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‘Wright on the Nail’ is a podcast hosted by music industry entrepreneur Chris Wright. Each week, he is joined by those in-the-know to discuss politics, media, business and lots more. Our episodes alternate between a ‘deep dive’ which gathers experts on a particular topic, and a ‘news roundtable’ where we chew over the biggest issues of the week with big-name journalists and decision-makers.

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‘Wright on the Nail’ is a podcast hosted by music industry entrepreneur Chris Wright. Each week, he is joined by those in-the-know to discuss politics, media, business and lots more. Our episodes alternate between a ‘deep dive’ which gathers experts on a particular topic, and a ‘news roundtable’ where we chew over the biggest issues of the week with big-name journalists and decision-makers.

    Labour Party Insiders: What Starmer’s Britain Will Really Look Like

    Labour Party Insiders: What Starmer’s Britain Will Really Look Like

    In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by Labour National Executive Committee Member Jess Barnard, Labour & Co-operative London Assembly Member representing Merton and Wandsworth Leonie Cooper, Labour Councillor and Cabinet Member for Environment & Community Safety at Preston Council Freddie Bailey, and former political editor of the The Mirror, which made him Britain’s longest serving political editor Nigel Nelson.What can one say… the conversation this week i...

    • 1 hr
    US Campus Protests and UK Local Elections: For How Long Can We Ignore The Young?

    US Campus Protests and UK Local Elections: For How Long Can We Ignore The Young?

    In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by political commentator, Marina Purkiss, Managing Editor of Local Government Studies and Co-Convenor of the UK Political Studies Association's Specialist Group on Local Politics, Dr Peter Eckersley, Communications Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Reem Ibrahim, and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, John O’Brennan.Chris introduces with a scintillating monologu...

    • 56 min
    The Middle East Experts: How Peace Can Truly Be Achieved

    The Middle East Experts: How Peace Can Truly Be Achieved

    In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by:Founder and Director of the Israeli Disarmament Movement, and the Middle East Treaty Organization, Sharon Dolev. Sharon was also the Israeli representative of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Campaign for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at UCL, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, and author ...

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Has Thatcherism Failed? The Young vs The Old, and Donald Trump Climbs the Rich List

    Has Thatcherism Failed? The Young vs The Old, and Donald Trump Climbs the Rich List

    In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by writer, journalist and broadcaster, Christina Patterson, Communications Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Reem Ibrahim, UK and US political commentator Edward Hardy, and Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, Vicky Pryce.The conversation kicks off with an in-depth analysis of the Conservative Party’s scheme to tear itself apart. They turn to the economic legacy of Thatcher an...

    • 1 hr 17 min
    Top Middle East Correspondent Explains the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Richard Spencer, The Times

    Top Middle East Correspondent Explains the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Richard Spencer, The Times

    In this week’s episode, Chris Wright is joined by Richard Spencer, the China correspondent at The Times, formerly the Middle East correspondent from 2016 until August 2023, but brought back to cover the war in Gaza since Hamas’s attack on Israel on the 7th October. He was previously news editor, China correspondent, Middle East correspondent and Middle East editor at The Daily Telegraph.The focus quickly turns to Israel-Palestine where Richard cuts to the chase, outlining the different ways t...

    • 56 min
    US Conspiracy Theories, Polarisation, and the Trump Factor: Can He Win Again?

    US Conspiracy Theories, Polarisation, and the Trump Factor: Can He Win Again?

    In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by the Founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media, Editor-in-chief of Amplify Publishing Group, and former CEO of Inc. and Fast Company, Eric Schurenberg, the first woman to run a US presidential campaign, the youngest woman to have tenured at the Harvard Law School, and prominent US political commentator, Susan Estrich, and journalist, US and UK political commentator, and regular Wright on the Nail contributor, Edward Hardy.Topic...

    • 52 min

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