Sep 3, 2024
American political forecaster Nate Silver explains who will win the US election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, why he thinks Elon Musk’s comments during the riots in the UK were acceptable, and how AI will change the world.
Silver is the founder of the influential polling and politics website...
May 10, 2024
US Presidential candidate Dr Cornel West is a philosopher and prominent advocate for social and racial justice. He’s taught at some of the top universities in the US including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but has one major plan if he becomes President: to “dismantle the American empire”.
The 71-year-old...
May 7, 2024
Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz is one of the
most influential economists in the world, having advised multiple
Democratic Presidents of the US and the World Bank, where he worked
as Chief Economist and senior Vice President.
His latest book, called “The
Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society,” argues...
Apr 11, 2024
Bassem Youssef thinks that he’s come on the wrong podcast. “People in power don't really care about any of our suggestions to change the world”, he tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy, “because if our ways to change the world affect their interests, they will stop you.”
And he knows what he’s talking about, having...
Apr 4, 2024
When lawyer turned playwright Suzie Miller created a one-woman show starring Jodie Comer for the West End and Broadway called ‘Prima Facie’, she wouldn’t have dreamt that her play would fuel real change in the legal system’s approach to sexual assault cases.
The play has won multiple awards, has inspired...