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• Should animals have rights? | Award-winning LSE iQ podcast 12.05.2026 30min

  Starting with a dog called Pip, LSE iQ explores one of the biggest ethical questions of our time. What do we really owe animals — and is the law keeping up with the science?
• How can we be more resilient? | Award-winning LSE iQ podcast 14.04.2026 29min

  How can we build resilience and bounce back from failure? Sue Windebank speaks to Anthony Scaramucci and LSE’s Dr Grace Lordan about overcoming setbacks, managing your inner critic, and the science of recovery.
• Why are we having fewer children? 03.03.2026 28min

  Fertility rates are at record lows around the world, reshaping communities and even forcing some schools to close...
• Are jobs getting better? 03.02.2026 30min

  What does the future of work really look like?
• Will the next World War be a cyberwar? 02.12.2025 30min

  It seems every week we hear a new report of a cyber-attack. What if those attacks were on our critical infrastructure? Our national grid? Our water supply? Is the UK prepared?
• Will AI free us from work? 04.11.2025 21min

  What does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
• Do we need to pay our debts? 07.10.2025 28min

  Amid rising interest rates and inflation, we ask whether debts must always be paid—exploring causes of debt, bankruptcy’s role, and fresh perspectives on repayment.
• How is the far right shaping our future? 05.08.2025 32min

  Far-right ideas once on the fringe now dominate feeds and headlines, reshaping politics and threatening democracy worldwide.
• Is AI destroying the planet? 06.05.2025 31min

  This episode explores the AI sustainability paradox: can AI be both a climate solution and a climate problem?
• How do we avoid falling for online scams? 08.04.2025 32min

  What type of person falls for an online scam? Who are the fraudsters and how does colonialism motivate them? And what’s the connection between criminality and pop music?
• Are we in danger of losing our communities? 04.03.2025 29min

  With the cost-of-living crisis leading to the closure of community spaces around the UK, and the pressures on urban development projects, this episode of LSE iQ asks, are we in danger of losing our communities?
• Do we need to drive? 04.02.2025 29min

  This episode of LSE iQ looks at whether we should still be driving.
• Why are our rivers and seas polluted by sewage? 15.12.2024 33min

  This episode of LSE iQ explores a national scandal: widespread illegal sewage dumping by our privatised water companies, and why they are all under criminal investigation.
• Who owns outer space? 20.11.2024 29min

  With companies, like SpaceX or Blue Origin, getting into space exploration and the cost of launching rockets dropping, could we see a lot more people heading into space in the future?
• What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? 01.10.2024 33min

  In this episode of LSE iQ, we explore what it’s like to win the prestigious Nobel Prize and how it changes your life.
• How can we solve the gender pay gap? 03.09.2024 28min

  This episode of LSE iQ explores whether gender pay gap reporting, pay transparency and tackling gender norms can reduce the gender pay gap.
• Will the US remain the world’s superpower? 21.05.2024 35min

  The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?
• China, war and the civilizational state 09.04.2024 18min

  Why do some countries, such as China and Russia, stand outside of the liberal international order and oppose values that the West takes for granted – values such as liberty and democracy?
• Are we on the verge of a weight-loss revolution? 05.03.2024

  Are weight-loss jabs the answer to Britain’s obesity crisis? Should we be doing more to tackle the root causes?
• Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class? | Extra iQ 06.02.2024 9min

  This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.