Episodios

  • The Battle for Soul of Islam

    The Battle for Soul of Islam
    Aug 2 2024

    James Dorsey is a writer and journalist and author of the new book The Battle for

    the Soul of Islam - Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21st Century, published by Macmillan.


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    58 m
  • The Caucasus: Europe's troubled border

    The Caucasus: Europe's troubled border
    Jul 24 2024
    In September last year, an established community in a European country of hundreds of thousands of people was removed in its entirety after a devastating military campaign. This was not Ukraine, but the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has now ceased to exist. To understand this and the dynamics of a little understood region including the complex interplay between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, all under the watchful and interfering Russian eye, it was a great pleasure to speak to Neil Hauer, a Canadian journalist based in the region for several years.

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    47 m
  • Back to Ukraine - Away from summitry, what is happening on the ground?

    Back to Ukraine - Away from summitry, what is happening on the ground?
    Jul 12 2024
    Away from NATO's glitzy summit 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC, the war in Ukraine drags on. Ian Bond, a former British ambassador and now Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank spoke to me about his recent visit to Ukraine and Moldova and what it portends for the war in Ukraine and wider European security.

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    50 m
  • The British Elections - an Outsider's perspective with Annette Dittert

    The British Elections - an Outsider's perspective with Annette Dittert
    Jul 4 2024
    In this episode I speak to Annette Dittert, London correspondent of German TV channel ARD since 2008. She has lived here since 2008, but she remains someone who can look dispassionately at our politics, culture and institutions.

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    46 m
  • What have they go to show for fourteen years of power? With Nick Cohen

    What have they go to show for fourteen years of power? With Nick Cohen
    Jun 30 2024
    I spoke to Nick Cohen, veteran political journalist and author of the Writing from London substack https://nickcohen.substack.com/ about the record of the past 14 years of Conservative government and what we might expect from a Labour one.

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    42 m
  • EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jason Pack on Biden's debate disaster

    EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jason Pack on Biden's debate disaster
    Jun 28 2024

    I spoke to Jason Pack about the fallout from President Joseph Biden's poor debate performance on 27 June. Jason has written about this in his substack and also recorded his own podcast on the subject, both available here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-146086715?source=queue


    We covered: does the poor debate even matter? What is the process (if one exists) for replacing Biden as the presidential nominee? Who are the likely candidates? What is at stake if Biden doesn't stand down and Trump wins?


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    25 m
  • France's election with Peter Ricketts

    France's election with Peter Ricketts
    Jun 20 2024
    President Macron did something truly unexpected when he called a snap election in the aftermath of the European parliamentary elections. It now looks very likely that France's next legislature will contain a plurality of hard right deputies from Marine Le Pen's National Rally. I spoke to Lord Peter Ricketts, former British Ambassador to France about this unexpected election and what it portends.

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    39 m
  • The Meg-election: Modi gets a shock from India's voters

    The Meg-election: Modi gets a shock from India's voters
    Jun 17 2024
    I was delighted to speak to Akanksha Narain, Indian political analyst and consultant about the unexpected election results in India where Modi's BJP party fell far short of their target of 400 seats in the 542-seat lower house of Parliament (Lok Sabha).

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    1 h y 8 m