Best Discourse London Podcasts (2024)

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Mr Tangerine Man & the challenge for Labour - Tom Baldwin 40:14

2h ago40:14

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Nick Cohen chats with Tom Baldwin, journalist, author, biographer of Keir Starmer and former Labour spin doctor about how the new government handles future challenges from Donald Trump to clearing up the omni-shambles left by 14 years of Tory incompetence. HANDLING THE ORANGE MENACE Tom @TomBaldwin66 says Starmer will probably adopt a strategy of s…

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Human Conditions: ‘Black Music’ by Amiri Baraka 17:12

32m ago17:12

17:12

In Black Music, a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Brent and Adam, both jazz critics, discuss Baraka’s intimate connections to major players in the scene, and how his work squarely tackles the challenge of writing about music. …

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How were we so wrong about Trump? 28:35

4d ago28:35

28:35

SO, HOW DID WE ALL GET IT SO WRONG? Pollsters and pundits predicted a close-run race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, but the consensus was that Harris had led consistently in the polls and that her victory seemed assured given the massive financial resources at her disposal, the apparent momentum and the slickness of her campaign, particula…

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Navigating Change: A Roadmap for Resilient Leadership | Deborah Gilboa | 605 22:34

1h ago22:34

22:34

What makes some people bounce back from adversity while others remain stuck? In this compelling episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, host Peter Winick welcomes resilience expert Deborah Gilboa. An author and consultant, Deborah helps organizations navigate change with confidence and competence. Her book, From Stressed to Resilient: The Guide t…

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Foucauldian Perspectives on Migration and Society: the Epistemological-Political Grids of "People" and "Population" 10:36

38m ago10:36

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On Satire: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh 16:08

17m ago16:08

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In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he had written several novels taking aim at his ‘crazy, sterile generation’ with a sparkling, acerbic and increasingly reactionary wit. In this episode, C…

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Ep 48: The Tory press is trying to drive us all nuts 39:43

16h ago39:43

39:43

Nick Cohen chats to Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker - journalist, columnist, commentator and playwright - about the appalling state of British journalism and how our news agenda is being driven by an increasing deranged, obsessive and extremist Tory press, mainly doing the bidding of their creepy billionaire non-dom proprietors. Brexit, Trussonomics, Bor…

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Beyond Buzzwords: Making Clarity a Tangible Asset | Ann Latham | 604 30:52

2d ago30:52

30:52

How do you cut through the noise to get to what truly matters? In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, host Bill Sherman dives into this question with Ann Latham, the mind behind The Power of Clarity and The Disconnect Principle. Ann's journey to clarity began when she asked former bosses and colleagues a surprising question: What do I do…

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Society and Mental Health - Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students 10:09

1h ago10:09

10:09

Author Martha Morales Hernandez discusses the article, "Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students," published in the November 2024 issue of Society and Mental Health.

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Plugging into Nonprofit Success | Dr. Sharon Elefant | 603 17:24

4h ago17:24

17:24

How do you turn a passion for nonprofits into a thriving business? Dr. Sharon Elefant, Founder & CEO of The Nonprofit Plug, joins us to share her remarkable journey. Initially aiming to become a hospital administrator, Sharon found herself running outreach programs for the VA health system across Southern California and Nevada. This exposed her to …

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Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth 11:39

7d ago11:39

11:39

Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for actually being there to see it for himself (‘Thou wert there,’ Coleridge wrote). This episode looks at Wordsworth’s retrospective account of his 1791 visit to France, described in books 9 and 10 of T…

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Ep 47: Don't panic! Trump's gonna lose bigly 38:37

2d ago38:37

38:37

Nick Cohen chats to Washington-based journalist & substacker Ben Cohen about the November 5th presidential election - considered the most fateful and important poll in recent U.S. history, possibly since the election of 1861 that ushered in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. Ben @thedailybanter says dodgy billionaires and…

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Navigating Virtual Teams and Complexity Theory | Dr. Robert Gordon | 602 34:57

9d ago34:57

34:57

How do you balance being a practitioner and an academic? In this episode, Bill Sherman talks with Dr. Robert Gordon, interim department chair for analytics, economics, and finance at American Public University about his unique journey from the world of cruise ships and supply chain to academia, research, and thought leadership. Robert shares his ex…

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Among the Ancients II: Juvenal 14:05

6d ago14:05

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In this episode, we tackle Juvenal, whose sixteen satires influenced libertines, neoclassicists and early Christian moralists alike. Conservative to a fault, Juvenal’s Satires rails against the rapid expansion and transformation of Roman society in the early principate. But where his contemporary Tacitus handled the same material with restraint, Ju…

