Aidan Harper joins Kirsty Major to read and discuss his piece: Robots are going to make England’s north-south divide even worse - that's why we need the four day work week For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Aidan Harper - Why the UK needs a four day work week

Yas Necati joins Kirsty Major to read and discuss their piece: Should queer people be allowed to exist or should we all just be forced to 'convert'? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Yas Necati - I'm queer and trans, stop debating my existence

Kirsty Major is joined by Indy columnist and former foreign correspondent Mary Dejevsky to read and discuss her piece "A united Ireland is the only practical solution to Brexit" For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Mary Dejevsky - A united Ireland is the only solution to Brexit

Kirsty Major is joined by Richard Power Sayeed author of 1997: The Future that Never Happened, a look at why the Blair years have led to our current malaise. And on the other side of the ring, is our in-house Blairite John Rentoul, author of Tony Blair: A Prime Minister. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Richard Power Sayeed - 1997: Things can only get worse

Kirsty Major is joined by Sean O'Grady to read and discuss his piece: 'This Budget shouldn’t have given millennials a thing - why on earth should I subsidise their houses and railcards?' For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Sean O'Grady - Millennials don't deserve handouts from Hammond

Kirsty Major is joined by Matthew Norman to read and discuss his piece: There’s only one way out of the Russia probe for Donald Trump before he’s forced to quit For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Matthew Norman - This is how Trump could be ousted

Kirsty Major is joined by journalist, author, and broadcaster Grace Dent to read and discuss her piece: James Corden, women can joke about sexual assault but you can’t – and this is why For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Grace Dent - Why women, not men, can joke about sexism

Indy columnists and comedians Mark Steel and Shappi Khorsandi chat about why a stand up comedian never would have fluffed a speech like Theresa May. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Mark Steel & Shappi Khorsandi - Theresa May should do some time on the comedy circuit

The Indy's Westminster columnist Andy Grice is joined by Brexit Central's Jonathan Isaby to discuss the competing visions of Brexit emerging in the Tory party. Hosted by Kirsty Major. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Andy Grice & Jonathan Isaby - Hammond v Johnson: Whose vision of Brexit will prevail?

Economics Editor Ben Chu talks nationalisation with our very own defender of the free market, Managing Editor, Sean O'Grady. Hosted by Kirsty Major. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Ben Chu - Nationalisation can work

Kirsty Major is joined by Ash Sarkar to read and discuss her piece: The working class isn't as white as some people would like you to think For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Ash Sarkar - Who are the working class?

Chief Business Commentator, James Moore, and Managing Editor, Sean O’Grady, talk about why no one outside of the EU actually wants to trade with Britain For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

James Moore & Sean O'Grady - Brexit Britian No Mates

Housing journalist Dawn Foster reads and discusses her piece: Help to Buy is failing – so why won't our Government admit we're in the midst of a housing crisis? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Dawn Foster - How to solve the housing crisis

The Independent's Parliamentary Sketch Writer, Tom Peck, reads and discusses his piece: If Nigel Farage thinks it's high time all 'youngsters' are made to see Dunkirk, he's entirely missed the point of it. Hosted by Kirsty Major. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Tom Peck - The end of political satire

Corbyn's former spokesperson Matt Zarb-Cousin joins Kirsty Major to read and discuss his piece: The Conservatives are totally screwed and a weak attack on Corbyn’s strengths isn’t going to change that. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Matt Zarb-Cousin - Corbyn's Brexit

Each week we’ll be revisiting one of our favourite comment pieces. The author will be coming into the studio to read their piece, and we’ll be catching up with them about what happened after we clicked publish.

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