This Is Not A Drill Creators & Guests

Arthur Snell is a former diplomat and head of the International section of the UK’s anti-terrorist programme Prevent.

Olga Tokariuk is a journalist.

Luke Daniel Harding is a British journalist who is a foreign correspondent for The Guardian. His 2011 book Mafia State discusses his experience in Russia and the political system under Vladimir Putin, which he describes as a mafia state.

Oz Katerji is a journalist.

Anne Applebaum is a journalist and historian whose work focuses on the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently, she is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Dr. Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focusses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, propaganda, memory politics, and state-society relations in Russia.McGlynn is a frequent contributor to BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Telegraph and The Spectator. She has published four books about Russia. Her first book, "Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture," was published in 2022.Jade is also often engaged as a public speaker and to consult on issues of foreign policy, diplomacy and defence relating to Russia and Ukraine by governments and organisations in the UK, USA, and beyond.