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Since Kosovo seceded from Serbia in 2008 an uneasy status quo has held, but the issue of Kosovo’s Serb-dominated north remains unresolved. International Crisis Group's Marko Prelec explains. 

Less than 20% of Wikipedia profiles are about women. Annie Reynolds and Dr Jessica Wade are two Wikipedians trying to smash this particular glass ceiling. 

Plus, we're joined for our regular UK update with the always illuminating Ian Dunt. 

Laura Tingle on Ben Roberts-Smith, PM Albanese's Shangri-la speech and the stalled housing bill. Guillaume Pitron demystifies the digital world and tells us why it's not as clean as we like to think. And passionate typographer Stephen Banham on what we can read into letter forms. 

British writer Martin Amis died on the 19th of May, 2023. In this interview with Phillip Adams from 2020 they discuss the last book Martin ever wrote: Inside Story, which takes the death of his closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, as it's starting point. Ultimately he covers the hardest questions, such as how to live, how to grieve and how to die.

Interview first broadcast 8th of October 2020.

World powers are jostling for influence in the Pacific, as Sean Jacobs and Tess Newton-Cain explain. Author Kate Fortmueller on why striking Hollywood writers are concerned about artificial intelligence. And "blurbist" Louise Willder on the power of a good blurb. 

In our regular US update, Bruce Shapiro discusses whether a debt deal is on the horizon, and looks at Ron DeSantis' chances of winning the Republican nomination. Plus a new twist on the tale of Big Tech - the effect it's having, for good and ill, on people in the global south. And a thoughtful discussion about the delusions of the West and why we should return to the great tragic thinkers for fresh policy ideas.

Guests:

Bruce Shapiro - Contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.

Anup Kaphle - editor in chief, Rest of World.

Itika Sharma Punit - Asia editor, Rest of World.

Robert D. Kaplan - author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, fate and the burden of power published by Yale University Press 

Laura Tingle on the shock resignation of WA Premier Mark McGowan. Professor Damien Kingsbury on Timor-Leste's future, following peaceful elections. And writer André Dao uncovers the truth of his family's history in Vietnam. 

Russia has a long tradition of espionage, right up to the present. It tells us a lot about why Putin is the way he is, says investigative journalist Mark Hollingsworth. And forestor and bestselling author Peter Wohlleben on why trees are more complex and sophisticated than most of us realise. 

PFAS, known colloquially as 'forever chemicals', seem to be everywhere and in everything. What efforts are taking place globally to regulate their use? Plus, in our fortnightly Asia update we put the spotlight on Pakistan. And we hear the rollicking shipwreck tale of HMS The Wager.

Plus, we hear from Ian Dunt about what's making news in Westminster, and are we about to enter a world where flying taxis are the new normal?

Clare Armstrong wraps up the past week in Australian politics, as the Albanese government notches up its first year in office. How rising inequality in China is affecting the emotional and intimate lives of its people. And why do modern humans have so many teeth problems?