LOCKDOWN DEBATE: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an unusual strain on health systems around the world. What can we learn from how the NHS is dealing with the crisis? Should we continue with a model of healthcare that is both publicly funded and (mostly) publicly provided? Could we learn from other countries’ systems that have coped better? Are the problems the NHS has faced a result of politicians not backing up supportive words with adequate funding? Or has the NHS’s place as our ‘national religion’ prevented an honest debate about its future Kate Andrews, Dr Lee Jones, Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen and Patrick Vernon discuss.
#BattleFest2019: Resisting wokeness with Andrew Doyle and Douglas Murray
#BattleFest2019: Health and genomics - what’s the score with polygenic scores?
#BattleFest2019: How can we create a new industrial revolution?
#BattleFest2019: Do we need a Green New Deal?
#BattleFest2019: From zero hours to apprenticeships - young people at work
#BattleFest2019: What’s the point of going to university?
#BattleFest2019: How can we create a construction revolution?
#BattleFest2019: Artificial intelligence in schools - where’s the humanity?
#BattleFest2019: Does the world need a government?
#BattleFest2019: A waste of a good crisis? A decade after the crash, with Larry Elliott
#BattleFest2019: What is the future of the Union?
#BattleFest2019: Caster Semenya running into controversy - genes, gender and sport
#PodcastOfIdeas: first thoughts on General Election 2019
#BattleFest2019: Assisted dying - a doctor’s poisoned chalice?
#BattleFest2019: The rise of toxic politics - can we be civil?
#BattleFest2019: Woke corporations - responsible capitalism or virtue signalling?
#BattleFest2019: What does it mean to be normal?
#BattleFest2019: Extinction or progress? Visions of the future
#BattleFest2019: The Life of Brian at 40 - are we more easily offended today?
#BattleFest2019: Titania McGrath - satire in the age of social justice
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