Podcast
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Red alert?
Apocalyptic intimations in the mid-1900s
Mysteries of history (w/ Samuel Rubinstein)
From the Anglo-Saxons to Israel and Palestine
The opposing eagles
Geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States
Ideas, influence and international politics
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
