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CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open on the week's biggest policy news from SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's statement on crypto vaults to the London Stock Exchange's launch of a 24/5 tokenized market. Then, Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, joins to make the case that the CLARITY Act deserves a Senate floor vote before the August recess and argues that President Trump's agreement to subject himself to conduct restrictions is a "historic" and unprecedented ethics concession. Witt also breaks down the CFTC's expanded mission and the fight over funding and staffing. Plus, Rebecca and Renato debrief on the lessons of MiCA and the state of bipartisan compromise on the Hill, and name the state attorneys general, led by an op-ed from Montana's AG, as their Person of the Week. - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ realfi.co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. - JPEG Trading is a global proprietary trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. From market structure and liquidity provision to quantitative trading strategies, JPEG Trading operates across the full spectrum of blockchain-based assets. Follow @jpegtrading on X to stay ahead of the latest developments in digital asset markets:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://x.com/jpegtrading⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Check out CoinDesk Research's report on the evolution of crypto centralized exchanges, with a case study on Binance at: https://www.coindesk.com/research/the-evolution-of-the-crypto-cex-landscape-a-case-study-on-binance - Timecodes: 00:00 Cold Open: 'No Other President Has Done That' 01:07 Welcome to The Policy Protocol 01:59 Hester Peirce on Crypto Vaults & Onchain Lending 04:22 The LSE's 24/5 Market, LSE24 05:59 NYSE, OKX, and TradFi's Tokenization Push 06:18 The CLARITY Act & Guest Patrick Witt 06:41 Will CLARITY Pass Before the August Recess? 09:01 Inside the Bill's Historic Ethics Provision 11:06 The Tillis Ethics Compromise 12:40 Funding the CFTC's Expanded Mission 14:03 Why CLARITY Isn't a Giveaway to Crypto 17:04 Debrief: MiCA's Lessons and Market Structure 20:37 Person of the Week: State Attorneys General

Sixty-three percent of large companies worldwide had made a net zero commitment by 2023, up from close to none in 2018. But if the target date is 2050, that's several corporate lifetimes away, and the planet needs emission reductions today. What actually changes in the boardroom when a pledge is signed?Simon Dietz (LSE, CEPR) has tracked climate management practices and emissions at nearly 2,000 companies to find out. He tells Tim Phillips that the picture is not the one that either side of the debate might expect. A net zero pledge doesn't usually signify an immediate cut in emissions, but there is a clear and early shift in how companies plan for net zero that has often started before the announcement. What is left is something is harder to spot: firms making a strategic pivot, of which the public commitment is only one part.The research behind this episode:Dietz, Simon, and Nikolaus Hastreiter. 2026. "Corporate Net Zero Targets: Have They Achieved Anything?" CEPR Discussion Paper 21441 (gated).To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, and Simon Dietz. 2026. "Are net zero commitments greenwash?" VoxTalks Economics (podcast).About the guestSimon Dietz is Professor of Environmental Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Research Director of the LSE Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research spans climate change economics, corporate sustainability, decision-making under uncertainty, and climate finance.Research cited in this episodeThe Paris Agreement and the 1.5°C target. The 2015 UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change set a goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, with a stretch target of 1.5°C. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change subsequently concluded that meeting the 1.5°C goal requires global emissions to reach net zero by around mid-century, giving corporate net zero pledges their scientific rationale.Science Based Targets initiative, UN Race to Zero, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. These are among the organisations that encouraged corporations to adopt long-term net zero commitments following the Paris Agreement, helping drive the rapid diffusion of pledges that Dietz and Hastreiter document.Trucost and the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI). Dietz and Hastreiter combine two emissions datasets to overcome measurement problems in this area. Trucost provides broad coverage of around 1,600 large listed firms, combining self-reported data with modelled estimates. TPI provides sector-specific, physically normalised emissions intensity data for a smaller sample of roughly 200 companies in the highest-emitting sectors; Dietz is Research Director of the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre, which is based at LSE.Difference-in-differences with matching. To separate the effect of a net zero pledge from the fact that greener firms are more likely to make one in the first place, the authors compare firms before and after adoption against similar firms that have not yet adopted, using propensity score matching to build a comparable control group.The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework. The paper groups management practices into four pillars from this framework: governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. It finds no significant effect of net zero pledges on governance, risk management, or metrics and targets, but a significant and positive effect on strategy, including climate scenario planning and internal carbon pricing.More VoxTalks Economics episodesA big push for climate policy, in which Rick van der Ploeg argues that gradual policy change risks backsliding, and sets out what a genuinely transformative climate push would require.Related reading on VoxEU.orgCorporate net zero targets: Neither greenwashing nor a gamechanger, in which Dietz and Hastreiter set out the findings behind this episode in their own words.Corporate climate commitments: A profit-driven strategy, not just empty promises, in which Viral Acharya, Robert Engle, and Olivier Wang model when large firms and their investors have a financial incentive to follow through on climate pledges.Business as usual: Bank net zero commitments, lending, and engagement, in which Parinitha Sastry, Emil Verner, and David Marques-Ibanez find that banks' net zero pledges predict decarbonisation of their loan portfolios, but not reduced lending to high-carbon sectors.

"Even if you are small in this society, there is something you can do."Those are the words of Trixy Elle, a mother and a fisherwoman from the Philippines, and one of the claimants from the Odette case, named for the super typhoon she lived through. She may never win in court, but she says that isn't the point. She is one of more than 100 claimants suing the energy giant Shell, demanding justice and accountability for the losses she has experienced as a result of climate change. This week, Christiana Figueres sits down with Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham, two of the authors of the ninth annual Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation report from the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and the Sabin Center at Columbia Law School. And what they find is complex. There have been cases that have captured the world's attention. Last year's ICJ advisory opinion on the obligations of states. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' landmark advisory opinion establishing a human right to a healthy climate. Or the 2015 case brought by the Urgenda Foundation, where a Dutch court told the government it had a legal duty to protect its citizens from climate change, and ordered it to cut emissions faster. But beneath the headlines, courts on every continent have been litigating how far that duty of care goes and what it looks like. More than 3,600 cases filed across 62 countries - last year at a rate of five a week. And of the 215 that have reached the highest national courts, more than half have gone in a direction favourable to climate action. But a maturing field cuts both ways: for every Urgenda-style case there is now a countermove - laws to shield companies from liability, suits designed to stop protest, even governments weighing whether to walk away from their commitments altogether.So what happens when the law gets ahead of the politics? And who holds the structure together when, as Christiana puts it, nobody is orchestrating the Jenga game?Learn More:

Hablamos en Montevideo con el periodista y escritor especializado Luis Prats; en París con el politólogo Gaspard Estrada de la Unidad del Sur Global de LSE, y en Ciudad de México con Gonzalo Monroy, director general de GMEC

Join our hosts for Wednesday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘ Trillionaires : is extreme wealth the reason for extreme poverty ?' and ‘ financial literacy : the key to money confidence.' Trillionaires : is extreme wealth the reason for extreme poverty ?  The world has witnessed the rise of its first trillionaire, highlighting the growing gap between extreme wealth and global poverty. While some accumulate unimaginable fortunes, millions continue to struggle with basic needs. join us as we explore wether wealth inequality is contributing to poverty and what a fairer economic future could look like. Financial literacy : the key to money confidence Money influences Nearly every aspect of life, yet many enter adulthood with little understanding of how to manage it effectively. from student loans and credit card debt to rising living costs, poor financial decision-making has become a widespread issue. Join us as we explore the importance of financial literacy as a critical life skill. actions,  and reflect on how these teachings can guide our daily lives. Guests : Dr Tania Burchardt (Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Deputy Director of STICERD, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE.) Rachel McAdams (Service Manager for a Fairer and Healthier Economy) Amtul Saboor Rana Emmanuel Asuquo   Producers : Laiba Mubashar Rashid and Tahdia Hasan

Tampons in an Ice Cream TubIn this episode of Brand Growth Heroes, I'm joined by Tara Chandra and Susan Allen, co-founders of Here We Flo, the organic, sustainable period care brand turning one of the most shame-coded categories in consumer brands into something loud, funny, feminist and brilliantly visible on shelf. We talk about how two friends from LSE spotted a gap in women's intimate products, started with a period care idea in a Hackney flatshare, and built a challenger brand now stocked across major retailers including Boots, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett.Here We Flo shows us the power of brand strategy to create value when the category ITSELF is broken. Tara and Susan didn't just create organic cotton tampons, pads and liners; they questioned why period care was hidden, clinical and functional when other parts of consumer life had already moved towards better materials, better design and better conversations. We cover packaging as a growth lever, why their ice cream tub became a “trolley magnet”, how they think about rate of sale rather than just chasing distribution, and why their mission now stretches across cycle care, bladder care and sexual wellness.What You'll Learn Why Here We Flo used packaging as their first “billboard” before they could afford media.  How starting in independent Hackney stores helped them build product market fit.  Why brand tone of voice matters so much in categories shaped by shame and stigma.  How they think about growing rate of sale with existing retail partners.  Why product reliability is non-negotiable in period care and bladder care. Key Topics Discussed Building a feminist challenger brand  Organic and sustainable period care  Packaging as a shelf strategy  Launching in independent retailers  Breaking into WHSmith Travel, Boots and Tesco  Making taboo categories emotionally accessible  Period care, bladder care and sexual wellness  Growing through rate of sale, not just distribution  Education on shelf and in-store communication  Sports partnerships, stigma and period confidence  Building a team of 31 women  Scaling towards 50–100% growth ambitions Like this episode? PLEASE share the love by sharing this episode with another founder building a challenger brand, a colleague or a mate who loves brilliant non-alcoholic drinks, or anyone trying to work out how to build a sharper, more focused growth model.Don't forget to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to Brand Growth Heroes on your favourite podcast app, and even LEAVE A REVIEW - both of these actions make a MASSIVE difference to our mission to help more founders just like you.Join our community Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brandgrowthheroes) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/brand-growth-heroes/?viewAsMember=true) Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@brandgrowthheroes)Find out more about the programmes and courses Fiona runs here (https://www.brandgrowthheroes.com/mini-mba-2026)AND Do you want to lean in to unlock value from AI? We have a whatsapp group -the  NextGen CPG WhatsApp group for founders leaning in to the value that a leadership approach to engaging with AI can unlock for businesses like yours. Do you want to join? *** A massive thanks thanks to Brand Growth Heroes' podcast sponsor -  Joelson, the commercial law firm ***If you're a founder, you already know how much energy goes into building the perfect product, creating standout branding and connecting with consumers.But scaling a CPG business also brings legal complexities that can make or break your growth journey - from contracts and regulatory compliance to protecting your intellectual property.That's why we're proud to partner with Joelson, the leading commercial law firm specialising in helping founders of scaling consumer brands.Joelson works with brands like Little Moons, Trip, Eat Natural, Bear Graze and Pulsin, and advised the innocent founders on their landmark sale to Coca-Cola - and still work with them at JamJar Investments today!Joelson is offering a FREE LEGAL CONSULTATION to all BGH listeners (mailto:hello@joelsonlaw.com) - we highly recommend you take them up on it!CREDITSThanks to our Sound Engineer Gyp Buggane at Ballagroove.com and all the rest of the Brand Growth Heroes team.

