The Battle for Soul of Islam
James Dorsey is a writer and journalist and author of the new book The Battle for the Soul of Islam - Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21st Century, published by Macmillan. Check out our Bookshop.org ...
2 Aug 20241h
The Caucasus: Europe's troubled border
In September last year, an established community in a European country of hundreds of thousands of people was removed in its entirety after a devastating military campaign. This was not Ukraine, but t...
24 Juli 202449min
Back to Ukraine - Away from summitry, what is happening on the ground?
Away from NATO's glitzy summit 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC, the war in Ukraine drags on. Ian Bond, a former British ambassador and now Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform th...
12 Juli 202452min
The British Elections - an Outsider's perspective with Annette Dittert
In this episode I speak to Annette Dittert, London correspondent of German TV channel ARD since 2008. She has lived here since 2008, but she remains someone who can look dispassionately at our politic...
4 Juli 202448min
What have they go to show for fourteen years of power? With Nick Cohen
I spoke to Nick Cohen, veteran political journalist and author of the Writing from London substack https://nickcohen.substack.com/ about the record of the past 14 years of Conservative government and ...
30 Juni 202444min
EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jason Pack on Biden's debate disaster
I spoke to Jason Pack about the fallout from President Joseph Biden's poor debate performance on 27 June. Jason has written about this in his substack and also recorded his own podcast on the subject,...
28 Juni 202428min
France's election with Peter Ricketts
President Macron did something truly unexpected when he called a snap election in the aftermath of the European parliamentary elections. It now looks very likely that France's next legislature will co...
20 Juni 202441min
The Meg-election: Modi gets a shock from India's voters
I was delighted to speak to Akanksha Narain, Indian political analyst and consultant about the unexpected election results in India where Modi's BJP party fell far short of their target of 400 seats i...
17 Juni 20241h 11min