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Ep 46: A dog at Number 10! 32:32

9d ago32:32

32:32

Nick Cohen chats to The Guardian's celebrated and much loved Guardian parliamentary sketch-writer John Crace about the pitiful state of UK politics over the last 14 years - dominated by the interminable shitshow of Brexit - a calamitous epoch that's seen John stick his pen into a line of Tory duds from Cameron to Sunak. It's been such a dog's break…

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Mastering the Pitch: How to Capture Attention and Persuade with Purpose | Joanne Tombrakos | 601 32:46

10d ago32:46

32:46

What does it take to grab your audience’s attention in the first few seconds? Bill Sherman explores the art of pitching with Joanne Tombrakos, storyteller, marketing strategist, NYU professor, podcaster and writer. and expert in crafting powerful messages. Joanne breaks down the misconception that pitching is just about selling. Whether you're sell…

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Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two 14:44

12d ago14:44

14:44

Mary and Irina resume their discussion of Boccaccio’s Decameron, focusing on three stories of female agency, deception and desire. Alibech, an aspiring hermitess, is tricked into indulging her powerful sexual urges; Petronella combines business and pleasure at the expense of her husband and lover; while Lydia demonstrates her devotion by killing ha…

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The Real Profit Behind Business Books: Key Findings from 350+ Authors | Peter Winick + Bill Sherman | 600 19:35

15d ago19:35

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What’s the ROI of a business book? Peter Winick and Bill Sherman dive into this game-changing question in the latest episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership. Partnering with industry giants like Gotham Ghostwriters, Amplify Publishing Group, and Smith Publicity, they’ve launched the most comprehensive study on the ROI of business books to date. Ov…

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Ep 45: How Putin corrupted Europe's banks 30:54

18d ago30:54

30:54

Nick chats to the Swedish Axel Gordh Humlesjö, the award-winnning Swedish investigative journalist and author about Vladamir Putin's agents have corrupted the West's banking system to fund the an illegal and genocidal war against Ukraine and their own fraudulently funded life-styles. Axel @axelhumlesjo co-authored The Honey Trap, a book that expose…

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Ep 44: How the West is helping Putin defeat Ukraine 35:11

1M ago35:11

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Nick Cohen talks to Phillips P. O'Brien - the American author, historian and professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews about the West's bungling over Ukraine. First the West's so-called "intelligence community" catastrophically miscalculated Ukraine's ability in fighting Russia, believing Putin's criminally insane invasion of F…

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Human Conditions: ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ by Aimé Césaire 13:02

20d ago13:02

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Brent Hayes Edwards talks to Adam about Aimé Césaire's 1950 essay Discourse on Colonialism, a groundbreaking work of 20th-century anti-colonial thought and a precursor to the writings of Césaire's protégé, Frantz Fanon. Césaire was Martinique’s most influential poet and one of its most prominent politicians as a deputy in the French National Assemb…

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Teaching Sociology - Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda 16:48

23d ago16:48

16:48

Author Freeden Blume Oeur discusses the article, "Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda," published in the October 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.

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Ep 43: The Tories in Lala Land with Nick Tyrone 37:29

25d ago37:29

37:29

The political commentator and Tory observer Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone reports back directly to Nick Cohen from the Conservative Party Conference in a wet and windy Birmingham where four rather mediocre and charisma-lite candidates are vying to be - astonishingly - the 6th Tory leader in 8 years! Nick found the Tories weirdly euphoric at suddenly …

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The Journey from Academia to Impact | Neri Karra Sillaman | 599 35:10

24d ago35:10

35:10

What happens when your toughest challenges become your biggest opportunities? On this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, host Bill Sherman dives deep with Neri Karra Sillaman—an Entrepreneurship Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Professor at ESCP Business School—about how her early life as a refugee set her on a path to becoming a thought leader and…

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On Satire: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde 14:37

26d ago14:37

14:37

By the end of 1895 Oscar Wilde’s life was in ruins as he sat in Reading Gaol facing public disgrace, bankruptcy and, two years later, exile. Just ten months earlier the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest at St James’s Theatre in London had been greeted rapturously by both the audience and critics. In this episode Colin and Clare consider w…

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Ep 42: The Brexit Blight with Simon Nixon 29:11

28d ago29:11

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Nick Cohen chats with Simon Nixon, one of the UK's foremost and finest economics writers about the UK'S deep economic hole and what if anything can be done to get the country out of it. Simon spoke from Riga in Latvia where he was attending a business conference. Sir Keir Starmer has been in Brussels recently as part of a charm offensive to reset t…

