The Brainstorm: Recent Episodes
Renewing the Centre at The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
The Brainstorm is a weekly podcast about public policy which asks the overlooked questions that will define the coming decades. Senior Fellows from the Renewing the Centre initiative at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change will be joined by a revolving cast of outside guests for a conversation about public policy that is inspired by recent political news, but goes far beyond the headlines.
With the backdrop of the US midterms, RTC’s Jordan Kyle and Yascha Mounk sit down with New America’s Lee Drutman to discuss democratic reforms to make democracy more responsive in the era of distrust and polarization.
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What would a radical, sensible approach to regulating big tech companies actually look like? Our new report “A New Deal for Big Tech” by Chris Yiu has the answer. Guest: Darren Jones, Labour MP for Bristol North West and director of Labour Digital.
You can read the full report at https://institute.global/insight/renewing-centre/new-deal-big-tech. and tweet us your thoughts @InstituteGC using the hashtag #TBItech
In this episode we assess the CSU’s strategy to emulate the radical right given the recent Bavarian election.
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Back from summer hiatus, the Brainstorm examines the impact of the radical right on Swedish politics in light of the recent election. Guest: Peter Wolodarski, editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter Website: institute.global/ Email: podcast@institute.global Facebook: www.facebook.com/instituteglobal/ Twitter: twitter.com/InstituteGC
This week, Eleni Arzoglou sits down with Yascha Mounk and Harvey Redgrave to discuss the complexities of handling migration in the EU, Turkey’s democratic deconsolidation, and what can be done on the international stage to address these developments.
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In this episode, Chris sits down with Catherine Miller from the internet think tank Doteveryone, and Antony Walker from the industry group TechUK, to talk about tech policy. What are people talking about when they say "big tech", what is driving the current backlash, and what - if anything - can and should policymakers do about it?
Further reading:
Tony Blair Institute
https://institute.global/insight/renewing-centre/topics
Doteveryone
https://doteveryone.org.uk/our-work/
TechUK
http://www.techuk.org/insights/reports
House of Lords report on AI
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldai/100/10002.htm
House of Lords inquiry on regulating the internet
https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/communications-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/the-internet-to-regulate-or-not-to-regulate/
RTC's Shashank Joshi, Yascha Mounk, and Simon Tilford discuss the messy aftermath of Italy's elections, and the clash between illiberal democrats and undemocratic liberals.
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David Adler and Chris Yiu discuss the new book 'Radical Markets' with author Glen Weyl. The three discuss some of the book's most creative suggestions: from common property ownership and open bidding, through voting credits in a new quadratic system, to a theory of data as labour and data labour unions
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TBI's Shashank Joshi, Milo Comerford, and Kasraa Aarabi discuss the implications of President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal.
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Harvey Redgrave, Yascha Mounk and Phil Collins sit down to discuss speeches in recent political campaigns, their role in carrying out the populist agenda, and the challenge they raise for their opponents.
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In this week's episode, Shashank Joshi, Yascha Mounk and Martin Eiermann sit down to discuss last week's Hungarian elections as a turning point in European politics, their significance to the greater populist trend and what the EU should do next.
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In this week's episode, Shashank Joshi, Chris Yiu and Limor Gultchin sit down to discuss the recent data scandal that weaved together a broad range of issues: from political micro-targeting, to data privacy and the tension between the advertising nature of social media, and its emotional value. https://institute.global/
This week Jonathan Portes joins Harvey Redgrave and Simon Tilford to discuss Harvey's "Balanced Migration" paper.
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In this week's episode, Simon Tilford, Chris Yiu and the Economist's Ryan Avent sit down to discuss the interaction of Government and Technology, its possible complications, and how it might look like in the future.
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RTC's Shashank Joshi, Simon Tilford, and David Adler get together to discuss whether President Trump's new steel tariffs will start a trade war, and the state of UK-Russia relations after the poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil.
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RTC's Shashank Josh and Jordan Kyle talk to the LSE's Alexandra Cirone on recent studies into the fake news phenomenon.
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RTC's Shashank Joshi and Simon Tilford sit down with the Centre for European Reform's Sophia Besch to discuss the twists and turns of Germany's coalition talks, and the state of Germany's military.
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Shashank Joshi and Simon Tilford are joined by economist Diane Coyle, to discuss competition policy, GDP, and the future of the British economy.
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On this week's podcast our tech fellow, Chris Yiu, sits down with Noah Curthoys of Demsoc and Dom Hallas of Coadec to discuss Theresa May's A.I.-laden Davos speech and the steps governments can take to harness the promise of technological progress.
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Carillion has collapsed, rekindling a debate about the promise and pitfalls of privatisation. On this week’s podcast, we discuss the cases for and against government outsourcing — and some interesting findings from the Policy Fellow Jordan Kyle’s forthcoming research in Indonesia.
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Martin Sandbu of The Financial Times joins Yascha Mounk and Simon Tilford to discuss the most important economic challenges up ahead.
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In this week's podcast, Shashank Joshi, Chris Yiu and Limor Gultchin sit down to discuss recent calls and pressures for content regulation in tech platforms as well as Emmanuel Macron's visit to China, the rise of the Chinese economy and tech sector, and possible implications for the global community
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In this week's episodeShashank Joshi, Yascha Mounk and our new chief economist, Simon Tilford, sit down to discuss the major trends of 2017 in world politics, economy and international relations, and try to assess the significant themes we will see unfolding in 2018
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Renewing the Centre's Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi are joined by Harvard's Pippa Norris to debate whether populism is a form of cultural backlash to the rise of liberal values.
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This week on the podcast we discuss the growing generational divide and its implication for liberal democracy with guest Robert Ford.
In this episode Yascha Mounk, David Adler and Chris Yiu discuss David's new paper which tackles the housing crisis and provides viable solution. Among other things, they discuss the relation between housing and populism, alongside possible answers, including land value tax, development of green belt areas and rezoning.
In this episode, Yascha Mounk, Shashank Joshi and Martin Eiermann discuss the failure of the coalition talks in Germany, how populism is reshaping European politics and what it means for Britain and the rest of the world.
In this week's episode we discuss the problem of inequality, leading from last week's release of the Paradise Papers
On this week's episode we discuss how political leaders should respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by technological changes. Chris Yiu is joined by the President of techUK Jacqueline de Rojas and RTC's David Adler.
Renewing the Centre's Shashank Joshi, Limor Gultchin, and Jordan Kyle get together to discuss the challenges of regulating emerging AI, and the shaky state of democracy in Southeast Asia.
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Shashank Joshi, Eleni Arzoglou, and Yascha Mounk are joined by The Economist's Soumaya Keynes, to discuss the state of world trade and the position of women in the field of economics.
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Shashank Joshi and Eleni Arzoglou are joined by Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss whether Europeans are in denial about Trump's longevity, and what a post-American Europe would require.
In this week's episode we discuss democracy and self-determination in the wake of the Catalan referendum.
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In this week's episode we check-in on where things stand with Brexit and react to Macron's speech on Europe.
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This week, Renewing the Centre's Shashank Joshi and Hans Kundnani are joined by the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman to discuss Germany's impending elections, and the implications of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to India.
In this week's podcast we are joined by our very own Martin
Eiermann and Harvey Redgrave to discuss the underlying anxieties that drive populism, and immigration, as a cultural phenomenon and a political responsibility. We talk about how the centre left can meaningfully think about migration, and the consequences of failing to do so.
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In a special edition of the Brainstorm, Tony Blair and Yascha Mounk discuss the Institute’s paper on EU migration and how societies can remain open, but also address people’s concerns around the issue. They talk about how, in order to reverse Brexit, its underlying causes and anxieties cannot be overlooked, as well as why it is ultimately a distraction to the challenges the UK faces, not a solution.
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In this week's podcast, we are joined by Lord Peter Ricketts, Britain's first national security adviser and ambassador in France. Together we discuss the rise and fall of European defense cooperation and what kind of country Britain wants to be after Brexit.
In this week's Brainstorm, we discuss President Donald Trump's decision to surge, once more, in Afghanistan. Will it work, what does it say about the president's foreign policy, and what does it mean for Europe? We also debate globalisation within Europe, looking at whether the EU has tamed market pressures or unleashed them.
In this week's Brainstorm, we are joined by the Duncan Weldon, head of research at the Resolution Group and previously economics correspondent at BBC Newsnight. We ask why productivity in the UK seems to be in a funk, and what can be done about it. We reflect on the strength of the American far right, after the events in Charlottesville on August 12. And we look at Australia's political crisis to probe deeper into the meaning of citizenship.
How do different countries tackle threats to democracy expressed by social media? Will far-left populism pose a threat to neoliberalism as witnessed by the tragic violence and unrest in Venezuela? Does the support of Brexit fit into the story of the rise of far-right populism and how does this resemble the coalition that propelled Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United States? Hans Kundnani and Heidi Tworek join Yascha Mounk to discuss.
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What are the facts around EU immigration into the UK, and has it been used to "destroy" the conditions of British workers? Manufacturing job losses were not correlated with Trump-voting states, but is there a more complex link between anxiety and populism? And how should we understand Trump's effort to ban transgender people form serving their country?
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This week on the Brainstorm: How should policymakers think about privacy and security in the digital world? What do the debates around technological disruption tell us about the society we live in, and how should we think about managing change? And what do the lessons of successful centrist candidates tell us about the best way to engage voters with a vision for the future?
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This week on the Brainstorm: what does President Trump's visit to Paris tell us about how European leaders are handling the new administration? How did social democracy beat away its rivals in the middle of the last century, and what lessons can it learn from that success? And, finally, how should we think about different types of equality?
This week on the Brainstorm: What does the vision of the West laid out by President Trump in his Warsaw speech looks like? Europe seems to be economically and politically optimistic these days, but should we be a bit more sceptical? And, What do the recurring territorial disputes China is involved in lately tell us about its increasing dominance in Asia?
What form should nationalism take in the 21st century? How do you contain nuclear proliferation, and deal with the threat posed by North Korea? And how do you design a tax system that sustains social solidarity over time?