Presented by http://www.mcinroy-wood.co.uk/ITV’s political editor and presenter of Peston on Sunday, Robert Peston, talks about the mess facing liberal democracy and what can be done to mend the terrible fractures in our society. He looks at what must happen to prevent democracy being subverted by technocratic geniuses with the ability to manipulat…

A live recording from the inaugural Brewin Dolphin Lecture at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival in Melrose.The liberal order we have lived with for seventy years is coming apart at a dizzying speed. Europe is fragmenting into rival blocks with competing, often mutually hostile, visions for the future. The US has elected a protectionist ‘Ame…

In our weekly update we travel the world. To Argentina, where Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham worked as gaucho, before he co-founded the Scottish Labour party and later the Scottish National Party, to un-discovered islands with Malachy Tallack and finally to the land of the dawn-lit mountains, India's forgotten frontier, with Antonia Bolingbroke-…

Festival Director Alistair Moffat introduces events of the Borders Book Festival, taking place from 15 - 18 June at Harmony Garden in Melrose. Book your tickets at http://www.bordersbookfestival.org or call 0844 357 1060.Av Borders Book Festival