The Politics.co.uk Podcast

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The podcast which still believes in experts. Politics.co.uk takes one story a week and peels back the noise of the news cycle to look at the dynamics which created it. Each episode Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by experts from the law, economics, journalism, science, religion and history to explain not just what is happening, but why it is happening - and, most importantly, what comes next. Produced by Federica Romaniello for Politics.co.uk.

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The Politics.co.uk Podcast - Russian infowars

Jun 07 2018 48 mins  
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by James Rodgers, international journalism lecturer, author and former BBC Moscow correspondent, and Jamie Bartlett, journalist and author of "The People Vs Tech", to discuss Russia's modern information warfare tactics.

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - vaping

May 31 2018 53 mins  
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Dr Lion Shahab, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at UCL, and Christopher Snowdon, Author and Head of Lifestyle Economics at the IEA, to discuss what vaping really is all about.

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Royal family and political neutrality

May 24 2018 51 mins  
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams and Ned Donovan, freelance journalist and "primogeniture nerd", to discuss the issue of political neutrality within the Royal family.

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Five Star Movement

May 17 2018 36 mins  
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Italian freelance journalist Francesco Zaffarano and Miriam Sorace, LSE fellow in EU Politics at the European Institute, to discuss the Italian Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle) and how the populist party came to be.

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - voter ID trials

May 11 2018 43 mins  
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Alexandra Wunswich, director of Unlock Democracy, and Matt Singh, founder of Number Cruncher Analytics, to discuss whether trialling voter ID at polling stations was actually a good idea.

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Windrush scandal

May 10 2018 39 mins  
Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, and barrister Leonie Hirst to discuss what the Windrush scandal really is all about.