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The Making of an Autocrat: manufacture a crisis
Episode 3
Donald Trump has sounded the alarm, over and over again, that the United States is facing an “invasion” by dangerous gang members. He blames immigran…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Making of an Autocrat: recruit an architect
Episode 2
Every autocrat needs a clan of loyalists, strategists, masterminds – these are the figures behind the scenes pulling the strings.
They’re unelected an…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Making of an Autocrat: hijack a party
Episode 1
We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along with Vladimi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Making of an Autocrat, coming soon
We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along with Vladimi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Scam Factories Ep 3: Great Escapes
Every day that he was locked up in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, George thought about how to get out. "We looked for means of escaping, but it w…
1 year ago
Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation
A few weeks after Ben Yeo travelled to Cambodia for what he thought was a job in a casino, he found himself locked up in a padded room. “It’s a combi…
1 year ago
Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required
Scam factories is a special three-part series taking you inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds. Hundreds of thousands of people are estimate…
1 year ago
Know Your Place part 5: the real class divide
The neglect of working-class voters in the past few decades has had profound consequences for British political life. Disillusioned with the two main…
1 year, 7 months ago
Know Your Place part 4: a working class parliament?
After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. Several …
1 year, 7 months ago
Know Your place part 3: what class means now
In the third part of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we explore how class is defined and measured, and how the UK’s chan…
1 year, 7 months ago