
Who Defends Europe?
Reimagining the Nation
Cancelling Colston
Science in the Time of Cancel Culture
Stalemate: Israel and the Palestinians after Gaza
A Hundred Glorious Years?
A New Unionism?
Funny Money
Marvellous Medicine
The Zoomshock Metropolis
What the Foucault?
Global Britain: is there substance behind the slogan?
Science in the Time of Covid-19
The Fine Art of Decision Making
Levelling Up Wakefield
Magic Weapons
Boiled Rabbits of the Left?
Flying Blind
Rogue Cops
Personality Politics
Chasing Unicorns
Who Runs that Place?
This Fractured Isle
The Future of Welfare
The Rise and Fall of the Bond Market Traders
Trouble on the backbenches? Tory Leaders and their MPs
EPlanning for the Worst
Is the Internet Broken?
Behavioural Science and the Pandemic
Humans vs the Planet
Thinking for the Long Term
The Post-Pandemic State
Radical Self-Care
Modern Parenting
The Smack of Firm Leadership
The Return of Reality?
Identity Wars: lessons from the Dreyfus Affair and Brexit Britain
Command and Control?
The Roots of 'Woke' Culture
Unequal England
China's Captured "Princess"
It's Not Easy Being Green
Do voters need therapy?
The Early Years Miracle?
The NHS, AI and Our Data
Get woke or go broke?
NATO at 70
The uses and misuses of history in politics
Can I Change Your Mind?
State Aid: Brexit, Bailouts and Corporate Bonanzas
The New Censorship
A question of artefacts
The Problem with Boys
Whiteness
A shorter working week
Going the way of the dodo? The decline of Britain's two main parties.
The Forgotten Half
Understanding the risks of terrorism
Can computer profiles cut crime?
Green technology and early adoption
The Real Gender Pay Gap
Maintenance
Love Island, dating apps and the politics of desire
Will China and America go to war?
Are we heading for a mass extinction?
Will humans survive the century?
Deliberative Democracy
Irish Questions
Fair Exchange?
Conspiracy Politics
Do children of married parents do better?
The War for Normal
America's Friends
The Trumped Republicans
The Next Crash
The Replication Crisis
How to kill a democracy
Do Assassinations Work?
The Pupil Premium
Northern Ireland - Where Next?
Operation Tory Black Vote
Power Shift
The Truth About Britain's Beggars
What's Fair?
Trump and Trade
British Politics: A Russian View
The Middle East Conundrum
Can Technology Be Stopped?
Death Is a Bore
Disconnected Britain
Algorithm Overlords
#metoo, moi non plus
Too Young to Veil?
The End of Arms Control?
Screens and Teens
What Are Universities For?
Town v Gown: New Tribes in Brexit Britain
The Dictator's Survival Guide
Political Electricity
A Very British Battle
The Illiberal Democrats
Why Are Even Women Biased Against Women?
The Invisible Hand of Donald Trump
Offence, Power and Progress
Authenticity
Primate Politics
Courting Trouble
Europe Unbound
Parliament - A Building Catastrophe?
Can We Teach Robots Ethics?
What would war with North Korea look like?
The Fintech Revolution
Reducing re-offending
The Fix: Childhood Obesity
The Fix: Setting Up Home
Understanding Prevent
Minimum Wage: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Yascha Mounk on democracy at risk
Is work too easy?
Constitutions at Work
Who Speaks for the Workers?
Brexit: A Tale of Two Cities
What went wrong with Brazil?
Germany - Anxious Giant
Implicit Bias
Aid: Something to Boast About?
Adventures in Social Mobility
Detoxifying France's National Front
Holland's Challenge to Tolerance
How do the SNP sell a second referendum?
How Voters Decide: Part Two
How Voters Decide: Part One
Analysis Extra: The Pull of Putin
Is Talent a Thing?
How Not to Do It
Atom Man
Hospital Trust?
Brexit: What Europe Wants
How Did We Save the Ozone Layer?
Trusting Inmates
The Myth of Mobs
Brexit and Northern Ireland
Gentrification
Breaking Promises
Tearing Up the Politics Textbook
How Low Can Rates Go?
A Subversive History of School Reform
Money for Nothing
Obama's World
The Charitable Impulse
Marxism Today
The New Young Fogeys
Silicon Valley Values
Protectionism in the USA
Beyond Binary
Free Speech 1 - Oxygen of Freedom
Free Speech 2 - I'm Offended
Free Speech 3 - Respect Me, Respect My Religion
Free Speech 4 - Media We Need
Free Speech 5 - Big Brother is Watching
The Deobandis: Part 2
The Deobandis: Part 1
The Philby Tape
Corporate Amnesia
The End of Free
Power to the People?
