This week we discuss how and why mental health has become a growing political issue. What are the differences in the way the political parties approach this problem? Is it something that unites or divides people across generations and classes? And what can politicians do to help us cope? Plus we talk about whether politics itself has become a more stressful job than it used to be. With Helen Thompson and Chris Brooke.
S02-EP02 - Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about what is making Americans so fearful and the difference it would make to have a grandmother in the White House.
S02-EP01 - Jackie Ashley discusses the state of the Labour party and whether we are seeing a new kind of politics.
S01-EP17 The Election Podcast returns for a special edition, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015
S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair
S01-EP15 - Richard Danbury on television debates, old vs new media & the BBC
S01-EP14 - ELECTION RESULT SPECIAL: Former guests discuss the outcome PLUS Chris Huhne on the Lib Dem collapse, electoral reform & the future of progressive politics
S01-EP13 - David Howarth on winning an election, Polling Day & the future of democracy
S01-EP12 - Richard N. Haass on foreign policy, the US perspective & Northern Ireland
S01-EP11 - Sherry Coutu on education, stimulating business & coalitions
S01-EP10 - Barbara Sahakian on psychology, politics & well-being
S01-EP09 - Simon Szreter on conspiracy theories, trust in politics & solutions
S01-EP08 - Robert Tombs on Britishness, Britain's place in Europe & the NHS
S01-EP07 - SPECIAL: Michael Howard & Stephan Shakespeare on Margaret Thatcher, the true power of polls, and the impact of UKIP in 2015
S01-EP06 - Rae Langton on Charlie Hebdo, free speech vs hate speech & blasphemy
S01-EP05 - Clare Jackson on the United Kingdom, Scotland & the politics of memory
S01-EP04 - John Naughton on Facebook in Politics, Edward Snowden, & Surveillance
S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise
S01-EP02 - Martin Rees on surviving this century, scientists in politics, and 2015
S01-EP01 - Maurice Glasman on democracy, creative destruction and Wolf Hall
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