Losing Gaza
“We cannot know what sort of human beings will emerge from this.” Following Hamas’s deadly attack on 7 October 2023, Israel’s military respo...
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20 of 294 episodesSusan Neiman: "It's not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but pro-human rights"
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has now passed the 100 day mark. On the 14 January Alona Ferber attended the Jewish Labour Movement...
How will elections shape the world in 2024?
In 2024 countries with more than 4 billion people will be sending their citizens to the polls. The US, Russia, and India to name a few; this...
What does it mean to be Jewish and on the left today?
Earlier this month we published a magazine with the cover ‘Being Jewish Now’. At this time of crisis in the Middle East, with divisions over...
Iran's interest in Israel, with former ambassador John Jenkins
Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah – all of whom operate out of Beirut’s southern suburbs – have coordinated their positions in various ways for year...
NEW: Will the Israel Gaza war spread to the wider Middle East?
**NEW EPISODE** As Israel prepares a ground attack on Gaza, Katie Stallard is joined by Alona Ferber and Professor Lina Khatib to explore th...
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Are China and the EU headed for a trade war? With Bruno Maçães
As the European Union weighs new sanctions on Chinese companies, which could be announced later this week, Katie Stallard speaks to Bruno Ma...
Is the war coming home to Russia?
On Tuesday (30 May), several drones damaged buildings in Moscow in by far the largest attack on the Russian capital since the war in Ukraine...
How the Russia’s war on Ukraine will change the world, with Serhii Plokhy
This week our guest is the historian Serhii Plokhy, a professor and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard and the auth...
Is the National Conservatism conference a glimpse into Britain’s future?
Last week British adherents – including several prominent ministers – of a traditionalist political movement with origins in post-Trump US p...
How can Putin be put on trial? With Philippe Sands
With international arrest warrants now active against Vladimir Putin, Ido Vock speaks to Philippe Sands, professor at UCL, about his attempt...
What is at stake in Ukraine’s counter-offensive?
The Ukrainian army this week announced gains around Bakhmut, its first substantive advances in about six months. That progress has prompted...
The shifting geopolitics of Central Asia – with Raffaello Pantucci
Fourteen months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, Katie Stallard speaks to Raffaello Pantucci, senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of...
The power politics of Victory Day
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, oversaw a muted parade in Moscow for Victory Day on 9 May, which celebrates the Soviet Union’s triump...
The new space race – with Tim Marshall
With a new era of great-power competition taking shape on Earth, Katie Stallard speaks to the journalist and author Tim Marshall about his n...
The US is running out of money: what happens next?
Republicans in the US House of Representatives passed legislation last week that would increase the US debt ceiling only in exchange for sig...
Noam Chomsky: Don't underestimate the risk of nuclear war
Ido Vock speaks to the American linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most prominent commentators on international politics since the Vi...
The roots of the conflict in Sudan
A three-day ceasefire has allowed some countries to evacuate their citizens from Sudan, where rival military factions have been fighting sin...