Fables Of The Reconstruction: A Bunker mini-series for the 250th anniversary of the USA… When Trump is gone, should America take a long hard look at its system to prevent authoritarian government from coming back? We talk to experts about the pros and cons of a new Reconstruction. Today: Can you make the pillars of American democracy President-proof without looking again at the Constitution itself? If not, is the US on a one-way path to vesting all power in one person? And how are the supposed firewalls against Presidential tyranny faring under assault from Trump? Professor of government at Bowdoin College and LSE visiting professor Andrew Rudalevige talks Andrew Harrison through the big ask of looking again at America's most sacred document. • Don't miss the other episodes of this three-part miniseries. • Want more on the politics of the USA? Don't miss our brilliant podcast American Friction – out twice weekly.• Special offer! Get 20% off any vehicle history check at carVertical.com/TheBunkerwww.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.www.podmasters.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted a Kuwait Programme panel discussion highlighting recent education policy issues and trajectories in Kuwait and globally, with a focus on the role of policy in shaping current and future priorities of education. The panel discussed Kuwait's policy challenges and changes in the broader context of global education policies and the neoliberal order. The panel also focused on the recent geopolitical crisis in the Gulf and the response of Kuwait's education system. Meet our speakers Dr. Fatimah Alhashem is an assistant professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST). and chair for the Center of Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) from 2018 till 2021. She received a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction in science education from Arizona State University. She worked as general manager for the teacher development department at the National Center for Education Development (NCED) from 2015 until 2018. She is a strong advocate for supporting teachers in general and supporting women in science education in specific. She is involved in different projects that serve the education system mainly clustered around teachers' development. She led many educational projects as a consultant in (UNDP, UNESCO & KFAS). Ibrahim Alhouti (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of the comparative politics of education at Kuwait University and a non-resident fellow at Gulf International Forum in Washington, DC. He obtained his PhD from University College London's Institute of Education, where his thesis explored the politics of reforming the education system in the Arab Gulf region, and holds two master's degrees on Leadership and Comparative Education, both from University College London's Institute of Education. He also serves as a consultant for a number of educational institutions in the Gulf. Alhouti has published several research studies about education and education reforms in the region. His research interest encompasses the politics of education, education reforms, comparative education, and education policies. Dr. Sonia Exley is an Associate Professor in the LSE Department of Social Policy. She is Programme Director for the MSc in International Social and Public Policy, and teaches on a range of postgraduate and undergraduate courses. Sonia's specialist area of research is education policy. She has a particular interest in the marketisation and privatisation of education systems across the world. Sonia has published in a wide range of education and social policy journals. She holds a DPhil in Social Policy from Oxford University (Nuffield College). Prior to joining LSE, she was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the (now UCL) Institute of Education in London. Meet our chair Dr Nidal Al Haj Sleiman is the Kuwait Research Officer at the LSE Middle East Centre. She is a sociologist of education policy, leadership and international education. Her work generally draws on theories of policy sociology, social and cultural justice, critical pedagogy and transformative learning, particularly in West Asia: Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon and Palestine. Her publications broadly address interconnection of policy, leadership and society, the sociology of international education, the political economy of education, post-colonial and settler-colonial theory in education. Nidal is also a co-founder of the SWANA Forum for Social Justice, a UCL alumni- and student-led community. Prior to her research career, Nidal worked as teacher and a school leader in Lebanon and Qatar, in public and international education settings.

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of 'Turkey and the Liberal International Order', a new book examining Turkey's complex and evolving relationship with the liberal international order from the end of the First World War to the present day. The book explores how Turkey, as a middle power, responded to major global transformations following the First World War, the Second World War and the Cold War by appealing to the dominant principles of liberal internationalism. At the same time, it shows how Turkish political movements and foreign policy actors reinterpreted and challenged these principles, shaping how the liberal international order was understood and implemented in the Turkish context. Drawing on parliamentary records and the writings of key political figures, the book offers a rich historical account of how successive generations of policymakers understood Turkey's national interest, its place in the international order and its role on the global stage. Meet our speakers Marc Sinan Winrow is a Teaching Fellow at SOAS, teaching the International Relations of the Middle East and Risk and Policy Analysis, and he is also a Research Assistant at LSE. He completed his PhD in the Department of International Relations of the LSE. The topic of this talk is based on his first published book, Turkey and the Liberal International Order, published by Agenda in 2025. His research continues to be concentrated on different (post-) liberal conceptions of international order, geopolitics and the history and theory of sovereignty in International Relations, with a focus on Turkey and the southeast European, Eastern Mediterranean and the MENA region. Ayla Göl is Course Lead in Politics and International Relations, and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Humanities, York St John University, UK. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she had an early career position at the Department of International Relations. She is the author of Turkey Facing East: Islam, Modernity and Foreign Policy (Manchester University Press) and numerous articles in journals such as Nations and Nationalism, Third World Quarterly, Information and Education Technologies, the Global Discourse and International Affairs, as well as book chapters on Turkey, the Middle East and international relations. Senem Aydın-Düzgit is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University and the Director of the Istanbul Policy Center. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. In 2024-2025, she was based at the Harvard Kennedy School as the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy, and in 2023-2024, she was a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. Her main research interests include identity, history, and discourse in the study of international politics, with an empirical focus on European and Turkish foreign policies; and more recently, the nexus between domestic and foreign policies of middle powers in the changing international order. Meet our Chair Katerina Dalacoura is Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of the LSE Middle East Centre. She held a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust between 2021 and 2024. The project findings will shortly be published as a book monograph by Cambridge University Press, under the title Islamic International Thought in Turkey: History, Civilisation and Nation.

“Narrative remains a pretty unbeatable delivery device for information.” — Patrick Radden Keefe Has London really fallen? That's the question Patrick Radden Keefe — staff writer at The New Yorker and bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing — addressed in his new book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth. One thing for sure is that Keefe himself hasn't fallen. He's been surprised by the book's success. “I thought the antibodies would get up because I'm an interloper,” the American confesses about writing about Britain. Antibodies or not, the book has been a #1 bestseller in both the UK and US. And we can look forward to an A24 and Brightstar TV adaptation soon. On London, the story is murkier. London Falling begins on November 29, 2019, when nineteen-year-old Zac Brettler falls to his death from a luxury apartment above the Thames. Every parent's ultimate nightmare. As it happens, I've known Zac's dad, Matthew, for many years. But what appeared to be a tragic accident or a suicide turned out to be something far more sinister — a story of double lives, dirty money, a dishonest businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a terrifyingly violent gangster known as Indian Dave. Lurking behind the Brettler death is what Keefe presents as the greatest deceit of all — London's cruel descent into what he sees as the moneyed miasma of post-Thatcherite neo-liberalism. London is, in Keefe's compelling narrative, the most invisible of cities — where power lies with criminals like Indian Dave, where the police are at best bystanders, and where a teenage fantasist from a comfortable middle-class family can become fatally entangled in a fallen world he barely understood. Five Takeaways •       Zac Brettler: The Double Life That Led to His Death: Zac Brettler was nineteen years old. He fell — or was pushed, or was forced to jump — from a luxury apartment balcony above the Thames on November 29, 2019. He had been living a double life: to London's criminal underworld, he was Zac Ismailov, the son of a Russian oligarch, heir to a great fortune. He had even fabricated bank statements showing a personal account holding $1 million. Under this guise, he became entangled with Akbar Shamji, a slippery businessman, and a man known as Indian Dave, a violent extortionist. Keefe's reporting suggests Zac jumped to escape from one of these men. Scotland Yard's passivity in investigating the case is, in Keefe's word, bizarre. •       London as a Twenty-Four-Hour Laundromat for Dirty Money: Keefe's portrait of London is the book's macro argument: a global city that has been hollowed out by decades of financial deregulation, whose financial sector is stacked with professional facilitators eager to help protect or conceal a dubious fortune, where posh mansions and private nightclubs serve as the visible surface of a hidden economy of criminal money. Zac Brettler was not rich. He was a boy from a comfortably off family who became fixated on the glitzy, mercenary, aspirational culture embodied by foreign billionaires who had bought mansions and football clubs in his city. London, in Keefe's telling, did this to him. •       The Brettlers' Consent: A Long Haul With the Family: Keefe had written 15,000 words for The New Yorker when he knew there was a book. He went to Matthew and Rochelle Brettler and their surviving son Joe and told them: I will only do this with your blessing. They read the finished piece, talked amongst themselves, and came back with a yes. Keefe's method: he is an open book; he invites sources to read his previous work. It took him an LSE graduate who became one of the most trusted journalists in the world to persuade a devastated family to trust him with their son's story. They made the right decision. •       Narrative as Delivery Device: Keefe's Method: Keefe on why he writes the way he writes: everyone has a phone in their pocket making claims on their attention. Narrative — true stories about real people, told with enough seductive propulsive energy — remains the most powerful way to convey information, to make someone who would not otherwise read nonfiction want to keep turning pages. He is looking, always, for inherently dramatic stories. London Falling is that: a whodunit, a parental love story, a portrait of a corrupted city, and a thriller, all in one book. The New York Times described the whole book as one of the best of 2026 so far. •       The Television Adaptation: A24, Brightstar, and the Lessons of Say Nothing: A24 and Brightstar are producing the television adaptation of London Falling. Five production companies had to audition for the Brettlers over Zoom. The family is involved. Keefe knows from Say Nothing — which took five years from book to screen and won awards as an FX series — that this cannot go on autopilot. The aim: something sophisticated, sensitive, and just to the family's story. The first word on the Mill Hill School website is “integrity.” Whether that word will survive contact with a television adaptation remains to be seen. About the Guest Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Doubleday, April 7, 2026; #1 New York Times bestseller), Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize), Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (National Book Critics Circle Award; named one of the twenty best books of the 21st century by the New York Times), Rogues, and Chatter. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award, and the Orwell Prize. He served as executive producer on the award-winning FX series Say Nothing and is the creator and host of the podcast Wind of Change. References: •       London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday, April 7, 2026). •       Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe — referenced at the opening. •       Say Nothing (FX series, executive produced by Keefe) — referenced in the closing section. •       Andrew O'Hagan, Caledonian Road — referenced as covering similar London territory in fiction. •       A24 and Brightstar — the production companies making the London Falling television adaptatio...

