We now know, through hindsight, that the Brexit decision was a bad one and the British people were sold a bill of goods. The UK has or will soon have the slowest growing economy of all industrialized nations….including Russia!!! As the British economy shrinks, so does its power and influence. Johnson, Farage, and the other con artists that were more concerned about gaining power through demagoguery than in improving life for their citizens should be called to account!

You're not serious. That wasn't a question.

I’m surprised and initially disappointed by the discussion on “Karens” and the assumption that a hag can obviously be herself because it seems so out of touch and dismissive of intersectional feminism.

Mind-numbingly dumb.

I listened to Food for Thought. It was steeped in scientism. Old data. Nothing new. There is so much going on in nutrition and none of it was here.

The feed is not as tight as it used to be. There were debates. Now they are paywalled and very infrequent. There were book discussions with authors (I know some of the past reviewers were tepid about them but they provided interesting perspectives, even if unbalanced). Now they are none. What replaced them are teasers of other shows that the team tries to spin out, branded content that is just insidious commercials, and repeats of old episodes, some of which could have value only for chroniclers of public opinion. Doing one thing well would convert me into a subscriber. Doing many things inadequately will force me to stop listening all together.

Bach vs Beethoven was very good

This used to be more rigorous. Now you’ve got patently uninformed, unqualified and uneducated debaters making ridiculous arguments. Anything that gives credence to the Ibrahim Kandis of this world loses all credibility. This is the guy who seriously laid out his belief white people were from another planet among other stupid thoughts.

Listened yrs ago, recently went back, definitely biased & no real debate of ideas/thoughts

I don’t recall how I found intelligence squared debates but probably because I was listening to political podcasts quite a bit during 2020. I would much rather spend 45 min listening to these debate teams go back and forth with argument and counter than watch a sports game for 45 min, and that’s saying something! This is quality and it helps me understand different viewpoints.