Interview
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"American democracy is in some trouble": Interview with Helen Thompson
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Helen Thompson, an expert on geopolitics and political economy, on global disorder and Trump's re-election.
- Elections & Campaigning
- USA
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"The European Union isn’t sentimental and won’t make concessions": Interview with Anand Menon
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Anand Menon, Director of the academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe.
- Conservative Party
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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"Equality has Always Been Conditional on Being a Particular Kind of Human": Interview with Anne Phillips
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Anne Phillips, one of the most distinguished political theorists of our time, on what it would mean to have genuinely unconditional equality in society.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
- Human Rights
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“There is a Deeply Entrenched Assumption That England Doesn’t Need its Own Institutions or Voice:" Interview with Michael Kenny
Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Bernard Crick Prize.
- Devolution
- Parliament
- Brexit
- Covid-19
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"If We’re Not Out in Public, Then We’re Not Negotiating Difference": Interview with Sophie Watson
Anya Pearson talks to Sophie Watson about water as a site of struggle, touching on her latest book City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water.
- Covid-19
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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"We Need to Learn How to Talk About Risk and Trade-Offs in the Coronavirus Crisis": Interview with Lawrence Freedman
Anya Pearson interviews Sir Lawrence David Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London, about the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
- Brexit
- Trade
- Covid-19
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“We Really Need Orwell’s Spirit of Fighting Back”: Interview with Alpa Shah
Alpa Shah has always striven to understand inequality, and how to address it.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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"Fiction Gets us to Look at Truths That Politics Can't Get at": Interview with Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah reflects on Zimbabwe's socio-political transformation, the influence of Orwell on her writing, and the enduring power of fiction to reveal the truth.
- Media
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"The Closest You Can Get to the Truth of What Happened is a Multisided Account": Interview with Norma Percy
Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy.
- Brexit
- Feminism & Gender
- Media
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"Recognition Alone is Not Enough": Interview with Jacqui Smith
Anya Pearson interviews the British broadcaster, political commentator and former Labour Party politician.
- Parliament
- Feminism & Gender
- Labour Party
