Welcome to our first “The Week On Wednesday presents Van Badham in Conversation With…”. And it is A CORKER.

Miles Taylor is a former national security adviser to the Trump administration - yes, you read that correctly, and he is absolutely a guest on our show.

In 2018, as “Anonymous”, Taylor published an infamous op-ed in the New York Times entitled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" that shone a terrifying light on the chaos and dysfunction of Trumpism in power, and the danger it posed to the world.

Taylor quit the administration and expanded on his insights about America’s dangerous political turn in his 2019 book, A Warning. By 2020, he’d revealed his identity - and became the first former Trump administration official to endorse Joe Biden for President.

His latest book, Blowback, tells the personal story of what Miles Taylor saw in the Trump White House - and what he did about it.

In an alternative universe where Trump wasn’t elected in 2016, Miles Taylor and the Week on Wednesday are faceless opposing combatants in democracy’s endless ideological war over macroeconomic policy and the frontiers of regulating markets.

… But in the fight against the hard right, populist authoritarianism that’s resurgent across the west, we are enthusiastic and committed allies.

It’s a great conversation and you should totally read his book.