On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Robert discusses the changing environment for forecasting with fewer public sector staff having advanced sight of official data and countered by the challenges facing short-term forecasts against risks such as Brexit, trade and disruptive politics.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to Philip Lane about how the European Central Bank has developed its policy strategy to govern the range of unconventional tools it has employed in recent years. They also discuss ways of gauging the effectiveness of different tools, and how multi-national policy can co-exist with localised labour markets.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Jari and Tom discuss the prospects for the US dollar and global supply chains in the fallout from the US-China trade war, and Tom explains the growth of thought leadership and economic thinking inside media groups.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to Evan Davis about key lessons for economists from the Brexit referendum, when the profession's majority view went one way, and most of the voting public the other. How does the public make economic judgements? How do they weigh these against other considerations? And what can economists do to restore some of the credibility they seem to have lost?

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to the event's host about how the day's discussions reflect on the mood of the economics profession, the way forward for practitioners, and life at the intersection of journalism and financial markets.

Rebecca Harding talks to Rain Newton-Smith

Rebecca Harding talks to UK statistics regulator Ed Humpherson