These Times

By UnHerd

UnHerd political editor Tom McTague and Cambridge professor Helen Thompson team up to investigate the history of today’s politics — and what it means for our future. Each week they will explore the

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The podcast currently has 131 episodes available.

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March 19, 2024 What’s the Matter with Western Europe?
After their extensive analysis into the economic binds of France and Germany, Tom and Helen explore why the geopolitical world has become so much harder for Western Europe to navigate over the last decade...
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1h 1min
March 12, 2024 What's the Point of Emmanuel Macron?
This week, Tom and Helen turn to France's divisive leader, Emmanuel Macron, and explore whether there is any strategic substance behind the grand speeches, declarations and interventions....

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March 05, 2024 Britain's Lethal Economic Bind
In this week's episode Tom and Helen explore what has happened to the British economy over the past 20 years, and why is it becoming increasingly difficult for it to adjust to the new economic and geopolitical world....
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1h 2min
February 27, 2024 Germany's Economic Reckoning
In this episode, Tom and Helen turn to Germany, and ask why it was last year's worst performing major economy, and what those difficulties reveal about the present economic and geopolitical world...
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57min
February 20, 2024 Europe’s Reckoning with Ukraine
In this week's episode, Tom Mctague and Helen Thompson look back at Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and explore why it has been so difficult for the United States and the European Union to protect Ukraine's independence...
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1h 3min
February 13, 2024 The War for Ukraine: How History Came Roaring Back
In the wake of Putin's fast and loose interview with Tucker Carlson, Tom and Helen turn to the history of Ukrainian independence, and ask what it means for the future of Ukraine, Europe and NATO...
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59min
February 06, 2024 Biden Resumes America’s Forever War in Iraq
In the wake of recent US/UK led bombings of Iraq and Syria, Tom McTague and Helen Thompson ask why America continues to embroil itself in the Iraq quagmire, and whether further escalation lies on the horizon...
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1h 2min
January 30, 2024 Trump, the Borderlands, and a Global Crisis
In this week's episode, Tom and Helen turn to the current border crisis unfolding in Texas, and explore how a set of global and domestic crises, from the drug cartels in Mexico, to the situation in Ukraine, might play into Trump's hands come the end of the year...
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January 23, 2024 Iran Lashes Out, with Ali Ansari
In this week's episode, Tom and Helen talk to Ali Ansari, director of Iranian Studies at St Andrews University, about the history of Iranian power - from the 1979 Islamic revolution, to the most recent exchange of airstrikes with Pakistan.
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January 16, 2024 The War for Taiwan
With the new anti-Chinese President elected in Taiwan, Tom and Helen turn to the most important body of water in the world: the Western Pacific, and explore what's at stake there.
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