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🗓️ 16 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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This week, Lilah talks to Martin Wolf about having the confidence to change your mind. Martin is our chief economics commentator and one of the most influential economics journalists in the world. He reflects on how he forms a worldview, and how his opinions have shifted over the past half-century. Then, we hear about the 'gentle parenting' craze on Instagram from Washington correspondent Courtney Weaver. There are no punishments, no bribes, and it encourages your child to have big feelings. But is it asking too much of parents?
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Links and mentions from the episode:
–Martin’s upcoming book is called The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305263/the-crisis-of-democratic-capitalism-by-wolf-martin/9780241303412
–Martin’s most recent column, ‘Inflation is a political challenge as well as an economic one’: https://on.ft.com/3ciWO1m
–Martin’s economics book picks for the summer: https://on.ft.com/3yHzuSo
–Courtney Weaver’s piece, ‘Inside gentle parenting’: https://on.ft.com/3APRpZS
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0:00.0 | It's summer, and you know what that means? |
0:04.0 | It's time for a Plymouth gin and tonic. |
0:07.0 | So grab yourself a glass and some ice. |
0:10.0 | Start with a pourer of Plymouth gin, |
0:12.0 | which is distilled using a blend of seven botanicals. |
0:16.0 | Add in some tonic, then finish with a slice of orange. Now that is the perfect gin and tonic. |
0:25.3 | Plymouth gin, distilled with care and craft in England since 1793. I was thinking about that old |
0:32.9 | adage, if you're under 30 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're over 30 and not a conservative, you have no brain. |
0:40.8 | What do you think of it? |
0:42.8 | I would say that's an American way looking at it. |
0:45.4 | Because in our sense, a liberal and a conservative are not opposed. |
0:50.3 | I would consider myself in many ways a liberal conservative. |
0:53.8 | I have found, though, if you look at this in the broad, I would consider myself in many ways a liberal conservative. |
1:05.5 | I have found, though, if you look at this in the broad, I probably ended up, as I said, very close to where I started. |
1:08.4 | So I've done a full circle of a kind. |
1:13.0 | That's Martin Wolf, Chief Economics commentator at the Financial Times. |
1:17.2 | Martin is one of the most influential economics journalists in the world. |
1:22.5 | And he's been reflecting recently on his political opinions over the last 50-plus years. |
1:25.6 | He's realized that his mind has changed. |
1:32.9 | He thinks society is more important and pure individualism is less productive than he used to. |
1:36.0 | So I don't fit into this adage. |
1:45.4 | Perhaps I've lived long enough that there's a third stage that, so after 30, you become a conservative, |
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