Rogue Agent - the life of ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART
I spoke to Professor James Crossland about the extraordinary life of diplomat, secret agent and journalist Robert Bruce Lockhart. You can find James's book on the subject here: https://eandtbooks.com/...
14 Syys 20241h 4min
MBS - Saudi Arabia's ruthless ruler
Veteran foreign correspondent Jonathan Rugman is the author of The Killing in the Consulate about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. More recently he has produced a fascinating two-part d...
27 Elo 202454min
Westlessness with Samir Puri
Have we entered a post-Western world? What does that mean and how does it look from the other side of the world? Singapore based academic and former British diplomat has published a new book, Westless...
16 Elo 20241h 10min
The Battle for Soul of Islam
James Dorsey is a writer and journalist and author of the new book The Battle for the Soul of Islam - Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21st Century, published by Macmillan. Check out our Bookshop.org ...
2 Elo 20241h
The Caucasus: Europe's troubled border
In September last year, an established community in a European country of hundreds of thousands of people was removed in its entirety after a devastating military campaign. This was not Ukraine, but t...
24 Heinä 202449min
Back to Ukraine - Away from summitry, what is happening on the ground?
Away from NATO's glitzy summit 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC, the war in Ukraine drags on. Ian Bond, a former British ambassador and now Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform th...
12 Heinä 202452min
The British Elections - an Outsider's perspective with Annette Dittert
In this episode I speak to Annette Dittert, London correspondent of German TV channel ARD since 2008. She has lived here since 2008, but she remains someone who can look dispassionately at our politic...
4 Heinä 202448min
What have they go to show for fourteen years of power? With Nick Cohen
I spoke to Nick Cohen, veteran political journalist and author of the Writing from London substack https://nickcohen.substack.com/ about the record of the past 14 years of Conservative government and ...
30 Kesä 202444min
