Podcast Episodes

The Twelve Day War, 5 Percent? Get Bent, Dead Dollar Bounce

Season 1 Episode 131

Nothing Ever Happens. Or does it? A week on from a one act play of a war, we pick through the charred remains of the Fordow Nuclear Site. We’re looking for clues. A smouldering nothingburger here; or…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Premium Edition Teaser: Iran Special

Season 1 Episode 130

Was it real?

As we record this on the morning of the 23 June, we are a little over 24 hours removed from Operation Midnight Hammer, in which USAF assets, including B2 Spirit stealth heavy bombers, att…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Special Edition: Malcom Kyeyune on Military Parades and Hypersonics Over Tel Aviv

Season 1 Episode 129

Malcom Kyeyune is one of the oldest friends of Multipolarity.

In his first 2025 appearance, he catches up with Andrew about the state of the world. Trump’s ‘military parade’. The breakup of the MAGA …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Musk Rat Love, Remember the LA mo’, Promising The Rare Earth

Season 1 Episode 128

The Big Divorce has finally hit. Like a country rock record written by the WWE, the Trump Musk split has been its own kind of kino. But beyond two hotheaded men who secretly still love each other ver…

Published on 6 months ago

Special Edition: Pilkington Launches "The Collapse Of Global Liberalism"

Season 1 Episode 127

This week, we’re going as big picture as imaginable. Philip Pilkington has a thesis about liberalism itself:

1. That it is bad.

2. That it is ending. 

That’s the nub of his new book, released this we…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Premium Edition Teaser: Xi Blinded Me with Science, Every Ottoman for Himself, Poison Ivy

Season 1 Episode 126

China is planning a new version of its Made In China 2025 industrial strategy. Just as America is punching holes in its own science funding budget, we'll be reporting from the output gap. 

Meanwhile, …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Special Edition: A Tale of Two Great Walls?

Season 1 Episode 125

Two audio essays, half a world apart. 

Nixon went to China first. Now, Philip Pilkington is there; to see what fifty years of openness to the West has done for the place. Turns out, quite a bit. He’ll…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Abraham Discords, Bloody Vicious Rocket, The Grand Old Duke Of Tariffs

Season 1 Episode 124

More ordnance in the Middle East. Rumours are that Trump is agreeing to a two state solution; Israel is out in the cold; Netanyahu is not having his calls returned, and a trillion dollar deal is inco…

Published on 7 months ago

Romanian Light, Rocket From The Crypt, Authoritarians For Democracy

Season 1 Episode 123

No one imagined that Romanian elections would become a big spectator sport, but they’ve really proved us wrong. Remember the TikTok Secret Police Election? Well now Romania is back with a sequel: Eth…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You Bloody Bastard, Wanging On

Season 1 Episode 122

Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question. 

What happened in Canada? 

Did it warp beneath th…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago