Anger Management with Nick Clegg

Are we living in an Age of Rage? On ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG the former Deputy Prime Minister talks to major guests from across the political and cultural landscape to ask why our world has become so driven by anger – and what is it doing to us?Is the furious populism that produced Trump and Brexit a passing phase or a new permanent feature of our politics? What’s behind the unprecedented rancour spreading through social media? Can objective truth survive in a time of fake news that panders to emotion? And if rage is the opposite of reason, how do we get reason back on top?

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8: Power Buster: EU Competition Commissioner MARGRETHE VESTAGER on populism and optimism

The Times calls her “the Great Dane of Brussels”. To the Independent she’s “the Harry Kane of the EU”. She’s the real-life inspiration for Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg from the TV show ‘Borgen’. Now, fresh from coolly levying a record-breaking £4bn fine on Google for abusing its market dominance over Android users, EU Competition Commissioner MARGRETHE VESTAGER talks to Nick Clegg about power, populism, what makes the EU tick, and how technology could provide a way out of the present deadlock ...

Jul 25, 2018•50 min•Ep. 8

7: “This is not America”: former US Vice President JOE BIDEN on the power of positive example

Few politicians have dealt with weightier global issues, or dealt with more devastating personal tragedy, than JOE BIDEN, two-term Vice President to Barack Obama. As a young senator in 1972 he lost his first wife and his daughter in a car crash. During his second term as Vice President, his son Beau succumbed to brain cancer aged only 46. On the latest edition of ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG, Joe Biden speaks movingly about how to deal with unimaginable loss without lapsing into despair. He ...

Jul 12, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 7

6: Rome and away: Italy’s ex-PM MATTEO RENZI on power, populism… and football

Britain and the United States are not the only political systems to be rocked by the forces of populism. The convulsions of the past few years have left Italian politics unrecognisable. So where do we go from here? On the latest edition of ANGER MANAGEMENT, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi – Italy’s youngest-ever PM and head of the fourth longest-lasting government in Italian history – talks to Nick Clegg about his country’s present and future. Showing a rare sense of humour in a senio...

Jun 27, 2018•37 min•Ep. 6

5: Global Soul: writer and campaigner ELIF SHAFAK on art vs. anger

Can art defeat fascism? In the latest edition of ANGER MANAGEMENT, award-winning author, columnist and women’s rights activist Elif Shafak talks to Nick about the seductive dangers of sameness, how Western countries’ greatest weakness was our belief that we’d won all the big battles… and how we’ll never turn back the tide of anger until we understand where it comes from. “This is an age of emotions,” Elif tells Nick, “and emotions are guiding and misguiding politics. In an age of anger we need t...

Jun 13, 2018•51 min•Ep. 5

4: The Mother of All Battlers: HARRIET HARMAN on anger as an energy

Anger cuts both ways. It can destroy you and the people around you – or it can drive you onwards. In the latest edition of ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG, longest-serving female MP, Mother of the House and former Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman explains how anger against injustice and institutionalised bias has given her the energy to keep fighting. Have we ignored the voices of popular anger for too long – or are we letting the voices of rage set the agenda too much? What sort of popular ...

May 30, 2018•50 min•Ep. 4

3: Centrist forward: GARY LINEKER talks anger in football and beyond

If you want to see rage ruining everything, go and listen to some of the dads on the touchline at a kids’ football match. On the new episode of ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG, the former Deputy Prime Minister talks to footballing legend and Match Of The Day presenter GARY LINEKER about anger on the football pitch and in the public eye, Gary’s personal politics… and what it’s like to be monstered for speaking your mind on social media. Where did Gary’s political interests come from? What drives...

May 16, 2018•49 min•Ep. 3

2: Know your frenemy: Nick Clegg talks to GEORGE OSBORNE

In an age of rage vs. reason, how to we make sure reason comes out on top? On this week’s episode of ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG, the former Deputy Prime Minister reconnects with his old Cabinet sparring partner and Coalition frenemy GEORGE OSBORNE – once Chancellor of the Exchequer, now editor of the Evening Standard, firm opponent of Brexit and helpful supplier of constructive criticism to the current Prime Minister (of whom he is famously fond). How is anger driving our day-to-day politi...

May 02, 2018•56 min•Ep. 2

1: King of Chaos: Nick Clegg interviews NIGEL FARAGE

Are we living in an Age of Rage? On the first episode of ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG, the former deputy prime minister talks to Nigel Farage, former Ukip leader and one of the most divisive figures in British political history. A wave of populist anger carried the EU referendum for the Leave side – but what happens now? What shaped Nigel Farage’s ideas? Does anger drive his politics, or something deeper? And why does he love chaos? ”Chuka Umunna said the other day that we had stolen [young]...

Apr 18, 2018•49 min•Ep. 1

Anger Management with Nick Clegg: Trailer

We live in angry times. What are rage, resentment, partisanship and distrust doing to our world? Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg talks to figures from across the political spectrum to discover where popular anger is taking us. Is rage the opposite of reason? And how do we get reason back on top? Nick talks to Nigel Farage in episode one of Anger Management, out on Thur 19 April via audioboom.com and key podcast platforms. Follow Nick on Twitter and tell us who you’d like to see on Anger ...

Apr 18, 2018•3 min

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