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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I try to, as you'd expect, I try to apply some scrutiny to it.
I try to say, how would this work in public policy terms?
And there again, he's got some pretty radical ideas.
So talking therapies, which is that NHS treatment that 8 million people have been through.
He wants one on addiction, a similar program for addiction, just as he's affected 8 million lives, which are affected by anxiety and depression.
He's got some very radical ideas, hasn't he, about how we need to rethink the entire nature of our school system, not to
denigrate exams, not to say that it's not about achieving academic standards, but just to say that well-being of our children, because happy pupils make for happy learners, is just much, much more important.
And I just thought there was something of a sort of clarion call or something kind of wonderfully focusing about him saying
Everyone's got an answer.
If you ask everyone how happy they are from 0 to 10, most people have got an answer.
And it was also very interesting that he said most people think we should give more attention and time to getting people from sort of 2 to 3 than getting 7 to 8.
Made me think that actually this is potentially a kind of galvanising new idea for the party of the left in Labour, which made him appear.
And maybe the future of the Labour Party is going from being a party of work into being a party of wellbeing.
That's certainly how Richard Layard sees it.
And at a time when the transatlantic left and center left is doing an awful lot of soul searching and trying to work out what it's for, maybe for them, the answer could be Richard Layard's work, which is pretty radical and yet pretty simple too.
Bye.
Bye.
And this robot has kind of, I'm just reading about it, it has three robotic arms.
It's kind of like a giant lobster claw giving a kind of helping hand up in space to Swift.
What do you know about what Swift's fate will be, whether or not this is successful?
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