230 | Co-operation or Conflict?

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This week we try to assess whether the Covid-19 pandemic is driving the world together or pushing it further apart.  From US-China relations to tensions within the EU, we discuss how coronavirus is exacerbating existing tensions and how it might overcome them.  Are we going to see new forms of international co-operation?  What does it mean for globalisation?  And is the politics of competence making a comeback? With Helen Thomson and Hans Kundnani from Chatham House.

225 | Superforecasting

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We talk to David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, about the science of forecasting.  Who or what are the superforecasters?  How can they help governments make better decisions?  And will intelligent machines ever be able to outdo the humans at seeing into the future?   From Cummings to coronavirus, a conversation about the knowns, unknowns and what lies beyond that.