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The Why? Curve — 216 episodes

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1

Turning Off? UK Broadcasting In Trouble

2

Ukraine Vibe Shift?

3

Paid-For Politics?

4

The Mancunian Candidate

5

Cuba Revisited

6

Big Storm Coming?

7

Trump/Iran - Madman or Genius?

8

Too Real TV?

9

Ready For The Next Pandemic?

10

Reform Government?

11

Heading for a crash?

12

The Kindest Generation?

13

Welfare or Warfare?

14

Poor Lebanon

15

Meanwhile in Ukraine

16

The Arab View of Trump’s War

17

Americans Don't Like This War

18

Cuba Next?

19

The End of International Law?

20

Gunboat Diplomacy?

21

Is Britain Ungovernable?

22

Welcome To The Splinternet

23

Epstein’s Hidden World

24

Creating Life

25

Right Going Wrong?

26

The Chaos of Trump World

27

Teens Turned Off

28

Marriage Guidance

29

MAGA Movies In 2026?

30

Anglican Agony

31

Is Starmer Stuffed?

32

What's happening in Gaza

33

Can we afford the welfare state?

34

Are We Already At Hybrid War With Russia?

35

BBC - Yet Another Crisis

36

Holding Out For a Hero

37

Andrew Horribilis - The Future of the Monarchy

38

Flat Earth - Are We All Becoming The Same?

39

Is China an enemy?

40

Papers Please!

41

Are The Tories Toast

42

Is Pseudoscience Taking Over?

43

The Trump Whisperer?

44

Anyone Seen The LibDems?

45

Labour’s Money Problems

46

Put Out More Flags

47

Asylum Seekers - Time To Change The Rules?

48

Ukraine  - Any Closer To Peace?

49

Palestine Action - Protesters or Terrorists?

50

Why Are We All So Angry?

51

Trump in Trouble?

52

The Verdict on Juries

53

Sudan - the Horror of the Forgotten War

54

Keir - A Year to Forget

55

Ozempic Nation?

56

UK Rail  - On The Right Track?

57

World on the Edge

58

Democracy On The Rocks?

59

Is Crypto Becoming Credible?

60

Tanks, Troops or Drones? Spending the Defence Bonanza

61

Migrants - Not The Issue They Think It Is

62

India-Pakistan: Endless Enmity?

63

Ukraine - Does The US Now Have Skin In The Game?

64

Conclave Consensus - Choosing A New Pope

65

Reform Revolution?

66

Show me where to put the money

67

The White House Ruled by Pathocracy

68

The Return of Toxic Masculinity

69

Time to Shrink the State?

70

Aid Emergency

71

Ukraine - Peace In Our Time?

72

Closing Credits?

73

How To Handle The Donald

74

New Towns - Old Ideas?

75

Winning The Trade War

76

Deeply Seeking - China’s AI Challenge

77

WFH No More?

78

Trump - How Crazy Will It Get?

79

The Sick Men of Europe

80

Starmer Stuck - Labour’s Poor Start

81

What May Kill You in 2025

82

An Epidemic of Loneliness?

83

A New Age In Syria

84

Workplace Abuse

85

Why Is Africa Left Behind?

86

Tractors in Whitehall

87

A Matter Of Life And Death

88

Getting Ready For The Storm

89

The Sum of All Fears

90

The US Election - An American Horror Story?

91

Not Budging on the Budget

92

Nips and Tucks

93

Middle East On The Brink

94

Blue Funk

95

The Love Labour’s Lost

96

Just Grow Up - The Infantilisation Of Our World

97

Exit X? Curbing Social Media

98

UK/EU - A Closer Disunion?

99

Central Banks - Power Without Reponsibility?

100

Kamala’s Coronation

101

Getting It Right On The Far Right

102

Universities In Crisis

103

Olympic Winners?

104

Harris v Trump - What To Expect

105

Making Stuff

106

Wish You Weren’t Here - The Tourism Trap

107

Election Day - But Does Your Vote Count?

108

The Final Furlong

109

Not Ready For Government - Should We Train Politicians?

110

Getting Through - Connecting with voters in 2024

111

There’s No Money Left - What The New Chancellor Might Find

112

International Justice?

