Podcast Episodes

Nato is running out of TNT. How did we fall behind Russia and China?

TNT, the unglamorous but indispensable ingredient of modern warfare, is now in critically short supply and Britain is feeling the consequences. A new parliamentary report warns that the UK’s war-figh…

Published on 7 hours ago

Indiscriminate weapons: how wars became so deadly for civilians

More children are being killed by explosive weapons than at any other time in history, according to a major new report by Save the Children and Imperial College London.

It’s clear there has been a shi…

Published on 2 days, 7 hours ago

Biggest US military buildup since Cuban Missile Crisis puts Latin America on edge

America is flexing its muscles in the Caribbean and the world is holding its breath. Washington has trained its sights on Socialist-run Venezuela, and the arrival of the colossal USS Gerald Ford has …

Published on 3 days, 21 hours ago

Trump and the ex-terrorist: why the West needs Syria to work

The Syrian civil war raged for years, wrecked a nation, and then quietly vanished from the headlines. Last December, a jihadist faction once aligned with Al-Qaeda toppled Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorsh…

Published on 1 week ago

Inside the bloody work of tracking war crimes from space

For more than two years a vicious civil war has been raging in Sudan. It’s been defined by massacres, rapes, displacement, and starvation. 

As the UN has long said, it is one of the worst humanitarian…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

'Worse than war with Israel': Why Iran's regime is on edge

Sanctions, nationwide protests, even Israeli airstrikes haven’t broken the Iranian regime. Could a drought finally bring the Islamic Republic to its knees?

Iran is running out of water and now the pre…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Germany is finally rearming against Russia. Can it go fast enough?

Germany is rearming, and fast. A sentence that once sent shivers down Europe’s spine is now a shocking reality. This isn’t the Germany of old; it’s a nation powering up for a new era of danger. With …

Published on 2 weeks ago

Why Ukraine's troops are facing an amputation crisis

In Ukraine, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned from the frontlines without limbs. Most of them will require support in some form for the rest of their lives. 

But not all of those amputations…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Is the US losing the Pacific to China?

Donald Trump’s been on a triumphant tour of Asia, shaking hands, signing peace deals, and lapping up royal treatment fit for, well, himself. From Tokyo Tower lit in red, white and blue to 250 cherry …

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

How a Middle Eastern superpower is fuelling the Sudan war

There’s a rhythm to wartime atrocity. First come the warnings, ignored, dismissed. Then the whispers, the shaky videos, the satellite images that no one can quite believe. And finally, the horrific t…

Published on 3 weeks ago