John finally concedes that America is more fucked than the UK after seeing the QAnon wilderpeople invade both houses of Congress. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John and Michael on why, against all expectation, things just might be getting a bit better. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John and Michael talk to Doug London, the C.I.A.’s former chief for counterterrorism in south and southwest Asia, and a 34-year veteran of the Agency. Doug discusses the alleged GRU payments to the Taliban for killing American and British soldi
John and Michael talk to two bestselling journalists, Luke Harding, author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West, and Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
John and Michael talk to Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the screenwriters and executive producers of the hit BBC mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, about the GRU's attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and how that terrorist a
John and Michael discuss the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the U.S. and UK and why tearing down some statues is better than tearing down others. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
John and Michael discuss the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the U.S. and UK and why tearing down some statues is better than tearing down others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John and Michael talk with former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson about English cheese (yes), life after politics and COVID, and everything that went wrong with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, from the cranks to the Stalinists to the anti-Semites
John and Michael talk to Peter Pomeranzev, author of This is Not Propaganda and Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, about how populists flourish in crisis and what the West learned from Vladimir Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri
John and Michael discuss their plague reading and why homebodies like A.E. Housman will win the struggle for a post-pandemic imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John and Michael chat with Chris Atkins, a celebrated British documentarian who did five years behind bars for tax fraud. (Well, how else was he going to finance his films?) Chris is the newish author of A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Pri
John and Michael talk to Marc Polymeropoulos, a 26-year veteran of the CIA with spent years on the frontlines of the Global War on Terror. Before retiring last summer, Marc was Director of European Operations at the Agency, meaning he was respo
John and Michael are joined by "The Death of Expertise" author Tom Nichols, a lifelong Republican who said goodbye to all that after Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John and Michael discuss the electoral misfortunes of the far left, Belarus's miracle cure for coronavirus, what Malcolm Muggeridge knew about the authoritarian personality, and why Detroit City Railroad Gin isn't nearly as shit as it sounds. H
Sweeney and Weiss discuss Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus, Vladimir Putin's original sin, and why Sweeney can't pronounce Weiss's surname correctly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.