113

Ukraine - On The Brink Of Defeat?

114

Social Media For Young People - Moral Menace Or Moral Panic?

115

Small Boats Leading To Small Votes? - UK Politics In 2024

116

Migration - What's Driving The Small Boat Journey?

117

Danger Zone - The Middle East Crisis

118

A Growing Problem - Can We Keep Expanding The Economy?

119

Is it 1939 in Europe?

120

Why Is Populism So Popular?

121

Electric Cars In The Slow Lane?

122

Prisons In Crisis

123

Councils of Despair

124

The Gaza Effect

125

UK Budget - Fiscal Headroom Or Financial Headache?

126

The Generation Game - And Why Boomers Are Cheating

127

A Matter of Life and Death. Who Decides?

128

Is the world ready for Trump 2.0?

129

Rough Justice, No Justice

130

Broken Britain - Can it be Mended?

131

Red Sea Crisis - Choking The Global Economy

132

Democracy in Crisis

133

Rishi v Keir - What To Expect in 2024

134

Choice Cuts - the Best of The Why Curve so far

135

Present Tense - The Changing Ways We Give

136

Rwandan safety? The uncomfortable truth.

137

Can It Be Profitable To Save The Planet?

138

The Forgotten War - Whatever Happened To The Ukraine Conflict?

139

A tax cut that’s good for Britain or a last-ditch hope for the Tory party?

140

The real bill for energy

141

Animal Rights and Wrongs

142

AI - technology breakthrough, or the end of humanity?

143

What is racism, and is it on the rise?

144

Middle East on the Brink

145

Keir Starmer - not enough glitter?

146

Blue Yonder

147

Who are you really? Online identity wars.

148

Ukraine War - How Will It End And When?

149

Tough Medicine

150

Museums - stuck in the past?

151

US Election 2024 - The Trump Card?

152

Ghost Workers

153

China Crisis

154

Blue Funk

155

Not Personal, Just Business

156

World on fire

157

Must Try Harder - Why Britain’s Economy Is Bottom Of The Class

158

Oh, those Russians

159

Hard Tax

160

Gong Wrong

161

Why Are We Lagging On Broadband?

162

Mind Field

163

Open for Business?

164

No, Minister

165

Homes Under The Hammer

166

Protesting Too Much? The Rights and Wrongs of Public Dissent

167

Europe in Harmony Or Out Of Tune?

168

Thrown By The Throne

169

Passing Water

170

False Coin

171

Small Boats - Big Boasts

172

Northern Ireland - New Troubles Brewing?

173

The Metaverse. Reality or Virtual Hype?

174

The Grey Suits Running the Global Economy

175

The Great Divide

176

Work in Progress

177

Hong Kong - Is the Shine Coming Off The Pearl Of The Orient?

178

Shaken. Can science predict the next big earthquake?

179

Going Wild

180

Whatever happened to COVID?

181

Ukraine - the Endless War?

182

Should the government spend its way out of the doldrums?

183

Up the workers!

184

Conservative Blues

185

Cyber War - Lost In Action?

186

The Crystal Ball

187

Faithless

188

Fixing the productivity gap

189

Say what?

190

Scots on the Rocks

191

Good COP, bad COP?

192

Goodbye To The Good Friday Accord?

193

Degree of Doubt

194

Ready for Sunak’s Bitter Pill?

195

Breaking China

196

Apocalypse Soon?

197

Police Emergency

198

What's the prescription for the NHS?

199

Fiscal event or economic suicide?

200

Hard Labour

201

Welcome to Cold War 2

202

"Well I didn't vote for her!"

203

The Last Days Of The BBC?

204

Net Zero Chance?

205

Sleepwalking into a crisis

206

Levelling-Up Or Levelling Over?

207

Putin's Foot on the Gas

208

Fears of Flying

209

Taxing times for Tory leadership

210

Lies, Damn Lies and Politicians

211

He/She or Them? The Gen on Gender

212

Putin Gives NATO Back It’s Mojo

213

Britain hits the buffers!

214

The recession we have to have

215

Three Big Questions on the Rwanda Solution

216

The Why Curve is coming