Charlotte and Emma discuss glass cliffs, ticking the wrong box and how proportional representation is a lot like a bag of pick and mix. Plus: why losing an election could be a good thing.

It’s Germany-Sweden all over again as Charlotte and Emma discuss women’s place in football, the question of expertise and why Neymar could pay the salaries of 1,693 female players in the top leagues. Plus: What we owe Nettie Honeyball...

Charlotte and Emma discuss national identity, belonging and how the inhumane ‘hostile environment’ created by the British Home Office over the past decade fits into a much longer history of British immigration policy. Plus: British aspirations versus historical realities, and how to lose people on purpose.

Charlotte and Emma discuss fiction as a source for political history, comfort reads, classics bound up in class and the problem with Elena Ferrante’s book covers. Plus: join the TNK book club.

“Say something clever here.” How to condense 40 years of history into three paragraphs, coping with first lines and deadlines, the tyranny of the blank page and playing procrastination chicken. Plus: Charlotte’s most embarrassing writing story and our best books.

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin discuss Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s anger, the politics of household budgets, militant motherhood and much more.

Demonstrations, placards and secret deals: what so significant about women’s activism? Charlotte and Emma discuss second-wave feminists, Greenham Common and Mary Whitehouse.

What happens to Labour and labour history when we focus on the women? Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin discuss women's place in workplace politics, why the precariat needs to be unionised, and how we are all labourers.

Charlotte and Emma celebrate the 100th anniversary of some British women getting the vote by discussing the threat of violence, Victorian values and why suffrage might not be enough. Plus: why do centenaries turn historians into killjoys?

Charlotte and Emma discuss the sugarcoating of violence, national myths and the relentless echoes of empire. Plus: why your favourite TV show will have been filmed in South Africa.