Dr Kamran Abbasi - 18.45 on Monday 21st June 2021

Covid mismanagement – Who is responsible and can they be held accountable?
Infection and mortality rates have varied widely across the globe during the covid pandemic and fluctuated considerably over the past ...
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Professor Peter Kuznick - 18.45 on Thursday 29th April 2021

The geopolitical & historical implications of the TPNW
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, (TPNW), entered into force on 22 January 2021. As at 1st February ...
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Dr Patrick Meehan - 18.45 on Monday 8th March 2021

Myanmar: Why peace remains elusive
After decades of military rule, Myanmar’s 2010 General Election appeared to be a watershed moment and inspired hopes that Myanmar ...
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Professor Jacqueline McGlade - 18.45 on Monday 30th November 2020

Zoom Video – Climate Change: How can our political systems meet the challenge in the time of Covid?
As carbon emissions from fossil fuels rise inexorably from the world’s greatest industrial powers, it is clear that on our ...
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ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCE - Professor Nick Pearce - 18.45 on Monday 12th October 2020

Medical face masks, the chaos of COVID-19, & the scramble for the Golden Fleece
A few months ago, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of medical face masks took an alarming toll. We ...
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ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCE - Dr Adam Hanieh - 18.45 on Monday 29th June 2020

The Politics of Oil, Covid-19 & Climate Change: Opportunity or Threat?
Even before Covid 19 took full effect on the world economy, a ruthless oil price war involving Russia and Saudi ...
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ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCE - Professor Nicholas Pleace - 18.45 on Monday 6th April 2020

ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCE- Homelessness: its social and economic causes and effects
Despite increased policy attention, and the implementation of strategies to halt it, homelessness is on the rise in most European ...
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Professor Robert West -18.45 on Monday 17th February 2020

The Science of Motivation and its role in changing our lives
What convictions and desires form our choices, and motivate us to take action, personal, professional and political? What incentives, arguments ...
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Dr Jamie Woodcock - 18.45 on Monday 3rd February 2020

Voices of Resistance in the Gig Economy
One of the huge changes in today’s employment structure is the rapidly growing number of workers engaged in casual and ...
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Dr Panos Kanavos - 18.45 on Monday 20th January 2020

The Pharmaceutical Industry: Private wealth or public health? with Dr Panos Kanavos
While the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most profitable in the world, over 2 billion people lack access to ...
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Dr Nitasha Kaul - 18.45 on Monday 2nd December 2019

Kashmir: tormented state and global flashpoint
Until this year, the state of Jammu and Kashmir nominally enjoyed special autonomy under the Indian Constitution. However, as the ...
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Dr Stathis Kouvelakis - 18.45 on Monday 18th November 2019

The French Insurgency: What is the significance of the Gilets Jaunes?
The 'Yellow Vests' or 'Gilets Jaunes' are a movement of protest in France that since it started in November 2018 ...
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Yassamine Mather - 18.45 on Monday 28th October 2019

Iran & the West: A conflict without resolution?
The relationship between Iran and the West appears to have reached a new low point. The nuclear agreement with Iran ...
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Dr Jeffery Webber - 18.45 on Monday 7th October 2019

Venezuela in Crisis
Nicolás Maduro was elected President of Venezuela in 2013, winning a second term in May 2018 with 67.7% of the ...
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Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya - 18.45 on Monday 3rd June 2019

Racism and Capitalism – two sides of the same coin?
Racism is outwardly condemned as an evil in our purportedly ‘liberal’ societies, yet it is inextricably linked to capitalism through ...
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Professor David Nutt - 18.45 on Monday 29th April 2019

Reforming the Drug Laws to Improve Health
The destructive consequences of drug abuse and addiction are a matter of grave concern. They cause great individual suffering and ...
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Dr Zoë Marriage - 18.45 on Monday 15th April 2019

Security, Conflict and Exploitation in Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the largest countries in Africa and has experienced intense human and ...
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David Wearing - 18.45 on Monday 1st April 2019

Saudi Arabia & the West: the Future of a Toxic Relationship
The war in Yemen and the Khashoggi murder have highlighted the ruthless and brutal nature of the Saudi regime and ...
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Dr Stephanie Wright - 18.45 on Monday 25th February

