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Past Present Future

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Politics, News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In today’s episode some more highlights from the PPF+ archive of 35 bonus episodes and counting: here are a few more excerpts we think you might enjoy. In this episode you’ll hear David talking about In the Loop and the question of why politicians do and don’t resign; Robert Saunders on the legacy of Brexit for politics in 2025; Shannon Vallor on why AI is a vision not of the future but of the past; David on the appeal of High Noon for American presidents; and Alec Ryrie on the relationship between Calvinism, Puritanism and the rise and fall of apartheid South Africa. To get all these episodes along with the whole of our PPF+ archive, two new bonus episodes every month, plus ad-free listening and automatic sign up for our fortnightly newsletter, join PPF+ now. It’s £5 per month or £50 per year – and every subscription really helps support this podcast https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus If you would like to gift a PPF+ subscription to someone you know who is starting college or university or a new school or who you think might be interested in what we do for whatever reason, it’s easy: sign them up here https://ppf.supportingcast.fm/gifts Next time in Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's David Rumserman, and this is past-present future, the History of Ideas podcast.
0:16.2	Today, it's the second of the two episodes that we wanted to put out with some of the highlights
0:20.7	that are available on PPF Plus.
0:23.3	It's been going for 18 months now.
0:25.5	There are 35 bonus episodes and counting available for you as soon as you sign up.
0:31.9	It's very easy to sign up.
0:33.6	Just go to our website, pfideas.com, and it will tell you how.
0:40.6	This is a sample of what will be there when you do.
0:45.7	In what follows, you're going to hear extracts that don't have a common theme. We try to find a
0:51.1	common theme, but there really isn't one, except we think of ourselves as a pretty
0:55.2	eclectic podcast, and we hope that all of these extracts are in their different ways, thought-provoking.
1:02.4	First up, from our series about great political films, I talked about what is my favorite funny
1:08.8	political film, In the Loop by by Armando Ionucci.
1:13.1	In that film, one of the jokes is about a politician who is always on the brink of resigning.
1:19.4	But it's not simply funny.
1:22.0	It's also a reflection of something that was going on in British politics at that time
1:27.3	that was very far from funny
1:29.3	with very serious consequences. After that, it's a part of my conversation with Robert Saunders
1:36.1	about the Brexit referendum in 2016 and its consequences for British politics today and the big
1:43.2	puzzle of British politics today. and the big puzzle of British politics
1:44.9	today. Why is it that the referendum result is so unpopular now, but the man who was responsible
1:51.5	for it, Nigel Farage, is perhaps on the cusp of being our next prime minister.
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