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Suzanne Heywood made her name in the corporate world, with stints at McKinsey and now CNH Industrial. Her latest book, ‘What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain’, details the life of her late husband, a former head of the Home Civil Service. It combines the emotion of a biography with a look at a man considered to be the beating heart of UK politics.
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The UK’s former ambassador at the United Nations, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Plus: the runners and riders in Iran’s presidential elections, the latest on a political scandal in Austria and Andrew Mueller reflects on the past seven days.
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Sir Mark Lyall Grant, the UK’s former ambassador to the UN, tells us about mediation attempts in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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In the final part of this week’s series on vaccine hesitancy, Monocle’s health and science correspondent Dr Chris Smith tells us just how damaging poor vaccine uptake could be.
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Linda Chavez, the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan’s White House, tells us about the ousting of Liz Cheney from the GOP.
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This week we’re looking at the sociological phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy. Today, we turn our attentions to the complex reasons for the worryingly low vaccine uptake in ethnic minority communities. We spoke to Samantha Vanderslott, a researcher for the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford who specialises in health sociology.
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Eliza Flanagan and Mary McLeod are co-founders of Kankan, a soap and personal-care brand they launched in 2019 to promote the circular economy. Their soaps and body wash come in aluminum cans, a great way to curb the use of single use plastic soap bottles. McLeod previously worked in retail buying, including for the department store House of Fraser, while Flanagan is behind the successful Hackney eatery Lardo.
George Floyd: One Year On is a series of events curated by Lemn Sissay as part of this year’s Hay Festival. Georgina Godwin explores the series with Sissay and two of the speakers taking part, author Maaza Mengiste and political commentator and activist Ash Sarkar.
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Alexis Self speaks to writer Francisco Garcia about his debut book, ‘If You Were There’, which deals with the missing persons crisis in the UK. Garcia spoke to private investigators, charity workers and the family and friends of missing people in order to find out the root causes of the problem, and to try to better understand why his own father has been absent for so long.
Inflammatory claims in an open letter penned by several hundred members of the French military are causing a stir in France. The letter warns of the risk of civil war and targets radical Islam and national immigration policies – issues likely to loom large in next year’s presidential election. Andrew Mueller explains why the controversial letter matters in French politics.
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