These are a few of my favourite things

Here is a non-exhaustive list of links to websites, podcasts and more:

Climate-Change and Renewable Energy

Carbon Brief: a website covering science and policy on both renewable energy and climate change
PV Education: more for those keen to find out more about how great solar panels are (they’re pretty damn great).
Financial Times report on the global energy transition.
Adam Tooze, Jenny Chase, Hannah Ritchie, Noah Smith, and a whole bunch of other people I follow on twitter.
Project Drawdown, the type of quantitative analysis I love.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a new website, a must for anyone who wants to understand the science better.
David Hone‘s blog at Shell, giving a more ‘insider’ perspective on aspects of energy.
The Grantham Institute (LSE link) and the Energy Futures Lab, two academic institutions covering a variety of aspects of climate and energy policy and economics.
How Solar Became Cheap – awesome history of the world’s cheapest source of electricity and the role of innovation and market-shaping policies in achieving this.

Economics

EconTalk, an economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts.
I am a keen reader of both The Economist and the Financial Times.
This series of lectures on rethinking capitalism, hosted by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Capitalisn’t, an excellent discussion between an economist and a journalist on what does and doesn’t work about our current economic system.
Odd Lots, Bloomberg’s very good podcast cutting across loads of economics and finance topics.

Politics

Talking Politics, a podcast hosted by David Runciman and Helen Thompson, covers lots of fascinating political and historical topics. Now ended (RIP).
The FT’s Politics Podcast, a great weekly summary of UK politics.
The Rest is Politics – Leading. I went off the main podcast, but the Leading interviews tend to be pretty good.

History and Philosophy

The phenomenal The Rest is History podcast. Two friends and history nerds just chatting away – great, informative storytelling.
Il Podcast di Alessandro Barbero. This might rival, or even better, TRIH in terms of storytelling. Amazingly compelling and clear stories spanning a very wide range of history – in Italian!
General Philosophy, a series of lectures for first-year philosophy students – really great introduction (although I’m not sure I followed all of it…).
The Everyday Sexism Project: I visit this page less frequently, but it’s always a stark reminder of how far there is to go.
Talking Politics: A History of Ideas, a spinoff that does episodes focusing in on important thinkers of the past centuries.

Other Random Stuff

Acquired: One of the best business-focussed podcasts I’ve come across. Two awesome storytellers as hosts, and very sharp minds when it comes to business strategy.
The RFK tapes: One for history nerds, an investigation into the murder of Bobby Kennedy.
In Our Time: A BBC radio show/podcast that invites experts and academics to discuss a bit of anything and everything, hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
Great Lives, another BBC radio show/podcast, giving 25-minute summaries of the lives of a huge range of people, hosted by Matthew Parris..
More or Less: A data/statistics-driven podcast that takes a deeper look into the facts and stats from our daily news, presented by Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist.
Conversations With Tyler – Tyler Cowen is an enormous brain and a pretty great polymath. His interviews are always very interesting.
Dwarkesh Podcast: Very much new kid on the block, but have been very impressed by the episodes I’ve listened to.
The Ross Edgley Podcast, hosted by Ross Edgley. He’s an amazing athlete and is a fascinating person to follow. Sadly seems to have been discontinued…
The Economist’s podcast on technology and science, Babbage, which has excellent and accessible discussions on a variety of cool topics.
This yearly review guidance for some self-reflection – I tried it out at the end of 2024, and am going to try to stick with it in 2025.