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Could anybody get elected in Ireland on a platform of fiscal restraint? Reeves last budget?
A tale of two budgets. Or not
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
30:20
Ukraine is sold out by America. The weird connections between Hobbits, right-wing nutjobs and Moscow.
All the latest data
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
31:10
Nationalism: where does it come from? The glue that binds us or the poison that kills us?
In conversation with Professor Shane O'Mara
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
39:52
Ireland gets a new Finance Minister - possibly not the best one available. Trump opens some files.
Zero or lots: the only two numerical concepts allowed to enter the immigration discourse
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
27:58
Another Liz Truss moment for the UK? Clown car government in full view
Irish inflation and the 'New' Housing plan
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
31:18
Trump's superpower: is inflation about to play the role of Kryptonite?
Time to crowdfund the BBC?
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
34:58
Musk's trillion $ wages. AI: boundless possibilities or extinction level event?
Trump Towers everywhere
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
33:48
Does money drive us mad? Discuss. The madness of UK economic policy.
All the latest data
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
30:50
Do tech billionaires have anything to say about how to run the country? They do, but are they worth listening to?
Maybe
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Jim Power & Chris Johns
35:41

October 2025

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