Becoming Burnham: Thatcher, Hillsborough, and the Anger that Shaped Him | Part 1
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564. Burnham’s Media Machine and West Bank Settler Impunity
Is Burnham’s Britain’s first ‘TikTok Prime Minister’ and what does that mean for accountability, old-fashioned journalism, and the Westminst...
563. Britain’s Afghanistan Shame and the Jason Arday Tragedy
Five years after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover, why has not a single Western government marked the anniversary...
Will Climate Action Go Backwards Under Burnham?
Should Andy Burnham deliver a covid style national emergency briefing to inform the public about the climate emergency? How do we foster cro...
562. The Right’s War With Itself and Burnham’s Prisons Challenge
With Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe trading blows, is the British right tearing itself apart, and will Kemi Badenoch destroy the Conservative...
561. How Trump’s Chaos Keeps Splintering the World Order
As a new military alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan the first sign that America's allies no longer trust its guarantees? W...
The Truth About Climate Migration – It's More Complicated Than You Think
To hear the whole episode and catch up on the rest of the series, which includes a deep dive into food security, water scarcity and the supp...
560. Trump's Hamas Disarmament 'Deal' and Europe's FIFA Boycott
As Trump's Board of Peace unveils a plan to disarm Hamas, will the group now give up its weapons and what would this mean for Gaza's future?...
559. Who Really Benefits from the Ceuta Migration Crisis?
Why did 50,000 people risk their lives in an attempt to cross the Morocco-Spain border? What do the pictures emerging from the enclave of Ce...
Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?
To hear the full episode, which includes an interview with global water expert, Sandra Postel, sign up at the therestispolitics.com With the...
558. The 'Cockroach' Uprising and Should We Stop Data Centres?
Is Modi's power finally cracking as the Cockroach Janta Party's mass protests force a minister to resign for the first time in over a decade...
557. Can Burnham Deliver Britain's Biggest Change in Generations?
Can Andy Burnham, in a single term or less, fix problems like social care that are generations in the making? Is his new push for vocational...
Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis
Could the UK be facing empty supermarket shelves by 2030? Are food distribution centres sitting ducks for drone warfare? And how has Britain...
556. The US-China AI Arms Race and Badenoch vs. Rory’s Centrism
Is China quietly outsmarting the US in the AI arms race, and is Trump laying the pitch to challenge the results of the US midterms with his...
555. Burnham’s Cabinet Purge and the Rough Sleeping Pledge
What does Andy Burnham’s purge of Starmer loyalists from the top of government tell us about how the new British prime minister will govern...
The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know
Why did the government suppress a report written by senior intelligence officials which named climate and nature collapse as a national secu...
554. Burnham’s Worldview, Trump's Ceasefire Collapse, and Advising Count Binface
Can Andy Burnham's 'Makerfield test' survive contact with a world of Trump, China, and a raging Iran crisis? Why did every one of Netanyahu'...
553. Farage in Meltdown and The Killing of Ann Widdecombe
Has Nigel Farage finally hit his tipping point, and could Count Binface deliver the ultimate humiliation in Clacton? Why are police warning...
552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine
What does Trump's shocking red card intervention reveal about how he wields power? Why doesn't his corruption seem to hurt him politically,...
551. Will Farage’s Trumpian Resignation Stunt Backfire?
Is Farage's shock by-election gamble a Trumpian trick to bury the scandal over his finances? Why has the Murdoch press finally turned on Bri...