Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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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/
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