Issues

Imagining how to tackle even the world's "too difficult" issues...

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On 10 January 2011, Start the Week asked what has gone wrong in the West.

  • Economist Dambisa Moyo charted 50 years of economic folly and argued that only radical changes in policy will stem permanent decline.
  • Lord Lawson, the former UK Chancellor, exposed what he called "myths" surrounding economic thinking.
  • Journalist Stephen Kinzer called on the US and UK to ditch its present allies in the Middle East - Saudi Arabia and Israel - and look to Turkey and even Iran for support.
  • Labour's former Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, further explored those seemingly intractable problems, with a series of debates drawn from the "too difficult" box.

Listen to their debate here.

Imagining understanding our deepest human impulses...

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...unlikely, perhaps, as even the world's top psychologists struggle with this still.

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