567 Episodes

  1. The government’s race to save British Steel

    Published: 4/14/2025

  2. What’s behind the allegations of insider trading following Trump’s tariff U-turn?

    Published: 4/11/2025

  3. Global stock markets tumble as countries react to Trump’s tariffs

    Published: 4/7/2025

  4. Are Trump’s tariffs the beginning of the end for the global economic order?

    Published: 4/4/2025

  5. Deborah Frances-White on renters’ rights and the earthquake in Myanmar

    Published: 3/31/2025

  6. How did Trump’s top officials accidentally invite a journalist into their group chat?

    Published: 3/27/2025

  7. Yalda Hakim on war with China and why did a fire shut down Heathrow airport?

    Published: 3/24/2025

  8. Are there plans to remove 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip?

    Published: 3/21/2025

  9. How did Trump deport hundreds to a mega prison in El Salvador despite a judge's ruling?

    Published: 3/17/2025

  10. The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur discusses the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and what this means for free speech in America

    Published: 3/14/2025

  11. Why the King wants you to listen to Bob Marley and Reform’s civil war escalates

    Published: 3/10/2025

  12. Should Europe seize $220bn in frozen Russian assets and why an Alaskan dog sled race just got even longer?

    Published: 3/7/2025

  13. Trump ambushes Zelensky and Starmer takes the lead

    Published: 3/3/2025

  14. Should Starmer try to win over Trump and is Zelensky’s mineral deal with the US a smart move?

    Published: 2/28/2025

  15. Why has Apple pulled a data protection tool and will Germany stand up to Trump?

    Published: 2/24/2025

  16. Why do some young voters buy Trump's lies about Ukraine and what’s behind the violence in the DRC?

    Published: 2/21/2025

  17. Is Europe irrelevant in Trump’s new world order and will the UK send troops to Ukraine?

    Published: 2/17/2025

  18. The Trump-Putin phone call shocks Europe and mayday for universities in Wales

    Published: 2/13/2025

  19. The rise and rise of Reform and the posthumously published diary of Joan Didion

    Published: 2/10/2025

  20. The Taliban refuses to return $7bn of US arms and Doge takes on USAID

    Published: 2/7/2025

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