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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.

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Politicians and pundits discuss the Lee Anderson issue.

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The trouble with identity politics

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

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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Assisted dying hasn’t resolved Swiss end of life debates

Despite attempts to normalise it, new challenges still arise.

Markus Zimmerman

Tony Blair rests on the edge of a desk.

Blair’s revelatory sermon to Starmer

What can the former Prime Minister teach about leadership?

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Seen & Unseen Aloud: Trump, Henry VIII, Paddington and Keegan

New episode: understanding the election, Tudor authority, the bear returns...

A TV production set shows Henry VIII at a masked ball.

Would you rather live in Wolf Hall?

Monarchy and deciding who's really in charge.

A Remembrance Sunday service stands to attention around a cenotaph.

Seen & Unseen Aloud: remembrance, and after the election

Hospitals are home to the truth of war, our psychological state post-US...

Natalie Garrett

Four men in suits, sit next to each other smiling, in the House of Commons.

How to respond when politicians talk about “our way of life”

Alasdair MacIntyre’s thinking helps us understand what we share across...

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How America reckons with its fractured reality

The first thing is always to listen. To sit. To feel.

An 1980s business man looks contemptuously at the camera.

Trump: from apprentice to master of contempt

The Trump biopic is a morality tale for our times

Yaroslav Walker

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...

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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Why we need a gentle radical revolution

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

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After Angela: why Christian Democracy still works

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

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

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

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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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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Seen & Unseen Aloud

23 September 2024

1 min read

Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Stories vs. facts, saying sorry, and music to wander too.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

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This week we start with Jared Stacy unpacking how projections and polls cannot capture the power of stories shaping identity and US election politics. Roger Bretherton asks why it is that "sorry" just might be the hardest word. And Helen Cowan dives into a poem by JRR Tolkien which speaks to her, poignantly, about the experience of living with dementia.