77 Avsnitt

  1. The Case For and Against Lucy Letby and Rise of the Robots

    Publicerades: 2025-08-06

  2. Nanny State and Made to Measure

    Publicerades: 2025-07-30

  3. Up In Smoke and I Predict A Riot

    Publicerades: 2025-07-23

  4. City to City and Walk A Mile In Our Shoes

    Publicerades: 2025-07-16

  5. Terrorism, Extremism and Rubbish Rock Stars

    Publicerades: 2025-07-09

  6. Going Off the Rails and Too Hot to Handle

    Publicerades: 2025-07-02

  7. Abortion Bills and Nuclear Bombs

    Publicerades: 2025-06-25

  8. Marshmallow Totalitarianism and the Beauty of the Real Iran

    Publicerades: 2025-06-18

  9. How Not To Be A Political Wife

    Publicerades: 2025-06-11

  10. With Friends Like These… and is Poland the new Ukraine?

    Publicerades: 2025-06-04

  11. The Mental Malaise of Marijuana

    Publicerades: 2025-05-28

  12. The Menopause Superpower and some Sibling Rivalry

    Publicerades: 2025-05-21

  13. The Death Penalty and What I Did (or didn't do) On My Holidays

    Publicerades: 2025-05-14

  14. The End of Education and Did We Really Win the War?

    Publicerades: 2025-05-07

  15. Applying Udder Cream and the End of Civilisation

    Publicerades: 2025-04-30

  16. Turn off your TV and Bloody Taxes

    Publicerades: 2025-04-23

  17. Birmingham’s Bulging Bins and the end of the Toby Carvery Tree

    Publicerades: 2025-04-16

  18. Drinking Swamp Broth and why our Police Forces are Failing Us

    Publicerades: 2025-04-09

  19. Keep Your Enemies Close and Cross My Palm With Silver

    Publicerades: 2025-04-02

  20. Power Corrupted PMs and Peter Hitchens almost meets Prince Charles

    Publicerades: 2025-03-26

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What's the Big Idea? Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in equal measure, divisive, but never indecisive’) and Peter Hitchens (a man whose writing a critic was called to compare to a Guardsman’s boot: ‘as highly polished and potentially lethal’) meet once a week to look at the world and mutter, alas… Acclaimed columnist and journalist Sarah Vine and best-selling author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens discuss and dissect social, economic, and pop cultural flotsam and jetsam that have risen out of the dark waters of that week’s news. Taking one big idea each episode and pulling it apart with élan, imagine Vine and Hitchens respective columns brought to life and then skewered, scoffed at, debated, and given the full weight of Vine and Hitchens impenetrable gaze. Though an accord might not always be reached, it’s the journey that matters. Whether it’s the tech bros gone rogue – Meta tearing up its own rule book on fact checking, Musk attempting to influence governmental policy, or the knotty subject on society’s ever-increasing reliance on anti-depressants to treat what might just be the modern malaise and not depression at all. Or, evil, nature or nurture? Does evil actually exist or is it an idea that hangs over us, or do we just sometime embody it and the actions themselves are evil, not the individual? All this and more are to be pored over, one towering topic each week discussed with humour, insight, and real understanding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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