The Post Western World and the Trump Regime
Dr Samir Puri works at Chatham House and has written a brilliant book called Westlessness. If you would like to support this podcast please consider taking out a paid subscription to my Substack arth...
27 Jan 51min
Everything, everywhere all at once: what 2026 might hold, with Dan Kaszeta
I spoke to Dan about many things. Better to have a listen. If you are looking for the chart about AI financing that he mentioned, it's here. You can find Dan on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/dankas...
20 Jan 47min
Iran in Crisis: Charlie Gammell on the protests
Charlie Gammell is one of Britain's leading Iran experts and he joined me in a conversation recorded on 13 January about the rapidly evolving situation in Iran. You can find Charlie's work here on Sub...
14 Jan 47min
EMERGENCY EPISODE: Maduro, Chavez, Delcy Rodriguez and where we're going in Venezuela
Catherine Royle was Britain's Ambassador to Venezuela, making one of very few people to have met and worked with all of Nicolas Maduro, his predecessor Hugo Chavez and Maduro's (perhaps temporary) suc...
4 Jan 45min
A Storm of Princes: Saudi Arabia and the UAE fight over South Yemen
A struggle over who controls South Yemen might not seem particularly important, but it's a proxy for a far bigger conflict that has been bubbling for years between two of the key countries in Gulf reg...
30 Dec 202541min
The New Total War: Bob Seely on Russia's Strategy
From the revolutionary use of drones to staged coups, child abduction and psychological warfare, the war in Ukraine is like no other. It is a new form of total war, combining traditional military forc...
17 Dec 202539min
America First: A New Era in Foreign Policy with Jonathan Terra
In this episode, Arthur Snell and Dr. Jonathan Terra delve into the Trump administration's National Security Strategy, exploring its ideological underpinnings, rejection of globalism, and implications...
9 Dec 20251h 2min
Crisis in the Sahel: the end of Western intervention and the collapse of Mali
Mali, a vast country larger than most of Western Europe added together is a country whose central authority has largely collapsed and whose capital city Bamako is surrounded by radical Islamist milita...
3 Dec 202538min
