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Ulrike Herrman, Emma Holten & Cahal Moran: The True Cost of Capitalism

Monday 11 August 14:15 - 15:15

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Dig into this thorny topic with journalist, broadcaster, and former banker, Ulrike Herrman, activist and gender policy consultant Emma Holten and economist and host of the Unlearning Economics YouTube channel, Cahal Moran…
 

John Kay: Everything You Know About Business is Wrong

Tuesday 12 August 18:45 - 19:45

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The sometime academic, journalist, and governmental advisor joins us with The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century (a Financial Times and New Statesman book of 2024), discussing why our ideas about business need an update…
 

Derek Thompson: More to Go Around

Monday 18 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Leading US commentator Derek Thompson is an author, podcaster, and journalist at the Atlantic, and a self-­described progressive. His first book, Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction was a bestseller, and in Abundance - co-authored with…
 

Will Hutton: National Remedies

Monday 18 August 20:30 - 21:30

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How Britain has gone wrong is a frequent conversational gambit, but it's seldom followed up with concrete solutions. These are just what political economist and former Observer editor­-in-chief, Will Hutton, offers in This Time No Mistakes…
 

Vince Cable: Twilight of the West?

Wednesday 20 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Former Secretary of State for Business and leader of the Liberal Democrats, the astute economist Vince Cable has settled into life after frontline politics as a prolific author on global affairs and the world economy. Today, he talks to us about…
 

Aja Barber, Alena Ivanova & Anna Freemantle-Zee: Wear and Repair

Thursday 21 August 12:00 - 13:00

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We all know to shop second-hand, avoid microplastic fibres, and celebrate re-wearing – but is this enough to make fashion sustainable? How much power do we really have as consumers? Today Aja Barber (author of Consumed), Anna Freemantle-Zee (founder of……
 

Karen Hao: Dispatches from the AI Arms Race

Thursday 21 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Where did the AI arms race begin, and where will it take us next? Few writers are better placed to explain the former and speculate on the latter than the Atlantic's Karen Hao, who has covered OpenAI and its founder, Sam Altman, since 2019…