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In this episode of Take Me Home, Hilary and Sebastian are joined by sociologist Ellie Lee to discuss how parenting has changed, and what happens when ordinary family life becomes increasingly shaped by experts, policies, and professional advice.

They talk about parental authority, common sense, the medicalisation of everyday life, and whether parents are being given less responsibility for raising their own children.

Recommendations:

Growing Up in the Culture Wars

La Grazia (2025)

Varna's Hot Spring Baths

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At a time when politics feels so divisive, and people seem to be operating on an alternative set of facts, the Left and Right are no longer capable of providing answers to Britain’s problems.

Hilary Salt and Sebastian Moore attempt to rebuild the political by making sense of what's happening in Britain, and exploring if there is a place once more for the politically homeless.

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hilary.salt@sdp.org.uk

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In this episode of Take Me Home, Hilary and Sebastian are joined by working-class academic and author Dr Lisa McKenzie to talk about class, community, and what has happened to working-class life in Britain.

They discuss her play sixTeen, the legacy of the miners’ strike, the disappearance of shared civic spaces, and why so many working-class communities feel politically abandoned. Lisa also explains why she thinks the left has failed the working class, and what it would take to bridge the growing divide between different parts of British society.

Recommendations:

sixTeen

Brideshead Revisted

Rebellion Festival

Check out the SDP website or get in touch:

www.sdp.org.uk

hilary.salt@sdp.org.uk

sebastian.moore@sdp.org.uk