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Adapting to the New World of War, with Mark Galeotti
Traditional conflict – fought with guns, bombs, and drones – has become almost too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. So nations have innovated. Russia wages hybri…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Business Weekly: Into the Metaverse, with Herman Narula
Mark Zuckerberg may have gone all-in on the concept of the metaverse recently but he's actually a bit late to the conversation. Herman Narula is CEO and co-founder of Improbable, who since 2012 have …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Sports Boycotts Help No One
The 2022 Winter Olympics have just opened in Beijing. Not for the first time in Olympic history, the Games will begin amid controversy over the host nation. China is regularly criticised over its rec…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Megan Nolan on Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was hailed as a masterpiece by the literary world when it was published in 2021. Searingly honest and darkly amusing, it tells the story of an obsessiv…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
How We Can Win: Kimberly Jones and Alvin Hall in conversation
The murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis in 2020 provoked a moment of cultural reckoning in the US and a wave of outrage across the globe. Amid those scenes, author a…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Business Weekly: How to design a company, with Dr Naomi Stanford
Dr. Naomi Stanford is an expert in creating models to make organisations work better. Having begun in her career creating organisation design for large multinational companies such as British Airways…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
The Sunday Debate: The West Should Work With the Taliban
Since the hardline militant group recaptured the Afghan capital Kabul in August 2021, the question of how Western powers should deal with the Taliban has become one with no easy answers. The Taliban …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Myth and legend reimagined: Charlotte Higgins and Dr Amy Jeffs in conversation
Art historian, printmaker and writer Dr Amy Jeffs is joined in conversation by author and journalist Charlotte Higgins to discuss how ancient myths and legends are constantly retold and reimagined by…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Standoff in Ukraine: Fiona Hill on the politics that led to a crisis
Foreign policy and national security expert Fiona Hill is a go-to voice in Washington for understanding the longstanding tensions between the US and Russia. Her latest book, There Is Nothing For You …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Business Weekly: Connecting the Dots, with Dr Christian Busch
Dr Christian Busch has spent his career studying chance, serendipity, and how to maximise opportunity. He is director of the Center for Global Affairs' Global Economy Program at New York University a…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago