The Pre-Panel for 13th August 2024

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Ben Thomas & Penny Ashton discuss why Nurse Practitioners need more funding, if postman have a duty to filter the mail, and the man growing a tropical fruit industry. Ben Thomas is a PR specialist and former National Party parl ... Show More

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Ben Thomas & Penny Ashton discuss whether importing LNG is a good idea, and Upper Hutt councils removal of a healthy stand of beech trees. Ben Thomas is a PR specialist and former National Party parliamentary staffer Penny Asht ... Show More

Today on the Pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman joins Jesse Mulligan to preview tonight's show. Plus producer Tom Riste-Smith joins to ask - What's the best bargain you've ever got? That's after Qantas accidentally sold First Class Australia - USA tickets for 85% off. [picture id="0000NA ... Show More

Gap is predicting a tariff impact of as much as $300 million, and revealed stubborn weakness at two of its smaller brands, Banana Republic and Athleta. The company's CEO Richard Dickson spoke on the company's weak quarter with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Katie GriefeldSee omnystu ... Show More

In a special episode of Israel Policy Pod, Shanie is joined by IPF Atid's National Director Adam Basciano,  National Chair Jonathan Kamel, and Los Angeles Chair Alex Stabler for a discussion on how the IPF Atid program came to be, what is missing in conversations about the I ... Show More

Do MPs say one thing in public, and another in private? This week, Beth Rigby, Harriet Harman and Ruth Davidson ask what’s been going on with the two MPs suspended from the Labour party over WhatsApps messages containing offensive comments.   Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan both lo ... Show More

Orchardist Guy Gaeta has recently told a senate inquiry into supermarkets that there won't be any family farms left within 5 to 10 years, and that all that will be left are corporate farms. In this edition of The Conversation Hour the team discuss the outlook for family farms and ... Show More

What better way for Labour to celebrate a year in power than with a humiliating climbdown on welfare? Political historian Steven Fielding joins the panel to discuss rebellions, “Austerity PSD”, and how Starmer and Reeves can make Year Two better than Year One. Plus, after the ant ... Show More

We finish our treatment of Capital, Ch. 1, covering the little bit that Marx says about actual communism (he was wary of utopianism, contra his reputation), and think through a number of related practical problems. We introduce "Fragment on Machines" (1858). Get more at partially ... Show More

In the final episode of the year, the girlies celebrate 4 years of Binchtopia (!!!!!) and give their long-awaited pop culture recap of 2024’s most absurd moments. Digressions include the wool-less sweater epidemic, the Bible’s copyright laws, retractions on former Wicked slander ... Show More

Whistleblower Gina Demas wasn’t the only one with concerns about Mary Jane Burton. Tessa Kramer sits down with two former lab employees whose careers soared following Gina’s fight with the lab. What do they remember about Mary Jane’s work? And what kept them from speaking up? 

Today we look at the new members of the Labour government.Adam, Chris and Paddy look at Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet appointments including the unexpected addition of James Timpson and Sir Patrick Vallance.You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscas ... Show More

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down what happened over the weekend after OpenAI's board ousted Sam Altman. They talk to investors, developers, and academics about the move's impact on the AI industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.