John Bolton and Emily Maitlis on Trump, Biden and the Election
John Bolton knows a thing or two about Donald Trump. So many things, in fact, that he’s now being investigated by the US Justice Department for potentially spilling classified information in his new b...
30 Okt 20201h
Wake Up Call: Why The Pandemic Exposes The Weakness of the West
Fear is on the march. All over the world citizens have surrendered basic freedoms to the state in order to be protected from Covid-19. Good government has become not just important but a matter of lif...
27 Okt 20201h 1min
The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X. with Tamara Payne and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - includ...
23 Okt 20201h 5min
The Seduction of Autocracy, with Anne Applebaum and Jonathan Freedland
In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, f...
20 Okt 202056min
The European Green Deal is Not Fit For Purpose
This week's podcast is from our friends at Intelligence Squared Germany who hosted a live debate in Berlin last week on whether the EU's 'Green Deal', a plan to deliver both economic growth and carbon...
16 Okt 20201h 5min
The Ideological Roots of 'Wokeness'. with Helen Pluckrose and Helen Joyce
In this week's episode Helen Pluckrose documents the evolution of the ideas that inform today's radical social justice activism, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement withi...
13 Okt 202043min
Thomas Friedman and Robert Peston on the Final Days of the Presidential Race
Thomas Friedman has been called ‘the most influential columnist in America’. The Financial Times has described him as a ‘global star’ and he has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. On October 6, Fried...
9 Okt 202059min
Kim Jong Un and The Bomb: is North Korea Really a Threat?
North Korea shocked the world in September 2017 by exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier, it had conducted the first test flight of a missile capable o...
6 Okt 202058min
