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Award-winning podcast about the economic forces shaping our world, with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and guests. Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and chari...
Two years’ ago, the UN human rights high commissioner issued the UK with a warning. He said that new restrictions being imposed on the right...
After months of rumours, speculation and gossip, today the chancellor finally delivered her autumn budget - but not before an accidental lea...
It’s a new technology that everyone’s desperate to get a piece of. CEOs say it’s going to change how we work, access information, and even r...
Last week democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election. His election campaign was bolstered by a slick social...
We used to own things. The essential services we need to survive - things like water, trains and our energy system - used to be owned by us:...
Israel’s attacks on Gaza have been described by ministers as “intolerable”, “appalling” and “cruel”. Last year this government suspended aro...
Is the party over before it has even begun? Tens of thousands of people signed up to be members of Your Party, the new political project fou...
This government has taken a record-breaking plummet in popularity, our chancellor keeps telling us the Treasury has no spare cash for our cr...
During the presidential campaign, the Democratic Party warned that American democracy was under attack from Trump. Since the start of Trump...
We are living in a time of contradictions. For the last forty years, our politics and media have been dominated by neoliberal, right-wing vo...
Half a year ago, the Labour Party swept into power with a huge parliamentary majority and Kier Starmer celebrated by saying that the country...
The price of your food shop rocketed because of inflation and now your mortgage is going up hundreds of pounds because the Bank of England d...
Do you work from home? Then you’re probably not doing proper work, and you’re causing the UK’s economic decline! At least that’s what the fo...
Last week hundreds of tractors drove through Parliament Square. It was the latest protest by UK farmers against changes to inheritance tax a...
From housebuilding to sewage systems to the NHS, private companies are deeply intertwined with our essential public services. But is partner...
The International Energy Agency has said that the world cannot develop any new oil and gas fields if we are to stop climate breakdown. Keir...
The Autumn Budget was the most significant since George Osborne implemented austerity in 2010. Rachel Reeves announced one hundred billion p...
By the time this episode comes out, the new Labour government will have been in charge of the country for one hundred days. So what do we kn...
A few weeks ago, far-right rioters gathered outside a hotel hosting asylum seekers in Rotherham and tried to set it on fire. Across the coun...
In the recent European elections, the far right won unprecedented gains. From the success of the AfD in Germany, to Le Pen’s National Rally...
We live under an invisible ideology. It tells us that we are not citizens but consumers. That intervening in the free market compromises our...
In February, the prime minister warned that “mob rule is replacing democratic rule” in the UK. He encouraged police to take action on pro-Pa...
Three years’ ago, the Conservative Party celebrated their best local elections performance since 2008. But after last week’s local elections...
Almost three million people in the UK are unemployed and unable to work because they are ill or disabled. According to the right-wing media,...
Britain’s favourite broadcaster David Attenborough once said: “Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is eit...
We’re waiting longer than ever for hospital appointments, our kids’ schools are literally crumbling, and homelessness has sky-rocketed in th...
Worried about your carbon emissions? Don’t stress! You can pump out as much as you want - as long as you buy some offsets to balance it out....
It’s 2024 and in Westminster an election is at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Step back a little further and across the UK millions of u...
The Metropolitan Police’s diversity and inclusion strategy claims it is determined to “eliminate racism and discrimination”. But the force w...
This spring, swimmers in Kent were told to avoid ten beaches in the county due to sewage leaks. Public outrage at sewage pouring into our ri...
The friend who has to cancel plans to look after their elderly mum. The colleague who leaves their phone on loud so they don’t miss a call a...
As the chancellor stood up in Parliament to present his spring budget in March, half a million people went on strike to demand better from t...
Nurses struggling without PPE, the frantic search for hospital ventilators, even the dreaded ping from NHS test-and-trace. To most of us, th...
You can’t paint your walls, you can’t have a pet, you can’t guarantee you’ll have somewhere to live in six months time. Millions of us are p...
On a sunny day in January, a ghostly figure covered in green ribbons appeared on a moor in south-west England. It was a person dressed as Ol...
Last year the UK had three different prime ministers, four different chancellors and five different housing ministers. Nicola Sturgeon, Scot...
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022. Over the last five episodes we’ve looked at how the UK is being torn apar...
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022. This summer, on a small road in south-east London, a crowd of people prev...
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022. The cost of living scandal could force 1.7 million households into homele...
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in August 2022. 2022: a year of extremes. During the 40 degree summer heat, roads melted and...
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in August 2022. As the first week of rail strikes came to an end in June, Google searches fo...
In this mini-series of the New Economics Podcast, we’ll discover how our economy has been run over the past few years - and look at the key...
Outside of the frenzied headlines about woke warriors cancelling Jane Austen and stately homes, we’re living in a period of renewed consider...
What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of unio...
In the early months of the pandemic, the government shut down whole sectors of the economy and started paying the wages of a huge proportion...
A few weeks ago the chancellor presided over a spring budget which ushered in the fastest drop in living standards on record, as he told us...
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, over 4 million people have fled the country. Earlier this month Priti Patel announced a visa applicat...
At the time of recording, hundreds, and possibly thousands, of civilians have been killed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and more than...
2022 has been dubbed the ‘year of the squeeze’ by the Resolution Foundation. In April, soaring energy bills will collide with tax increases...
Families are bracing for less and less money to get by as energy bills rise this spring. In the fifth richest country in the world, pensione...