Episodes

  • Have Fun Storming the Capitol!

    Have Fun Storming the Capitol!
    Jan 8 2021
    John finally concedes that America is more fucked than the UK after seeing the QAnon wilderpeople invade both houses of Congress.

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    55 mins
  • A Very Trumpy Transition

    A Very Trumpy Transition
    Dec 3 2020
    John and Michael on why, against all expectation, things just might be getting a bit better.

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    52 mins
  • The Bounty Hunter

    The Bounty Hunter
    Jul 24 2020
    John and Michael talk to Doug London, the C.I.A.’s former chief for counterterrorism in south and southwest Asia, and a 34-year veteran of the Agency. Doug discusses the alleged GRU payments to the Taliban for killing American and British soldiers in Afghanistan, the way intelligence-gathering and classification works at the Agency, the Mueller Report, Russia's plans for the 2020 U.S. election, and much else.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Vladimir's Victories

    Vladimir's Victories
    Jul 9 2020

    John and Michael talk to two bestselling journalists, Luke Harding, author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West, and Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. Go on, guess what they talked about.


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    1 hr
  • The Novichok Nightmare

    The Novichok Nightmare
    Jun 23 2020
    John and Michael talk to Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the screenwriters and executive producers of the hit BBC mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, about the GRU's attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and how that terrorist attack in Salisbury eerily prefigured our pandemic paranoia.

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    57 mins
  • Statues of Limitation

    Statues of Limitation
    Jun 12 2020
    John and Michael discuss the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the U.S. and UK and why tearing down some statues is better than tearing down others.

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    56 mins
  • Labour Pains

    Labour Pains
    May 30 2020
    John and Michael talk with former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson about English cheese (yes), life after politics and COVID, and everything that went wrong with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, from the cranks to the Stalinists to the anti-Semites.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Past Perfect

    Past Perfect
    May 24 2020
    John and Michael talk to Peter Pomeranzev, author of This is Not Propaganda and Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, about how populists flourish in crisis and what the West learned from Vladimir Putin.

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    1 hr