In its first King's Speech, the Labour government said that "greater devolution of decision making is at the heart of a modern dynamic economy and is a key driver of economic growth." Historically, why has the UK been so insistent on hoarding power centrally? And what's the potential in Westminster giving away power? With Tony Travers (LSE), Sarah Longlands (IPPR North) and Neil McInroy (The Centre for Local Economic Strategies) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 22, 2024•13 min
Ed has departed for government, and Geoff is left as custodian of the archive. As the Labour government makes its first raft of announcements and appointments, we delve into our back catalogue to find the ideas which might have influenced them. In this episode, we look at Rachel Reeves' announcement of the National Wealth Fund. What are public wealth funds? What different forms can they take? What are the potential benefits to our country? We revisit our episode Investment ...
Jul 12, 2024•14 min
The day is upon us. Maybe. In the words of the late Teddy Kennedy (uncle of Robert F. Junior, and real-life inspiration for Kendall Roy): " For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. " Thank you for keeping us cheerful. Email our sporadically monitored inbox: [email protected] Full text of Ted Kennedy's 1980 Democratic National Concession address: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedke...
May 28, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 28
We're giving you an extra 24 hours to don a black armband and stock up on Kleenex, as the Chatteroo approaches its final destination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 26, 2024•12 sec
From Highland Park, Illinois, we're joined by our cicada correspondent, who's keeping watch for the first dual emergence in 221 years. Plus, we find out more about this phenomenon with entomologist Professor Dave Bilton. Bigger than the beetles - more about Dave: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/david-bilton Emerge in the Chatteroo inbox: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 19, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Lauren Child (former Children's Laureate/creator of Charlie & Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort) joins the Chatteroo. Buy Lauren's new Clarice Bean book, 'Smile': https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/smile-lauren-child/7462273?ean=9780008285548 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 13, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Political economist and writer, Will Hutton joins the Chatteroo to talk about his new book, 'This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain', and its parallels with his mid-90s bestseller, 'The State We're In'. Buy Will's book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-time-no-mistakes-9781804549407/ Email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 06, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Vegetarian escalope at the Paris Olympics, energy nerds, The Boring Phone, Mid TV and your correspondence. Join the Chatteroo! Email us with thoughts, questions and any fodder: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 28, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Just in time for St George's Day, former Mili-gang members Marc Stears & Tom Baldwin join the Chatteroo to talk about their excellent new book 'England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country - And How To Set Them Straight' Treat yourself to a copy - you deserve it! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/england-9781526646231/ Email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 22, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Climate litigation in the 26 Cantons, the sense of smell in a digital world, Ed turns quizmaster, and your email. Throw us a chatty bone! What would you like to hear in the Chatteroo? [email protected] PENGUINS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwDFddpo4c CAN A WILD ANIMAL MAKE YOUR HOUSE FEEL LIKE A HOME? https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/can-wild-animal-make-your-house-feel-home?fbclid=PAAabIRLX2FP_IHykx-YjF75F2coLxbwYKDJv4U5NnMndw17bYa7qfcaQuxmQ_aem_AafVJaTzSreellMoKrLQZ...
