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The Prospect Podcast

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  • The brightest minds discussing the ideas that matter most in politics, society and culture.

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Episodes
  • Avraham Burg: Israel’s tyrannical leadership

    Avraham Burg: Israel’s tyrannical leadership
    Apr 23 2024

    Author, politician and former member of the Israeli Knesset Avraham Burg joins Ellen Halliday to discuss political leadership in Israel and the influence that extremist voices are having on Netanyahu. Burg argues Israelis must push for the change in leadership needed for the nation to pursue a more peaceful path.



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    27 mins
  • Broke Birmingham and the council crisis

    Broke Birmingham and the council crisis
    Apr 17 2024
    Last year three councils in England went bust, and the BBC political research unit has reported that one in five councils have warned of effective bankruptcy in five years, unless there is reform. Contributing editor Tom Clark joins Ellen Halliday to unpick the deficit in local government funding, and to the chart the sorry course of Birmingham, a city that was once the cradle of municipal governance, which is now run by a bankrupt council that is forced to make unprecedented cuts.

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    37 mins
  • Margot Wallström: How Russia is wreaking environmental destruction in Ukraine

    Margot Wallström: How Russia is wreaking environmental destruction in Ukraine
    Apr 9 2024

    Prospect contributing editor Isabel Hilton is joined by Margot Wallström, a former Swedish foreign affairs minister and head of the High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine. They discuss the environmental damage Russia’s war has caused in Chernobyl and across the country. Also on the podcast, climate scientist Gavin Schmidt discusses the worrying news that climate models can’t explain 2023’s historic temperature high.




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    46 mins
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