On this month’s podcast we’re joined by Le Monde diplomatique’s new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China’s global ambitions (‘China: (…) →
Our guest on this month’s podcast is Eric Alterman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and author of We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over (…) →
Taipei-based journalist Alice Hérait is our guest on this second podcast of the month on significant elections. Alice has a piece in the January edition of the paper entitled (…) →
With the US primary season now under way, in this month’s podcast we turn the spotlight on the electoral contest in South Carolina, home state of prominent Trump challenger Nikki (…) →
In this month’s podcast, our guest is Vicken Cheterian, who teaches history and international relations at the University of Geneva. In the December edition of the paper he writes (…) →
Will unchecked urban development make Phnom Penh unliveable?
12 October 2023
In this month’s podcast, journalist and South East Asia specialist Christine Chaumeau discusses how the Cambodian capital has been transformed over the last 20 years, with a (…) →
The tally of coups in West Africa currently stands at six, after the recent military takeover in Niger (which was followed by another in Gabon in Central Africa). In this month’s (…) →
On this month’s podcast, culture critic Maya Jaggi talks about an exhibition currently on at the National Museum of Archaeology Naples (MANN), which she reviews in the July issue of (…) →
Moldova: a state stuck in the grey zone between east and west?
19 June 2023
In this month’s podcast, Ukraine-based journalist Glen Johnson discusses his article in the June edition of Le Monde diplomatique, ‘Moldova’s stark choices about its future’. The (…) →
China has designated it a ‘national priority’ to become ‘the world’s premier artificial intelligence innovation centre’ by 2030. OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT suggests China may have (…) →
After Sturgeon, Humza Yousaf: what next for Scotland?
28 March 2023
In the second of two podcasts this month, Glasgow-based journalist Jamie Maxwell discusses Scotland’s change of leader after Nicola Sturgeon’s surprise decision to stand down after (…) →
In the first of two podcasts this month on the resignations of two prominent female leaders, journalist Glen Johnson reflects on New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s (…) →
