Podcast Episodes

Special Edition: Malcom Kyeyune on Venezuela, Iran, Taiwan, and The American Oligarchy

Season 1 Episode 141

Friend of the Pod Malcom Kyeyune is back, and he’s got that late empire feeling. After the Chinese Military staged an extraordinary parade in Beijing, Washington is worried. The top dog question has …

Published on 3 months ago

Premium Edition Teaser: Shanghai Surprise, Bolivarian Counter-Revoution, Bond Villains

Season 1 Episode 140

Narendra Modi. In Shanghai. In the back of a car. With Vladimir Putin. Positively glowing.  

The tweets the Indians sent out at the Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation were the equivalent of a taken fo…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Multipolarity Dialogues: Why Serbia Is In A Very Weird Place Right Now, with Misa Djurkovic

Season 1 Episode 139

As they say in the Economist: "Serbia is at a crossroads..."

Anti-corruption protests after the collapse of the station roof in Novi Sad have not gone away, now many months after the event. The coun…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

All’s Fair In War, Slumdog Day Afternoon, Shite Christmas

Season 1 Episode 138

With EU leaders summoned to the White House to take dictation, it seems as though the Ukraine War is entering its final phase. Can the Europeans take their medicine? Or will they stay doolally on the…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Semtex Road, Baked Alaska, 404k

Season 1 Episode 137

The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity is now open. Only problem? It goes through a geopolitical electromagnet pulling all the badboys of the region into its tractor beam.

The US has …

Published on 4 months ago

Airstrip Zero, Goodness Gracious Xi, AliBaba For Ali Baba

Season 1 Episode 136

Lawds malarkey guv’nor, Blighty’s popped its clogs. 

Americans have been hoovering up ‘UK doom’ content ever since Elon Musk decided to push the grooming gangs scandal on X at the start of the year. 

O…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Premium Edition Teaser: The Bus To Nowhere

Season 1 Episode 135

Get on the bus. Or get on the Trump train. 

At this week’s Chinese trade talks, Europe has found itself piggy in the middle in the great global realignment. 

After Team Ursula were shunted off an airpo…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Multipolarity Dialogues: Steve Hsu on China's Tech Frontiers

Season 1 Episode 134

Steve Hsu is a physicist, a tech founder, the hub of a network of cutting edge thinkers, and the host of the excellent Manifold Podcast.  After a record-breaking first appearance, this week, he retur…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Special Edition: Global Cakeism

Season 1 Episode 133

Philip Pilkington is away in Belgrade on a foreign assignment, which means we’re serving up a Sleepless In Seattle-style double header, on tariffs. 

First off: what is the end game for trade and the d…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Milei Down and Die, Tears of a Clown, Very Stable Genius Coins

Season 1 Episode 132

In a viral video clip, tantric sex expert Javier Milei once said that he only makes love once every three months. Let’s see if he goes to the IMF any more regularly. In the wake of an enormous bailou…

Published on 5 months ago