First, because the information agenda is dominated by issues like Huawei, HS2, and public spending, might politics be – whisper it – returning to
First, because the information agenda is dominated by issues like Huawei, HS2, and public spending, might politics be – whisper it – returning to regular? In his cowl piece this week, Rod Liddle writes how, for essentially the most half, the election end result has put a lid on the civil struggle between Remainers and Brexiteers. One such Remainer who has reconciled herself with the result’s Stefanie Bolzen, the UK Correspondent for Die Welt. She writes within the concern this week about simply why Germans are so heartbroken about Brexit. Stefanie and Rod chat Brexit feelings on the podcast.
Subsequent, is there something to be gleaned from the Chinese language response to the coronavirus? I write on this week’s concern that Beijing has responded in a distinctively authoritarian manner – on the one hand locking down tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals in quarantine in a single day; on the opposite shutting down dangerous information to keep away from upsetting the bosses. On the podcast, I take a visitor spot and converse to Lara Prendergast and Alex Colville, a Spectator contributor who’s at the moment in Shanghai.
And final, is it time to interrupt the taboo round dying? Kate Chisholm meets the individuals designing and constructing their very own coffins to be able to ‘take again management of dying’, and writes about them on this week’s concern. She joins the podcast along with Dr Sharon Younger, a lecturer on finish of life rights and a volunteer at Loss of life Café Kingston.