In episode 16, we talk about politics, education and the Kardashians. Our three figures are John McCain, that tablets are used in 70% of British schools and Kylie Jenner on the cover of Forbes.

www.instagram.com/figurepodcast/

www.twitter.com/FigurePodcast/

Calendar Girls (2003)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337909/

The Thames Path

https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/thames-path

A Plastic Ocean

https://www.netflix.com/title/80164032

21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari (2018)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lessons-21st-Century-Yuval-Harari/dp/1787330672

The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White (2018)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guilty-Feminist-noble-goals-hypocrisies/dp/0349010145

Figure 1: John McCain

Obituary: John McCain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40705362

The View: Meghan's Powerful Eulogy For Her Father John McCain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVrhnSlyY44

Meghan McCain Eulogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYcHx3n3Rss

John McCain takes revenge on Donald Trump from his coffin, Toby Harnden

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-mccain-takes-revenge-on-donald-trump-from-his-coffin-98cbrxvkd

The Daily: The Paradoxes of John McCain, presented by Michael Barbaro

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/podcasts/the-daily/senator-john-mccain.html

John McCain opened Pandora’s box – Sarah Palin came out, but Trump was right behind her, David Smith

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/26/john-mccain-sarah-palin-donald-trump

Barack Obama Eulogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GfjgRhPmaM&t=394s

BBC World Service: The Life and Times of Senator John McCain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csxljz

Figure 2: Tablets are used in 70% of British schools

Tablet computers in '70% of schools', Sean Coughlan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30216408

What's wifi doing to us? Experiment finds that shrubs die when placed next to wireless routers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2524598/Experiment-finds-plants-die-placed-internet-Wi-Fi-routers.html

Curb children’s use of technology for their own good, urge experts, Mark Bridge

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/curb-children-s-use-of-technology-for-their-own-good-urge-experts-ccp65lc38

Tech: hands off, kiddiwinks — touchscreen says no, Helen Lewis

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tech-hands-off-kiddiwinks-touchscreen-says-no-vc97nkvvs

Team of Techies, Starling Bank

https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/part-3-our-team-of-techies/

Code Your Future

https://codeyourfuture.io/

Figure 3: Kylie Jenner on the cover of Forbes

Ways to Change the World: Jameela Jamil presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ways-to-change-the-world-with-krishnan-guru-murthy/id1359195562?mt=2

Jameela Jamil on what all young women need to know, Lucy Holden

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jameela-jamil-on-what-all-young-women-need-toknow-qd6t8bcwl

How 20-Year-Old Kylie Jenner Built A $900 Million Fortune In Less Than 3 Years, 

Natalie Robehmed

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/

Kardashian sister Kylie Jenner on way to being youngest billionaire, Ben Hoyle

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kardashian-sister-kylie-jenner-on-way-to-being-youngest-billionaire-c5j0m0mk6

To Our Daughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhIEIO0vaBE

TED Talk: We should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists/discussion

The views expressed in this podcast are our own and not those of the firms we work for.