PoliticsJOE Podcast

Daron Acemoglu is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of What Happened to Liberal Democracy.

He joined Ava to explain why liberal democracy is facing one of its biggest crises in generations — and what needs to change to save it.

Acemoglu argues that the problems facing democracies go much deeper than individual politicians. Across the UK, US and Europe, trust in political institutions has eroded as economic growth has become less widely shared, communities have weakened and the relationship between political elites and working-class voters has fractured.

Buy Daron's book here: https://profilebooks.com/work/what-happened-to-liberal-democracy/
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Owen Jones makes his PolJOE debut to talk all things Western decline, chatting to Ava about where everything went wrong.

His new book, The Fall of the West, recaptures the narrative of our present economic, military, and moral crises. From Western support for Israel to Trump's creeping authoritarianism, to the legacy of Iraq and deindustrialisation, Owen exposes the hypocrisy and danger of concentrated wealth.

Find Owen's book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587/the-fall-of-the-west-by-jones-owen/9780241740644
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Ava is once again joined by friend of the podcast Scott Lucas to break down the latest in the world of Donald Trump. He had a busy couple of days in New York where he met Andy Burnham face-to-face, but another of the big stories at the UN was the long-awaited "deal" on Greenland. Scott breaks down what actually happened in the US/Denmark/Greenland trilat.
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Ed Sheeran dropped Macklemore from his tour over the artist's pro-Palestine platform. He played his last gig alone, after all of his supporting artists (and his backing band) dropped out in solidarity.

Ava and Seán break down what on earth happened, and react to Sheeran's apology.
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Arthur Downing is an energy expert. His new book, Power and the People, charts the history of British energy, and, critically, how things got so bad.
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