Premium Edition Teaser: Xi Blinded Me with Science, Every Ottoman for Himself, Poison Ivy
China is planning a new version of its Made In China 2025 industrial strategy. Just as America is punching holes in its own science funding budget, we'll be reporting from the output gap. Meanwhile, t...
29 Maj 202514min
Special Edition: A Tale of Two Great Walls?
Two audio essays, half a world apart. Nixon went to China first. Now, Philip Pilkington is there; to see what fifty years of openness to the West has done for the place. Turns out, quite a bit. He’ll ...
22 Maj 202552min
The Abraham Discords, Bloody Vicious Rocket, The Grand Old Duke Of Tariffs
More ordnance in the Middle East. Rumours are that Trump is agreeing to a two state solution; Israel is out in the cold; Netanyahu is not having his calls returned, and a trillion dollar deal is incom...
15 Maj 202546min
Romanian Light, Rocket From The Crypt, Authoritarians For Democracy
No one imagined that Romanian elections would become a big spectator sport, but they’ve really proved us wrong. Remember the TikTok Secret Police Election? Well now Romania is back with a sequel: Ethn...
8 Maj 202557min
Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You Bloody Bastard, Wanging On
Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question. What happened in Canada? Did it warp beneath the...
1 Maj 202513min
Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire Strikes Back
Gold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types celebrating are effectively blowing the kazoo for...
24 Apr 202556min
Special Edition: Bretton Woods 3
This week, in a special experiment, we've gone live on Twitter Spaces. As Trump's tariffs bite, and the current account deficit zooms to the front of modern political economy, we're revisiting the id...
17 Apr 20251h 7min
Special Edition: Tariffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm. Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them. What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation ...
10 Apr 202557min
