Podcast: Big trouble in Big China

Forget Greece; China’s economic slowdown is the biggest story of the year, says Elliot Wilson in this week’s issue of The Spectator. China’s long boom may finally be ending and the consequences for the world will be profound. Elliot joins Isabel Hardman and Andrew Sentance, Senior Economic Adviser at PwC and a former member of the Bank of England MPC, to discuss the implications of China’s slump on the British and global economy.

With the Labour leadership contest still snoring along, there is plenty of discussion about what each contestant will bring to the party. But there’s one thing they are forgetting to discuss, says Isabel Hardman in her column this week: how to appeal to the southern and Ukip voters they need for power. Isabel joins Rowenna Davis, journalist and former Labour candidate for Southampton Itchen, to discuss whether Labour has any sense of how big the battle that needs to be fought really is.