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552 - 523. The Starmer-Mandelson Scandal: Lying or Incompetence?

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Episodes

523. The Starmer-Mandelson Scandal: Lying or Incompetence?

Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

522. Has Hungary Shown Britain How to Beat Farage? (Question Time)

521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

520. Orbán Ousted: Is The Tide Turning Against Far-Right Populism?

519. Trump's NATO Threat & a Critical Election in Hungary (Question Time)

518. Is Trump a Fascist and is His War on Iran Unwinnable?

The Real Reasons Populism Is Taking Over

517. Is Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba? (Question Time)

516. Trump’s Iran Delusion and the Limits of American Power

Nineteen Eighty-Four: Dominic Sandbrook on Big Brother, Surveillance, and Fear (The Book Club)

515. Starmer’s Foreign Aid Betrayal, Islamophobia & Australia’s Far Right (Question Time)

514. Who Is Profiting from Trump's Iran Catastrophe?

513. Inside Iran: The Country Trump Cannot Control? (Question Time)

512. Trump’s Iran Disaster and the GB News Propaganda Machine

511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

510. How The Iran War Is Spiralling Into a Global Crisis

The Future of Warfare: Anthropic vs OpenAI

509. Labour's Polanski Problem and the Student Loans Scandal (Question Time)

508. Is Starmer Sleepwalking into War with Iran?

507. The Ayatollah Is Killed - REACTION

506. Trump Attacks Iran: What Happens Now?

505. Are Trump and Putin Underestimating Ukraine?

504. Is Trump Losing His Tariffs War? (Question Time)

Why Trump Wants Greenland

503. Andrew’s Arrest: What Next?

502. How Nigel Farage Gets Away With It (Question Time)

501. Is Starmer Too Soft on Trump? Inside the Munich Security Conference

The Battle for the Arctic

500. Japan, China, and the Fight for Taiwan (Question Time)

499. Is It Game Over for Starmer?

498. Alastair Reacts to Starmer-Mandelson Turmoil

497. Is Trump Plotting Regime Change in Iran? (Question Time)

496. Mandelson’s Disgrace: How Epstein Poisoned Our Politics

495. Terror in Minnesota: The Putinisation of America (Question Time)

494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

What If the AI Revolution Isn’t Real?

493. Trump Insults NATO Troops

492. Should Europe Boycott the World Cup? (Question Time)

491. Trump at Davos: Rory and Alastair React

490. Trump’s Greenland Ultimatum: What Next?

Will AI End Humanity?

489. Musk's AI Deepfake Disgrace & JD Vance's Minnesota Lies (Question Time)

488. Is Iran on the Edge of Revolution?

China vs USA: Who Will Win the AI Race?

487. Is Starmer Rethinking His Approach to Europe? (Question Time)

486. Does Maduro’s Capture Put Greenland at Risk?

485. Trump Says America will Run Venezuela

484. War in Europe, Trump's Destruction of Institutions, and Britain’s National Treasures (Question Time)

483. The Future of British Politics, How The World Order Is Changing, and The Power of History

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