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April 11, 2017

How important are backbenchers?

Backbenchers are Members of Parliament who do not have ministerial roles, be this in the Government or as part of the Shadow Cabinet. Their importance..

Revision Webinars

To what extent do modern and classical liberals agree over the role of the state?

Each strand of liberalism believes in the idea of a limited state which is placed there by the people it governs, an idea brought about..

Are the IMF and World Bank discredited global governance institutions?

The IMF and the World Bank are part of the Bretton Woods system. First conceived in 1944, set up following the Second World War in..

To what extent do socialists agree or disagree over equality of outcome

Equality of outcome is a concept, realisable through state policies and systems, in which all individuals have approximately the same material wealth and income. This..

Week in Westminster

13/04/2019

George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. How might some smaller parties fare in the Euro Elections if they take place? Plus unprecedented levels of exhaustion among MPs, and the Government White Paper on "online harms". The Editor is Marie Jessel.

BBC Radio 4

06/04/2019

Paul Waugh of HuffPost UK reviews the political week. The PM talks to Labour about the Brexit deal. Is it a good idea? What will come of it? The editor is Marie Jessel

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4 Friday News Comedy

The News Quiz 19 Apr 2019

The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, the threat of a Measles outbreak and the Extinction Rebellion protests are among the stories covered in this week's News Quiz. Host Miles Jupp is joined by Zoe Lyons, John Robins, Hugo Rifkind & Danielle Ward for Radio 4's long-running topical quiz. Zeb Soanes reads the news. The chair's […]

BBC Radio 4

The News Quiz 12 Apr 2019

Miles Jupp and the team are back for series 99 of the long running topical panel show. And what a time it is to be a topical comedian, with Brexit finally sorted, and the political landscape wide open again, we can joke about all sorts of things. Or maybe not. The arrest of Julian Assange, […]

BBC Radio 4

The World Next Week (CFR)

TWNW Presents: The President’s Inbox on Trade and Immigration April 18, 2019

Ted Alden joins Jim Lindsay to discuss trade and immigration policy after the congressional midterms. Ted is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, specializing in U.S. economic competitiveness, trade, and immigration policy. (This is a rebroadcast of an episode of the President’s Inbox, another podcast produced by CFR.)

Tripoli Violence, Brexit’s Extension, and More April 11, 2019

The United Nations postpones a conference in Libya as the battle for Tripoli continues, Theresa May narrowly avoids a no-deal Brexit, and Indonesia holds a general election.

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