Conflict, security and peace
Raph Schlembach, author of 'Spycops', outlines the progress of the long-running Spycops Undercover Policing Inquiry, which is looking at the covert operations commissioned by the police and the secret service over decades. …Read more
Jacob C. Miller, author of 'Spectacle and Trumpism' discusses the advantage candidates like Trump gain as politics become more about entertainment and less about facts. …Read more
Charles Devellennes, author of the 'The Macron Régime', gives his take on whether the recent French legislative elections mark the end of Macronism, despite the failure of the Rassemblement National to take control. French politics.…Read more
Rik Peeters, Gabriela Lotta and Fernando Nieto Morales consider the role of street-level bureaucrats in contexts where state institutions are deficient. Do they inevitably maintain inequity in service delivery, or can they be valuable champions for vulnerable citizens?…Read more
Rebecca Megson-Smith and David C. Lane examine the impact beyond the academy of Beyond Bars, an open access book about the ripple effect that mass incarceration has on society.…Read more
Scott Timcke considers the impact of AI systems on democratic politics, as our lives become managed experiences optimised for efficient data extraction, and our social relations mediated by computer engineering.…Read more
Jeffrey Ian Ross explains why convict criminology, where incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals are given a voice, might change the status quo and improve the criminal justice system. …Read more
In this episode, George Miller talks to the author of What are Prisons for?, prison inspector and visiting professor of law at Oxford Hindpal Singh Bhui, about why we lock so many people up.…Read more
Hindpal Singh Bhui of HM Inspectorate of Prisons looks back at the politics of imprisonment, at the disproportionate numbers of minority ethnic prisoners, and the role prison played in replacing slavery as a means of controlling Black people.…Read more
Maaike Matelski, author of 'Contested Civil Society in Myanmar', considers the Spring Revolution resistance movement in Myanmar, three years on from the military coup.…Read more