Hot Take Time Machine – Spoilt pigs, hen-dos and ‘alpine divorce’ with Miranda Sawyer and Jonn Elledge
Hot Take Time Machine is back and our crack squad of column critics are sniffing out the weirdest, worst and occasionally the best opinions from the last month. Paper Cuts survivors Miranda Sawyer an...
4 Juni 33min
The A.I. swindle – Why Sam Altman is lying to you
OpenAI chief Sam Altman once wrote that the most successful people don’t build companies, they “create religions”. Will artificial intelligence really solve humanity’s greatest problems and elevate hu...
3 Juni 27min
Cash Rules Everything – Why do we always vote to keep oligarchs rich?
Democratic rights and freedoms have expanded for a century or more, yet the super-rich have never been richer and wealth has never been shared less fairly. And we keep on voting to prop up systems tha...
2 Juni 30min
Texts education — Start Your Week with Alex von Tunzelmann
A huge dump of messages linked to Peter Mandelson are about to drop – what can we expect and who’s the most nervous? Alex von Tunzelmann joins Jacob Jarvis to discuss the news to look out for in the w...
1 Juni 27min
Hot Blair balloon – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr
• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing for The Bunker. Tony Blair has weighed in on Labour’s direction – but what does he actually want? Plus: Pope Leo warns a...
28 Maj 31min
Iran's regime is fighting for survival – can it hold on?
• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing.Iran’s hardline regime may have weathered Donald Trump’s onslaught for now – but behind Teheran’s defiance there are dee...
28 Maj 31min
The Wanna-Bibis — Will Israel’s opposition dethrone Netanyahu?
• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing.Is time finally running out for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? The Knesset has voted to dissolve itself, the...
27 Maj 29min
Boiling Point – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Last chance to get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Setting up the stories for the next seven… sorry, six days. As Britain suffers unprecedented May heatwav...
26 Maj 30min
