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It will be recorded and we’ll be putting it out as a PPF episode, all being well!
It will be recorded and we’ll be putting it out as a PPF episode, all being well!
With all the talk of "what would Churchill have done in Iran" or "who is & isn't like Churchill", it's worth noting how many different roles Churchill himself played over his life.
I discussed The Nine Lives of Winston Churchill with David Runciman in this live pod.
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In today’s episode David talks to Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about the prospects for societal collapse in the 21st century. Is there any escape in an age when personal data has become the primary lootable resource?
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In today’s episode David talks to Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about the prospects for societal collapse in the 21st century. Is there any escape in an age when personal data has become the primary lootable resource?
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Just a handful of tickets left for the first in our new season of screenings & live recordings - Metropolitan with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social.
🎬 Regent St Cinema, London
📅 Thursday 19th March
⏰ 7pm
🎟️ Book your ticket here ⬇️
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/metrop...
🚨 Delighted to announce our upcoming Spring/Summer film season at the Regent Street Cinema in London.
Join us for a movie + live PPF recording!
Now on sale.
🎬 Metropolitan
🎬 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
🎬 The Third Man
🎬 Good Night, and Good Luck.
🎬 Never Let Me Go
www.ppfideas.com/events
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In today’s episode David talks to Luke Kemp about the strengths and weaknesses of modern states and modern structures of authority. Are modern states any different from the criminal enterprises of coercion that preceded them?
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Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy?
On 11 March, David Runciman (@ppfideas.bsky.social), Lyse Doucet, Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark will discuss the slow death of democracy.
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
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Today’s episode is the first in a series of conversations about what causes human societies to fall apart and what might come next. David talks to Luke Kemp about how we build our structures of authority and how they can fail.
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Interesting, thanks Steve!
These were great. And in the end, weirdly hopeful.
I learned a lot. And I bet the Christmas parties at the Centre for Existential Risk are pretty fun.
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In this PPF+ bonus episode to accompany our series about nuclear war and nuclear weapons, David explores the definitive piece of reportage on the experiences of the people of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and afterwards.
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Today is the 3rd & final of David’s conversations with S. M. Amadae about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, this time looking to the future. What are the prospects for nuclear disarmament in the 21st century? Might we still get out of this alive?
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Screenshot containing this text: Whatever you think about Dominic Cummings, he takes nuclear weapons very, very seriously. And he absolutely believes it is a subject that not only publics don't spend enough time thinking about, but politicians don't spend nearly enough time thinking about. And he has written about his shock and outrage at just the ignorance of British politicians about the strategic questions, the technological questions. They don't understand the technology, they don't understand the strategy, and they don't understand the history. The story is that when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, his chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, was horrified by Johnson's ignorance. And so he arranged a three-hour briefing in Downing Street with leading military figures, strategists, historians and others, trying to fill him in. You are now responsible for this arsenal, and you need to pay attention. And to signal to Johnson that you need to pay attention, he took his phone off him, because he knew that Boris Johnson couldn't spend 10 minutes without checking WhatsApp. And he thought the only way to get him to pay attention was to take his phone off him. So he took his phone and he locked it outside the room, and he made him sit through three hours of this. And according to Cummings, at the end of this meeting, Johnson was white, the blood had drained from his face, not with horror or shock, but with fury at Cummings for taking his phone off him. And he came out of the room and he said, ‘Never fucking do that and never fucking waste my time like that again’. Apologies for my language, but if you want to be scared about the world we live in, there's a story to make you scared. — David Runciman, Past Present Future Podcast, Where are we going? Nuclear War, Part 2. With S. M. Amadae. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/where-are-we-going-nuclear-war-part-2/id1682047968?i=1000750268760
David Runciman (@ppfideas.bsky.social) is doing a 3-part series with S. M. Amadae on nuclear war in his podcast, Past, Present, Future.
In part 2, he tells the following story about Boris Johnson.
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In case you had any doubts about how unserious Johnson was/is...
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The 50th edition of our legendary newsletter is out today! (Can’t quite believe it).
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50th newsletter out now
The 50th edition of our legendary newsletter is out today! (Can’t quite believe it).
Sign up now for nuggets and gems to accompany our most recent eps, plus David Writes on Normal for Norway.
It’s fortnightly and free!
🔗 www.ppfideas.com/newsletters
Pictures of David Runciman, Lyse Doucet, Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark, promoting an event co-hosted by the London Review of Books (LRB) and David Runciman's Past Present Future podcast.
The Slow Death of Democracy
Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy?
An event with David Runciman @ppfideas.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet (BBC), Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark.
11 March 2026
www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
Never Let Me Go: a special screening at the Regents St Cinema + me in conversation for @ppfideas.bsky.social with David Runciman. 19th June, I love this book, and the film too. Science fiction done properly.
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/never-...
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In today’s episode David talks to S. M. Amadae about what happened when the nuclear age turned into an all-consuming arms race. What is the difference between M.A.D. and N.U.T.S.?
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For the 1st in a new series exploring the future that faces us all, David talks to S. M. Amadae about what nuclear weapons & the prospect of nuclear war have done to the human condition. Was 1945 the decisive watershed in the history of humanity?
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BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to Paul Sagar about how individual experiences shape our political and philosophical outlooks. Does good luck or bad luck change how we might feel about politics? And what really matters?
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Subscribed after listening to Paul Sagar's amazing episodes of @ppfideas.bsky.social, helping make sense of these strange political times, and where he somehow gave the old adage "sometimes it's darkest before the dawn" a renewed energy.
🚨 Delighted to announce our upcoming Spring/Summer film season at the Regent Street Cinema in London.
Join us for a movie + live PPF recording!
Now on sale.
🎬 Metropolitan
🎬 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
🎬 The Third Man
🎬 Good Night, and Good Luck.
🎬 Never Let Me Go
www.ppfideas.com/events
Interesting quote having just finished listening to David Runciman and Paul Sagar talking about Judith Shklar and how we are moving, have moved from a (hypocritical) politics that's against cruelty to a (cruel) politics that's against hypocrisy
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In today’s episode David and Paul Sagar explore the ideas of two late-twentieth-century thinkers - Bernard Williams and Judith Shklar. Is the fundamental political question about how to achieve the best or is it about how to avoid the worst?
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