Never Mind The Bar Charts
By Mark Pack
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Episodes: 146
Apr 19, 2019
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Mark Pack and guests talk about the Liberal Democrats, British politics and a few stray digressions. Only a few.
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Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain - and lessons for pro-European campaigners
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May 03, 2026 |
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The Thick of It, Series 1: Political Fictions podcast
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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New podcast: Political Fictions
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Are political party members psychopaths? New data from the Party Members Project
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Have we become too critical of Labour's general election campaign?
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Fail Safe: the film that got overshadowed by Dr. Strangelove
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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50 gems from political science: Phil Cowley's new book
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Liberal trends, populist politics: who is going to win out? Podcast with Rob Ford
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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What's happened to those who voted Labour in 2024?
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Liberalism: a great new book focusing on what politicians do
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Local elections 2025: the Lib Dem verdict
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May 07, 2025 |
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Podcast: First impressions of the House of Lords
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Jeremy Thorpe: European triumph, political leadership and personal scandal
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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How to explain, and beat, populism
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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The surprising similarity between Tony Blair and Nigel Farage
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Lessons from a century of Labour-Liberal (Democrat) relations
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Does proportional representation produce weak governments?
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Do those "Winning Here" posters and bar charts actually work?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Failed State: why our government is broken and how to fix it
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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The importance of geography to British electoral politics
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Election 2024 debrief: podcast with Tim Bale
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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One last podcast before polling day
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The best Lib Dem general election campaign since...?
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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A Dalek, The Avengers and other reasons to canvass with Victoria Collins
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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What do candidates get up to in their leaflets?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The general election is on: how's it going?
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May 30, 2024 |
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How did the May 2024 elections go for the Lib Dems?
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May 09, 2024 |
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Can Rishi Sunak save himself by doing a Jeremy Corbyn?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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My five favourite espionage novels
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Two more Conservative by-election defeats: what does it all mean?
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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How to improve people's lives: Rachel Bentley on being a councillor
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Will it be the TikTok general election … or the Zoom general election?
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The story of Charles Kennedy’s leadership, and lessons to learn from it
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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A year of Rishi Sunak and lessons from the Mid Bedfordshire by-election
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Meet the inspirational star who wants to be an MP
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Values or the economy - what’s driving our politics? Podcast with Paula Surridge
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Banning alcohol in the US didn’t last; could Brexit be the same?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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”The Liberal Democrats have been making the spectacular seem routine”
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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What do over 500 field experiments tell us works for getting people out to vote?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Why do so many obvious policy ideas keep on not happening?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Negative campaigning in political leaflets: what the evidence says
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May 18, 2023 |
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Another Lib Dem local election triumph
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May 08, 2023 |
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Where is the Conservative Party going and how did it get here?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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How to tackle the corrosion of trust in our politics
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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How to build houses, and win elections
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Why does Lords reform so often fail, and how can it be got right next time?
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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How have Labour and the Lib Dems done in 2022?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Talking political polling, with the No Man’s Land podcast
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Where next for British politics?
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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The cancellation of the Lib Dem autumn conference
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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It was the Blue Wall, not the Red Wall, that triggered Brexit
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Conservative Party leadership election: who is going to win, and what does it mean for the Lib Dems?
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Hope and headaches for the Liberal Democrats?
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Terrific Tiverton & Honiton Heaven
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Red Wall, Red Herring? The economic insecurity driving British politics
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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How did Labour, Tories and Lib Dems really do in the local elections?
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May 09, 2022 |
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What should Lib Dems make of the 2022 local elections?
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May 07, 2022 |
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Famous polling errors, what to do when polls go wrong and more...
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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How are Labour and the Lib Dems doing? (2022 update with Tim Bale)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Using online advertising to tell Russians the truth about Ukraine
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Birthday cake versus demographics: which will determine the future of British politics?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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What does 2022 hold for the Lib Dems? With Ed Davey and Mike Dixon
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Does North Shropshire signal the end for Boris Johnson?
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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The three reasons Boris Johnson won in 2019, and why he might not next time
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Unleash the bar charts! Tactical voting and the next general election
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Money and British politics - the good, the bad and the ugly
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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1960: The Making of the President - board game review
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Prime Minister Priti and other things that never happened
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Special Lib Dem 2021 conference preview - live show with the Lib Dem Pod
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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Does it really matter what the political polls currently say?
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Lessons from football for political campaigning
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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What Chesham and Amersham tells us about the future for the Liberal Democrats
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Why electoral reform matters and how to get more of it
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May 20, 2021 |
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How are political leaflets changing (and do they work)?
