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Each month, George Miller interviews LMD authors about their articles and the issues behind them
The widespread belief that the UK's finance industry wanted the country to remain in the EU is wrong. An increasingly powerful sector within the industry was delighted that Leave won. In this month's podcast, sociologist Théo Bourgeron explains why. -2021/01/ Podcast, 2021/01 UK city
Biden won and Trump lost, but progressives mustn't be complacent, says Jerome Karabel, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. In this month's podcast, he discusses Trumpism as a force that has reshaped US politics – and will continue to do so long after Trump leaves the White House. -2020/12/ Podcast, 2020/12 USA, 2020/…
China has the world's worst record for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. In this month's podcast, award-winning journalist Ian Urbina discusses his own encounter with aggressive Chinese vessels in the Sea of Japan and the wider implications for the world's dwindling fish stocks. -2020/11/ 2020/11 fishing, Podcast, 2020/11 fishing…
A month before the US election, George Miller talked to author and journalist Thomas Frank at the end of the week that saw the first presidential debate, revelation of Trump's tiny tax bill and his Covid-19 diagnosis. When the present is so chaotic, can an awareness of US history help make some sense of it all? -2020/10/ Podcast, 2020/10 usa…
In this month's podcast, George Miller talks to Le Monde diplomatique's deputy editor, Akram Belkaïd, about the global rise of evangelical Christianity. Why are evangelical churches growing so rapidly and what does their uncompromisingly conservative political agenda mean for progressive politics? -2020/09/ 2020/09 evangelicals, Podcast…
This month, André Singer, professor of political science at São Paulo University, updates us on the situation in Brazil, where President Bolsonaro is increasingly undermining his coronavirus-ravaged country's democracy and has his sights set firmly on re-election in 2022. -2020/07/ Podcast, 2020/07 brazil…
In this month's podcast, Professor Richard Keiser of Carleton College, Minnesota, discusses the mood in his city several weeks after George Floyd's killing by an MPD officer. Is radical change now conceivable? And if demands to defund the police are heeded, what would take its place? -2020/07/ 2020/07 Minneapolis, Podcast…
‘England is faltering,' says our guest in this month's podcast, Professor Sir Michael Marmot. After a decade of austerity, health inequalities in England are significantly worse than in 2010, when he published his official review, ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives'. Here he discusses austerity's long shadow and what should be done about it on the other …
‘The establishment, and the right wing of the Labour Party, couldn't live with something that challenged the politics of interventionism.' This month, Andrew Murray, former senior adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, reflects on some of the contradictions of Corbyn's years as Labour leader. -2020/06/ Podcast, 2020/06 Corbyn adieu…
In our May podcast, Julien Mercille of University College, Dublin, discusses how Ireland has coped with Covid-19 and the prospects for progressive politics in Ireland on the other side of it. Are nationalist-leftist Sinn Féin a government in waiting? -2020/05/ Podcast, 2020/05 Ireland
