In this week's podcast Iain Martin talks to Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn about the West's astonishing economic response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, what has surprised them most about the course of the war and whether the war means Boris Johnson will survive.

In the latest edition of the Reaction podcast, Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss the crisis in Ukraine and the historical backdrop. How should the West respond? Will sanctions work? Is this a war likely to be limited to Ukraine or should the West prepare for a wider conflict if Putin challenges NATO?

In the latest episode of the weekly Reaction podcast, editor Iain Martin and Alastair Benn discuss the impact of the pandemic. We all want it gone, but before it slips into the rear view mirror of history what lessons are there to learn about the way it reshaped our politics and society?

The Reaction podcast is back in its original format. This week, the team Britain has taken a robust position on Russia and Ukraine. Have British policymakers called it right or the French drive for compromise more sensible. Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn, from the Reaction team, also discuss Boris Johnson's chances of survival, post-Covid politics and gender neutral toilets.

Reaction Press Review, the show where Reaction editors discuss the best stories, writing, podcasts and videos that have caught their attention in the last week. This week on episode 19, Iain Martin is joined by Mattie Brignal and Alastair Benn. 

They discuss whether the West has underestimated Vladimir Putin's capacity to withstand sanctions, whether New Zealand will ever move on from Covid, and how Boris et al have taken us all for fools, as well as earbuds, Jacques Rueff’s quest for monetary order, and the wonders of Essex.

On this latest episode of Press Review, editors Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss Tory turmoil, Biden’s troubles, the threat of war, some economic good news, Shane Warne and more.

Merryn Somerset Webb talks to Reaction editor Iain Martin about her new book Share Power: How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works - and make money too. Who is shaping the big investment decisions globally? What should companies care about? Why don't more shareholders realise they have individual and collective power? What can be done to fix it? This is the latest episode of the Author in Conversation show on Reaction. Merryn Somerset Webb is Editor-in-Chief of MoneyWeek, a columnist for The Financial Times and one of the world's leading commentators on investment.

Azeem Azhar is the author of Exponential: How Accelerating Technology is Leaving us Behind and What to do About it. Here he talks to Reaction editor Iain Martin, in the latest of our authors in conversation series. There is a growing gap between technologists and the rest of us, what Azeem describes as the exponential gap. What are the implications and how should we adapt?

In this extended podcast Iain Martin speaks to Iain Dale about his new book The Presidents: 250 Years of American Political Leadership. Iain Martin hosts Press Review episode 14 where the team cover stories on fears over the next pandemic, central banks and growing fears of inflation, the migration crisis in Europe, why the supply chain bottlenecks are finally easing up and the ongoing fallout following the Owen Paterson scandal. Maggie Pagano hosts Press Review episode 15 on US stocks slide on news of new covid variant in South Africa, the English Channel tragedy, the flooding at The Smithsonian, how the internet has stopped us all being able to forget and the decline of the male novelist.