The Prospect Podcast

Britain’s business leaders are increasingly jittery about a “cliff edge” Brexit. But is leaving Europe necessarily a threat for UK PLC, rather than an opportunity? Economists Adam Posen and Diane Coyle join Tom Clark and give the low-down, both on the scale of the coming shock as they see it, and the pre-existing frailty of the low-productivity British economy. Meanwhile, Andrew Dickson has taken a trip to Bilbao and asks whether culture is the key to restarting an economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dutchman Joris Luyendijk imagined he was moving in with European cousins when he arrived in London; six years later he was cheering on Brexit. He tells Tom Clark how he learned to loathe England. At least Britain can laugh at itself—Sameer Rahim has been talking to our greatest living satirist, Armando Iannucci. All nations are defined by the stories they tell about themselves, and Daniella Peled reviews the work of the new Palestinian Museum in putting twists in the tale of a people without a land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prospect has a new podcast series starting this week, called How To Fix... - and we'd like to share it with our Headspace listeners. In the first episode, Steve Bloomfield was joined by Andrew Dilnot, Liz Kendall and Daniel Drepper to discuss social care—what's wrong with it, and how we could make it better.You can subscribe now to hear future episodes at: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/howtofixShow notesHere’s Andrew Dilnot’s report on Funding of Care and Support. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2013022…report/Liz Kendall mentioned the Barker report. Here it is. www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/commi…l-care-englandHere’s Daniel Drepper’s book on Amazon. www.amazon.de/Jeder-pflegt-allei…1740017/ref=sr_1_1And if you’d prefer something in English, here’s a piece on Correctiv: correctiv.org/en/investigations/…-home-care-system/, the non-profit Daniel co-founded, that dealt with the same issue.In April 2015, Liz Kendall spoke to the Guardian about social care. www.theguardian.com/society/2015/ap…care-health-nhs Here are the manifestoes from 2017. Labour’s bit on social care begins on page 71, the Conservatives infamous policy is recorded for posterity on page 64: www.labour.org.uk/page/-/Images/ma…festo%202017.pdf, while the Lib Dems’ section is here: www.libdems.org.uk/health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just how much difference — or not — do the quirks of an individual make to the tide of history? In this month’s episode we welcome historian-turned-Cabinet minister Andrew Adonis, who claims every election is won by the more talented leader. We hear from Wittgenstein's biographer, Ray Monk, who argues that one of the greatest philosophical minds of the lot—Gottlob Frege—lived in a husk of a man. Finally, the globe-trotting journalist, Wendell Steavenson, who followed a refugee family from Syria to the US, describes the heartening signs that America’s open-armed tradition towards immigrants surviving the personality of Donald J Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month Tom Clark and guests chew over three simmering—or potential—culture wars.Immigration is often said to divide the "metropolitan elite" from "the masses", but Steve Bloomfield says that Canada proves that, done the right way, immigration can be popular.Jessica Abrahams fills us in on what's good, what's bad and what's complacent in fourth-wave feminism.And the Sun's Emily Andrews fills us in on how insiders fear that the change of the guards at Buckingham Palace that will bring in Charles III could bring down the institution at the pinnacle of British class: the monarchy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alison Wolf, Paul Ormerod and Adam Tooze join Prospect Editor Tom Clark to discuss whether it’s a good thing that so many people go to university; why trust in experts has fallen so low; and how, 10 years on from the banking crisis, a new system of regulation has been quietly introduced under-the-radar. But how sustainable is it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The malconents have, once again, wrought revenge on the know-it-alls, landing Britain with a hung parliament instead of the predicted Conservative landslide. Steve Richards sees election 2017 as one more instance of the worldwide trend for outsiders causing an upset at the expense of an establishment which has lost all legitimacy since the economic crisis of a decade ago. Rachel Sylvester says the campaign performed an X-ray on Theresa May’s political soul, and revealed a brittle character that was never strong nor stable. Meanwhile, David Berry looks back to the 1930s, when radicals took a break from politics to set up tennis clubs—and made with such success that they took gas fitters and machinists to the All England Club, in the Worker’s Wimbledon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nick Cohen, Matthew Parris and Meg Russell (Constitution Unit) join Tom Clark and a live audience to discuss where Theresa May’s surprise ballot will leave the government, the opposition and a divided country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the ninth edition of Prospect's monthly podcast, Nick Cohen, Christine Ockrent and Geoffrey Wheatcroft join our editor, Tom Clark, to discuss the British and French elections, as well as the extraordinary resilience of the Tory party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simon Jenkins, Wendell Steavenson, and Paul Hilder join Tom Clark to discuss the fraying Union between England and Scotland, the reordering of London to favour the global elite, and the way that new digital campaigns are disrupting the old politics everywhere Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.