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This week we talked to Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper about how Oxford University acts as finishing school for the British elite. His latest book Chums ...

In this episode, we look at the state of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s finances, the French presidential elections and Labour’s difficulty with saying wh...

For this episode we spoke to Hannah White, deputy director at the Institute for Government. Her new book Held in Contempt charts the atrophying of Parliament th...

This week we look at the British government’s haphazard approach to taking in Ukrainian refugees, its retreat from plans to restrict what second jobs MPs ...

Marking our 200th episode, we discuss the implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine without once referencing Vladimir Putin’s naked torso. Plus w...