Justice in Syria: on the trail of Assad's henchmen
Since 2011, war crimes investigator Bill Wiley has been on the trail of the criminal elements of the Assad regime who have carried out extraordinary amounts of killings, torture and other crimes. His ...
18 Jan 202559min
France in the Age of Populism
How does a society like France grapple with the challenge of populist politics? I spoke to Thom Reilly, former British Ambassador to Morocco who was a candidate in the European parliamentary elections...
10 Jan 202553min
BONUS EPISODE - CRISIS IN GEORGIA
Marika Mariashvili returns for a special bonus episode as Georgia faces a constitutional crisis - the existing president refusing to cede power after a stolen election, and a new puppet in place takin...
30 Dec 20241h 13min
Charles Gammell on Iran post-Assad
What does the fall of Assad mean for the mad Mullahs running Iran? I spoke to Charles Gammell. Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack at arthursnel...
26 Dec 202452min
Christmassy Episode: Miguel Delaney on the geopolitics of football
Miguel Delaney, Chief Football Writer at the Independent is the author of states of play, a book about the geopolitics of football. You can find him on Bluesky and Twitter. migueldelaney Check out our...
21 Dec 202457min
Inside HTS: what does Al-Jolani want and how will they rule?
There are literally a tiny number of people in this world who can speak with authority and insight on Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham - or HTS - the militant group that swept into Damascus a week ago. One of th...
16 Dec 20241h 10min
The history of Syria, from the Pharaohs to the Pharaonic
I spoke to the brilliant historian James Barr about the history of Syria from the Pharaohs to the present day. You can find James on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/jamesbarr.bsky.social and his book...
12 Dec 202455min
Georgia: fighting to be European
With bewildering events unfolding all over the place, I wanted to give some coverage to the Republic of Georgia, where the pro-Western political movement is responding to a rigged election and the dec...
4 Dec 202458min