23. júní 2016 ákváðu Bretar í þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslu að Bretland væri betur sett utan Evrópusambandsins, efnahags- og stjórnmálalegs ríkjasambands sem Bretar áttu þó ríkan þátt í að stofna og síðan móta um áratugaskeið. Af könnunum má ráða að meirihluti Breta telji Brexit hafa verið mistök, -ferlið allt hafa verið óttalegt klúður og að Bretland standi hallari fæti nú en áður. Rætt við Jón Daníelsson, prófessor við LSE. Kúrasáar eru fámennasta þjóð sem hefur komist á HM karla í fótbolta og landsmenn eru að rifna úr stolti. Um helgina gerðu þeir jafntefli við Ekvador og markvörður Kúrasá var hetja leiksins, varði 15 sinnum. Sjö - eitt tap fyrir Þjóðverjum í fyrsta leik fyllti menn líka gleði. Halla Fróðadóttir lýtalæknir hefur unnið og búið á Kúrasá undanfarin ár.

For decades, China accelerated its industrial development through a straightforward bargain: foreign firms invested in China, often through joint ventures, gaining access to the enormous Chinese market, while Chinese companies absorbed western tech and knowhow. Today, that dynamic is changing. China's high-tech industries are now world-leading, and western governments are looking on enviously. So should the US and EU now take a page from China's playbook? Host Soumaya Keynes speaks to John Minnich, assistant professor of international relations at LSE, about the history of Chinese tech transfer, how it drove industrial sophistication and whether the west could — or should — attempt something similar.Subscribe to Soumaya's show on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen.Further ReadingHow China pulled off a great tech reversalEU to include UK and Japan in ‘Made in Europe' plansJohn Minnich: Divide and Conquer: Industry Market Structure, Inter-Firm Rivalry, and Bargaining over TechnologyPresented by Soumaya Keynes. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. Original music and sound design by Breen Turner. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Flo Phillips is the FT's head of audio.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we analyse Flutter Entertainment's decision to delist from the London Stock Exchange and its implications for the UK and US markets. We explore the strategic shifts, investor reactions, and broader industry impacts, providing insights into the evolving landscape of global gambling.Key TopicsFlutter's delisting from LSE and move to NYSEImpact on UK economy and gambling sectorUS market strategy and investor influenceBroader industry implications and regulatory environmentShareholder changes and investor sentimentHost: Charlie HornerGuests: Ted Menmuir & Ted Orme-ClayeProducer: Anaya McDonaldEditor: Anaya McDonaldLearn how Optimove's Positionless Marketing is changing how iGaming teams operate. Discover how operators are using Optimove's Positionless Marketing Platform to launch personalised CRM campaigns, dynamically change casino lobbies and bet slips, and create engaging gamified experiences. Learn more at optimove.com.Finally, remember to check out Optimove at https://hubs.la/Q02gLC5L0 or go to Optimove.com/sbc to get your first month free when buying the industry's leading customer-loyalty service. 

【主播的话】今年五月，我去了一趟奥马哈，参加了一年一度的巴菲特股东大会。作为一个平日里并不算关注投资的人，去参会纯粹是记者的好奇心作祟：我想看看，这个每年让几万人专程飞来朝圣的地方，究竟供着什么“神”？现场的第一印象，像是一个巨大的县城大卖场，人声鼎沸，摩肩接踵，中国投资者组团涌入，对着一个九十多岁的老人的照片虔诚地举起手机。那种氛围也让人深思：他们在这里寻找的，究竟是财富密码，还是某种更难言说的确定感？也是在那里，我第一次真正开始思考，投资这件事和我们的生活到底是什么关系。带着这个问题，我回到了纽约，找到了大卫翁。他是知名财经博客《起朱楼宴宾客》的主播，还刚刚出版了一本叫做《资产配置行动指南》的书。他有一份让旁人羡慕的履历——西安交大少年班，LSE硕士，拥有逾20年金融行业经验，曾任头部中资投行董事总经理、国家外汇储备管理机构高管等。离开机构之后，他创办了播客、也在公号写作，把复杂的金融知识和资产配置理念掰开揉碎，重新调配成普通人能消化的东西。我们这期的对话，也并不是一堂理财课。我们想探讨的是：一个人可以怎么使用资产配置的眼光重新丈量自己的人生规划？选择丁克、退出系统、裸辞、养老，这些正在成为越来越多人真实选项的时刻。在中国，房地产的旧神话已经散场，AI正在悄悄拉开新的贫富裂缝，在这个锚点纷纷失效的年代，钱的问题从来都不只是钱的问题。大卫翁在录制快结束时说了一句话，我觉得可以当作这期节目的注脚：投资的最终目的，应该服务于你自己的生活。在一个把财富增值当作人生目标本身来贩卖的时代，我们或许需要一点逆流而行的清醒。【本期主播】王磬：微博@王磬【本期嘉宾】大卫翁：《起朱楼宴宾客》主播，著有《资产配置行动指南》【本期剧透】00:09 投资最重要的不是行动指南，而是一本心态修炼手册04:27 几乎所有“新鲜小韭菜”初次投资都要交学费？07:48 投资如同学习外语，那么市场有“母语者”吗？14:44 巴菲特奥马哈股东大会的现场见闻：很像县城大卖场，中国投资者组团来“拜财神”25:58 对于普通人的投资建议：与其预测市场，不如回归自身需求31:32 选择丁克，选择离职，选择养老，那该怎么算这笔财务的账？48:10 投资的最终目的，应该服务于你自己的生活59:17 中国新的房地产周期，过往4%-5%稳健收益且随取随用的刚兑时代已经过去了01:11:59 中国创作者经济的尽头与播客的尴尬01:19:53 纽约一年的实感：AI带来社会巨大的割裂，得利者没有争执，都在狂欢【相关阅读】《资产配置行动指南》作者: 大卫翁 出版社: 中信出版社 出版年: 2026-2单身独居，如何最大化个人价值，保障自己的日子有声有色？传统家庭，如何一手护卫父母的健康，一手为“吞金兽”的教育金做准备？略有积蓄，要不要投一点私募产品？要不要换套改善型住房？利率降低、房价难涨、寿命延长，面对一系列新环境，实现资产的安全及稳稳增值才是王道！跟随资深金融人大卫翁，从个人的“三张表”开始梳理，透视自己的收入与支出，资产与负债，现金流流入与流出。在真实的个人数据中，优化收入与消费结构，放大你最宝贵的人力资产，把钱理出来。资产配置远不是买理财产品那般单调。大卫翁带你认识权益类、固定收益类、现金类、另类资产等四大类资产，在不同的经济周期环境下，灵活运用这些武器可做到攻守兼备。同时，针对全球化的资产配置，大卫翁教你打开视野，做聪明资金。现在就盘活自己的资产，去做最适合自己的资产配置。Illustration by Tim EnthovenWhat I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat我在杰夫·贝索斯私人聚会上学到的关于亿万富豪的真相 作者：诺亚·霍利（Noah Hawley) 发表平台：大西洋月刊 发表时间：2026.4作者回忆了他受邀参加杰夫·贝索斯举办的名为“篝火”（Campfire）的年度极为私密的闭门静修会。现场聚集了约80位全球最顶尖的头脑，包括普利策奖得主、摇滚明星、顶级科学家和电影明星，讨论着如何“让世界变得更好”，但充满了一种荒诞的悬浮感。当今的顶级亿万富豪已经脱离了普通人的现实生活，对于他们来说，由于资产过于庞大，世界上的任何东西都是“免费的”，宛如生活在一个巨型的“感官剥夺水箱”中，社会的真实反馈和大众的疾苦根本无法穿透他们的财富防火墙。【

This week, Walter gives a lecture and Q&A at the London School of Economics on American foreign policy in the Trump era. The recording is from February 19 and is republished here with the permission of the LSE.

