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
EMERGENCY EPISODE: The Fall of Aleppo
The extraordinary turn of events in Syria in recent days saw the city of Aleppo, once Syria's largest and a key part of the earlier story of Syria's revolution, fall to Syria's rebels, with the soldie...
1 Dec 202438min
