All Your Base Are Belong To Us, The People’s Carcrash, Our Democracy
You’ve heard of de-Baathification? Now what about de-baseification? The gradual chipping back of US strategic assets in the Gulf as each in turn comes under pressure from drone and rocket fire… till o...
23 Jul 0s
Iran: The Oil Price War With Conventional War Characteristics
This week: two audio essays, on one big Iran cluster-frig. In the Collingwood corner: Donald Trump has become an unreadable politician. His credibility has burst through various levels of ‘madman the...
16 Jul 44min
Slipping and Sliding, Spit and Polish
It’s an oil rush. Fill your boots, fellers, America is releasing its strategic petroleum reserves, ostensibly to see down Iranian pressure. Good news for voters, great news for foreign countries who w...
9 Jul 56min
Pilkington Vs Collingwood: A Multipolarity Q&A Special
This week on Multipolarity, we’re taking your questions.It’s a Q&A episode, involving queries sent in by our loyal listeners.Questions like:How did you guys meet?(Drunk, at a party).Which EU country w...
2 Jul 11min
No Deal Is Better Than An Islama-bad Deal, The Godmother, Two Year Keir
Iran’s 14 points: making the world safe for Shia Theocracy. Obviously, Donald Trump putting his John Hancock to the Islamabad Memorandum at Versailles carries absolutely no historical resonance. But a...
25 Jun 1h 4min
Multipolarity Dialogues: The Other Superweapon - Adventures In Chinese AI, with TP Huang
Fable — a short fantastical tale with a moral message. For weeks, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei was telling anyone who’d listen that he’d invented an AI so powerful it could walk through walls, shoot spar...
18 Jun 53min
Strait To Hell, Kim Jong Boom, Armenian Roulette
It’s war in our time. After flirting with peace for a few miserable hours, the US and Iran are back to what they know best: taking uneven chunks out of each other amidst the world’s prime oil pathway....
11 Jun 1h 5min
Two Audio Essays: The Escalation Ladder & Weaponised Interdependence
This week: two audio essays. First up, they’re calling it the Poor Man’s Tomahawk. Ukraine is firing up to 2000 long range drones a week into Russia. The production facilities supplying them are scatt...
4 Jun 11min