It's 1990. A young staff economist walks into a director's office at the World Bank and says the number he's about to publish is "crazy". The director tells him not to worry about it. The number was the dollar-a-day poverty line. Lant Pritchett, now of LSE, was that economist. More than three decades later, he's still worrying about it. In this week's episode he argues that the dollar-a-day line warped how the world thinks about poverty, by setting the bar so low that we can count billions of deprived people as not poor.In a new paper, co-authored with Martina Viarengo (Graduate Institute, Geneva), their fix isn't to scrap the low line. It's to add a high one as well. They propose a global upper-bound poverty line of $21.50 a day, ten times the extreme-poverty standard, derived from four separate measures of material wellbeing.Above it, you're no longer poor by any reasonable global standard. Below it, you're poor in a sense worth measuring. By that standard, 99% of Pakistan is poor, and almost no one in Denmark is. Should that affect how we think about anti-poverty policy? The research behind this episode:Pritchett, Lant, and Martina Viarengo. Forthcoming. "Raising the Bar: An Inclusive Global Poverty Line." Journal of Development Economics. Available now as a working paper.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, and Lant Pritchett. 2026. "What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong." VoxDev Talks (podcast). Assign this as extra listening. The citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestLant Pritchett is a development economist and Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He worked at the World Bank from 1988 to 2007 and taught at the Harvard Kennedy School for nearly two decades. His work spans economic growth, state capability, education systems, and labour mobility.The paper is co-authored with Martina Viarengo, Professor of International Economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research spans public policy, labour markets, comparative education, and international migration.Research cited in this episodeThe dollar-a-day poverty line. Created for the World Bank's 1990 World Development Report on poverty and based on the observation that national poverty lines in the poorest countries clustered at a low floor (Ravallion, Datt and van de Walle 1991). Updated for inflation, it now sits at P$2.15 a day in 2017 purchasing power parity. It was only ever meant to mark the lowest a global poverty line could plausibly be, not the line.The focus axiom. A standard property of poverty measures, originating with Amartya Sen (1976), under which changes in the income of anyone above the poverty line do not register in the measure. Pritchett's objection is that this assigns mathematically zero weight to the near-poor; a household just above the line counts the same as a Danish millionaire, namely zero. He calls it an economic bug that became a political feature, because it takes global redistribution off the table.Gresham's law applied to poverty. Pritchett's framing for how the simple headcount displaced richer, distribution-sensitive approaches; bad economics drove out better economics because it was easier to understand. He notes the World Bank of the 1970s was preoccupied with distribution, citing Hollis Chenery and Montek Ahluwalia's Redistribution with Growth (1974), so the idea that economists ignored distribution until poverty measurement arrived is a myth.The two criteria for an upper bound. The proposed line rests on two ideas drawn from the tension between the focus axiom and standard welfare economics. One, material wellbeing achievement; the line sits where a household reaches a standard of living a rich-country citizen would recognise as adequate. Two, near enough satiation; the line sits where the extra wellbeing from another dollar has fallen so low that treating further gains as zero does little violence to reality. At twenty-one and a half dollars the marginal utility of income is roughly three percent of its value at the dollar-a-day line; at the World Bank's current high line of P$6.85 it is still around thirty percent.Four measures of wellbeing. The number is triangulated across an iso-elastic utility function, food shares in consumption (Engel's Law), a household index of six basic conditions drawn from Demographic and Health Survey data, and a cross-national index of basics. The estimates cluster between twenty and forty dollars a day; twenty-one and a half was chosen because it is exactly ten times the dollar-a-day line, a focal point in the same way one dollar was.The six minimal conditions of prosperity. Electricity, improved sanitation, safe water, primary schooling completed by older children, no child dying under five, and no young child malnourished. The test Pritchett applies is whether it would be absurd to call a household prosperous while it lacks one of them.The rich of the poor and the poor of the rich. The tenth percentile in Denmark has higher consumption than the ninetieth percentile in Pakistan or Indonesia. This is why any global line that produces meaningful poverty in rich countries implies poverty rates near one hundred percent across most of the developing world; a point Dani Rodrik (2007) showed is widely misunderstood.The prosperity gap. A distribution-sensitive welfare measure adopted by the World Bank (Kraay et al. 2025) that weights the whole income distribution rather than counting everyone above a threshold as zero. Pritchett offers it, alongside poverty-gap and squared-poverty-gap measures at a higher line, as the practical route to acting on a global upper bound without reducing everything to a single headcount.More VoxDev Talks episodesRethinking evidence and refocusing on growth in development economics, Lant Pritchett on what the problem might be if we rely exclusively on rigorous evidence in development economics as a guide for policy.Rethinking how we measure extreme poverty, Charles Kenny asks: is it time for a new measure of extreme poverty?

Someone once held a patent on the swing. A piece of wood. Two ropes. The US Patent Office granted it. How often does that actually happen, and what does it cost when the system gets it wrong? Or, how often is a valid patent claim rejected?Until now, no one knew. Tim Phillips talks to Mark Schankerman of LSE and CEPR, who with co-authors William Matcham spent eight years building the tools to find out. Using natural language processing across a dataset of around one million patent applications, twenty million claims, and fifty-five million examiner decisions, they measure how similar each incoming claim is to the hundred million claims that preceded it, going back to 1976. They find that 81% of initial patent claims fall below the patentability threshold; examiners must negotiate that figure down round by round. And they do a pretty good job. But around a third of all abandoned applications contain at least one valid claim the system failed to protect. You don't see patents that aren't awarded, so those errors have, until now, been invisible.The research behind this episode:Matcham, William, and Mark Schankerman. Forthcoming. "Screening Property Rights for Innovation." Econometrica. Available as CEPR Discussion Paper DP18334 (gated). Current version dated January 2026.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, and Mark Schankerman. 2026. “How “well does patent screening work? VoxTalks Economics (podcast). Assign this as extra listening. The citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestMark Schankerman is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, where his research spans innovation, intellectual property, and the economics of technology. His work has examined how patent rights shape R&D incentives, the market for technology, and the behaviour of innovative firms, with particular attention to the institutions that govern how property rights are allocated and enforced.Research cited in this episodePrior art. In patent law, prior art is any publicly available knowledge that predates a patent application. Examiners are required to search prior art and reject claims insufficiently distinct from it. The concept defines the outer boundary of what can be granted protection; the closer a claim is to prior art, the weaker the case for granting it.Type I and Type II errors in patent screening. A Type I error occurs when an examiner grants a claim that should have been rejected, typically because it is too similar to prior art. This allows the holder to charge royalties and, in the US context especially, to bring litigation. A Type II error occurs when a valid claim is refused or abandoned, depriving the applicant of protection they deserve and reducing future incentives to innovate. Schankerman argues that Type II error is systematically under-discussed in public debate: you can point to a patent that should not have been granted; you cannot point to the invention that was never protected.Structural model. The paper uses a dynamic structural model, meaning it models the actual institutional rules, incentives, and decision sequences that govern patent prosecution at the USPTO. Structural models allow researchers to run counterfactual experiments, asking what would happen if specific rules or incentives were changed, without running those experiments for real. This is the methodological basis for the paper's policy analysis.Patent distance measure. The paper's key methodological innovation is a quantitative measure of how similar a patent claim is to existing claims, constructed using natural language processing. The algorithm is trained on existing patent documents and compares the textual content of each incoming claim against all prior claims, covering roughly a hundred million filings going back to 1976. This produces a scalar distance figure that can be compared against an estimated patentability threshold.Deadweight loss. The standard economic term for the welfare cost created when prices are raised above competitive levels. In the patent context, a wrongly granted claim allows its holder to charge higher licensing fees than the market would otherwise bear, generating a cost for users without a corresponding social benefit.Request for Continued Examination (RCE). A procedural mechanism in the US patent system that allows applicants to re-open a finally rejected application in exchange for a fee. Unlike the European Patent Office or China's patent system, the USPTO places no hard limit on how many times an applicant can return. Schankerman's counterfactual analysis finds that restricting rounds to one substantially reduces screening costs and discourages strategic padding of claims.Unified Patent Court (UPC). A specialised European court that began operating in June 2023. Its remit covers the enforcement of patent rights across participating EU member states; it does not conduct patentability examinations. Schankerman argues that by reducing the cost of enforcement, the UPC raises the stakes of the upstream screening process: a wrongly granted patent becomes cheaper and easier to assert.Amazon one-click patent. Amazon received a US patent on the one-click online purchasing process. Schankerman uses the case to illustrate the core economic argument: the relevant question is not whether an invention is valuable, but whether patent protection was necessary to induce its development. If the invention would have occurred regardless, the grant creates costs without providing the intended innovation incentive.Intrinsic motivation. The tendency for individuals to pursue a task for its own sake rather than for external rewards. Schankerman's model estimates that USPTO examiners exhibit substantial intrinsic motivation and that this is the primary driver of screening quality. In counterfactual simulations, removing intrinsic motivation causes outcomes to deteriorate markedly; removing the credit-based extrinsic incentive system has a much smaller effect.Padding. Schankerman's term for the strategic behaviour in which patent applicants include claims that are broader than what is strictly novel, hoping some will survive examiner scrutiny and expand the scope of their eventual property right. The paper measures the extent of padding directly from the distance data and confirms it is widespread.More VoxTalks Economics episodesPatent pools for generic drugs, Mark Schankerman talks about how diffusion of new drugs is painfully slow in low-income countries. Do patent pools accelerate the process, and how we could still do a better job of licensing life-saving medicines?Related reading on VoxEUPatent screening, innovation, and welfare, Florian Schuett and Mark Schankerman, 6 Nov 2020. Critics of the patent system claim that patent rights are becoming an impediment to innovation, and an instrument to extract rents through patent litigation. This column develops a framework to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of the current US patent system and the welfare impact of reforms.

