Ukraine vs Russia: Are “peace talks” just a Putin trap?
Is peace with Putin even possible? In the early days of Russia’s war on Ukraine, negotiations seemed viable. Then came Bucha and the revelations of Russian atrocities on Ukrainian soil. Now Russia is ...
24 Jan 202447min
Dire Straits – After Taiwan’s election, could China attempt a stealth takeover?
Tensions are rising across the Taiwan Strait. China is enraged that the Taiwanese people have chosen a man Beijing calls a “troublemaker”, William Lai, as their President. Now Xi Jinping has become pe...
17 Jan 202436min
🚨 UPDATE 🚨 Red Sea latest as airstrikes hit Yemen
Gavin Esler talks with Yemen expert Helen Lackner after a night of yet more conflict in the Middle East. Within hours of our recording with Yemen expert and author Helen Lackner analysing the Houthi m...
12 Jan 202410min
Iran, the Houthis and war in the Red Sea explained – Special edition with The Bunker
This is a special crossover episode with The Bunker, our daily politics podcast, and we’re bringing it to the TINAD feed too. Why are UK and US navies defending Western shipping against missile attack...
12 Jan 202426min
The Final Countdown: Can anything stop Trump? – with Brian Klaas of UCL
In twelve months’ time America will inaugurate a new President. It could be a man who says he’ll act as a “dictator on day one,” who rejects elections if he doesn’t win them, and whose America First i...
10 Jan 202433min
2024: A dangerous year ahead – with former National Security Adviser Peter Ricketts
With wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions rising in Yemen and between China and Taiwan, populists eyeing elections across the world and the spectre of another Trump Presidency, 2024 could be the ...
4 Jan 202432min
Putin wants to spread chaos in Europe. Here’s how he’ll do it
With his playbook of brutal invasion, cyberwar and intimidation, Vladimir Putin is the nightmare neighbour of every country that borders Russia. Beyond his crimes in Ukraine, could Putin’s ambitions r...
20 Dec 202343min
Exodus and revelations: The truth about migration – with Prof Hein de Haas
From ‘Stop the Boats’ to ‘Build the Wall’, mass migration is the great upheaval of our times, opening a poisonous political divide. Will population movement really tip our world into chaos as the popu...
13 Dec 202333min
