People Talk... Politics
The Pinsker Centre
5.0from 1 ratings
- 69
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 1
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About People Talk... Politics
Does the Trump administration have a strategy in the Middle East? What is the trajectory of Erdogan's regime? Is free speech being defended on campuses? In this weekly podcast, brought to you by The Pinsker Centre, university students and experts alike will discuss these questions and many more, on topics including domestic British policy, the Middle East and global diplomacy.
- Publisher
- The Pinsker Centre
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Feb 2021
- Latest episode
- 10 Sept 2026
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13 of 69 episodes have a transcript.
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP. 69 - Rev. Prof. Philip McCormack on the foundations and defence of Western values
2 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP. 68 - Chris Carney on the global AI race and the importance of international cooperation
7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 67 - Hillel Neuer on institutional bias at the UN
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EP. 69 - Rev. Prof. Philip McCormack on the foundations and defence of Western values
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That's a very interesting question. I think that the concept of ineliable natural rights have been so embedded within the culture of Western societies that they are taken for granted. An expression of that would be the French Bill of Rights, their kind of rights of man. And that was very much a secular approach. What I would observe and note is that there is a, you can see an intellectual route to which the French got to this point. Locke articulates these concepts in his, you know, superb work, Two Treaties of Government. This influences the Enlightenment and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers. It fundamentally influenced the founders of the founding fathers of the United States of America, in particular writers like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. […]
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- Philip McCormack
- Chris Carney
- Hillel Neuer
- Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee
- Arlene Foster
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