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As the US goes to the polls in the mid-terms, Chris Carman, Stevenson Professor of Citizenship at the University of Glasgow, analyses the vote's mechanics and the permutations of their possible results.
After the Republic of Ireland voted in a referendum to decriminalise blasphemy, writer and broadcaster Martina Devlin reflects in the Reporter's Notebook on the profound changes which have taken place in Ireland in recent decades.
Mike Leigh's depiction of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre hit big screen this week. Shirin Hirsch, historian with the People's History Museum in Manchester, discusses why this event is so important to British democratic development and why this pivotal moment is not better known.
In the Long Interview, Bill Whiteford speaks to Ayesha Hazarika, a former special adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Milliband and who is now a political commentator and stand-up comedian.