Interview
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“If you Delivered Public Services in a way That Truly Works for the Public, Private Equity Funds Wouldn't be Interested”: Interview with Hettie O’Brien
Anya Pearson interviews Hettie O’Brien about her new book 'The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself'
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
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“It Gives me a Sense of Disquiet to Criticise These Things, but That’s why These Questions are Worth Asking”: Interview with Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Alex Powell
Anya Pearson interviews the 2026 winners of the Crick Prize.
- Parliament
- Populism
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“In the World of AI, Answers are Cheap. But What's Really Scarce are Good Questions”: Interview with Wendy Carlin
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Wendy Carlin about a new way of teaching and learning economics.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
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“The Heart of the Labour Party has to be won for an Inclusionist Agenda”: Interview with Colin Crouch
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Colin Crouch about his new book, Exclusion and the New Politics of Hatred.
- Populism
- Progressive Politics
- Labour Party
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"The Risk of Inequity is Always There, Wherever You've Got AI": Interview with Helen Margetts
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Helen Margetts on the relationship between digital technology and government, politics and public policy.
- Progressive Politics
- Media
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“The Way Labour Talks About Immigration is a Big Mistake”: Interview with James Hampshire
Anya Pearson interviews Professor James Hampshire, winner of the 2025 Crick Prize, on the political economy of immigration policy since Brexit.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Brexit
- Labour Party
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"Politics is Largely About Defining Problems, Not Just Solving Them": Interview with Cas Mudde
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Cas Mudde, one of the world's leading experts on the far right.
- Brexit
- Populism
- USA
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“We can combine control and compassion. We don't have to choose between them”: Interview with Sunder Katwala
Anya Pearson interviews Sunder Katwala, the director of British Future, on issues of immigration, identity, and race.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
- Populism
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Labour Party
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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
