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Inheritance
Jo Fidgen asks why inheritance arouses such powerful emotions.
Multiculturalism: Newham v Leicester
Sonia Sodha explores how two of the UK's most multicultural places are managing diversity.
Labour and the Bomb
Why has Britain's nuclear deterrent been such a difficult issue for the Labour Party?
The End of Free
Will ad-blocking software kill off most free news on the internet?
Power to the People?
Will devolution deliver the power promised to England's cities and regions?
Corporate Amnesia
Phil Tinline finds out what happens when institutions lose their memory.
The Philby Tape
Notorious Soviet spy Kim Philby as he’s never been heard before
The Deobandis: Part 1
One Islamic network runs over 40% of UK mosques. Who are they and what do they believe?
The Deobandis: Part 2
Owen Bennett Jones reveals a secret history of Jihadist propagation in Britain
Free Speech 5 - Big Brother is Watching
Timothy Garton Ash examines how threats to privacy affect freedom of speech
Free Speech 4 - Media We Need
Timothy Garton Ash asks whether we really have a free press
Free Speech 3 - Respect Me, Respect My Religion
Is religion a special case where freedom of speech should be curtailed?
Free Speech 2 - I'm Offended
Speakers deemed 'offensive' are being banned from universities. What about free speech?
Free Speech 1 - Oxygen of Freedom
An introduction to freedom of speech and why it is important by Timothy Garton Ash
Beyond Binary
Linda Pressly explores the challenge to conventional ideas from 'gender-neutral' people.
Protectionism in the USA
Edward Stourton on the history and recent renaissance of American opposition to free trade
Silicon Valley Values
Are the values of Silicon Valley's tech visionaries now affecting all of us?
The New Young Fogeys
Jason Cowley asks why young people today are - weirdly - so well-behaved.
Marxism Today
Robin Aitken explores the continuing appeal of the ideas of Karl Marx.
The Charitable Impulse
What are the pros and cons of charities becoming more like businesses in raising money?
Obama's World
What has governed President Obama's foreign policy?
Money for Nothing
Should the state pay everyone a universal basic income? Sonia Sodha investigates.
A Subversive History of School Reform
Professor Alison Wolf on the surprising story of postwar school reform in England.
How Low Can Rates Go?
Martin Wolf examines how the search to revive growth is testing the norms of economics.
Tearing Up the Politics Textbook
Is it time for British politics professors to bin their old lecture notes and start again?
Breaking Promises
Paul Johnson asks if the government should break pledges made to pensioners.
Gentrification
David Baker asks if too much gentrification is a bad thing?
Brexit and Northern Ireland
Edward Stourton asks if the island of Ireland is where Brexit will matter most.
The Myth of Mobs
David Edmonds asks social psychologists about the psychology of crowds.
Trusting Inmates
Should we place more trust in prisoners to help them change their lives?
How Did We Save the Ozone Layer?
The story, and lessons, of the international effort to end ozone-destroying chemicals.