This week Stephanie Boland speaks to historian of ideas Lyndsey Stonebridge about refugees and their status. How should history inform our thinking about the current refugee crisis? What rights should displaced people have? Stonebridge focuses on the literary side of those questions. Her new book is Placeless People and you can read her Prospect contributions here.

Before we get to that, Alex Dean on the decline of the Lib Dems and Sameer Rahim on Spike Lee’s new film BlacKkKlansman

Listen to previous episodes of the Prospect podcast here