Labour and the Bomb
Multiculturalism: Newham v Leicester
Inheritance
Brexit: The Irish Question
Space Wars, Space Peace
Tomas Sedlacek: The Economics of Good and Evil
Correspondents' Look Ahead: 2016
Will They Always Hate Us?
Currencies and Countries
Killing Cows
Will George Be King?
Scotland's Radical Land Reform
The Iran-Iraq War's Legacy
Can We Learn to Live with Nuclear Power?
What's Housing Benefit For?
Free Movement: Britain's Burning EU debate
Populism
Why do American police kill so many black men?
Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
Is it Time for the Internet to Grow Up?
How Gay Became OK
Making Invisibles Visible
Is the Pope a Communist?
Ritual Sexual Abuse: The Anatomy of a Panic (Part 2)
Ritual Sexual Abuse: The Anatomy of a Panic (Part 1)
The Edge
Company vs Country
Two-Nation Britain
Caring in the New Old Age
The End of Development
When Robots Steal Our Jobs
Artificial Intelligence
Downward Social Mobility
You Can't Say That
Referendum Conundrums
Maskirovka: Deception Russian-Style
Correspondents Look Ahead
Precedents or Principles?
Conservative Muslims, Liberal Britain
Just Culture
Inside Welfare Reform
The Idea of the Caliphate
Meet the Family
Peston and the House of Debt
Michael Pollan on Food
Thrifty Debtors
The End of the Pay Rise?
Tories: Nasty or Nice?
Varieties of Capitalism
What Does Putin Want?
Time to Rethink Asylum?
Deirdre McCloskey
Why Minsky Matters
Eldar Shafir: Scarcity
The Jihadi Spring
Scotland and the Union: Can Britain be Rebooted?
Life by Lottery
A Is for Anonymous
What is Wahhabism?
The Philosophy of Russell Brand
Last Rites for the Church of England?
Roberto Unger
France: Sinking Slowly?
Importing the Metropolitan Revolution
Syria: Inside the Opposition
Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction?
What Are Charities For?
Edward Snowden: Leaker, Saviour, Traitor, Spy?
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Why Did They Fail?
The Rule of Law v the Rule of Man
Scottish Nationalism: From Protest to Power
They're Coming for Your Money
Syria and the New Lines in the Sand
Pornography: What Do We Know?
Predistribution
The Quantified Self: Can Life Be Measured?
Is Regional Policy a Waste of Time?
Labour's New New Jerusalem
Nudge Theory in Practice
Who Decides if I'm a Woman?
Three Score Years and Twenty
Islamists International
Roberto Unger & Vulgar Keynesianism
Making the Best of a Bad Job
Creative Destruction
The Alawis
A Scottish Pound?
The Rise of Executive Power
Green Shoots from the Arab Spring
Left Turn to Catholic Social Teaching?
Labour, the Left and Europe
The School of Hard Facts
Manuel Castells: Alternative Economic Cultures
Keeping the Free Market Faith
Obama: Peacemaker or Vigilante?
Social Epidemiology
Political Prejudice
The Philosopher's Arms: Law and Morality
The Philosopher's Arms: Sorites' Heap
The Philosopher’s Arms: The Fake Van Gogh
The Philosopher’s Arms: Theseus’ Ship
The EU Debate
China's Battle of Ideas
The Gold Standard
Eurogeddon II
Cameron's Swede Dreams
Wasted Youth
Steve Keen: Why Economics is Bunk
Middle East: Too Soon for Democracy?
What Is Money?
War Gaming Iran
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Downing Street Guru
Neue Labour
America: The Right Way
Profits Before Pay
Preparing for Eurogeddon
Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi
Do Schools Make a Difference?
Capitalists Against the Super Rich
Dead Cert
A Price Worth Paying?
Robert H. Frank: The Darwin Economy
Do Leaders Make a Difference?
A New Black Politics?
Cultural diplomacy
Euroscepticism Uncovered
Hezbollah
Aid or Immigration?
Libya's Islamic Capitalists
Non-Riotous Behaviour
Unsure about Sure Start
The SNP and Scotland
Is America Doomed?
Hague's Middle East
Egypt's New Islamists
Goodbye the Golden Eggs of Banking?
Unhealthy Expectations?
Blue Labour
Muscular Liberalism
Testing the Emotions
Rethinking the Middle East
The Orange Book: Clegg's Political Lemon?
The Big Society
Radical Economics: Escaping Credit Serfdom
Radical Economics: Yo Hayek!
Trust
The Deserving and the Undeserving Poor
Criminal rehabilitation: a sub-prime investment?
Defence: no stomach for the fight?
The Secret History of Analysis
Turkey: Staying Secular Insha'Allah
The Spirit Level: the theory of everything?
Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood?
What's Wrong with Child Labour?
Foreigner Policy
Divorcing Europe
Are Politicians Out of Touch?
Jackanory Politics