The Economist Asks

Anne McElvoy hosts, as diplomat and pioneer of liberal interventionism Robert Cooper explains what lessons should be learned from the Chilcot inquiry. And, academic Gareth Stansfield discusses what the report's findings mean for Tony Blair.

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As gadgets become more intelligent, should we embrace smart devices or fear them? Thomas Rid, a professor at King's College and author of a new book, Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History, talks to our editors Kenneth Cukier and Edward Lucas

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Anne McElvoy, joined by deputy editor Edward Carr and financial columnist Philip Coggan, hosts an Economist Asks show after the news that Britain will leave the EU. Former cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith responds to David Cameron's resignation, and foreign secretary Philip Hammond offers candid advice on Britaiin's options now. And Tom Nuttall gives The Economist's view from Brussels.

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Anne McElvoy hosts a special version of The Economist asks. Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, reveals why the magazine has taken a strong line on Brexit, while Italian ex-Prime Minister and EU Commissioner Mario Monti criticises David Cameron's handling of the issue. Plus, MPs from Leave and Remain go toe to toe, and Lane Greene gives his take on the language that has defined the campaigns.

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Economics Nobel prizewinner Angus Deaton discusses his pioneering work on health and inequality with Anne McElvoy - and reveals what he makes of the push for Brexit

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As clampdowns on freedom of speech become more frequent, a growing number of people are claiming the right "not to be offended". Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford University joins Robert Guest, foreign editor, Emma Hogan, Europe correspondent, and Anne McElvoy to debate the dilemmas

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Sir Tim Berners Lee founded the web in 1989, and is now the head of its standards agency, the W3C. He joins deputy editor Tom Standage in The Economist studio to discuss the future of his creation.

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Anne McElvoy looks at the economic heart of the EU referendum campaigns, talking to veteran conservative MP David Davis and Philippe Legrain, a former economic adviser to the president of the European Commission

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Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber joins Anne McElvoy as she asks: what makes a musical a hit or a flop - and how have the economics changed?

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The pace of scientific advancement can seem relentless, and the ingenuity of scientists inexhaustible. But is there a finite amount of knowledge we can acquire about the universe around us? Mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy joins The Economist to discuss what we can never really know.

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