Rethink

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Professor Ben Ansell asks some of the world's sharpest minds about the latest thinking, and what it might mean for policy and society.

Episodes 25

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Jun 12, 2025 · 28 min
Rethink... productivity
What are the factors behind the UK’s chronically weak productivity growth?
Jun 5, 2025 · 28 min
Rethink...the civil service
Can the civil service be reformed or is it simply too old and unwieldy?
May 29, 2025 · 28 min
Rethink...social housing
What's stopping the UK from building the social housing we need?
Feb 27, 2025 · 29 min
Liberalism
Could we be witnessing the end of liberalism?
Feb 20, 2025 · 28 min
Rethink... the global economy
Forget tariffs, what are the systems and raw materials that underpin the global economy?

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