The TNK Christmas party is back! Charlotte and Emma get festive by discussing moody detectives, poorly lit pubs, Oxford snobs and the very long 1950s – all channelled through our love for TV copper Endeavour.

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Charlotte and Emma discuss negotiations, debates, development and reparations - and why Sweden’s foreign minister should try less hard - in this long-awaited part II on foreign policy.

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The end of the four-year hiatus: Charlotte and Emma discuss covid, childcare and careers, plus how to handle great historical moments, and possibly record them too.

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Charlotte and Emma discuss a new generation of mothers in literature, why you can’t hack your way out of parenthood, and how to shove the pram out of the hallway.

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It’s diplomacy versus invasion as Charlotte and Emma discuss empire, negotiations, violence and ‘meddling’ supranational structures. Will a feminist foreign policy ever be enough, and why should Britain be taken seriously?

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Emma and Charlotte discuss working motherhood, mums at work, and why we really should be able to have it all…

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Emma and Charlotte discuss the 19th-century pseudo-scientific invention that continues to feed racist thought, ideology and action.

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Emma and Charlotte get festive by watching The Crown before discussing the problematic humanisation of the Royal family, racism and modernisation, dramatic licence and what honour and obedience is really about.

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Consent, power relationships and career-ending moments: Charlotte and Emma discuss the #MeToo movement, testifying as punishment, and how to keep the anger alive.

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Emma and Charlotte discuss populism and polarisation, how economic precarity and racism aren’t mutually exclusive, and what is happening in Sweden right now. Plus: Charlotte’s guide to the ‘no-go zone’ of Tower Hamlets…

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Charlotte and Emma discuss glass cliffs, ticking the wrong box and how proportional representation is a lot like a bag of pick and mix. Plus: why losing an election could be a good thing.

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It’s Germany v Sweden all over again as Charlotte and Emma discuss women’s place in football, the question of expertise and why Neymar could pay the salaries of 1,693 female players in the top leagues. Plus: What we owe Nettie Honeyball…

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National identity, belonging and how the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’ fits into a much longer history of British immigration policy. Plus: British aspirations versus historical realities, and how to lose people on purpose.

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Charlotte and Emma discuss fiction as a source for political history, comfort reads, classics bound up in class and the problem with Elena Ferrante’s book covers. Plus: join the TNK book club…

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“Say something clever here”: Coping with first lines and deadlines, the tyranny of the blank page and playing procrastination chicken. Plus: Charlotte’s most embarrassing writing story and our best books.

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“We are the ones we have been waiting for”. Charlotte and Emma discuss Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s anger, the politics of household budgets, militant motherhood and much more.

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Demonstrations, placards and secret deals: what so significant about women’s activism? Charlotte and Emma discuss second-wave feminists, Greenham Common, Mary Whitehouse and much more.

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We discuss labour and Labour history: what happens to the history of trade unions when we focus on the women who were involved in them? Why does the precariat need to be unionised? And why are we all workers?

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Charlotte and Emma celebrate the 100th anniversary of some British women getting the vote by discussing the threat of violence, Victorian values and why voting might not be enough. Plus: why do centenaries turn historians into killjoys?

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The sugarcoating of violence, national myths and the relentless echoes of empire. Plus: why your favourite TV show will have been filmed in South Africa.

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