Sue Windebank speaks to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah about her campaigning work for both clean air and a new inquest into the causes of her daughter’s death

Seven million people die of air pollution, worldwide, every year. This episode of LSE IQ asks how this invisible killer can be tackled.

The LSE US Centre’s Chris Gilson is joined for this Extra Inning by Professor Kathleen Jamieson.

Anne Applebaum discusses her new book, Twilight of Democracy.

Until COVID-19 hit, populist politicians of the right and the left –many of them with evident authoritarian leanings— were on the rise around the world.

'There's absolutely nothing that you can't achieve'

The selection of the World Trade Organization's new Director General presents an opportunity for reform, but it could also result in a further weakening of the institution.

Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Silvana Tenreyro discusses some of the emerging academic research on the macroeconomics of COVID-19, including how it has influenced her recent monetary policy decisions.

How well has the UK news media kept the public informed and held the authorities to account during the COVID-19 crisis?

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges-from both the left and the right.