![How To Abolish The Monarchy]()
November 22, 2019
This week we fast-forward to the results of the 2022 Monarchy referendum, in which Britain votes to dump King Charles and turn Britain into a Republic. But how easy is it going to be? What are the complexities that make it an impossible task? We speak to Dr Andrew Blick, a constitutional politics and history expert to find out. Plus! The story of how a group of volunteers are responsible for some stunningly important election infrastructure that the government really should be taking care of itself.
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October 18, 2019
The Pod Delusion is having a week off while James and Dr Liz are on holiday, but we’ll be back as normal next Friday!
![Irish Unification, WannaCry, Fixing Left Behind Towns and why What3Words is A.Bad.Idea]()
October 3, 2019
This week we ask a question that could prove as tricky as Brexit: If Northern Ireland votes to join with the Republic of Ireland... has anyone actually thought through how that might work? We speak to Irish border expert Dr Katy Hayward about what the news channels could be asking her about in 2025.
We also dig into another Brexit spin-off issue, the problem of the "left behind" areas of the country and what we can do to help them - we speak to an economist and policy expert who has one intriguing idea. And on the mercifully non-Brexit front, we scare ourselves silly by talking about the WannaCry attack that hit NHS computer systems, and spoke to the author of a new study on exactly what the impact was on the health service. And finally, we look at the publicity hungry location app What3Words, and why it might not be such a great idea after all.
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Dr Katy Hayward's university page and Twitter.
Dr Saira Ghafur works for the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London.
The WannaCry study, published in Nature.
Part 1 and Part 2 of Jamie Thunder's Left Behind policy proposal.
Terence Eden's Twitter and his blog post about What3Words.
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