Sunday 1 March 2026
The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes Stew World Order - Episode 163: 2 February 2026: * Robert from Crooked Table Productions is back for another go 'round in The Order, as he and Stew discuss 2007's Oscar-nominated Persepolis! New Podcasts - 27 February 2026: * Giant Ideas - In Giant Ideas this week, Nick Clegg - former UK Deputy Prime Minister - challenges some of the biggest assumptions about social media, such as whether it really drives political polarisation to how much evidence actually backs that claim. Drawing on his time inside Meta, he explains how content moderation is managed, why headlines push debates more than real data, and how social platforms have shifted from connecting friends to algorithm-driven content feeds. He also warns that the bigger risk ahead isn't individual posts, but the growing fragmentation of the internet a...