Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
How should our schools equip young people for life in the wider world? As a supplement to traditional academic subjects, schools have dealt with life's more delicate topics through personal, social, health, and economic education - or PSHE. Caroline Lucas MP, Co-Leader of the Green Party, has been a long-time campaigner for such education - and today her renewed attempt at making PSHE a statutory requirement will be debated by Parliament. Share Radio's Alex Clark spoke to Caroline Lucas, and first asked how she understood PSHE.
Guests: Caroline Lucas
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
This time tomorrow, Donald Trump will have been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. After a campaign seemingly exempt from the rules adhered to by other White House contenders, the incoming tweeter-in-chief has left the Washington establishment scratching their heads. Now, America and indeed the world will watch as Mr. Trump - on a platform outside the US Capitol - pledges to faithfully execute the highest office in the land. Simon was joined by Charlie Wolf, British based American radio talk-show host and formerly the Communications Director of Republicans Abroad UK.
Guests: Charlie Wolf
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Regular listeners to the show will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. They have a minimum of eight stocks, which they've been buying and selling through The Share Centre. Apprentices Olivia Demetriades and Valsa De Winter joined Simon Rose in the studio and standing by with advice and useful observations is Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.
Guests: Valsa De Winter,Olivia Demetriades,Ed Bowsher
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The world's rich and powerful have descended on Davos for the World Economic Forum - the 1%'s annual pilgrimage to the temple of globalisation. But, this year, a sense of unease will almost certainly shadow any worship at the altar, with the liberal world order having had not one but two slaps to the face from Brexit and then Trump. So, what exactly makes the global elite, well, elite? And what do they get up to behind closed doors? To find out, Share Radio's Alex Clark spoke to Daniel Levin, author of 'Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful'.
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Share Radio's Simon Rose is joined in the studio by Tim Evens, Professor of Political Economy at Middlesex University, for The Bigger Picture, a look at the deeper meaning behind the week's headlines. On today's programme: what were the strategies and tactics behind Theresa May's Brexit speech? Is there any truth to post-truth? And how Romania's corruption fight is a smokescreen for weakening its democracy.
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Public finance is on "an unsustainable path" according to data. The Office for Budget Responsibility, or OBR, has claimed that Chancellor Philip Hammond is likely to find it impossible to balance the books in the coming years without cutting spending or raising taxes. The Chancellor said in his Autumn Statement he expected the deficit to be 2 percent of GDP by 2020, revised down from previous chancellor George Osborne's plans to have a budget surplus by the end of next parliament. But the OBR says that public sector debt could go from being 82 percent of GDP now to a staggering 234 percent over the next fourty years. It blamed the increased spending on the NHS and state pensions in particular. To understand what this means for the UK, Share Radio's Matt Cox spoke to Suren Thiru, Head of Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce.
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
A freight train has arrived in Barking, in East London, all the way from China. And its carrying 4 million pounds worth of socks Share Radio's James Brydges has been finding out more.
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24 hours have passed since Theresa May delivered her much anticipated speech on Brexit, pinning down her negotiating priorities after weeks of speculation. The Prime Minister told a crowded hall that Britain "cannot possibly" remain within the single market, arguing that a "half in, half out" approach to Brexit is no exit at all. She also confirmed that Parliament WILL have a vote on the final Brexit deal. For reaction to Theresa May's Brexit speech, Share Radio's Simon Rose was joined one by Tom Brake MP, the Liberal Democrat's spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, and Roger Godsiff, MP for Birmingham Hall Green and member of Labour Leave - a group of Labour MPs who campaigned for Brexit.
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Shares in Pearson have fallen by almost 30% after the international publisher warned of a big fall in its US education business. Profits for 2017 could drop by £60m and it could cut its dividend for shareholders. What now for the ? Join Share Radio's Simon Rose as he investigates this and what else has been happening in the bourses and businesses of Britain and the world. To put the day's events in context, he's joined by Russ Mould, Investment Direct at AJ Bell.
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Investors often ask if they're getting good value for their money - but what should they look out for in companies from a legal point of view? Jonathan Deverill, Partner in the Corporate department at DAC Beachcroft, spoke with Share Radio's Simon Rose to cover the key issues.
Guests: Jonathan Deverill
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