Plastics & Us: A Relationship Gone Bad?
Plastic is an extraordinarily versatile material. It is cheap, durable, low-weight and versatile, and our building and construction industry, industrial ...
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Dr Alastair Fraser - 18.45 on Monday 4th February 2019

The Impact of Foreign Interventions in Africa
Western involvement in Africa extends from massive corporate investment in mineral extraction and technology, to direct government aid and a ...
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Silkie Carlo - 18.45 on Monday 21st January 2019

The Threat of Surveillance in an age of Technology
In recent years, the British state has spied on law-abiding environmental activists, democratically elected politicians, victims of torture and police ...
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Professor Matthew Goodwin - 18.45 on Monday 3rd December 2018

The Challenge of National Populism
Across the west, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile ...
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Professor Laleh Khalili - 18.45 on Monday 19th November 2018

Incarceration as a Weapon of War
Detention and confinement, both of combatants and large groups of civilians, have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course ...
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Professor Christopher Hughes - 18.45 on Monday 29th October 2018

Japan and the Asia Pacific
Japan has the third largest economy in the world by GDP and is a military power of great significance. It ...
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Anna Minton - 1845 on Monday 1st October 2018

The future of social housing in an age of global capital
The provision of social housing in the UK has declined dramatically in the last twenty years. This is part of ...
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Richard Brooks - 18.45 on Monday 17th September 2018

The Secret World of International Accountancy – the Scandal of the ‘Big Four’
The four major global accountancy firms – Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG have developed into vast multinationals, showing ...
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Professor Guy Standing - 18.45 on Monday 4th June

A Basic Income for all: the answer to financial insecurity
The growing lack of job security, including intermittent employment or underemployment, which has arisen from the global spread of neoliberal ...
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Dr Tara Garnett - 18.45 on Monday 14th May

The Global Food System – Urgent Problems: Possible Solutions
Our global food system has serious inherent problems. Our production, distribution and consumption patterns are responsible for a third of ...
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Professor Hazel Smith - 18.45 on Monday 30th April

North Korea: Dangerous, isolated & ready for war? The reality behind the caricature
North Korea is portrayed in the media as a dangerous and irrational military power that represents the greatest current threat ...
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Haifa Zangana - 18.45 on Monday 16th April

The Fate of Women in Iraq
In a country ravaged by a war that has still not drawn to a close, the erosion of women’s rights ...
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Kim Sharif - 18.45 on Monday 19th March

The complicity of the Saudi Coalition in the starvation & destruction of the Yemeni people
Kim Sharif is a London based solicitor, human rights activist and Director of ‘Human Rights for Yemen’. She has given ...
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Professor Kathleen Richardson - 18.45 on Monday 19th February

Algorithms: are they taking control of our lives?
Algorithms are computerised formulae designed to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations. They can perform calculations, data processing ...
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Richard Garside - 18.45 on Monday 5th February

The Prison Crisis – what are the alternatives to incarceration?
As the prison population in the UK, which is now the highest in Western Europe, continues to escalate, we must ...
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Jennifer Gibson - 18.45 on Monday 22nd January

Countering Terror with Terror: Kill Lists, Drone Programmes and ‘Targeted’ Killings
When President Trump took office in January 2017, he received more than just the keys to the White House. President ...
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Steve Crawshaw - 18.45 on Monday 4th December

From Denial to Moral Leadership – Germany’s Remarkable 70-Year Journey
Germany is now the undisputed power centre of Europe. Its journey from defeat and denial at the end of the ...
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Professor Gilbert Achcar - 18.45 on Monday 20th November

The Clash of Barbarisms
Rather than the “clash of civilizations” forecasted by Samuel Huntington in the 1990s, the world has been descending into what ...
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Dr Anna Neistat - 18.45 on Monday 30th October

Australia and the Refugee Crisis
There was a time when Australia led the way on refugee protection. Following World War II, Australia came second only ...
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Professor Colin Leys - 18.45 on Monday 16th October

International Models of Health Care
Professor Colin Leys is emeritus professor of political science at Queens University Canada and honorary professor at Goldsmiths, University of ...
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Alia Brahimi - 18.45 on Monday 25th September 2017

What ISIS in Libya tells us about the changing terrorist threat
Conditions in Libya constitute a humanitarian crisis. The civilian population struggles to gain access to basic services such as healthcare, ...
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Professor Loretta Lees - 18.45 on 12th June 2017

