Never Mind The Bar Charts

How to explain, and beat, populism

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Peter Kellner join sme to discuss a new report on what is going wrong with our politics, and the solutions. No surprise then that our conversation focused on populism, its causes and how liberals can defeat it.

Show notes

  • Disruptive Delivery: Meeting the Unmet Demand in Politics, with polling from Deltapoll.
  • The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 by Avner Offer (affiliate link).
  • An example from the 1990s of failing to predict the political future.
  • How incumbent governments did badly in elections in 2024.
  • The three humped graph from the report.
  • Liberal Democrat achievements in government.
  • Lib Dem policymaking on AI.
  • Peter Kellner's polling newsletter.
  • The Week in Polls.
  • Theme tune by Hugo Lee.
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