Podcast Episodes

Twitter Spaces: Britain's Industrial Policy - with Miriam Cates MP, William Clouston, and Michael Taylor

Season 1 Episode 23

What is Britain's industrial policy?

What should it be?

In this Anglo-centric Twitter Spaces debate, we're joined by 'rising star of the Tory right', Miriam Cates MP.

Talking alongside her is SDP lea…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Turkey Elects; Micron Matters, Twitter Spaces

Season 1 Episode 22

This episode is brought to you by Twitter Spaces.

With an elephantine 2.5 hour running time, we've gone gonzo, and turned one of our regular Twitter Spaces into a hybrid episode of Multipolarity, rec…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Special Edition: Q&A - The Problem With Peter Zeihan...

Season 1 Episode 21

Peter Zeihan is a big noise these days.

He put in a stellar appearance on Joe Rogan.

He's got a new book out: The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.

Zeihan…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Piling On The Pounds, California Screaming, Marco Polo A Go Go

Season 1 Episode 20

In the week after the Bank of England once again raised rates, our geopolitics lads are entertaining the theory that this is about more than just crushing inflation.

Britain is being forced to shadow…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Twenty Years of Monetary Failure, The Deindustrial Revolution, Arab Autumn

Season 1 Episode 19

Interest rates policy has bedevilled the West ever since Alan Greenspan first put the Fed on the floor in the wake of 9/11. With rates finally returning to realistic levels, we're seeing the impact o…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Special Edition with Harvard's Neo-Realist Stephen Walt: The Balance of Threat

Season 1 Episode 18

This week, our lads find themselves in the presence of Professor Stephen Walt.

A professor of politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, Walt is the arch neo-realist, often bracketed alongside John Mear…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Quit All That Yellen, The Chips Fall Where They May, Multipolar Metallurgy

Season 1 Episode 17

This week, ordinary geopolitics lads Andrew Collingwood and Philip Pilkington are back on the case of Janet Yellen.

A week ago, she made incoherent comments about American foreign policy. Now, she's …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Avant Lagarde, The IRA Blows Up, Xi Gets A Brazilian

Season 1 Episode 16

This week, the lads have been heartened and dismayed by public statements from the two most eminent female economists of our time. Christine Lagarde and Janet Yellen. But while Yellen fell back onto …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

"The Leak", Multipolar Macron, Rare Earth Getting Rarer

Season 1 Episode 15

This week, the lads are trying not to speculate on the exact nature of the Pentagon 'leak' that came out over the Easter weekend. Is it disinfo or just someone with an axe to grind? It's unclear, whi…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

CPTPP: Trade Deal or No Deal, Macron's Beijing Bargain, Cast No Shadow Banking

Season 1 Episode 14

After years of carping from the Remain establishment, Britain has finally come to its senses and joined a big trading bloc. But no - not that one.

Will life in Asia’s CPTPP allow the UK to export the…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago