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The Road to 1945 (and what we can learn)
October 6, 2026 · 2 hr 2 minWhat historical lessons can we learn from the UK's one experience of a truly transformative progressive government?
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A New Hope? Labour Conference 2026
October 1, 2026 · 2 hr 6 minIn this emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert analyse the key speeches at this year's Labour Party conference from Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey. The official slogan of the…
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What Makes Us Experts? (part 3 of 3)
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 26 minWhat makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, 'experts' on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything, and why does it matter? Why does the political right hate 'experts', and are they correct to…
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What Makes Us Experts? (part 2 of 3)
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minWhat makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, 'experts' on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything, and why does it matter? Why does the political right hate 'experts', and are they correct to…
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What Makes Us Experts? (part 1 of 3)
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 16 minAlan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert explore the question of what counts as 'knowledge' or 'expertise' in our society, where the idea of 'the intellectual' came from, whether it has any relevance today, and what the point is of 'theory'…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 4 of 4)
August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minPart 4. What would it mean for a UK government to fully break with the history of neoliberalism? In the final episode of a four-part mini-series, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert consider what it would mean for a UK government actually…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 3 of 4)
August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 27 minWhy do some people say neoliberalism does’t exist? How did neoliberalism respond to the conditions of the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic? Is it still the ruling ideology of our age? And is neoliberalism always socially…
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Neoliberalism: what it is and how to end it (part 2 of 4)
August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 35 minAlan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert explore how neoliberalism went from being a set of obscure academic ideas to the governing philosophy of late twentieth-century capitalism