Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University looks at the effects of the collapse of Carillion, at whether UK productivity is finally rising and, in London Blockchain Week, what blockchain technology might mean for our futures.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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Adrian Bua is a researcher at the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity. The Centre develops research into austerity and related concepts and practices, such as crisis, resistance, resilience, renaissance and transformation. It brings together activists, students and academics working on these issues to develop new networks and projects. Wolfgang Streeck is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. He is a sociologist working on political economy who analyses the trajectory and future of capitalism, democracy and the state in his recent books "Buying Time" (2013) and "How Will Capitalism End" (2016). This podcast discusses the main arguments he develops in these works.
Guests: Adrian Bua,Wolfgang Streeck
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Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University discusses the IMF's forecast for the UK, why the UK is not backing Iran's freedom fighters, Russian spy ships and why Project Fear might have been mistaken.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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Tim Evans of Middlesex University gives 10 predictions for 2018 discussing, amongst other things, cyber attacks and the insurance industry, solar geoengineering, the commercial space sector, North Korea and the 250th anniversary of the circus.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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In this special Christmas edition, Simon Rose highlights some of his favourite conversations with Tim Evans throughout the year. Discussions range from a Eurosceptic Corbyn, to life inside Theresa May’s Number 10, all the way to the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Tune in for a comprehensive look at some of the main political events of the year gone by!
Guests: Tim Evans
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Political commentators Mike Indian and Alex Clark look back on 2017. Did it bring what we expected? How was Trump's first year? Will UK politics change in the wake of the election and Brexit? What happened to the apparent wave of European populism and where is the EU heading. And what will 2018 bring?
Guests: Mike Indian,Alex Clark
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University, talks to Simon Rose about the rise of Bitcoin, the effects of Portugal decriminalising drugs and the attitude towards the City of shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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Political commentator Mike Indian, author of the Groucho Tendency blog, discusses the political reaction to the Budget (or the lack of it), Donald Trump's Twitter spat with Theresa May and the latest Brexit developments, including the question of whether there might be a vote of no confidence in the Government.
Guests: Mike Indian
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Political commentator Mike Indian, author of the Groucho Tendency blog, discusses with Simon Rose where we are (if anywhere) with Brexit negotiations, the lessons that should be learned from the Westminster Sex scandal and where the resignation of two ministers leaves the Tory party.
Guests: Mike Indian
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As the Bank of England increases the base rate for the first time in a decade, Tim Price of Price Value Partners looks at the role of central bankers. Why have we given them so much power, can they do the job they're given and what effects have their policies had?
Guests: Tim Price
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