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  • 2 months ago | audioboom.com | Paul Lay |Michael Sheridan

    EI's Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Michael Sheridan, author of two books on China and a foreign correspondent for 40 years, to discuss China’s rise, its subsequent entry into the international trading system, and its contemporary status as the problem child of our globalised world. FURTHER READING:China and America, the great decoupling | Michael SheridanEngelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

  • 2 months ago | thecritic.co.uk | Paul Lay

    This article is taken from the April 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. It may now be hard to believe, but there was a time, not so long ago, when classical music was cool. Sort of.

  • Feb 13, 2025 | audioboom.com | Alastair Benn |David Omand |Paul Lay

    Are we living through a golden age of espionage drama? And what do spy stories tell us about the true nature of the secret world? EI's Alastair Benn is joined by David Omand, ex-head of GCHQ, the British government’s world-renowned cyber agency, and author of How Spies Think, Pauline Blistène, an expert on intelligence affairs and spy fiction, and Senior Editor Paul Lay to discuss the enduring popularity and legacy of the spy in fiction.

  • Feb 7, 2025 | thecritic.co.uk | Paul Lay

    This article is taken from the February 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. When asked what is the best historical exhibition I have seen — and, as a former editor of History Today I have seen a few — I usually opt for the British Library’s Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, which opened in 2009, the 500th anniversary of the Tudor monarch’s accession.

  • Jan 30, 2025 | audioboom.com | Alastair Benn |James Marriott |Paul Lay

    Is the era of mass literacy over? And what might a post-literate society look like? EI's Alastair Benn is joined by Times columnist James Marriott and Senior Editor Paul Lay to discuss the promise and peril of a culture defined by the audiovisual. Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. EI Talks... is hosted by Paul Lay and Alastair Benn, and produced by Caitlin Brown. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones.

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