PODCAST OF IDEAS: We're closing in on week two of lockdown in the UK, with life on pause for many of us cooped up at home. But thinking outside of our own four walls, it has often been hard to get a sense of what's happening across Europe, where cases of the virus seem to be skyrocketing. Some countries, like Italy, have forced their citizens into weeks of house arrest. Others have taken a more liberal approach - and have often been criticised for it.
This week, in the latest of a new series of the Podcast of Ideas, Alastair Donald talks to friends and speakers from our annual festival: the Battle of Ideas. You'll hear Fraser Myers, spiked's staff writer in London; Anne-Élisabeth Moutet, Telegraph journalist in Paris; Sean O'Halloran, freelance journalist in Fabriano in Eastern Italy and Lamprini Thoma, writer and podcaster in Thessaloniki.
#LockdownDebates: Morality during a pandemic, with Susan Neiman and Frank Furedi
#LockdownDebates: Has Covid-19 killed globalism?
#EconomyForum: Covid-19 and the US economy
#LockdownDebates: Is ‘gotcha’ journalism the new normal?
#EconomyForum: China, Covid-19 and the West
#BookClub: The moral dilemma of Ian McEwen’s Machines Like Me
#Arts&SocietyForum: How Salman Rushdie changed everything
#LockdownDebates: How much should we listen to experts?
#EducationForum: Is it time to reopen our schools?
#EconomyForum: Covid-19, from Germany to the developing world
#Arts&SocietyForum: The Burial at Thebes and the tragic imagination in poetry
#EconomyForum: How can we escape a coronavirus depression?
#EducationForum: Pedagogy and the ’Corona Classroom’
#EconomyForum: How will coronavirus affect Johnsonomics?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Is the lockdown lifting in Europe?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Has Coronavirus put an end to the generation wars?
#BookClub: Power, democracy and coronavirus in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
#SportscastOfIdeas: Missing the beautiful game
#PodcastOfIdeas: Facing the lockdown from Singapore to Johannesburg
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