In an Easter special David and Helen discuss their love of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and in particular the final volume The Mirror and the Light. Kings, queens, power, patronage, ghosts, myths, geopolitics, dynasties, religion, sex, bureaucracy, cruelty, death and Machiavelli - it's all here and we try to bring it all together.
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Lockdownonomics
Adam Tooze/Shockwave
Nate Silver
British Politics: The Big Reset?
Can America Cope?
Michael Lewis Updated
States of Emergency
Tara Westover/Educated
From Cholera to Coronavirus
Co-operation or Conflict?
The View from Italy
Adam Tooze Part 2
Adam Tooze on the Crisis
Doomsday Clock
Superforecasting
Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Back!
Blair's Labour and Johnson's Brexit
Michael Ignatieff on the Future of Democracy
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