76 Episodo

  1. Covid Tomatoes, Diplomatic Camels, and Our Kind of Despot

    Publicado: 12/3/2025
  2. Drugs, Depression, Diet, and a Dutch Utopia?

    Publicado: 5/3/2025
  3. Trump, the Rise of Europe’s Far Right and what now for NATO?

    Publicado: 26/2/2025
  4. Introducing... Alas Vine & Hitchens

    Publicado: 18/2/2025
  5. Don’t Look Back In Anger: 2024, the year in review

    Publicado: 18/12/2024
  6. 31: Labour’s Green Belt Grab, Medical Misogyny and Tractors Take To the Streets

    Publicado: 11/12/2024
  7. 30: Meet Jacob Rees-Mogg

    Publicado: 4/12/2024
  8. 29: Sinn Fein, Heaven Scent and is this the End for the Electric Car?

    Publicado: 27/11/2024
  9. 28: Farmers Fury, Cold Kills and Where in the World is Three Tier Kier?

    Publicado: 20/11/2024
  10. 27: Welby Steps Down, Labour’s new NHS Leagues, and Why We Won’t be entering the Jungle

    Publicado: 13/11/2024
  11. 26: Triumph for Trump and can Kemi Save the Soul of the Conservative Party?

    Publicado: 6/11/2024
  12. 25: Not a Budget for Business, Tories & Trump Head to the Polls and Alcoholic Animals

    Publicado: 30/10/2024
  13. 24: Get Out of Jail Free, the Martyn Blake Murder Trial and Too Old to Drive?

    Publicado: 23/10/2024
  14. 23: Migrant Hotels, Mounjaro Jabs and the £40bn Budget Plan

    Publicado: 16/10/2024
  15. 22: Storm Warning, Small Boats and Sober for October

    Publicado: 9/10/2024
  16. 21: Beirut Burns, Tory Tussles, and the latest Strictly Curse

    Publicado: 2/10/2024
  17. 20: Israel Strikes, Frockgate - now it's Sausagegate and Sheer Art Attack

    Publicado: 25/9/2024
  18. 19: Hezbollah under Attack, Starmer - Do (gifted) Clothes Maketh the Man? And well oiled: Churchill Goes on Display

    Publicado: 18/9/2024
  19. 18: Lucy Letby: A Reaction Special

    Publicado: 17/9/2024
  20. 17: Trump’s Travails, Rockets Over Russia and the Sovereign’s Sorry Looking Statue

    Publicado: 11/9/2024

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What's the Big Idea? Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in equal measure, divisive, but never indecisive’) and Peter Hitchens (a man whose writing a critic was called to compare to a Guardsman’s boot: ‘as highly polished and potentially lethal’) meet once a week to look at the world and mutter, alas… Acclaimed columnist and journalist Sarah Vine and best-selling author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens discuss and dissect social, economic, and pop cultural flotsam and jetsam that have risen out of the dark waters of that week’s news. Taking one big idea each episode and pulling it apart with élan, imagine Vine and Hitchens respective columns brought to life and then skewered, scoffed at, debated, and given the full weight of Vine and Hitchens impenetrable gaze. Though an accord might not always be reached, it’s the journey that matters. Whether it’s the tech bros gone rogue – Meta tearing up its own rule book on fact checking, Musk attempting to influence governmental policy, or the knotty subject on society’s ever-increasing reliance on anti-depressants to treat what might just be the modern malaise and not depression at all. Or, evil, nature or nurture? Does evil actually exist or is it an idea that hangs over us, or do we just sometime embody it and the actions themselves are evil, not the individual? All this and more are to be pored over, one towering topic each week discussed with humour, insight, and real understanding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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