The Critic Podcast

The Critic Podcast

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The Critic Podcast episodes

  • Are the government's Covid-19 restrictions legal?
    What is the Dolan case and should the government be worried?
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    To combat the spread of Covid-19, the British government has restricted personal, social and economic behaviour on a scale unheard of in peacetime conditions. But has the basis upon which it has done so been legal?
    To discuss the entrepreneur Simon Dolan's legal challenge to the government's actions, John Jolliffe, a barrister specialising in government and public law, talks in this podcast to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about what is at stake and the chances of Dolan's challenge succeeding.
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    Image: (By Anthony M. from Rome, Italy - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1114610)
    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    22 min
  • How united is Italy?
    Why did it take 1,400 years after the end of the Roman Empire for Italy to unite as one country? And how strong is Italian national unity now?
    In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Italy, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about Italian identity, regionalism and state-building.
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    Image: (Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)
    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    36 min
  • Trans activists and the Labour Party
    Where does the Labour Party stand on trans rights? Is fear of being branded "transphobic" now putting the party of Barbara Castle and Jennie Lee at odds with mainstream feminism?
    In this podcast, the feminist campaigner, writer, and former Labour party member, Jo Bartosch, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the gender battle is shaking-up British party politics.
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    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    22 min
  • Does the Mediterranean have a common culture?
    Does the Mediterranean have a common culture that transcends its national, political and religious differences and did its modern tourist industry develop naturally or as part of government planning and incentives?
    In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of ‘A Brief History of the Mediterranean’, talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the trading, colonial and strategic forces that have shaped Mediterranean history in war and peace.
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    Image: Mediterranean Sea, 1595. (Photo by: Picturenow/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    42 min
  • Will the summer recess really be a break?
    As Parliament heads into recess, politics isn't stopping.
    Graham Stewart and David Scullion discuss what we can expect in the coming weeks: from Brexit talks and the renewal of Coronavirus legislation, to the Lib Dem leadership election and who's likely to be fired in a coming reshuffle.
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    Image: (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    29 min
  • Still fit to print? The rise and fall of the British newspaper
    In 1950, over 20 million newspapers were bought every weekday in Britain, equivalent to one-and-a-half newspapers for every household per day. By 2010, they were buying 10 million a day, or 0.4 newspapers per household. Now it's closer to five million. or 0.2 per household.
    In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of The English Press: A History, talks to The Critic's political editor and official historian of The Times newspaper, Graham Stewart. about what drove the growth of Britain's newspaper industry and whether it is destined to die or can better harness modern alternative media to thrive in different forms.
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    Image: 3alexd/Getty
    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    38 min
  • What it's like to be cancelled
    As social and political movements, such as Black Lives Matter, continue to gain traction nationwide, cancel culture is becoming an increasingly worrying trend. People who privately question or disagree with parts of such organisations are being publicly vilified with their jobs on the line.
    In this podcast, David Scullion talks to physicist Mike Mcculloch, ex-charity boss Nick Buckley and Free Speech Union founder Toby Young, on what it’s like to be cancelled and how we can move forward.
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    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    39 min
  • Should the Royal Navy re-establish its presence in the Asia-Pacific?
    For the first time in half a century, Britain is planning a major permanent Royal Navy deployment in the seas of Southeast and East Asia, led by the new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. But how important was the Royal Navy in Asia-Pacific between the 1830s and 1960s?
    In this podcast The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, discusses with Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance, whether returning the White Ensign to the Pacific is a welcome sign of Global Britain or a misguided exercise in post-imperial overstretch.
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    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    46 min
  • Is it really game over for Huawei?
    How did Huawei destroy its western competitors to achieve such dominance?
    And does the government’s decision to phase Huawei out of the UK’s 5G network go far enough to address security fears? In this podcast, former leader of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith MP, talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the issues that remain to be settled concerning Huawei’s presence in the UK as well as the role Britain should play in building an international alliance to compete with China - from telecoms technology to keeping the peace in the South China Sea.
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    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    24 min
  • The Grand Tour - what the British got up to abroad
    Much of Europe is now open again for British summer holiday-makers. But how different are the aims and experience of leisure travellers to Europe now compared to the 18th century?
    The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black, author of The British Abroad, Italy and the Grand Tour, France and the Grand Tour and most recently, A Short History of the Mediterranean about what British travellers used to get up to abroad.
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    Image: A View on the Grand Canal Venice', Canaletto, circa 1740, held by the National Gallery, London.(Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)
    Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    30 min

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