Brexit and the Universities

TALKING POLITICS

Catherine Carr

News, News & Politics

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After some Tory politicians have started asking for details of what lecturers are saying about Brexit, we're joined this week by regular panellist Chris Bickerton to talk about what it's like being a pro-Brexit academic in an anti-Brexit university. Plus we catch up with Helen Thompson and Chris Brooke on where they think the Brexit negotiations have reached and what chance they see of a successful outcome. We also revisit Catalonia to discuss the latest developments there. Is Madrid winning, and what might that mean for the EU?

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0:00.0	Hello my name is David Ronson and this is Talking Politics. Today we're going to be talking
0:07.6	about Brexit, we're going to be talking about Catalonia and we're going to be talking
0:11.1	a little bit about us because universities and the people you teach in them have become
0:16.2	a small part of the Brexit story in the last couple of weeks. A Tory whip complained that
0:22.4	universities like ours were voicing anti-Brexit propaganda on our students, are we doing
0:27.6	that? Are we bullying each other into silence? We'll find out. Talking politics is brought
0:35.8	to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books
0:40.2	and ideas. We've already had some LRB writers on this podcast, John Lanchister, Mary
0:45.8	Beard and we hope to have some more soon talking about the state of democracy and the state
0:51.2	of the world. As well as politics, the LRB has book reviews, essays about art, poetry and
0:58.6	exhibitions. Whether you want to get a deeper understanding of world events or just get away from
1:03.8	it all and read about Picasso and optimuses, the LRB will have something fascinating for you.
1:14.3	I'm delighted that I'm joined by our regular panel, a full set, Helen Thompson, who is an
1:20.2	expert on political economy. Well, having sort of got over the debacle of West
1:23.8	Times last 10 seconds on Saturday, I went back to watching football and watched Roma beat Chelsea
1:29.0	through Neil and have to say Roma are a very good team this year. Chris Bickerton, who hasn't been
1:32.9	with us for a while, who knows a lot about European politics? I've had lots of things but I can't
1:36.7	do the most fun thing in the last seven days, that completely stumped me as a question. I'm still
1:41.0	thinking about it. Chris Brook, who knows a lot about political theory. I did nothing. Last night,
1:47.3	but on Sunday evening, I went to the cinema to see the death of Stalin and I thought it was hilarious.
1:51.7	I mean, I noticed just around the time. This is the panel that we hope will regularly convene
1:57.5	over the next few months and pick up the themes as we discuss them. And Chris, when I say we've been
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