Nicky Morgan

Thursday

Nicky Morgan

Prima donna: is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?

43 min listen

In this week’s episode:Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?Spectator contributor, Nicholas Farrell is joined by Chiara Albanese, a political correspondent at Bloomberg, to discuss the road ahead for Italy’s next likely leader. (01.10)Also this week: Are we entering a new age of digital censorship?Lord Sumption unpicks the Online Safety Bill in this week’s magazine. He’s joined by Baroness Nicky Morgan, a firm supporter of the bill. (17.53)And finally: why has holiday hand luggage become such a hassle this summer?Spectator contributor and marketing guru, Rory Sutherland joins us to get to the bottom of this. (31.56)Hosted by Lara Prendergast and Gus CarterProduced by Natasha Feroze.

Friday

Nicky Morgan

Women in finance: can technology help bridge the gap?

37 min listen

As technology becomes ever more part of our daily lives, banking is no different. You might have already used some ‘fintech’ innovations like Monzo and Klarna. The flexibility of fintech can particularly help women in their day-to-day lives, but if that’s the case, why is some fintech mostly used and created by men? In this special episode of Women With Balls, Katy Balls is joined by her panel to discuss these issues and more. Sponsored by Lloyds Banking Group.

Thursday

Nicky Morgan

Back to Brexit: will the transition be extended?

36 min listen

Brexit is back on the agenda, but this time, talks are even more difficult than the last phase (00:45). Plus, what do we understand about immunity, and how should that inform the lockdown policy (16:45)? And for a nation that bangs on about fish, do we eat enough of it (28:00)?

Friday

Nicky Morgan

The Nicky Morgan Edition

27 min listen

Nicky Morgan is the Secretary of State for Culture, and former Conservative MP for Loughborough. Despite her success in Boris Johnson's cabinet, she announced that she'd be standing down at this election. On the podcast, she talks about student politics in Oxford with Dan Hannan, filling in Michael Gove's shoes as Education Secretary under David Cameron, firing herself for Theresa May when the latter became Prime Minister.Presented by Katy Balls.

Monday

Nicky Morgan

The doom and gloom of the unions shows how out of touch they are with teachers

From school places to behaviour to teacher training, the teaching unions have excelled themselves with their doom and gloom pronouncements at their conferences this weekend about the state of our schools.  We shouldn’t be surprised, there is, afterall, an election coming up and we all know where the union leaderships’ loyalty lies. But these conferences have simply served to highlight one thing - that the gulf between the leadership of the classroom unions and their members is wider than ever before. Because the unions' depressing portrait isn’t what I see when I look at England’s schools today. The first commitment I made as Education Secretary was to get out of Westminster and into classrooms.

Tuesday

Nicky Morgan

Women have cracked the glass ceiling. Now let’s smash through it

It seems barely a day goes by without another crack appearing in the glass ceiling. This week, I found it particularly fitting that at the same time as record numbers of young women collected A-Level results in science subjects traditionally the preserve of men, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the highest accolade in maths, the Fields Medal. Just days later, in front of a record audience, the England Women’s Rugby team lifted the World Cup for the first time in twenty years. From the lecture theatre and the board room to the sports field, women are continuing to break new ground, and the government is on their side. There are more women working in this country than at any other point in history.