Elections 2026: what next for populism, democracy, Starmer and the Union?
The implosion of the two traditional major parties and the widespread success of Reform (and, to a lesser extent, the Greens) have been wide...
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20 of 399 episodesPodcast of Ideas: Has Scottish devolution been a failure?
Ahead of the elections to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 7 May, Alastair Donald and Rob Lyons talked to Dean Thomson, author of Scotlan...
Taking the PIP: who can reform welfare?
Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION The government suffer...
Why is my energy bill so high?
The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have focused attention on skyrocketing energy prices, leading to demands to encourag...
Women and gender: Supreme Court ruling, one year on
This debate was part of Battle of Ideas North on 7 March 2026 in Manchester. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court judgement in April 2025...
Letters on Liberty: Abortion and the Freedom to Forge Our Own Fate
Following the vote in the House of Lords to approve the decriminalisation of women who have abortions after the legal limit of 24 weeks, the...
Net Zero or ‘drill, baby, drill’? The future of UK energy
With the war in Iran leading to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, preventing or restricting oil and gas being exported from many of the G...
Island of strangers: is Britain broken?
Recorded at Battle of Ideas North on Saturday 7 March 2026 at Pendulum Hotel, Manchester. ORIGINAL FESTIVAL INTRODUCTION From immigration to...
After Greenland: understanding the new geopolitics
This is an extract from the Academy of Ideas Economy Forum discussion 'After Greenland: understanding the new geopolitics', which took place...
Are the old political parties over?
Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. Victory for the Gree...
The rise of the workplace speech police
Debate recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House, Westminster. This week, Reform's Suella Braverm...
Rape gangs, Post Office and Scottish self-ID: an anatomy of three scandals
A debate recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival at Church House, Westminster on Saturday 18 October 2025. ORIGINAL FESTIVAL INTRODUCTION I...
China's Trump card? Rare earths and geopolitics
Recording of a debate at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House, London. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION One consequ...
Podcast of Ideas: Trump's intervention into Venezuela
The Academy of Ideas team – Alastair Donald, Claire Fox, Rob Lyons and Jacob Reynolds – discuss the immediate fallout after President Trump'...
Woke politics: ‘People are realising it is deeply authoritarian’
In a wide-ranging interview, Andrew Doyle talks to Claire Fox about his new book, The End of Woke and why there is much still to be done to...
Cure or cult? Special educational needs in the classroom
Dave Clements is a policy adviser, writer, and parent of a child diagnosed with ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Despite a longstand...
The scary new powers to trawl through our bank accounts
Claire Fox sits down with Jasleen Chaggar of Big Brother Watch and author Timandra Harkness to talk about the latest attack on our privacy....
How can the UK return to growth?
Recording of the introductory remarks at the Academy of Ideas Economy Forum on 20 March 2025. Ever since the great financial crisis of 2008,...
Podcast of Ideas: does England need a football regulator?
Next week, the Football Governance Bill will go to Report Stage in the House of Lords. While it will then go to the House of Commons, the de...
Girls only: Sall Grover and the fight for women's rights
Claire Fox talks to Sall Grover and Katherine Deves about their fight in Australia to reassert in law that a woman is an adult human female....
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