MBS - Saudi Arabia's ruthless ruler

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 documentary about MBS and his rise to power. You can find it on BBC Iplayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001zprq/the-kingdom-the-worlds-most-powerful-prince-series-1-1-game-of-thrones and you can find Jonathan's enlightening article about MBS here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz8934wrro Jonathan is on Twitter at https://x.com/jrug Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack at arthursnell.substack.com and/or follow me on Bluesky @snellarthur.bsky.social. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often Disorder which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest think tank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Crossing the Line: an Israeli - Palestinian love story

Crossing the Line: an Israeli - Palestinian love story

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Migration - the real facts in an age of alarmism

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As countries all over the world, but particularly liberal democracies in the West, turn themselves inside out over the issue of migration and in the process empowering the far right, it was my great p...

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Can Ukraine Arm Europe?

Can Ukraine Arm Europe?

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Whatever happened to the Tories?

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The War in Sudan, and role of the UAE

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I speak to Jan Pospisil of Coventry University about the war in Sudan, its roots and its current trajectory. Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substac...

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The Baltic States in the Twentieth Century and their security now

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How Technology is Transforming Warfare, with Matthew Savill

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