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Should there be a mental-health professional in every school?

July 10, 2026 8:39am 1:33

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION There is no doubt that far too many of our children and young people are not t...

Is Germany ready for revolt?

July 06, 2026 8:03am 1:31

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION When US Vice President JD Vance warned in a Fox News interview this summer tha...

World Cup Podcast of Ideas, episode 3

July 02, 2026 7:15am 36 min

The AoI team of Geoff Kidder, Rob Lyons and Jake Weston are joined by Donald Clark, author, speaker and CEO of Wildfire Learning, to discuss the start of the knockout phase of the tournament. They reflect on Scotland's e...

From Saudi to Sheffield: is football still the beautiful game?

July 01, 2026 2:22am 1:30

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION ‘I have the feeling that this competition is going to be as important, if not more important, than th...

Jane Austen: spinster, feminist or just a good writer?

June 29, 2026 7:29am 1:30

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Jane Austen turns 250 this year, prompting the question: is one of the world’s...

Religious fervour: the rise of faith or Cultural Christianity?

June 25, 2026 3:55am 1:32

Lots of people are converting to Christianity and, across the country, church attendance is increasing. While the numbers vary, one survey shows the number of people attending church at least once a month is up from eigh...

Never Again – for anyone? The new Holocaust relativism

June 22, 2026 9:22am 1:31

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Genocide, Holocaust, Never Again. Phrases that once conjured up only one image...

What do the AoI team make of Makerfield - and what next?

June 20, 2026 3:13am 37 min

So the ‘King of the North’ has cleared the first step in his quest to be prime minister of the UK. Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election was certainly impressive and it looks clear that Labour will be in t...

World Cup Podcast of Ideas: episode 2

June 19, 2026 7:10am 35 min

We've had a full week of action now and every team has made its first appearance. In this episode, the regular team of Rob Lyons, Geoff Kidder and Jake Weston are joined by special guest Denis Russell to offer a viewpoin...

Letters on Liberty: The Freedom to Blaspheme

June 18, 2026 3:21am 1:29

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Since 2020, the Academy of Ideas has published Letters on Liberty – a radical ...

Should the West get ready for war?

June 15, 2026 3:12am 1:32

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION The past year has seen a flurry of announcements about military investment in ...

Comedy: is politics that funny?

June 11, 2026 3:47am 1:34

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION From Yes Minister to The Thick of It, the political class has always been a go...

World Cup Podcast of Ideas: episode 1

June 10, 2026 6:15am 36 min

The World Cup is back – and so is the World Cup Podcast of Ideas. With the biggest-ever tournament kicking off on Thursday 11 June across the US, Mexico and Canada, we’ve got the team together to discuss some of the burn...

Rebuilding Britain: the infrastructure crisis

June 08, 2026 6:28am 1:33

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION The UK’s infrastructure is at a crossroads. Decades of underinvestment and mis...

Racial grievance politics: how did we become so divided?

June 05, 2026 9:11am 1:34

Vickrum Digwa, the killer of Henry Nowak, was convicted of murder last month. This week, the police released bodycam footage showing how Nowak was handcuffed and assumed to be the offender in a racist attack, even though...

Is there a right to die? The moral dilemmas of assisted death

June 04, 2026 6:28am 1:35

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House and the Abbey Centre, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is still b...

Elections 2026: what next for populism, democracy, Starmer and the Union?

May 11, 2026 11:04am 59 min

The implosion of the two traditional major parties and the widespread success of Reform (and, to a lesser extent, the Greens) have been widely described as historic, a shifting of the tectonic plates of British politics....

Podcast of Ideas: Has Scottish devolution been a failure?

May 02, 2026 3:13am 1:06

Ahead of the elections to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 7 May, Alastair Donald and Rob Lyons talked to Dean Thomson, author of Scotland Undone: Nationalism, Dogma, and Decline in the Devolution Era. In a wide-rangi...

Taking the PIP: who can reform welfare?

April 24, 2026 3:25am 1:16

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION The government suffered serious embarrassment earlier this year when its attempts to rein in Personal...

Why is my energy bill so high?

April 10, 2026 8:40am 1:12

The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have focused attention on skyrocketing energy prices, leading to demands to encourage more output from the North Sea and causing travel chaos in Ireland. But bills ...

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