Will Trump turn America’s 250th birthday into a MAGA-fest?
Is Trump using America’s 250th anniversary to rebrand the USA in his own gaudy, aggressive, white nationalist image? There’ll be a “Patriot Games” high school athletics tournament, quickly dubbed Amer...
3 Mar 30min
Trump, Iran and a world on the brink – Start Your Week with Rafael Behr
Trump’s attacks on Iran have thrown the Middle East into chaos and left the world on the brink of what feels like an existential crisis. What is he doing and why now? And how will this situation devel...
2 Mar 29min
The absolute State of the Union – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr and Jacob Jarvis
Donald Trump delivered a record-length State of the Union address this week, in a marathon rant that has become the new normal. Plus, we explore the looming special educational needs reforms in the UK...
26 Feb 25min
Hot Take Time Machine – February’s weirdest opinion columns with Miranda Sawyer and Jonn Elledge
We read the columns and the pundits so you don’t have to… On this month’s round-up of the weirdest, worst and occasionally best opinion columns: Brutal takes on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from Camilla...
26 Feb 33min
Obama says aliens are real. What more does he know?
Barack Obama set the internet alight when he declared on a podcast that aliens are “real”. However, the former US president later insisted that, while in office, he saw no evidence of this and that he...
25 Feb 25min
China's military crisis – Is Beijing's army on the brink of collapse?
The sudden ousting of two of China’s top military leaders has sparked intense speculation about what it says about Xi Jinping’s grip on power. From Mao to today, the Chinese Communist Party has repeat...
24 Feb 16min
I shot the tariffs – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Jacob Jarvis
Trump is causing chaos again with a tariff tantrum while Starmer’s Labour faces a major test at the upcoming Gorton and Denton byelection. Gavin Esler joins Jacob Jarvis to discuss the news to look ou...
23 Feb 21min
Epstein scandal sparks Andrew arrest: What next? – Weekly Wrap-up with Alex von Tunzelmann
The week’s major stories in one place… In a shock development connected to the Epstein Files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. As King Charles distan...
19 Feb 30min