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of Richard Barltrop's paper, 'Sudan's Current War: A Longer View on Peacemaking and Prospects'. This hybrid event launched a new paper examining the ongoing war in Sudan, which broke out in 2023. Drawing on lessons from the history of peacemaking in Sudan and comparative insights from other civil wars, the paper reflects on pathways toward ending the conflict, including the urgency of de-escalation, the need for sustained, long-term peacebuilding efforts, and the importance of Sudanese leadership and ownership in shaping a durable peace process. Richard will be joined by discussants Raga Makawi and Abdel Salam Sidahmad, and the event will be chaired by LSE's Laura Mann. Meet our speakers Richard Barltrop is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre researching contemporary approaches to peacemaking and peace processes. He has worked for the UN in the Middle East, North Africa and the Horn of Africa and is the author of Darfur and the International Community: The Challenges of Conflict Resolution in Sudan (IB Tauris, 2011). Abdel Salam Sidahmed is Chairperson of the Sudanese HR Monitor (SHRM) and an academic and human rights specialist with a PhD in Political Science. He previously served as Senior Human Rights Advisor to the Sudanese Prime Minister and Minister of Justice during the transitional government (2020–2021). Dr. Sidahmed brings over two decades of international human rights experience, including nine years with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, where he served as Regional Representative for the Middle East (2013–2021). Prior to that, he spent ten years at Amnesty International (1995–2005) as a Researcher and later Program Director for the Middle East and North Africa. In academia, he served as Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada (2005–2011). Raga Makawi is a Sudanese British researcher on Sudan's civic politics and social movements at the London School of Economics. She is the ex Editor at African Arguments curating topical themes on the Sudan's, the larger Horn and the general political and social affairs of the continent at large. She is co-author of the book Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution and is currently working on a number of publications in edited volumes including; the sudanese revolution and authoritarianism, the sudanese social movement contribution to security sector reform and new civic formations and the future of peace politics and political settlements in Sudan. Meet our chair Laura Mann is a sociologist whose research focuses on the political economy of development, knowledge and technology. Her regional focus is East Africa (Sudan, Kenya and Rwanda) but she has also worked on collaborative research on ICTs and BPO in Asia and has conducted fieldwork in North America as part of a project on digitisation within global agriculture.

Virtually every major war begins under false pretenses. German economist Richard Werner explains what the current global conflict is actually about. (00:00) The Effect of Propaganda in Wartime (11:52) The Return of Total War (53:28) Is There Danger of Japan and China Collaborating? (1:07:51) China's One-Child Policy and Anti-Population Growth (1:18:17) The Great Deception Richard A. Werner is an Oxford- and LSE-educated economist, professor of banking and finance, and internationally recognized expert on central banking and monetary policy. He is best known for coining the term “Quantitative Easing” in 1995 and for his bestselling book Princes of the Yen. Over a 30-year career, Werner has advised governments, central banks, pension funds, and major global financial institutions. His research on banking, credit creation, and financial crises has become some of the most widely downloaded academic work in the world, making him a leading voice on economic reform and the global economy. Paid partnerships with: Black Rifle Coffee: Promo code "Tucker" for 30% off at https://www.blackriflecoffee.com StopBox USA: Get firearm security redesigned and save 10% off @StopBoxUSA with code TUCKER at https://stopboxusa.com/TUCKERGood Ranchers: Start your plan today and you'll get FREE meat included with every order PLUS $100 off your first three orders. Use code TUCKER at https://go.goodranchers.com/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Meridian Mining began trading on the London Stock Exchange this month and is targeting inclusion in the FTSE All-Share index at the next rebalancing. CEO Gilbert Clark was interviewed by Mining Stock Daily about the move to the LSE, as well as updates on the company's flagship Cabaçal gold-copper project in Mato Grosso, Brazil. A definitive feasibility study is expected for the project by the end of the year.

Syria and the new world warAre we witnessing the beginnings of a new global war? With conflicts stretching from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Ukraine, and across the Middle East and Africa, it can feel like the world is spiraling into chaos.In this episode, Host Nick Dearden speaks to guests Elif Sarican, a writer and contributing editor at The Amargi, and Mazen Gharibah, an academic with the Conflict and Civicness Research Group at LSE and member of the UN's Syrian Constitutional Committee, to unpack the complexity behind today's interconnected conflicts by looking at Syria as an epicentre of geopolitical tensions. But beyond the headlines of violence and instability, they also explore the overlooked stories of resilience, solidarity, and hope emerging from communities on the ground.This episode was recorded 8 April 2026. In This Episode Roots of the current crises, including the legacy of the Arab Spring Syria's fragmented political and military landscape Challenges facing Kurdish and other communities in Syria today How Rojava broke the script of what is possible in the region Bashar al-Assad and the country's ongoing political transition under Ahmed al-Sharaa ABOUT THE PODCASTCOUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. This podcast isn't just about chatting and conversation — it's about turning ideas into action and building real community power. That's why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we'll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it's the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you'll find them on COUNTER•POWER. But we need your help to launch this project. The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we're aiming for.Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.DONATE HEREFollow Us Instagram@anothereuropeispossible@globaljusticenow @ukstoptrumpTikTok@global.justice.now@uk.stop.trump.coaTwitter / X @Another_Europe@GlobalJusticeUK@UKStopTrumpMusic(cc): Intro R&B instrumental loop, Mcgrogo (Freesound.org)

לראשונה אחרי שלושים שנה, ערכו של דולר אחד ירד מתחת לשלושה שקלים. זה אולי נשמע כמו חדשות טובות ויש גם סיבות לשמוח, אבל הרבה כלכלנים בישראל מסתכלים על הקידומת החדשה הזו בדאגה. מערכת היחסים בין השקל לדולר ידעה עליות ומורדות. בשנות ה-70 אסרו על הישראלים להחזיק דולר בלי אישור חתום מהבנק, ועשור לאחר מכן הדולר הפך למטבע הבלתי רשמי של המדינה. שכר דירה, רכב ולפעמים אפילו קניות בשוק - הכל נמדד בדולרים. עכשיו כשהשקל כבר מזמן התייצב והפך בשבועות האחרונים למטבע שמתחזק הכי מהר בעולם, נדבר עם פרופ' ערן ישיב חבר המרכז למאקרו כלכלה בLSE הבריטי וחוקר באוניברסיטת ת"א, ועם יובל שדה כתב לענייני כלכלה על מערכת היחסים הסבוכה והוותיקה בין ישראל לדולר.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we chat with Eduardo Landin, CEO of Hochschild Mining, an LSE-listed precious metals company that focuses on the exploration, mining, processing and sale of gold and silver across the Americas. In this episode, we'll walk through Eduardo's journey to leading one of the sector's most established precious metals producers and take a closer look at Hochschild's diversified portfolio across the Americas. We unpack the latest Q1 2026 update, dig into the turnaround at Mara Rosa, and explore what's next for key growth assets like Monte Do Carmo and Royropata, particularly in the context of tightening silver supply. We also discuss the role of brownfield exploration in sustaining long-term growth, and what the future could look like for Hochschild from both an operational and investor perspective and a lot more. This episode is brought to you by Mining International, a global executive search partner to the mining industry. For bespoke search and advisory services, please visit ⁠www.mining-international.org⁠ If you want to know more about precious metals, check out The Gold Advisor, a free way to stay on top of the biggest moves in gold, silver, and mining stocks. Jeff Clark and the team break down what matters, why it matters, and where the best opportunities may be shaping up — with timely market insight, company commentary, and ideas investors can actually use. You can sign up here: ⁠https://thegoldadvisor.com/?refpartner=109 KEY TAKEAWAYS Eduardo Landin's 20-year career with Hochschild Mining, progressing from an operations role to CEO, highlights his deep understanding of the company's evolution and core values. Hochschild prioritises brownfield exploration at its existing sites, such as the flagship Inmaculada mine, to efficiently expand resources and extend the life of its operations. The company focuses on maximising efficiency and maintaining low all-in sustaining costs across its diverse portfolio, which includes the San Jose mine in Argentina and the Mara Rosa mine in Brazil. Hochschild is actively developing new projects like Monte do Carmo in Brazil and Volcan in Chile, aiming to significantly increase production to 500,000 ounces of gold equivalent by 2029. BEST MOMENTS "I believe that the value of the mining business is what you discover." "Efficiency is everything in this business because you need to make sure that you are the one that produces at the lowest cost possible." "The most important thing for us is people, talent, and culture." "There is a real demand for gold... and with silver is happening exactly the same... there are only a few silver new deposits in the world." GUEST RESOURCES https://www.hochschildmining.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/hochschild-plc/ VALUABLE RESOURCES Mail:        ⁠rob@mining-international.org⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/⁠ X:              ⁠https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson⁠  YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast⁠  Web:        ⁠http://www.mining-international.org⁠ CONTACT METHOD ⁠rob@mining-international.org⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/⁠ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.  This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/