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43: Mets=postseason! We 🗣️how?! Instant classic games vs ATL. MVP talk. Pete Rose tribute. Mailbag+ Quick Pitches + much more! 50:46

27d ago50:46

50:46

By Casey Lynn

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Empowering Changemakers to Embrace New Approaches | Heather Hiscox | 598 20:20

28d ago20:20

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What if the way we approach change is broken? Would you try something new? Or stick to what you know? In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, host Peter Winick sits down with Heather Hiscox, founder and CEO of Pause for Change and author of No More Status Quo: A Proven Framework to Change the Way We Change the World. Heather shares her jo…

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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians 19:30

28d ago19:30

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Author Demetrius Miles Murphy discusses the article, "Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians" published in the October 2024 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

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Sociology of Education - Pink Slips (for Some): Campus Employment, Social Class, and COVID-19 19:13

28d ago19:13

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Authors Anthony Abraham Jack and Becca Spindel Bassett discuss the article, "Pink Slips (for Some): Campus Employment, Social Class, and COVID-19," published in the October 2024 issue of Sociology of Education.

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Ep 41: Tories in the bin with Nick Tyrone 34:51

1M ago34:51

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The French post-revolutionary politician Talleyrand said of the Bourbon royals that they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. In contrast, the Tories appear to have learned nothing, and forgotten everything - particularly about winning elections - including the longstanding UK political rule that the further the drift from centre ground polit…

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From Claims to Fairytales: How to Write for Different Audiences | Chantal Roberts | 597 40:46

1M ago40:46

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How do you turn technical expertise into a story that captures everyone’s attention? Today, host Bill Sherman sits down with Chantal Roberts, an insurance expert and professor at The Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York., to discuss her unique journey as an author of two distinct books. One caters to insurance professionals, and the o…

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Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice 12:55

1M ago12:55

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In his long 1938 poem, Louis MacNeice took many of the ideals shared by other young writers of his time – a desire for relevance, responsiveness and, above all, honesty – and applied them in a way that has few equivalents in English poetry. This diary-style work, written from August to December 1938, reflects with ‘documentary vividness’, as Ian Ha…

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42: We talk WC craziness. Oakland send off. #42. Lindor/mailbag & QuickPitches + much more! 1:21:40

1M ago1:21:40

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By Casey Lynn

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Ep 40: Labour's fight to govern with Steve Richards 43:52

1M ago43:52

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Nick Cohen @NickCohen4 and the author and political commentator Steve Richards @steverichards14 discuss the challenges faced by the Labour government as it faces down a ferocious backlash from the radicalised right and far right, and their client media. How can Sir Keir Starmer tackle the series of omni-crises - whether relating to the economy or p…

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Ep 39: Russia's war of lies & sneers on the West with Peter Pomerantsev 34:20

1M ago34:20

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Nick Cohen gets The Lowdown on the Putin lie machine from well-renowned Kremlin disinformation expert and author Peter Pomerantsev. Earlier this month, the US seized Kremlin-run websites and charged two Russian state employees - of the TV channel Russia Today with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration A…

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Among the Ancients II: Tacitus 12:51

1M ago12:51

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The Annals, Tacitus’ study of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero, covers some of the most vivid and ruthless episodes in Roman history. A masterclass in political intrigue (and how not to do it), the Annals features mutiny, senatorial backstabbing, wars on the imperial frontiers, political purges and enormous egos. Emily and Tom explore the many am…

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Reclaiming Your Rights: How Authors Can Take Control in a Shifting Publishing Landscape | Michael Jenet | 596 37:03

1M ago37:03

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What happens when your publisher holds your book hostage? In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, Bill Sherman speaks with Michael Jenet, author of "Ask: The Questions to Empower Your Life" and founder of Journey Institute Press, about his grueling battle to reclaim the rights to his books after a new publisher took control. Michael’s sto…

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#041: We're back! We discuss everything from "what a season" to how many chickens would it take to kill an elephant? Lindor/Manaea/Diaz talk + much more! 1:16:20

1M ago1:16:20

1:16:20

By Casey Lynn

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Scaling Leadership: Making Coaching Accessible at Every Level | Kristin Lytle | 595 18:10

2M ago18:10

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Join host Peter Winick as he dives into a compelling conversation with Kristin Lytle, CEO of The Leader’s Edge, an executive coaching firm transforming senior leadership. Kristin's journey to becoming a thought leader is rooted in her own experiences of self-doubt, which ignited her passion for helping others articulate their ideas and reach their …

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