The Why? Curve
By Phil Dobbie
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Each week Phil Dobbie and Roger Hearing get to grips with one issue that impacts our lives. It could be economic, social, technological or geopolitical. Whatever the subject, they'll talk to the experts who can give help explain what's really going on. And Phil and Roger back it up with their own research and opinions. It's half an hour to get across one of the key issues of the time, and they promise, it'll never be boring.
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What's happening in Gaza
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Can we afford the welfare state?
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Are We Already At Hybrid War With Russia?
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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BBC - Yet Another Crisis
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Holding Out For a Hero
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Andrew Horribilis - The Future of the Monarchy
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Flat Earth - Are We All Becoming The Same?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Is China an enemy?
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Papers Please!
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Are The Tories Toast
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Is Pseudoscience Taking Over?
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Trump Whisperer?
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Anyone Seen The LibDems?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Labour’s Money Problems
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Put Out More Flags
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Asylum Seekers - Time To Change The Rules?
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Ukraine - Any Closer To Peace?
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Palestine Action - Protesters or Terrorists?
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why Are We All So Angry?
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Trump in Trouble?
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The Verdict on Juries
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Sudan - the Horror of the Forgotten War
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Keir - A Year to Forget
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Ozempic Nation?
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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UK Rail - On The Right Track?
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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World on the Edge
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Democracy On The Rocks?
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Is Crypto Becoming Credible?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Tanks, Troops or Drones? Spending the Defence Bonanza
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May 29, 2025 |
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Migrants - Not The Issue They Think It Is
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May 22, 2025 |
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India-Pakistan: Endless Enmity?
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May 15, 2025 |
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Ukraine - Does The US Now Have Skin In The Game?
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May 08, 2025 |
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Conclave Consensus - Choosing A New Pope
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May 01, 2025 |
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Reform Revolution?
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Show me where to put the money
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The White House Ruled by Pathocracy
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The Return of Toxic Masculinity
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Time to Shrink the State?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Aid Emergency
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Ukraine - Peace In Our Time?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Closing Credits?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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How To Handle The Donald
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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New Towns - Old Ideas?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Winning The Trade War
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Deeply Seeking - China’s AI Challenge
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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WFH No More?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Trump - How Crazy Will It Get?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The Sick Men of Europe
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Starmer Stuck - Labour’s Poor Start
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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What May Kill You in 2025
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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An Epidemic of Loneliness?
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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A New Age In Syria
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Workplace Abuse
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Why Is Africa Left Behind?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Tractors in Whitehall
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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A Matter Of Life And Death
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Getting Ready For The Storm
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Sum of All Fears
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The US Election - An American Horror Story?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Not Budging on the Budget
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Nips and Tucks
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Middle East On The Brink
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Blue Funk
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The Love Labour’s Lost
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Just Grow Up - The Infantilisation Of Our World
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Exit X? Curbing Social Media
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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UK/EU - A Closer Disunion?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Central Banks - Power Without Reponsibility?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Kamala’s Coronation
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Getting It Right On The Far Right
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Universities In Crisis
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Olympic Winners?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Harris v Trump - What To Expect
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Making Stuff
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Wish You Weren’t Here - The Tourism Trap
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Election Day - But Does Your Vote Count?
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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The Final Furlong
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Not Ready For Government - Should We Train Politicians?
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Getting Through - Connecting with voters in 2024
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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There’s No Money Left - What The New Chancellor Might Find
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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International Justice?
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May 30, 2024 |
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Ukraine - On The Brink Of Defeat?
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May 23, 2024 |
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Social Media For Young People - Moral Menace Or Moral Panic?
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May 16, 2024 |
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Small Boats Leading To Small Votes? - UK Politics In 2024
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May 09, 2024 |
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Migration - What's Driving The Small Boat Journey?
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May 02, 2024 |
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Danger Zone - The Middle East Crisis
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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A Growing Problem - Can We Keep Expanding The Economy?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Is it 1939 in Europe?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Why Is Populism So Popular?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Electric Cars In The Slow Lane?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Prisons In Crisis
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Councils of Despair
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Gaza Effect
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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UK Budget - Fiscal Headroom Or Financial Headache?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The Generation Game - And Why Boomers Are Cheating
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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A Matter of Life and Death. Who Decides?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Is the world ready for Trump 2.0?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Rough Justice, No Justice
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Broken Britain - Can it be Mended?
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Red Sea Crisis - Choking The Global Economy
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Democracy in Crisis
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Rishi v Keir - What To Expect in 2024
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Choice Cuts - the Best of The Why Curve so far
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Present Tense - The Changing Ways We Give
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Rwandan safety? The uncomfortable truth.
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Can It Be Profitable To Save The Planet?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Forgotten War - Whatever Happened To The Ukraine Conflict?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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A tax cut that’s good for Britain or a last-ditch hope for the Tory party?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The real bill for energy
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Animal Rights and Wrongs
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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AI - technology breakthrough, or the end of humanity?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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What is racism, and is it on the rise?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Middle East on the Brink
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Keir Starmer - not enough glitter?
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Blue Yonder
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Who are you really? Online identity wars.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Ukraine War - How Will It End And When?
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Tough Medicine
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Museums - stuck in the past?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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US Election 2024 - The Trump Card?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Ghost Workers
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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China Crisis
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Blue Funk
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Not Personal, Just Business
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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World on fire
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Must Try Harder - Why Britain’s Economy Is Bottom Of The Class
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Oh, those Russians
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Hard Tax
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Gong Wrong
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Why Are We Lagging On Broadband?
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Mind Field
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Open for Business?
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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No, Minister
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Homes Under The Hammer
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May 25, 2023 |
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Protesting Too Much? The Rights and Wrongs of Public Dissent
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May 18, 2023 |
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Europe in Harmony Or Out Of Tune?
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May 11, 2023 |
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Thrown By The Throne
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May 04, 2023 |
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Passing Water
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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False Coin
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Small Boats - Big Boasts
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Northern Ireland - New Troubles Brewing?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Metaverse. Reality or Virtual Hype?
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The Grey Suits Running the Global Economy
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Great Divide
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Work in Progress
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Hong Kong - Is the Shine Coming Off The Pearl Of The Orient?
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Shaken. Can science predict the next big earthquake?
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Going Wild
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Whatever happened to COVID?
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Ukraine - the Endless War?
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Should the government spend its way out of the doldrums?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Up the workers!
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Conservative Blues
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Cyber War - Lost In Action?
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The Crystal Ball
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Faithless
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Fixing the productivity gap
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Say what?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Scots on the Rocks
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Good COP, bad COP?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Goodbye To The Good Friday Accord?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Degree of Doubt
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Ready for Sunak’s Bitter Pill?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Breaking China
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Apocalypse Soon?
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Police Emergency
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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What's the prescription for the NHS?
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Fiscal event or economic suicide?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Hard Labour
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Welcome to Cold War 2
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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"Well I didn't vote for her!"
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Last Days Of The BBC?
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Net Zero Chance?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Sleepwalking into a crisis
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Levelling-Up Or Levelling Over?
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Putin's Foot on the Gas
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Fears of Flying
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Taxing times for Tory leadership
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Lies, Damn Lies and Politicians
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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He/She or Them? The Gen on Gender
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Putin Gives NATO Back It’s Mojo
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Britain hits the buffers!
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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The recession we have to have
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Three Big Questions on the Rwanda Solution
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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The Why Curve is coming
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May 27, 2022 |