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  • The Bigger Picture: The AI revolution, Labour heading to the market right & Cronygate

    The Bigger Picture: The AI revolution, Labour heading to the market right & Cronygate
    2024/09/28
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that we are living through the days of immense change and that AI is an evolving technology without end. While imperfect and with moral challenges that need to be faced, everyone should get to grips with it. From non-doms to university fees and housing, he returns to the subject of Labour moving to the market right of politics with little challenge from the directionless Conservatives. And with Labour's honeymoon well and truly over and talk about links between Lord Alli and Syria's Assad, how damaging will Cronygate be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    28 分
  • The Bigger Picture: The Bigger Picture: Sue Gray's salary & Starmer's freebies, the LibDem conference and the nation's health

    The Bigger Picture: The Bigger Picture: Sue Gray's salary & Starmer's freebies, the LibDem conference and the nation's health
    2024/09/19
    Political commentator Mike Indian discusses the increase in salary of Downing Street Chief of Staff Sue Gray to £170,000, £3,000 more than the PM. Only time will tell how valuable her role is. Given Labour's attack on sleaze when in opposition, how serious are the revelations about freebies given to Keir Starmer and other politicians? What do donors expect in return? Mike also discusses the optimism of the LibDem conference. But they aren't a cohesive parliamentary group yet and are very much a party of southern England. And he looks at the Darzi review into the NHS. What could reforms look like and how can Labour seriously reduce the number of people who are off work sick? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    26 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Starmer's trap for the Tories, Labour's private housing & the AI revolution

    The Bigger Picture: Starmer's trap for the Tories, Labour's private housing & the AI revolution
    2024/09/12
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that Labour, beginning with the means testing of the winter fuel payment, has moved to the right of the Conservatives and begun a barrage of welfare cuts. He believes the Tories have fallen into Starmer's trap and do not know how to react; they need a more sophisticated approach to opposition. He discusses how Labour intend to drive growth with a housebuilding spurt but will central planning work? And he marvels at the inflexion point that is AI, particularly withthe news that AI will be able to detect early signs of over 1,000 diseases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    27 分
  • The Bigger Picture: The Grenfell Tower inquiry, Labour and worker rights and UK arms to Israel

    The Bigger Picture: The Grenfell Tower inquiry, Labour and worker rights and UK arms to Israel
    2024/09/05
    Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the Grenfell Tower inquiry report which damns governments and the private sector and discusses what has to happen next. Labour's push on workers' rights is, he says, the biggest change in employment law for 40 years. Its ambition is radical but it is a ragbag of measures with no unity of thought behind it. He also considers the part suspension of arms sales of Israel and the complexity of such decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    26 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Starmer's downbeat tone, the Tory leadership & the de-growth movement

    The Bigger Picture: Starmer's downbeat tone, the Tory leadership & the de-growth movement
    2024/08/29
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University considers the pessimistic tone adopted by Keir Starmer in his Downing Street garden speech. Will things get better after they get worse or is there something fundamentally wrong with the UK economy? With the right disunited and the Conservatives badly bruised, Tim considers the Tory leadership race and who is supporting each candidate. And he looks at the ideas behind the de-growth movement which suggests that we should abandon GDP as a measure of society's wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    28 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Can Kamala Harris win, UK riots and Labour's public sector pay deals

    The Bigger Picture: Can Kamala Harris win, UK riots and Labour's public sector pay deals
    2024/08/22
    Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the Democratic nomination of Kamala Harris for US President and how the likely outcome of the election has changed since Biden stood aside. Back in the UK, he discusses the recent riots, asks where it might lead and ponders whether we currently have a justice system we can be proud of. He also looks at Labour's pay deals with the likes of the train drivers and whether it will embolden other public sector workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    26 分
  • • The Bigger Picture: The university crisis, China's economy is in trouble & demand for EVs is faltering

    • The Bigger Picture: The university crisis, China's economy is in trouble & demand for EVs is faltering
    2024/08/19
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University explains why the UK's world-class universities sector is in crisis and that it ought to be no surprise to economists, given that it has effectively a politically-imposed price control system. There are solutions, though, if the will is there. In China there is a huge glut in industrial production, with 30% of industrial firms operating at a loss. China's GDP could be at least 40% smaller than we're being told. And, he says, it is now clear that EV demand is not behaving as the politicians would wish, with some companies now developing new types of petrol engines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    28 分