Amol Rajan
speaker
3,997 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 12.
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We had two ideas, two big things we wanted to do with this podcast.
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One is shift the emphasis in our conversation from events, daily events, which are cursory and fleeting and perishable, to the underlying trends, the underlying forces that are shaping this crazy, bewildering era in human history.
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That, to me, is where the real story of humanity is, that sense of how things are changing over time
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is what i've tried to address and i've also tried to provide a safe space for the radical ideas of our magnificent guests and if you go back and listen to these episodes you'll find lots and lots of radical ideas to address the biggest challenges of our time and that is something i'm incredibly proud of so for this final episode i wanted to revisit some of my favorite conversations there really are too many but i think this gives you a great selection and a flavor of what we've tried to do on those two fronts and we're going to start with this one
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It's Matt Clifford.
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He is a hugely successful entrepreneur and investor and also someone who's been a very effective and widely praised, I think I can say, advisor to governments of both left and right in this country.
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And this was one of my favourite episodes because he really came in with a very, very bracing diagnosis.
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If you like, he accepted the premise of this podcast.
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He said that Britain's got some very big problems and in his words,
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Britain has sleepwalked into stagnation.
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But rather than whinge about it, he suggests that we do something about it.
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Rather than be passive and suggest that we lack agency in the face of these enormous and mighty forces, particularly of technology, he wants us to do something, to be proactive.
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He wants us to use AI, science and a renewed willingness to build things together.
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to break out of that stagnation.
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And what made him radical was that he really refused the cozy habit of managing decline.
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He wants us to share the upside of technology, accept that progress involves trade-offs and back ideas that are strange enough, but strong enough to fail and fail well.
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In many ways, I think Matt Clifford helped us to set out the question at the heart of this whole series.
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Can we shape the forces changing our lives rather than be shaped by them?
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So he talked about how we've left a quiet period and entered a
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an era in which things are really happening.
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