The Briefing Room Episodes Episode guide
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Can the NHS Survive?
What are the changes needed now to ensure the NHS is sustainable in the future?
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Britain's Broken Housing Market
Is building more homes the only answer to fixing the housing market?
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Does IS Need a State?
What will happen if the Islamic State loses its state? David Aaronovitch investigates.
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Is It Time to Renationalise the Railways?
Public ownership is a popular idea with voters, but would it improve Britain's railways?
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Trump and Trade
Can President Trump deliver on his promise to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs?
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Trump and the Economy
Will President Trump's plan to put 'America first' make the USA richer?
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India's Bonfire of the Bank Notes
Why did India's prime minister ban the country's most widely-used bank notes?
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Drugs in West Yorkshire
How did British-Pakistani gangs come to dominate the drugs trade in Yorkshire?
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Aleppo: After the Evacuation
What happened after the buses left eastern Aleppo? David Aaronovitch finds out.
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Liberalism's Horrible Year
What is Liberalism? And did it die in 2016 as both left and right wing media claim?
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Yemen: A Global Conflict
What are the causes of Yemen's civil war and who is fighting?
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The Prison Problem
What are the policies and political decisions which led to the current crisis in prisons?
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The Investigatory Powers Act a.k.a The Snoopers' Charter
What powers does the so-called 'Snoopers' Charter' give to the intelligence services?
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VIP Sex Abuse Allegations
How did police investigations into VIP sex abuse go astray?
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Infrastructure: The Roads to Recovery?
Is building roads and bridges the best way to solve our economic woes?
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Black Lives Matter UK
What does Black Lives Matter stand for in the UK? David Aaronovitch finds out.
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Europe's Illiberal Democracies
Right-wing ideas once found on the political fringes are becoming increasingly mainstream
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Quantitative Easing
Why has the Bank of England started creating new money to buy government debt again?
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A Ceasefire in Syria?
Why is it so difficult to find peace in Syria, and what is getting in the way of a deal?
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Trump and Putin
Why is Donald Trump accused of being Vladimir Putin's man?
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Trotsky, Trotskyism and Trotskyites
Are revolutionary socialists trying to take control of the Labour Party?
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Jesse Morton: The Jihadi Who Changed His Mind
A former radical jihadi changed his mind and is now speaking out against extremism.
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Milo Yiannopoulos and the Alt-Right
David Aaronovitch speaks to Milo Yiannopoulos about Donald Trump's new political base
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Grammar Schools
Grammar schools, social mobility and the Tory party's love of educational selection.
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Who are the Special Forces?
How have British Special Forces developed and what are they doing in Syria and Libya now?
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Britain's Nuclear Dream
The government has delayed a proposed nuclear power station. What choices lie ahead?
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What Do Remainers Feel Now?
More than 16m people voted Remain. How do they feel now that they have lost?
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Fethullah Gulen and Turkey's Failed Coup
Turkey's president says the Gulen movement was behind a recent coup attempt - what is it?
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Why Did People Vote Leave?
Leave voters in Wakefield tell David Aaronovitch why they want to quit the EU.
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The Chilcot Report: The Source Who Lied
The story of the intelligence source who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
