Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming
Now that we have a result, David and Helen reflect on what the next four years might hold. What
David, Helen and Gary convene on very little sleep to try to make sense of another extraordinary ele
David talks to Roberto Foa about his recent report into young people's attitude to democracy around
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin about the new energy map of the worl
Helen and David talk about what four years of Trump - and of talking (and talking) about Trump - hav
We talk to Peter Geoghegan of openDemocracy and Jennifer Cobbe of the Trust and Technology Initiativ
David talks to the historian Sarah Churchwell about how well America's political institutions have w
This week we come back to Brexit and ask whether Boris Johnson has a good way out of the current neg
David talks to Helen Thompson and Gary Gerstle about the historical precedents for US presidents los
David and Helen talk to the philosopher Michael Sandel about the damage that the idea of rewarding p
A Sunday extra with the novelist Robert Harris to talk about the V2 campaign of terror against Londo
David talks to the American historian Jill Lepore about the damage new technology can do to democrac
This week we talk about the politics of incompetence: when does it matter and when can politicians g
David talks to economist and author Noreena Hertz about loneliness and its impact on all our lives.&
We revisit our interview with the economist Thomas Piketty recorded the week Emmanuel Macron won the
This week we look at the big changes in European politics during the crisis and ask who has managed
This week two conversations with the feminist theorist and writer Judith Butler: one recorded the we
This week David and Helen talk with the historian David Kynaston about his diary of the 2016-17 seas
David and Helen talk with Diane Coyle about what the pandemic has revealed about the changing nature
This week we go back to the first ever interview we recorded for Talking Politics, when David talked
