Reasoned's Darren Grimes is joined by Mark Reckless, a former MP and MS for South Wales East and the Abolish The Assembly Party, as well as a lawyer and economist.

Mark hit the news over the weekend as it was announced he’s left the Brexit Party, concluding that that Party has reached its goal of leaving the EU, he’s now seeking to give a voice to those opposed to devolution in Wales.

Why is this? Why would Wales vote to abolish its parliament and roll back the ever-encroaching tide of devolution? Darren explores.

Joining Reasoned's Darren Grimes is Francis Hoar, a barrister who is instructed in two legal challenges against the UK Government’s Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ regulations.

Francis is arguing for some much-needed rationality, objectivity and proportionality for the millions that lockdown will have, with breakneck speed, sent into a life of misery and ruin.

Can Lockdown be overturned in court by the two legal challenges he's been instructed on? Watch to find out.

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Dr Keri Nixon is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist and Director of Nixon Consultants Ltd. She is an expert in forensic risk assessment, domestic abuse and trauma. Dr Nixon holds a PhD in Forensic Psychology, awarded by the University of Liverpool, a Master’s degree in Forensic and Investigative Psychology and a BSc in Applied Psychology.

Reasoned's Darren Grimes quizzes Dr Nixon on the lockdown's impact on everything from mental health to domestic violence. 

Cultural conservatives have long argued that the decline in the teaching of history would lead to mass ignorance, but could anyone have really predicted it would lead to a rise in cultural revolutionaries?

Darren Grimes argues that it seems like each week now there’s new assault on British history; on our statues, our culture, the BBC Proms – you name it, they want it gone – why is this happening and what can we do about it?

To answer those questions Darren is joined by Peter Whittle AM, a member of the London Assembly and the Founder and Director of the New Culture Forum, he is also joined by Emma Webb,  the Director of The Forum on Integration, Democracy and Extremism which is a part of the Civitas think tank.

Reasoned's Darren Grimes enjoys a really inspiring chat with Nick Buckley MBE, the founder of a charity which he set up at the end of 2011. Nick funded the charity for the first two years himself, using redundancy money and his personal savings, working full time for free at this point.

Over 9 years the charity grew to employ 20 staff, managing two community centres, supporting homeless individuals off the streets and into jobs, working on the streets a dozen times a week to engage and support young people to make positive choices and improve their own life outcomes.

The pair discuss how to boost the life chances for kids up and down our country, how to stand up for yourself when the mob comes for you and the current crisis caused by the vacuum in political leadership and statesmanship.

Education is very much at the forefront of all of our minds, whether that be in discussions on the impact of lockdown on divides and inequalities, mask-wearing in schools, how we should approach mask wearing, how we can close the gap between private and state education and with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement across much of the West, how should we approach teaching history in our schools?

Joining Reasoned's Darren Grimes to discuss is a headmistresses at the free school Michaela, Katharine Birbalsingh, who Darren says makes his heart sing, discusses why she champions traditional school standards – with discipline and a belief that every single child matters as an individual in her school.

Ahead of rulings both in the UK and the USA, rulings that will decide the future of the app-based cab-hailing app, Darren Grimes explores if the app and the wider gig economy itself is worth saving.

Does Uber empower its drivers, offering them flexible working hours and freedoms and liberties that simply aren't available in contracts offering full-time employment? Or does Uber exploit its workers in not paying holiday or sick pay as well as other benefits?

Joining Darren to discuss is Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Westminster-based think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Joe Biden has selected Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, ending months of speculation that the former California attorney general and one-time Democratic presidential candidate would join his ticket.

What does this mean for the debate in the States? Does this improve Biden’s chances in the upcoming election? Does this drag the Democrats' platform further to the Left? Senator Harris has argued that she believed the women who stepped forward to say Biden made them uncomfortable with unwanted touching, what has changed there? And finally, what will a Biden presidency look like for the United Kingdom?

Joining Reasoned's Darren Grimes to discuss is Glaswegian writer Madeline Kearns from the National Review, a conservative-leaning magazine in the States.

Darren Grimes asks the experts on relationships and human psychology: why do we keep getting marriage wrong? Why is loneliness on the rise? How can we sell the institution of marriage to a generation that believes it to be too much like hard work and what role does technology play in our expectations of marriage?

Tod Jacobs is Director of the David Robinson Institute for Jewish Heritage in Jerusalem, which he co-founded in 2005 and Peter Lynn has served as Dean of Students at the David Robinson Institute for Jewish Heritage since its inception.

For over a decade, Tod and Peter have worked together in the area of marriage and in their book. Not A Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It Right, they impart with a deep collective knowledge of relationships and human psychology.

LBC presenter Iain Dale takes Reasoned's Darren Grimes through his new book 'Why Can't We All Just Get Along...'. In an age of Twitter, our political climate is more fraught than ever, Iain has an important message in his book – and it's how we can all learn to disagree better.

 

The book is also part-memoir, Darren asks Iain to take him through some of the deeply personal anecdotes contained within the book and the lessons learned from those experiences.

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