Past Present Future Podcast
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The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
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Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
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Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Issue 47.21 is now online, featuring:
David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Issue 47.21 is now online, featuring:
David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
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Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis?
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Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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‘We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.’
Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
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Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
‘We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.’
Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
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Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about the trial in 1938 of Nikolai Bukharin, the darling of the Bolsheviks whose conviction & execution were the culmination of the Moscow Show Trials.
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about the trial in 1938 of Nikolai Bukharin, the darling of the Bolsheviks whose conviction & execution were the culmination of the Moscow Show Trials.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about the trial in 1938 of Nikolai Bukharin, the darling of the Bolsheviks whose conviction & execution were the culmination of the Moscow Show Trials.
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about the trial in 1938 of Nikolai Bukharin, the darling of the Bolsheviks whose conviction & execution were the culmination of the Moscow Show Trials.
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.
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Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Outstanding analysis of an incredible trial. What’s so interesting to me is that the fallout did not settle the debate and militant creationism continues to be a force today
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Outstanding analysis of an incredible trial. What’s so interesting to me is that the fallout did not settle the debate and militant creationism continues to be a force today
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We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
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We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Listen to the full episode. Very important
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Listen to the full episode. Very important
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
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In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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PPF+ subscribers can also hear mine & David Runciman's answers to further questions - covering the limits of sortition, the dilemmas of devolution, the appropriate usage of referenda, and the (irreconcilable?) tensions between democracy and capitalism
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
October 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
PPF+ subscribers can also hear mine & David Runciman's answers to further questions - covering the limits of sortition, the dilemmas of devolution, the appropriate usage of referenda, and the (irreconcilable?) tensions between democracy and capitalism
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
Join PPF+ for all our bonuses: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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This was really good. A sane, intelligent conversation without either party laughing at the other’s jokes. Rarer than it should be.
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In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This was really good. A sane, intelligent conversation without either party laughing at the other’s jokes. Rarer than it should be.
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😱 What risks does Farage pose to our democracy and our society?
🤔 Really interesting and useful live podcast with David Runciman and Rob Ford
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🤔 Really interesting and useful live podcast with David Runciman and Rob Ford
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October 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
😱 What risks does Farage pose to our democracy and our society?
🤔 Really interesting and useful live podcast with David Runciman and Rob Ford
🦻 Listen and share!
share.google/KASukS6Sa6Yb...
🤔 Really interesting and useful live podcast with David Runciman and Rob Ford
🦻 Listen and share!
share.google/KASukS6Sa6Yb...
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Really enjoyed doing this one.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Really enjoyed doing this one.