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Health, housing and happiness

February 14, 2019 Julian Baggini Articles & Essays, Slider

The flourishing of pensioners today is not biological destiny, but the fruit of decades of public policy.

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Private Passions

February 11, 2019 Julian Baggini Podcasts & Videos, Radio and TV, Slider

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rxm

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John Humphrys’s dismal legacy

February 7, 2019 Julian Baggini Articles & Essays, Slider

After 32 years on BBC Radio Four’s flagship news programme, Today, John Humphrys has told the Daily Mail that he is “assuming” he’ll leave the programme this year. Unfortunately, his legacy will be a style of interviewing that has made our news media less, not better equipped to give our politicians the scrutiny and interrogation a healthy democracy needs…

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Books Podcast

February 5, 2019 Julian Baggini Podcasts & Videos, Slider

Talking to Tim Haigh about How The World Thinks.

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The Ethics of Interrogation

January 27, 2019 Julian Baggini Articles & Essays, Slider

I’ve contributed an essay to Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy edited by Carl Fox and Joe Saunders. It’s about the importance of how media interviews with politicians are conducted for a healthy, accountable democracy.

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