Terror and tragedy in Ukraine
A helicopter carrying senior Ukrainian officials crashed on Wednesday (18 January) near a nursery in a suburb of Kyiv. According to reports, children were among those killed, as well as three governme...
19 Jan 202317min
Can the opposition unite to win in Poland? With Radek Sikorski
Ido Vock speaks to the former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski about the opposition’s plans to oust the hard-right Law and Justice party in this year’s parliamentary elections. They also discuss...
16 Jan 202319min
The future of democracy for Israel and Brazil
On Sunday (8 January), hundreds of Jair Bolsonaro supporters stormed Oscar Niemeyer’s modernist government buildings in the Brazilian capital Brasilia in an apparent attempt to overthrow the current p...
12 Jan 202335min
European diplomacy in the 21st century, with Catherine Ashton
Ahead of the publication of her new book, And Then What?, the first-ever EU high representative for foreign affairs and security, Catherine Ashton, talks to Jeremy Cliffe about the role the EU can pla...
9 Jan 202334min
Inside China’s Covid crisis
Coronavirus cases have been rising rapidly in China since its government ended its restrictive “zero-Covid” policy last month. Hospitals are expected to be inundated with newly-infected patients.Megan...
5 Jan 202327min
Why the world misunderstands Ukraine, with Olesya Khromeychuk
Nearly a year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the historian Olesya Khromeychuk speaks to Megan Gibson about how Ukraine has been perceived by the outside world, and why the country’s co...
2 Jan 202321min
Predictions for the world in 2023
In her final episode on the World Review podcast, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC is joined by Jeremy Cliffe and Ido Vock in Berlin to look ahead to the stories that might dominate 2023 – from chaos in ...
29 Dec 202239min
Looking back at 2022
The New Statesman international team examine some of the most significant moments of 2022, from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to elections, including Viktor Orbán’s victory in Hungary, Jair Bolsonaro’s...
22 Dec 202229min
