Peter York's Culture Wars House Party

<p>Kate Ferguson co-founded Protection Approaches after working on genocide prevention in Rwanda — and noticing, with some alarm, that the warning signs looked oddly familiar back home. She's a foreign policy strategist...

Peter Tatchell is Britain's most recognisable gay rights activist. He traces five decades of culture wars: from a teenage firebrand in 1960s Australia, inspired by the Black civil rights movement, via Communist East...

<p>Peter Tatchell is Britain's most recognisable gay rights activist. He traces five decades of culture wars: from a teenage firebrand in 1960s Australia, inspired by the Black civil rights movement, via Communist East...

<p>Rob Ford, professor of politics at Manchester University, has been a long-time watcher of the BNP, UKIP, Brexit and now Reform UK — explaining who these new right-wing insurgents really are, and why they're suddenly...

<p>Professors Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves of the London School of Economics, authors of Born to Rule – a forensic, often very funny X‑ray of the British establishment, drawn from that venerable directory of...

<p>Gabriel Gatehouse is a former BBC international correspondent, a "Groucho Marx member" of the British establishment, and creator of The Coming Storm — the podcast and book that mapped the deep roots of American...

<p>Bonnie Greer is a Chicago‑born playwright, critic and public intellectual who has spent forty years decoding Britain from the inside—and America from a wary distance. From movies to Question Time, from Chicago to the...

<p>Professor Marci Shore is a Yale historian of Eastern Europe, a scholar of 20th‑century totalitarianism, and, in her own words, “an early panicker”.</p><p> </p><p>We trace her journey from the archive to the front...

<p>David Aaronovitch is, in many people’s minds, the classic Hampstead political commentator: half‑Jewish, wholly metropolitan, former long‑time Times columnist and the calmly forensic voice of Radio 4’s The Briefing...

<p>Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford social geographer and professional spoiler of comfortable assumptions about Britain. He explains how geography began as imperial management and maps the link between empire and...

<p>Michael Wolff, bestselling chronicler of Trump and Murdoch — and my very first guest on this podcast just before Trump took office — returns from a snow-blinded Hamptons to describe what Trump’s second term feels...

<p>Professor Jason Stanley, philosopher of propaganda and fascism, now at the University of Toronto after a high‑profile departure from Yale to, as he puts it, “spit the truth”.</p><p> </p><p>He describes the US as “a...

<p>Professor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London — author of books that puncture our most sacred cows and a demystifier-in-chief of generational squabbles and supposed...

<p>Michael Crick is an Oxford-honed, long-haul chronicler of the Westminster circus. He’s run the whole gauntlet—from bare-knuckle TV newsrooms to writing biographies of colourful grandees, and chasing Cabinet Ministers...

<p>Paul Krugman is a Nobel laureate, economics sage, “deranged bum” according to President Trump, and a former New York Times heavyweight.</p><p> </p><p>Together, we unravel Trump’s economic policy (does he have one?)...