Planetary Gentrification: impacts & solutions
The phenomenon that we have come to call ‘gentrification’ is transforming our cities in a rapidly urbanising world. The refurbishment ...
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Professor Peter Nolan, 18.45 on 22 May 2017

Convergence and Divergence in the long-run development of China and the West
The brief era of global dominance by a small group of countries in the West is coming to an end ...
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Professor Alan Winfield - 18.45 on 8th May 2017

The Robotics Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence & Robots will change our lives
Developments in Artificial Intelligence and the use of Autonomous Systems ( robots) have reached a stage where they will have ...
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Dr Stephen Wilkinson – 18.45 on 24th April 2017

Cuba at the crossroads: what does the future hold?
Cuba has survived more than 40 years of US sanctions and the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the succession ...
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Professor Andy Haines, 20 March 2017

Climate Change: how low carbon policies can benefit health
Warming of the climate system, due largely to the burning of fossil fuels and land use change, is now considered ...
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Christopher de Bellaigue, 6 March 2017

Islam and the West: The reality and myth of a troubled relationship
The crisis in the relationship between western secularism and Islam has been fuelled by Islamic fundamentalism and the rise of ...
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Loretta Napoleoni, 6 Feb 2017

Terrorism and Trafficking – an Alliance of Fear and Despair
A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. Overall, ...
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Jonathan Steele, 23 Jan 2017

The Russian intervention in Syria
The tragic civil war in Syria between the Alawite-led government of President Bashir Assad, and the numerous disunited rebel brigades ...
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Christian Davies, 7 Nov 2016

Poland: The revolution of the populist right and the threat to democracy in Eastern Europe
Having come to power in 2015, Poland's ruling Law and Justice party stands accused of attempting to reverse the country's ...
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Tony Norfield, 26 Sept 2016

Global Powerhouse: The International Financial Markets and the City of London
The City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the ...
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Professor Stephen Chan - 6th June 2016 - 18.45

South Africa – a quarter century after the end of Apartheid
South Africa has the second largest economy in Africa and has experienced a prolonged period of economic growth. However the ...
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Pilar Domingo - 23 May, 2016 - 18:45

The Global Empowerment of Women: a political struggle for more equitable distribution of power and resources
Around the world women are more likely than men to live in poverty. Patriarchal power relations and subordinating systems of ...
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Maggie Black - Monday 9th May, 2016 - 18:45

The Last Taboo: What to do about the global sanitation crisis?
Although holy men in India claim otherwise on their own behalf, every person on the planet has to divest themselves ...
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Professor Callum Roberts - 25 April, 2016 - 18:45

Oceans: conserving our threatened life support system
Professor Callum Roberts - 25 April, 2016 - 18:45 Oceans form the earth’s largest life support system. They produce 50% ...
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Dr Francisco Dominguez, 11 April

Venezuela: can the Bolivarian Revolution resist the forces of the right?
In December last year Venezuela’s political right wing gained a majority in the National Assembly, defeating the country’s socialist PSUV ...
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Julian Oram, 21 March 2016

“Land grabbing, corruption, human rights abuse – the exploitation of the global poor”
Julian Oram is Land Campaign leader at Global Witness. Many of the world’s worst environmental and human rights abuses are driven ...
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Linsey McGoey, 7 March 2016

Philanthrocapitalism: who really benefits from the Philanthropy Industry?
Large charitable organisations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are currently rivalling governments as the providers of social ...
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Kevin Bales, 15 Feb 2016

THE NEW SLAVERY: Human trafficking and the use of slave labour
High profit exploitation of people is increasing rapidly with globalisation of markets and millions of people are being subjected to ...
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Dr. Juan Grigera, 25 Jan 2016

BRAZIL on the verge of crisis? The real depth of ‘impeachment’
In size the fifth largest country in the world and with an economy that is the seventh largest by GDP, ...
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Don Flynn, 25 Nov 2015

The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis – asylum seekers and the EU
This year 350,000 migrants have already arrived in Europe by sea, over 2,600 have drowned in the Mediterranean, and the ...
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Adam Hanieh, 20 Nov 2015

Continuity or Change? Mapping the Political Economy of the Middle East
The Arab uprisings that erupted in 2010-2011 have typically been presented through the narrow lens of dictatorship versus democracy. In ...
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