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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How good a political leader was Lord John Russell?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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How should the Liberal Democrats approach cross-party cooperation?
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Brexitland: The long-term factors shaping our politics, and what they mean for the future
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Is over-centralisation hindering the struggle against coronavirus? With Munira Wilson
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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How to make Parliament work better, with Professor Meg Russell
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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How are Labour and the Liberal Democrats doing?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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The march of electoral reform in Wales
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Inside the mind of Boris Johnson, with Caroline Pidgeon
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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The dilemma for progressives: lessons from the US 2020 elections
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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A fresh way of talking about liberal values, with Tom King
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Myth busting media coverage of election campaigns and social media
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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The origins and course of pro-Europeanism in the Lib Dems
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Culture wars, Brexit and electoral reform, with Rob Ford
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Who is going to win the US Presidency?
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Lib Dem European policy, how the leadership election went and more
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The future for liberalism, with David Howarth
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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That tuition fees promise: what new research shows about the lessons to learn
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Giving the Liberals direction, purpose and ambition: lessons from David Steel's leadership
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Compulsory voting: how it happened in Australia, and could it happen in the UK?
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Where next for the Liberal Democrats? What the data says, with Tim Bale
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Will British politics become less volatile, and how important is ideology? Interview with Professor Jane Green
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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If the Liberal Democrats were to have an anthem, the song I'd pick is...
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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What really happens at the grassroots when political parties push new ways of campaigning?
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Saving the party from disaster: lessons from Jo Grimond for the Liberal Democrats
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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What we can learn from Republicans campaigning against President Donald Trump
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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The virtues of Marmite: Tim Farron's advice on being a Liberal Democrat party leader
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Making the Liberal Democrats win more elections - with Cllr Lisa Smart
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Good News, Bad News
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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The five things an opposition party must do: interview with Tim Bale
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May 29, 2020 |
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Party leadership, online conferences and the election review
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May 27, 2020 |
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Why good pollsters are filled with doubt: interview with YouGov's Chris Curtis
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May 20, 2020 |
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What must the Liberal Democrats learn from Donald Trump?
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May 13, 2020 |
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The one in which I get compared to Terry Pratchett
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May 09, 2020 |
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Protecting our privacy is key to fighting coronavirus: interview with Jim Killock
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May 06, 2020 |
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What do the experts say about coronavirus? With Dr Ben Johnson
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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The Project: how the Conservatives were beaten last time
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Our bias toward pessimism - Sunder Katwala on reactions to coronavirus
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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What does coronavirus mean for public policy? Interview with Polly Mackenzie
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Special joint episode with Lib Dem Podcast: Leadership election postponed / should we cancel Brighton conference?
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Coronavirus: the Hong Kong experience and what next for British politics? With Phil Cowley
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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How you can figure out which news stories to trust: the story behind Bad News
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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What does the polling data say about the future for the Lib Dems? Interview with Paula Surridge
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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What's it like being a councillor and how do you get to be one? With Anton Georgiou
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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What does a Liberal Democrat council leader do? With Cllr Stephen Robinson
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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How do you make someone join a political party? Tim Bale has the evidence
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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What does the future hold for British politics? With Lynne Featherstone
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Jan 04, 2020 |
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Season 1 Finale: an interim elections post-mortem
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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How to change the result of the election with the help of targeting
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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How is the Liberal Democrat general election campaign going?
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Prince Andrew, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, and the Liberal Democrats
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Battlegrounds, bar charts but not Brexit
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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How are the Liberal Democrats going to do in the general election?
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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LIVE SHOW: Is Dominic Cummings a genius?
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Rebels with a cause
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Is politics still about left versus right?
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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Lib Dems do the Revokey-Cokey
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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The Brexit Episode: Remain is winning! (Or is it?)
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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And then there were two... (more MPs on the Lib Dem Parliamentary benches)
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Why did Jo Swinson win and what happens now?
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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What have we learnt so far about Jo Swinson and Ed Davey?
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Exclusive: Edward Davey interview
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Exclusive: Jo Swinson interview
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Announcement: three special episodes coming up
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Will the Liberal Democrat boom go bust?
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May 28, 2019 |
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Just how happy should the Lib Dems be?
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May 14, 2019 |
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Friend or foe? Change UK and the Lib Dems
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Are the Lib Dems about to lose an MP?
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Vince Cable: how did he do and who will succeed him?
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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The Independent Group: earthshattering or earthbound?
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Pilot episode #3: universal basic income, radicalism and new parties
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Pilot episode #2: Paddy, coalition and little Englanders
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Pilot episode #1: the best political commentators, the Lib Dems and what if Brexit wasn't happening?
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Dec 23, 2018 |