Londoners will head to the polls next week to choose their local councillors. Since 2021, Labour has held the majority across the capital, but new polling suggests that even Sir Keir Starmer's local borough of Camden may fall to the Greens.In this episode, host Tamara Kormornick speaks to Tony Travers, a professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics about the results of the latest London council election poll by JL Partners for LSE. They discuss possible outcomes for the upcoming elections, including which parties might join forces, and the messages Londoners may send to Westminster through the ballot box. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode steps back from the daily news cycle to examine the structural roots of the current global energy crisis. Host Zoe Williams speaks to Chris Hayes, the Chief Economist at Common Wealth, and Luke Cooper, LSE academic. Drawing parallels to the 1970s oil shock, their conversation explores how decades of policy decisions have left economies—particularly the UK—dangerously exposed to volatile energy markets. The discussion moves from global context to concrete proposals for reforming the UK energy sector.This episode was recorded 1 April 2026. In This Episode How today's energy crisis compares to the oil shock of fifty years ago What actually happens when energy markets set prices and who benefits when prices spike Effects we've already seen, and risks that lie ahead Why the current UK energy structure leaves consumers exposed to global shocks Common Wealth's proposal for structural reform Common WealthWebsiteBluesky: @cmmonwealthTwitter/X: @cmmonwealthTikTok: @cmmonwealth Featured Organisation: Global Justice NowGet your free ticket to Resisting Big Tech Empires on 25 April 2026!An international conference, ‘Resisting Big Tech Empires: The fight for the future' will take place in London on the 25th of April 2026 at London South Bank University. Organised by UK-based NGO Global Justice Now in association with Balanced Economy Project, the conference promises a “day of talks and strategy on big tech's impact on democracy, economies, war and the environment, and how we can challenge it”.The line-up for the event boasts speakers including multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner Cory Doctorow; founding member and executive director of IT for Change, Anita Gurumurthy; campaigner with Our World is Not for Sale, Sofia Scasserra; author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism, Nick Srnicek; and director of Foxglove, Rosa Curling.Facebook: @globaljusticeukInstagram: @globaljusticenowTwitter/X: @globaljusticenow ABOUT THE PODCASTCOUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. This podcast isn't just about chatting and conversation — it's about turning ideas into action and building real community power. That's why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we'll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it's the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you'll find them on COUNTER•POWER. But we need your help to launch this project. We need £8,000 to catapult COUNTER•POWER into the podcasting sphere with the aim of making it self-sustaining in the future.The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we're aiming for.Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.DONATE HEREFollow Us Instagram@anothereuropeispossible@globaljusticenow @ukstoptrumpTikTok@global.justice.now@uk.stop.trump.coaTwitter / X @Another_Europe@GlobalJusticeUK@UKStopTrumpMusic(cc): Intro R&B instrumental loop, Mcgrogo (Freesound.org)

LSE professor Steffen Hertog gives an overview of how the various Gulf economies are holding up after almost 2 months of the US-Israel vs. Iran war and the closure of the strait of Hormuz.

We end Season 10 with an intimate interview between the Nobel Prize winning economist Philippe Aghion and Will Hutton. They delve into the concept of "creative destruction," a term coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter, which highlights the dual nature of innovation in driving economic growth while simultaneously rendering older methods and certain industries and jobs obsolete. Aghion believes that for an economy to thrive creative destruction is key. They talk about certain countries such as Finland where creative destruction is allowed and supported to thrive by the Government. Aghion is Professor of Economics at the LSE. In the We Society podcast, join acclaimed journalist and Academy president Will Hutton, as he invites guests from the world of social science to explore the stories behind the news and hear their solutions to society's most pressing problems.Don't want to miss an episode? Follow the show on your favourite podcast platform and you can email us on wesociety@acss.org.uk and tell us who we should be speaking to. The We Society podcast is brought to you by the Academy of Social Sciences in association with the Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. Producer: Emily Uchida FinchAssistant Producer: Emily GilbertA Whistledown Production for the Academy of Social Sciences 

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted a Kuwait Programme workshop, presenting research on the influence of social media on food-consumption behaviours in Kuwait. Kuwait is experiencing public health challenges driven by rising rates of non-communicable nutrition-related diseases such as diabetes and obesity. According to the World Bank, the prevalence of diabetes in Kuwait increased tenfold between 2000 and 2021, with approximately 25% of Kuwaiti adults now affected. Adding to this issue is the widespread social media culture in Kuwait surrounding food photography. There is a significant trend among individuals, as well as social media influencers, to share food-related content on platforms. The extensive use of digital platforms, combined with Kuwait's unique social media culture, offer new and unique avenues for studying how online content and interactions might shape food-consumption behaviours. This research addresses the influence of social media on food-consumption behaviours in Kuwait. Meet our speakers Fabrício M. Fialho is Assistant Professor of Sociology at HSE University and Research Fellow at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. His current work has focused on public opinion research and quantitative research methods. Abrar Al Hasan is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. Her research interests include Social Media and Social Networks, Health IT, Online Markets, Digital Innovations, Crowdsourcing, and the Economics of Information Systems. Meet our chair Dr Aygen Kurt-Dickson is Senior Innovation Development Manager in the LSE Innovation & Impact team focuses on enhancing LSE's I&I ecosystem through improved connections between LSE research and innovation and by building internal and external relationships to facilitate innovation.

Host Radell Lewis breaks down the week's biggest political stories with the kind of depth cable news won't give you. In this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, we dig into whether Senator Jon Ossoff can hold Georgia in the most expensive Senate race of 2026 as his home state becomes ground zero for the AI data center buildout reshaping American politics. Inside the episode: The collapse of U.S. and Iran peace talks in Islamabad, Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade, and the Senate's fourth failed War Powers Act vote (47 to 52, with Rand Paul crossing over and John Fetterman opposing). Analilia Mejia's 60 percent progressive landslide in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District special election, shrinking Speaker Mike Johnson's House majority to a single vote. The new UCLA and UC Berkeley Deportation Data Project: deportations up 5x, ICE street arrests up 11x, non-criminal arrests up 8x, detention beds hitting 57,000. V-Dem formally downgrading American democracy to an electoral democracy with its lowest liberal democracy score since 1965, and Pew polling showing 77 percent of Americans want major political reform. The Ticketmaster and Live Nation antitrust verdict finding 1.72 dollars per ticket in illegal overcharging, plus Trump's defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal. The fight between Trump and Pope Leo XIV, DOJ moves to dismiss January 6 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers convictions, and Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview under Project Glasswing. The pancreatic cancer breakthrough pill daraxonrasib that cut death risk by 60 percent in Phase 3 trials. A full Research on a Dime profile of Jon Ossoff: his Georgetown and LSE background, his Insight: The World Investigates production company years, his historic 2021 runoff win, and his 25 million dollar war chest heading into a primary against Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and Derek Dooley. Why Georgia now ranks 3rd nationally in planned data centers, why Meta's Newton County facility already consumes 10 percent of the county's water, and how the 4.3 billion dollar transmission cost crisis is about to become the defining 2026 Georgia campaign issue. Political Solutions Without Political Bias. New episodes weekly on the Alive Podcast Network. Website: purplepoliticalbreakdown.com Keywords: Jon Ossoff 2026, Georgia Senate race, data centers Georgia, AI data centers, Trump Iran war, Strait of Hormuz blockade, War Powers Act vote, Deportation Data Project, ICE arrests 2026, V-Dem democracy downgrade, Ticketmaster antitrust verdict, Pope Leo XIV Trump, Anthropic Claude Mythos, daraxonrasib pancreatic cancer, Analilia Mejia NJ-11, Newton County Meta, Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, Derek Dooley, Emerson polling Georgia, nonpartisan political analysis, progressive politics, 2026 midterms, Purple Political Breakdown, Radell Lewis.Standard Resource Links & RecommendationsThe following organizations and platforms represent valuable resources for balanced political discourse and democratic participation: PODCAST NETWORKCheck Out the Podcast Website: www.purplepoliticalbreakdown.comALIVE Podcast Network - Check out the ALIVE Network where you can catch a lot of great podcasts like my own, led by amazing Black voices. 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Send us Fan MailPsephologist Career Guide: Salary, Scope, Skills & Jobs in India and AbroadWhat if you could predict election results before the votes are even counted?Welcome to another powerful episode of The Kapeel Gupta Career PodShow, where we decode careers that are not just unique — but deeply impactful.In this episode, we explore one of India's most fascinating and underrated careers — Psephology, the scientific study of elections, voter behaviour, and political trends. From analysing millions of votes to explaining national outcomes on live television — a Psephologist is the mind behind the numbers that shape democracy.

Katy Rubin is a Legislative Theatre practitioner and strategist based in the UK, and founder of The People Act hub for creative civic practice. She works in partnership with local and national governments and community groups to co-create equitable and innovative public policy. She currently collaborates with cities around Europe to design policy initiatives on multiple issues such as housing and health care.Katy is also a Senior Fellow with People Powered: Global Hub for Participatory Democracy; a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the LSE; and former executive director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC. Her Legislative Theatre work with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority was awarded the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy's 2022 award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation.  In this episode, Katy explained the origins (from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed) and practices of legislative theatre that she describes as a participatory democracy process that's joyful, inclusive, and accessible. She highlighted the value and importance of being serious about fun as fun allows people to collaborate and stay engaged over time.Katy stressed the importance to think beyond ideation, and make sure that things are in place for policies to be implemented. For her, it is key to success of legislative theatre as a community-based policy-making. Last, we talked about how it was essential to acknowledge power dynamics and create the conditions for (counter-) balancing them if we want to develop truly participatory approaches.To learn more about Katy's work, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katyrubin/and check her website: https://www.katyrubin.com/and the People Act website: http://www.thepeopleact.org/Credits:Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure FayardSound design & Post-production: Valter GouveiaMusic & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Interview with LSE professor Alan Manning about his recent book: Why Immigration Policy is Difficult and How to Make it Better.

Andrew Webley is back for episode three. Since we last spoke in July, Smarter Web Company has achieved its London Stock Exchange main market listing, entered the FTSE All Share and FTSE Small Cap indices, grown its Bitcoin stack to nearly 2,700 BTC, and completed an acquisition that has grown revenue by roughly 10x. Not bad for a bear market.Jordan sits back down with Andrew to find out what's next, what Saylor told him at Strategy World, why he believes a Bitcoin treasury company will one day be the biggest company in the UK, and what a UK income equity product could look like.

