Politics

How do we improve the quality of people’s lives and tackle the great global challenges of our times? Join leading economist Mariana Mazzucato and the co-author of the best-selling The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett.

Linguists Rachel Wicaksono and Dasha Zhurauskaya explore the mechanics of storytelling, focusing on the stories of a ‘hidden’ population of migrants in the city of York.

Somali-British justice activist, author and former elected politician Magid Magid presents a guide to being courageous, doing better and disrupting the age-old power structures in work, life and politics.

What are the alternatives to capitalism? Alasdair Lord explores key aspects of post-capitalist systems in his Renaissance Yorkshireman Podcast.

Award-winning journalist Philip Stephens of the Financial Times paints a fascinating portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile its waning power with past glory.

Political philosopher Michael J Sandel of Harvard University argues it’s time to rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality.

Our speakers, including Dorothy Byrne, former Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 News, examine the future of the media, discussing issues including impartiality, funding, populism and speaking truth to power.

Faced with creeping authoritarianism, a new agenda for liberalism is needed. Historian and Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash explores the future of liberalism in a post-Covid world.

Author Robert Tombs reveals how the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable - though not made historically inevitable – because of Britain's historical experience and deeper ties outside Europe.

Award-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain reconstructs the killing of an RUC officer in Northern Ireland in 1978, offering a unique perspective on the Troubles.

Join the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer John Crace and journalist Tim Dowling for some humorous, razor-sharp insights into modern-day Britain.