Talking Politics Live David Runciman and Helen Thompson
Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting.
Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every fortnight David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? It’s the political conversation everyone is having – please join us live in Bristol.
Ed Conway, Sky News Economics Editor and regular columnist for The Times is this episode’s special guest.
Supported by
Our tenth Festival of Economics run Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 November 2021. It is co-programmed by Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge and Enlightenment Economics) and Richard Davies (professor of Public Understanding of Economics, Bristol University and author of Extreme Economies). You can see the full programme here.
Ed Conway is Sky News economics and data editor, covering major UK and international economics, business and political stories. He has broken a series of exclusive reports on the banking and financial crisis. He is also economics columnist for The Times, and has been one of the longest-running economics editors in UK journalism, having started covering the sector in 2003. Prior to joining Sky, he was economics editor of The Daily Telegragh and The Sunday Telegraph, where he was also a weekly op-ed columnist, and economics correspondent at the Daily Mail. He is the author of the book on Bretton Woods, The Summit: The Biggest Battle Of The Second World War – Fought Behind Closed Doors (Little, Brown, 2014) and an economics guidebook, 50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know (Quercus, 2009). He is a governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, and has lectured on the international monetary system at the London School of Economics, the US Treasury and many other forums.
David Runciman was Head of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) from October 2014 to October 2018. He gave his Inaugural Lecture on ‘Political Theory and Real Politics in the Age of the Internet’ on Tuesday 24 February 2015, which can be viewed online here. His research interests are in twentieth-century political thought, particularly ideas of democracy and crisis, and the role of technology in contemporary politics. His Darwin lecture on Trump as conspiracy theorist can be seen here. His books include The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond and How Democracy Ends. He also writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books.
Helen Thompson moved to Cambridge in 1994 and works in the Department of Politics and International Studies. She is interested in the political economy of the present predicaments facing western politics including their relationship to geopolitics. Since 2008 she has worked on questions generated by the 2008 financial crash and the eurozone crisis, including their historical origins in the fallout of the economic and political crises of the 1970s. Her most recent book is Oil And The Western Economic Crisis. Her article ‘Inevitability and contingency: the political economy of Brexit’ won the 2017 prize for best article in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
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