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Politics

13 March 2024

2 min read

Read more on political culture

Explore the impact of politics and understand its key themes.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A TV roundtable discussion with five people against a backdrop of Parliament.

Politicians and pundits discuss the Lee Anderson issue.

A head and shoulders portrait consisting of large disc-like pixels that obscure the real person..

The trouble with identity politics

Identity politics reflected two great longings, a desire for uniqueness, and...

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Christian Nationalism

Christian Nationalism: an uncontrollable ideological fusion

In America, Cross, Flag, and Nation have become fused into a single, toxic...

Conspiracy theory

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A crowd of people stand in the side steps of the Lincoln Memorial

Our public discourse needs responsible rhetoric before it is too late

The right turn of phrase can turn a nation, the wrong one can destroy

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Amid a bombed alley, a victim is helped to walk by a rescue worker

We must invest in defence, fast - it’s the only moral thing to do

The responsible use of force today precludes pacifism

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Dark clouds over Durham Cathedral

The peripheries of belief: how faith shaped the north’s identity

Northern spirituality’s rebellious capacity to adapt is still in play today

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A digital billboard reads: STAY

Assisted dying, Jane Austen and how to solve the Gaza conflict

New episode: the silent campaigns groups, Jane Austen inspires, and why only...

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A video grab of a man talking with text beside him reading: it's not the end of the world.

Re-enchanting... the end of the world - Alex Evans

New episode. In a perma-crisis era do climate change, war, technology...

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An archbishop raises a crown about the head of King Charles.

Why is it taking so long to find an Archbishop of Canterbury?

The Anglican tortoise and the Catholic hare.

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A montage shows the lead characters from Andor.

The story from a galaxy far, far away that's just made for these times

Andor holds up a galactic mirror to our media-saturated world.

2025-05-23

A VIP couple stand and talk with the Pope.

World leaders can learn a lot from Pope Leo

Graham Tomlin was at the Pope's inauguration in Rome. This is what he...

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A suited politician stands looking pensive, framed by two out of focus audience members.

The tragic heart of British politics

As political party conferences commence, Belle TIndall is riveted and...

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Across the heads of a roadside crowd, men wearing orange sashes and military band uniforms march along.

Outsourcing our identities: the corrosive effect of political tribalism

Political identities need to connect with core identities, Andy Flannagan...

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A group of people stand in a field by a fence and a railway footcrossing.

Why we need a gentle radical revolution

Our social arrangement needs to prioritise human relationships, argues MP...

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A politician stands a labelled lectern speaking and gesticulating with a hand.

After Angela: why Christian Democracy still works

Feeling somewhat labelled, George Pitcher unpacks why Christian Democracy...

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A women stands beside in a corridor beside a large window through which a wing of a building and a distant hillside can be see,

"Nobody is neutral": Kate Forbes on her Christian faith and political future

Politician Kate Forbes knows how it feels when public life misunderstands a...

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A frail old lady, the late Queen, rises from a sofa to shake hands with an approaching woman.

What a monarch’s meeting teaches about politics and permanence

A monarch meeting a prime minister is a symbol of a deeper truth in a...

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an aerial view down in to the parliamentary chamber shows MPs sitting on benches on the left and right hand side

The language of politics can’t domesticate religion

Political life’s Left-Right structure fails when it tries to co-opt...

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Podcast

Podcasts

Seen & Unseen Aloud

5 May 2025

1 min read

Laughing, unruliness, and diplomacy

Jonny Torrance: we’re less in control than we think; Henna Cundill: AI will never codify the exceptions. And Jamie Mulvaney ask what's the right backdrop for diplomacy.

Natalie Williams

Natalie is the chief executive of Jubilee+ and an author.

A group of comedians pose on a TV show set.

On this Bank Holiday Monday, Jonny Torrance comments on Last One Laughing, deciding we’re less in control than we think; Henna Cundill suggests that AI will never codify the many unruly exceptions to rules as they are what make us human; Jamie Mulvaney asks whether or not a funeral is the appropriate backdrop for diplomacy.