47 min listen
Is “opinion” doing more harm than good?
FromThe Minefield
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Feb 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Opinion writing plays a disproportionate role in our media eco-system: it drives online traffic, fuels emotion, feeds the forces of polarisation, and promotes an incapacity to understand one another. But is there a different way to think about opinion?
Released:
Feb 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Should children be given the vote?: Cambridge historian and host of the Talking Politics podcast, David Runciman, has put forward a radical proposal to extend the vote to children as young as six. Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens discuss whether this is just what is needed to recover a healthy democratic culture. by The Minefield