Apr 14, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 22
We lament the passing of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and delve into the Chatteroo postbag. We'd love to hear from you - it's your Chatteroo, too: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 07, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Neuroscientist and author Tali Sharot has joined the Chatteroo to talk about her excellent new book, 'Look Again - The Power of Noticing What Was Always There' (co-written with Cass R Sunstein.) It's the habituation sensation that's sweeping the nation. Email us! [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 31, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Includes a Presidential belch, life lessons from toddlers, the grace of a giraffe, and the Village People. We need your email to fuel the Chatteroo! [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 25, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 19
The calm before the swarm, your email, and Ed shares his music lesson trauma. Email us! [email protected] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/14/theres-joy-i-havent-felt-for-years-how-i-got-hooked-on-the-piano-craze Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 18, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 18
A flurry of email prompted by last week's episode, plus cheerful nuggets from John Kerry's New York Times exit interview, the age at which jeans become inappropriate, and an Oscars-themed quiz. Send us an email: [email protected] John Kerry: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/john-kerry-climate-change-china.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 11, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Voicenotes, lessons from the New England Patriots, your email, and our best quiz yet. Chat makes the world go round! We need your email - send us facts about hedgehogs, stories of sticking to your guns, rules for voice-note etiquette, ideas for quizzes, articles... anything you'd like to hear Ed turn his big ol' brain to: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 04, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Sad owl news, happy hedgehog news, and an encounter in the Portcullis House cafeteria queue. Plus, your email - send us more, please! [email protected] Liebreich: Net Zero Will Be Harder Than You Think – And Easier PART 1: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-i-harder/ PART 2: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-ii-easier/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
Feb 26, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Ed vs Mud, Geoff has the lung capacity of a slightly younger man, how to apologise, and a game of Know Your Station Apologise Like You Mean It: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/well/live/apology-tips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Where Did Our Strange Use of 'Like' Come From? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/casual-speech-like.html?searchResultPosition=2 Email us! It makes Ed so happy... [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
Feb 19, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Tracy Chapman, the age of a Prime Minister, how Marx and Engels communicated, plus more aggressive birds. Seen anything you'd like us to talk about? Got a question? Someone you'd like to hear us talk to? Want to set us a quiz? [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 12, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Donald Trump vs Taylor Swift, Ed vs wildfowl and your email. Join the Chatteroo: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Où est le chatteroo? Voici le chatteroo! Send us hamster facts, or anything else that's on your mind: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 29, 2024•26 min
Life is a Chatteroo, old chum! Come to the Chatteroo. Hello, and welcome to this week's catch-up, during which we discuss afternoon tea, including young voices in the climate conversation, a hat made of mushrooms, and workplace wellbeing and urban rewilding. Send us an email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 22, 2024•25 min
Brilliant climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh joins the Chatteroo to talk through the climate data for 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 15, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Ed's new TV obsession leads to a chatteroo about therapy, including a mention of this twenty year-old essay by Nicholas Spice: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n01/nicholas-spice/i-must-be-mad Plus! Meet our famous new sidekick... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 08, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Hap-py New Year! We welcome our first guest of the Chatteroo-era, and what a guest: This year's BBC Reith Lecturer, Professor Ben Ansell - political scientist and former teaching assistant to Ed Miliband (as Ed mentions 5,000 time during the conversation.) Listen to/read Ben's Reith Lectures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 Buy Ben's book, 'Why Politics Fails': https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/why-politics-fails-ansell-ben-w/ Visit Ben's website: https://benwansell.com/...
Jan 01, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 7
A chatty accompaniment as your potatoes roast and your sprouts boil. We wish you a cheerful Christmas! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 25, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Chatteroo, roo, roo! Push pineapple, shake the tree! More Cop reflections, plus encouragment for Ed's paleontology ambition Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 18, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Hey you, the Chatteroo crew! Show what you do, make a break, make a move. Ed's back from COP28 and is bursting to talk about a phasedown of unabated fossil fuels, paleontology, and Taylor Swift. Plus Geoff pitches a policy idea for the next Labour Party manifesto. Suggest things for us to chatteroo about: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 11, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 4
We're live from COP28. Well, Ed is - Geoff wasn't invited. He's asked for a souvenir from the COP shop. Dive in for Ed's news from Dubai, he's *very* excited about the ENAP Emissions Report. Plus, saying 'hi' to strangers, and a mysterious high energy particle is heading for Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 04, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In the Chatteroo stew this week: Ed reflects on the Autumn Statement and budgets he has known and (sometimes) loved, and Geoff gets the wrong end of the stick - or drumstick - about an American tradition. Email us: [email protected] Music: Ed Seed Artwork: A child with a potato and some paint Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 27, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 2