It was long assumed that a love of wine runs in the family. Not so, according to new research conducted by ARENI Global on how young consumers get into fine wine. Pauline Vicard, Executive Director of ARENI, gets into the findings of their new study titled “The New Fine Wine Consumer - How People Under 40 Embrace Fine Wine.” From the shrinking middle class to the motivations of wine collectors to what drives women to embrace fine wine, the research and this conversation are chalk full of insights into how wine can attract the next generation of wine lovers. Detailed Show Notes: Fine wine trends (March 2026)A trend towards more collaboration and consolidationEntering the age of precision distribution, after precision winemaking and viticultureShrinking middle class is shrinking the middle sector of wineSome retailers in the UK doing well by changing delivery policy (e.g. - free next day delivery at 1 bottle, new events relevant for new consumers)New ARENI Study: The New Fine Wine Consumer - How People Under 40 Embrace Fine WineStudied several major markets: Paris, London, NYC, Singapore, Shanghai, & Hong KongResearch process: expert led roundtables, questionnaires, & interviews / focus groups with consumers and tradeDid focus groups in Paris & London of wine student groups (e.g. - LSE, Kings College); LSE's group is 600 members and do 50 events/year with a £400 budget and 50 students attending each oneStudy key insightsPool of fine wine drinkers is shrinking; demographics driven (less young people, wealth concentrating)Routes that create fine wine consumers (e.g. - tech and banking) are replacing internships w/ AIResults very similar across markets (a surprise)It's friends, not family that drive wine interestComplexity of what's not understood and the pursuit of knowledge being worthy and fun drives wine interestVisibility and ease of access to wine are importantRestaurants are still important, but the high cost is an issueCollectors are different from buyersCollectors have a reward system (e.g. - dopamine) from the chaseEveryone has a genetic disposition to collect, but activated in 30-35% of the US populationCollecting makes people overbuy, which requires a secondary marketReducing prices after en primeur can erode the trust in the reason to collectThe French have a negative association with being a collectorYoung people often spend ~10-15 hrs/week searching and researching wine when they are collectorsDifferences are bigger between genders than nationality; wine collectors defined when 26-35, when women often start a family or build their career and don't have the time to collectOnly men reported a benefit from wine knowledge at workEvents are a good way to test if people can be engaged with the brandCollectors learn about producers not regions (Asia different because certifications are important); want to know which producers, why they are important, and where they can be purchasedTo trade up in wine, their community needs to trade up with themNeed to sell a community to drink with, not just the winesWomen historically have less propensity to become collectorsOften have less access to money and drink 3-4x less than menSimilar at the beginning (44% of

Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016.----------BOOKS:Forged in War: A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today (2026)Homo Criminalis: How crime organises the world (2025)Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024)Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022)Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022)Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021)Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021)Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019)Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019)Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018)----------LINKS:https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746https://twitter.com/MarkGaleottihttps://www.rusi.org/people/galeottihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------DESCRIPTION: Mark Galeotti on Putin's 19th‑Century Power Politics, Russia's Internet Crackdown, and the Regime's Growing BrittlenessThe host interviews historian and Russia specialist Mark Galeotti about how Putin views power primarily as coercion and great‑power privilege, and how the Ukraine war is burning through Russia's resources, modernity, legitimacy, and technological dynamism, echoing a “late Ivan the Terrible” decline. They discuss Russia's accelerating digital repression—mobile internet disruptions, VPN targeting, blocked app payments—and argue it is driven largely by competing security agencies rather than a single coherent “regime,” creating internal struggle with technocrats and business elites worried about economic and political costs. ----------

Prof Lee Edwards, chair of the Media Reform Coalition and Professor at the LSE, discusses Lisa Nandy's speech on a permanent BBC charter, the handling of the charter review consultation, the new Director General and wider questions about how the corporation is held to account.To support our journalism and receive a weekly blog sign up now for £1.99 per month www.patreon.com/BeebWatch/membership @beebwatch.bsky.social@BeebRogerInstagram: rogerboltonsbeebwatchLinkedIn: Roger Bolton's Beeb Watchemail: roger@rogerboltonsbeebwatch.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Spinoza's thinking and the approach of different religions to the Dickens' character Uriah Heep and the "humble brag" - in Radio 4's late night ideas discussion programme Matthew Sweet and guests explore humility.Lamorna Ash is a writer and journalist and the author of Don't Forget We're Here Forever, which explores what it means to be a Christian for young people throughout the UK today and reflected on her own journey into faith.Sir Robert Buckland is the former Conservative MP for South Swindon, a former Lord Chancellor and Solicitor General. He is a practicing barrister with Foundry Chambers, a visiting law professor at the LSE and the Third Church Estates Commissioner.Aaron Reeves is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and co author of Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite with Sam Friedman.Ceri Sullivan is a Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. Her research has encompassed the managerial techniques presented in Shakespeare's history plays, pragmatism in literary texts and devotional poetry.Dr Dan Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Thought at the Open University. He is the author of Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom and is involved in long term projects with long-term projects examining inclusion and housing in Barking and Dagenham; unpaid care in Gateshead; and community in the Fens.Producer: Ruth Watts

What do the Soviet Union and the current British economy have in common? What can studying the philosophy of science reveal about our economic systems? Is the depoliticisation of economics a dangerous pipe dream?Join political economist Abby Innes as she argues that treating society as a closed system that can be controlled and regulated ignores man's unrelenting capacity for new ideas and technologies. Abby Innes is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the LSE.To see your favourite thinkers tackle philosophy's most current issues, buy tickets for our upcoming festival: https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/And visit our website for many more articles, videos, and podcasts like this one: https://iai.tv/You can find everything we referenced here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAnd don't hesitate to email us at podcast@iai.tv with your thoughts or questions!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us Fan MailPetrolio a 100 dollari al barile, materie prime e inflazione in rialzo, disoccupazione ai massimi dal 2021, e soprattutto Stati Uniti, Israele e Iran che stanno facendo danni irreparabili all'infrastruttura energetica del Medio Oriente, prospettando danni globali che potrebbero durare ben oltre la fine, se vi sarà, della guerra. Ne parliamo col Gianluca Benigno, già alla Fed, LSE e ora professore di macroeconomia all'Università di Losanna.  Fate girare l'episodio ad amici e parenti e sottoscrivete al programma su tutte le app musicali dove ci trovate sotto la voce "Vera America"Per leggere gli articoli del Prof Benigno cliccate sul link qui sotto: Gianluca Benigno | SubstackReal America, il podcast su tutto ciò che è America per gli Italiani in giro per il mondo!

In this episode of the Dyslexia Explored Podcast, hosts Darius Namdaran and Jo Lee speak with Jamie Wace, CEO and co-founder of Talamo, about his late dyslexia diagnosis and how it shaped his path to building an affordable school-based dyslexia screener. Jamie shares how exam access-arrangement testing led to his diagnosis at 15, the impact of working memory challenges, and how strategies like mind maps helped him succeed academically. He outlines Talamo's mission to address the statistic that 80% of dyslexic pupils leave school undiagnosed, describing Talamo's 45-minute, school-delivered screener, reporting for teachers and parents, and plans to expand into executive functioning, maths ability, and dyscalculia. They also discuss entrepreneurship, fundraising stories including Simon Squibb and Octopus Energy's founder, and Talamo's “We Love SENCo's” conference at LSE.This podcast is sponsored by ivvi. Visual Notes for Visual Thinkers.Get ivvi notes now: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ivvi.app/⁠Links: Ivvi: ⁠https://www.ivvi.app/⁠ what is dyslexia: ⁠https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyslexia/about-dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia⁠TALAMO: ⁠https://www.talamo.co.uk/⁠  The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis: ⁠https://a.co/d/0gjRuH1F⁠ SEND: ⁠https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs⁠ SEN Support: ⁠https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs/special-educational-needs-support⁠We Love SENCos- 10th June 2026: ⁠https://tinyurl.com/welovesenco⁠Talking Dyslexia Podcast: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/03rCkmA1LnYgdGmeHQO2Uj?si=b5987990be954bce⁠ Linkedin: ⁠linkedin.com/in/jamiewace⁠IG @Talamo: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/talamo⁠ Access to Work info -⁠ https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work⁠Executive Function: ⁠https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/tagged/executive-functioning⁠BETT Show:⁠ https://www.bettshow.com/⁠ British Dyslexia Association: ⁠https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk⁠Interested in being a guest? Email us at ⁠⁠jo@ivvi.app⁠

About the Talk How do we make reliable decisions when our scientific models cannot predict outcomes with absolute certainty? In this episode, Our Associate Director, Dr Roberto Fumagalli, sat down with the speaker of our first Public Lecture under the Market Economies and Green Ideals project, Prof Roman Frigg, to unpack the philosophy of science, physics, and environmental modeling. We explore why treating scientific models like literary fiction can actually improve our understanding of reality, the limits of climate predictions, and how policymakers and private insurers navigate deep uncertainty. The Guest Roman Frigg is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department at LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. He is the winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a permanent visiting professor in the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy of the Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich, and he held visiting appointments in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario, the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Utrecht, the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science of the University of Sydney, and the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Barcelona. He was associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and member of the steering committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association. He currently serves on a number of editorial and advisory boards. Roman holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of London and masters degrees both in theoretical physics and philosophy from the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research interests lie in general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, and he has published papers on climate change, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, randomness, chaos, complexity, probability, scientific realism, computer simulations, modelling, scientific representation, reductionism, confirmation, and the relation between art and science. His current work focuses on predictability and climate change, the foundation of statistical mechanics, and the nature of scientific models and theories.

