The Politics.co.uk Podcast

News & Politics Podcasts

The podcast which still believes in experts. http://Politics.co.uk takes one story a week and peels back the noise of the news cycle to look at the dynamics which created it. Each episode http://Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by experts from the law, economics, journalism, science, religion and history to explain not just what is happening, but why it is happening - and, most importantly, what comes next. Produced by Federica Romaniello for http://Politics.co.uk.

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London, United Kingdom

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The podcast which still believes in experts. http://Politics.co.uk takes one story a week and peels back the noise of the news cycle to look at the dynamics which created it. Each episode http://Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by experts from the law, economics, journalism, science, religion and history to explain not just what is happening, but why it is happening - and, most importantly, what comes next. Produced by Federica Romaniello for http://Politics.co.uk.

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English

Episodes

10: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - EU migrant crisis

7/5/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Zoe Gardner, PhD candidate at the LSE European Institute, and Chai Patel, legal policy director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), to discuss all you need to know about the migrant crisis in the EU.

Duration:00:46:52

9: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the medicinal uses of cannabis

6/28/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Steve Rolles , senior policy analyst at Transform, and Kirstie Dous, head of legal services at Release, to discuss all you need to know about the medicinal uses of cannabis.

Duration:00:43:33

8: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - World Cup politics

6/22/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by football writer and broadcaster Philippe Auclair, and Conor Pope, author of Labour List's Political World Cup and deputy editor of Progress, to discuss all you need to know about the politics of the World Cup.

Duration:00:43:39

7: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - abortion laws in Northern Ireland

6/14/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Dr Ruth Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Medical Law at Queen Mary University, and Lisa Hallgarten, Policy Manager at Brook, to discuss abortion laws in Northern Ireland.

Duration:00:50:36

6: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - Russian infowars

6/7/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by James Rodgers, international journalism lecturer, author and former BBC Moscow correspondent, and Jamie Bartlett, journalist and author of "The People Vs Tech", to discuss Russia's modern information warfare tactics.

Duration:00:48:04

5: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - vaping

5/31/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Dr Lion Shahab, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at UCL, and Christopher Snowdon, Author and Head of Lifestyle Economics at the IEA, to discuss what vaping really is all about.

Duration:00:53:13

4: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Royal family and political neutrality

5/24/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams and Ned Donovan, freelance journalist and "primogeniture nerd", to discuss the issue of political neutrality within the Royal family.

Duration:00:51:37

3: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Five Star Movement

5/17/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Italian freelance journalist Francesco Zaffarano and Miriam Sorace, LSE fellow in EU Politics at the European Institute, to discuss the Italian Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle) and how the populist party came to be.

Duration:00:36:17

2: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - voter ID trials

5/11/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Alexandra Wunswich, director of Unlock Democracy, and Matt Singh, founder of Number Cruncher Analytics, to discuss whether trialling voter ID at polling stations was actually a good idea.

Duration:00:43:50

1: The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Windrush scandal

5/3/2018
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, and barrister Leonie Hirst to discuss what the Windrush scandal really is all about.

Duration:00:39:54