Today, I'm joined by Dr. Catherine Hua Xiang, an applied linguist, educator, and award-winning author who specializes in intercultural communication and language learning. Catherine leads East Asian languages at the London School of Economics and Political Science, serves as Program Director for LSE's BSc International Relations and Chinese program, and is the UK Director of the Confucius Institute for Business London.  In this episode, Catherine and I explore what great communication really looks like in a global environment. We talk about building rapport and managing relationships, why knowing your audience is more than just a best practice, and how cultural differences shape expectations, politeness, and even everyday interactions.  As AI continues to change how we work and communicate, Catherine offers a powerful reminder about the unique value of learning other languages and what it unlocks in empathy, perspective, and connection. Let's dive in.   Additional Resources: ► Follow Communispond on LinkedIn for more communication skills tips:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/communispond ► Connect with Scott D'Amico on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdamico/ ► Connect with Catherine on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-hua-xiang-75890599/ ► Subscribe to Communicast:  https://communicast.simplecast.com/ ► Learn more about Communispond:  https://www.communispond.com

The lecture examines the various economic, institutional, and political factors that are driving these approaches to health system reform drawing on work by the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (www.phssr.org) of which the LSE is a founding partner, and will consider what these mean for health outcomes. The lecture will also reflect on what these developments can reveal about the future direction of health policy in other parts of the Middle East. Meet our speakers Professor Alistair McGuire is the Kuwait Chair of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy and at the LSE Middle East Centre. Prior to this he was Professor of Economics at City University, London after being a tutor in Economics at the University of Oxford. Professor McGuire has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, the University of Sydney, the University of York, the Universitat of Barcelona and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. George Wharton is Deputy Head of Department (Teaching) Department of Health Policy, with an academic background in International Relations (BSc, LSE) and Health Policy (MSc, Imperial). George's work focuses on a broad range of themes in comparative international health policy. Meet our chair Katerina Dalacoura is Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of the LSE Middle East Centre. She held a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust between 2021 and 2024. The project findings will shortly be published as a book monograph by Cambridge University Press, under the title Islamic International Thought in Turkey: History, Civilisation and Nation.

Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autocracy, suffering through tragedy after tragedy over the past century. Yet the history of Syria is not just a tale of dictators and generals. From the 1800s to the 2020s, the Syrian people have engaged in a passionate struggle for justice, equality, and a better future. Whether fighting for national independence from French colonial rule, battling local landowning elites to share the country's wealth, or rising up against the Assad regime, the Syrian people have fiercely clung to their right to live with respect and dignity. Theirs is a story of protest and perseverance in the long fight to reshape the political destiny of their nation. Daniel Neep's new book, A History of Modern Syria, offers a gripping narrative of how Syrians have navigated the events of the last two centuries. Never losing sight of the fates of ordinary people, it provides a comprehensive account of how a nation born in conflict sustained a rich, complex, and diverse society that after the fall of Assad will chart a new path into the uncertain future. Daniel Neep is Non-Resident Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, and Senior Editor at Arab Center Washington DC. He has taught Middle East politics at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and the University of Exeter. He was previously Research Director (Syria) at the Council for British Research in the Levant and spent several years living in Syria and Jordan. He is also the author of Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space, and State Formation (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and articles in journals including International Affairs, Journal of Democracy, New Political Economy, and the Journal of Historical Sociology. Meet our discussant and chair Charles Tripp FBA is Professor Emeritus of Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests include the nature of autocracy, state and resistance in the Middle East, the politics of Islamic identities, and the role of art in the constitution of the political. He is currently working on a project on the politics of memory in Tunisia. Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history, and the politics of empire, race and knowledge production. She is author of 'The Role of Ideology in Syria-US Relations: Conflict and Cooperation' (2014), and co-editor of 'Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase' (2022).

About Lewis Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He is also the Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS). Lewis works on different topics at the intersection between epistemology, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. Right now, he is particularly interested in the theory and practice of criminal justice. His PhD was from the University of St Andrews and before that he completed a law degree. Abstract Philosophy is much changed from the time that many of the analytic classics were produced. It now resembles, in many ways, a mature scientific discipline—with large division of cognitive labour. Big philosophical questions are routinely broken down into ever-smaller research questions and addressed in growing thousands of narrow publication units. Yet what purpose does this division of labour serve? Philosophers are notoriously sceptical about simply relying on each other's published findings. Indeed, most publications seem to add to, rather than reduce, philosophical disagreement. There is a looming worry about absurdity here. Large amounts of intellectual effort are spent on activities that seemingly do not contribute to settling the core questions of the field. In response to this worry, some are tempted by radical claims about the point of philosophy. For instance, some say that it is an ‘exceptional' field that does not aim to settle on knowledge or truth in the same way as other fields of inquiry. But this response, it seems to me, still leaves the structure of contemporary philosophy without justification. In this talk, I grapple with this problem and explore a more optimistic perspective. I consider a middle ground between two typical ways to think about philosophical progress: locating progress not in the mind of the individual, nor in the discipline as a whole, but rather in the small research communities that populate it.

"Marketing's got this incredibly important role to play in generating meaning around the things that matter." Following in the theme of sharing ‘good news' and inspiration… in this episode of Can Marketing Save the Planet, we are joined by Ivo Gormley, OBE, Founder and CEO of GoodGym. Ivo shares the story of how a simple act of running to deliver a newspaper to an older, housebound neighbour evolved into an inspiring movement that is redefining exercise, tackling social isolation and building greener, more connected communities. GoodGym's model is beautifully simple, members walk, run, or cycle to collabortively undertake physical tasks within their local community. Now active in over 65 UK locations, it transforms solitary fitness into meaningful social action which is both fun and rewarding. A pivotal insight from their work highlights a pressing modern issue: "16 to 25 year olds are the most likely to be lonely... It's a fantastic evaluation showing that our activity is particularly powerful for giving people that sense of belonging and identity." The organisation's success is backed by rigorous research from the London School of Economics, which shows that participation leads to “a 27% increase in belonging, a 12% reduction in loneliness, and a 21% increase in life satisfaction.” Ivo sees a major opportunity for Marketers in this space to reposition civic contribution not as a worthy chore, but as a desirable, identity-building activity. "Marketing's got this incredibly important role to play in generating meaning around the things that matter," he argues, emphasising the need to make social progress a core part of an attractive, fun social life. Looking ahead, GoodGym is focusing on engaging younger demographics and scaling its impact, supported by a major media partnership. Ivo's vision is for GoodGym to become a mainstream, default option for exercise and a natural step towards a happier, healthier, and better-connected society. This episode will make you want to get out there and get involved! Tune in as we talk to Ivo about: How turning exercise into community service can create a “triple win” for individuals, neighbours, and local spaces. Why young people are most at risk, and how purposeful, collective action can build powerful belonging and life satisfaction. Why fun and collaborative experiences are key to driving sustained participation and behaviour change. The compelling social impact data from the LSE that proves combining fitness with volunteering is a highly effective. For more information:   Visit https://www.goodgym.org/ Enjoy - and if you love the podcast, share with your friends, family and colleagues. ________________________________________________________________________ About us… We help Marketers save the planet. 

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is once again at the centre of serious allegations connected to Jeffrey Epstein, with police now assessing whether a criminal case will follow over allegations he leaked documents to Epstein during his time as a trade envoy for the government. So could the former prince really face jail time?But beyond the legal questions lies a deeper one about power, privilege and accountability. Will this just be another royal scandal that fades with the news cycle, or a moment of reckoning for the Crown?On this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Dr Tessa Dunlop, royal historian and host of the podcast Where Politics Meets History, and Professor Jeremy Horder - professor of Criminal Law at LSE.Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein; in particular he has denied the allegation he had sex with Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 and was trafficked by the US financier.

Local DJ, Podcaster and Music Expert “Marcus Can't Dance” joins me for the third annual Kölner Karneval music special, recorded in the Südstadt's iconic Hammond Bar.Marcus takes us through the earlier music of Karenval from Willy Ostermann, Bläck Fööss and Höhner, to BAP and LSE, right up to Kasalla, Querbeat and Cat Ballou. He chats the linear progression between them all, their links to left-wing politics and what the future of Karneval music holds. Kölle Alaaf xInline G Merch ⭐️www.Inlineg.myshopify.comInline G Patreon ⭐️www.patreon.com/TheInlineGFlutePodcastInline G will ALWAYS be free of charge, but signing up to the Patreon helps let this podcast reach new heights, if you can afford it. You'll also get to ask questions to upcoming guests as well as get early access to some episodes. Or if you'd rather not spend money, subscribing to my YouTube channel and following me on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok is a HUGE way to support the podcast. It'll cost you nothing, and it really makes a difference to the algorithm gods. So please interact however you can; like, comment, or subscribe, and help keep this podcast lit xFind more of Marcus here;https://pod.link/1628533633https://pod.link/1628533633Chapters:00:00 - Introduction02:51 - The First Ever Karneval Song06:57 - Willy Ostermann19:16 - Bläck Fööss43:21 - Höhner and King Size Dick46:48 - Zeltinger Band50:50 - Bap and Rapping Karneval1:01:28 - LSE and Arsch Huh1:10:28 - Viva Colonia and Brings1:16:18 - Kasalla and EMI Collapse1:22:31 - Querbeat and 2026

This exercise wasn't just about testing our readiness. It was about learning, adapting, and preparing for the challenges of tomorrow. Joining me today are some of the key leaders who helped to shape and execute this effort. Please welcome Rear Admiral Shawn Denihan, NAVAIR Reserve Deputy Commander; Sue DeGuzman, Director of the NAVAIR Airworthiness and Cyber-Safe Office; Tara Jones, NAVAIR Headquarters Command Data, Analytics, and AI Officer; and Richie Grau, NAVAIR Security Department Head. Together, we'll explore what made LSE 2025 so impactful, the lessons learned, and how it ties into NAVAIR's mission and Navy priorities.