The Hated and the Dead

By Tom Leeman

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Episodes: 128


 Jul 5, 2023

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Kissinger said that ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Each week, a guest and I discuss the life and legacy of one politician from recent times. Some are well-known, others obscure; all have left an indelible mark on our world, and often for the worse. Join me, Tom Leeman, in a journey through the corruptible and the controversial.

Episode Date
EP124: Afonso Dhlakama
Apr 28, 2024
EP123: J.R. Jayewardene
Apr 14, 2024
EP122: The Houthis (Part 2)
Apr 07, 2024
EP121: The Houthis (Part 1)
Mar 31, 2024
EP120: Jens Stoltenberg
Mar 17, 2024
EP119: John Magufuli
Mar 10, 2024
EP118: Mary Lou McDonald
Mar 03, 2024
EP117: Nayib Bukele
Feb 18, 2024
EP116: Hezbollah
Feb 11, 2024
EP115: Kim Yo Jong
Feb 04, 2024
EP114: Hafiz al-Assad
Jan 21, 2024
EP113: Alex Salmond
Jan 14, 2024
EP112: Islam Karimov
Jan 07, 2024
EP111: Geert Wilders
Dec 17, 2023
EP110: Hun Sen
Dec 03, 2023
EP109: Vytautas Landsbergis
Nov 26, 2023
EP108: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Nov 20, 2023
EP107: Joe Biden
Nov 12, 2023
EP106: Alex Jones
Nov 05, 2023
EP105: Robert Mueller
Oct 29, 2023
EP104: Australia's AUKUS Skeptics
Oct 22, 2023
EP103: Gabriele D'Annunzio
Oct 15, 2023
EP102: Hugo Chávez
Oct 08, 2023
EP101: Ariel Sharon
Oct 01, 2023
EP100: Barack Obama
Sep 24, 2023
EP99: Yoon Suk Yeol
Sep 10, 2023
EP98: Erich Mielke
Sep 03, 2023
EP97: Mohamed bin Zayed
Aug 27, 2023
EP96: Golda Meir
Aug 20, 2023
EP95: Hafizullah Amin
Aug 14, 2023
EP94: Kais Saied
Aug 06, 2023
EP93: The Arctic Five
Jul 30, 2023
Three regimes in a changing World
Jul 23, 2023
EP92: Rauf Denktash
Jul 16, 2023
EP91: Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Jul 09, 2023
EP90: (The Rather Less Horrible) James Callaghan
Jul 02, 2023
EP89: Metropolitan Amfilohije
Jun 25, 2023
EP88: Muhammadu Buhari
Jun 18, 2023
EP87: Dragan Čović
Jun 11, 2023
EP86: Christopher Hitchens
Jun 04, 2023
EP85: Józef Piłsudski
May 28, 2023
EP84: Robert Muldoon
May 07, 2023
EP83: Pablo Iglesias
Apr 30, 2023
EP82: Francisco Macías Nguema
Apr 23, 2023
EP81: Rafael Trujillo
Apr 16, 2023
EP80: Helmut Kohl
Apr 09, 2023
EP79: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Apr 02, 2023
EP78: Saddam Hussein
Mar 26, 2023
EP77: Andrej Babiš
Mar 19, 2023
EP76: Rupert Murdoch
Mar 12, 2023
EP75: Edward VIII
Feb 26, 2023
EP74: The Kosovo Serbs
Feb 19, 2023
EP73: Anwar Sadat
Feb 12, 2023
EP72: Charles Haughey
Feb 05, 2023
EP71: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Jan 29, 2023
EP70: Nursultan Nazarbayev
Jan 29, 2023
EP69: Kim Campbell
Jan 22, 2023
EP68: Thaksin Shinawatra
Jan 15, 2023
EP67: Juan Perón
Jan 08, 2023
2023: A Year of Global Malaise?
Dec 30, 2022
EP66: Nikita Khrushchev
Dec 21, 2022
EP65: Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Dec 18, 2022
EP64: Paul Kagame
Dec 11, 2022
EP63: George Orwell
Dec 04, 2022
EP62: Leonard Leo
Nov 27, 2022
EP61: Sepp Blatter
Nov 20, 2022
EP60: Angela Merkel
Nov 13, 2022
EP59: Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński
Nov 13, 2022
EP58: Ali Khamenei
Nov 06, 2022
EP57: Sweden Democrats
Oct 30, 2022
EP56: Mikhail Gorbachev
Oct 23, 2022
EP55: Isaias Afwerki
Oct 16, 2022
EP54: Hassan al-Turabi
Oct 16, 2022
EP53: Viktor Orban
Oct 09, 2022
EP52: Lula da Silva
Oct 02, 2022
EP51: The Scottish Devolutionists
Sep 25, 2022
EP50: Xi Jinping
Sep 18, 2022
EP49: Jacinda Ardern
Sep 14, 2022
EP48: (The Rather Less Horrible) Tsai Ing-wen
Sep 04, 2022
EP47: Alberto Fujimori (en castellano)
Aug 28, 2022
EP46: Davíð Oddsson
Aug 28, 2022
EP45: Mahathir Mohamad
Aug 21, 2022
EP44: Pim Fortuyn
Aug 14, 2022
EP43: Aung San Suu Kyi
Aug 07, 2022
EP42: Tony Abbott
Jul 31, 2022
EP41: Urho Kekkonen
Jul 24, 2022
EP40: Nikola Gruevski
Jul 17, 2022
EP39: Bashar al-Assad
Jul 17, 2022
EP38: Leonid Brezhnev
Jul 10, 2022
EP37: Charles Taylor
Jul 03, 2022
EP36: Kurt Waldheim
Jun 26, 2022
EP35: John F. Kennedy
Jun 19, 2022
EP34: Slobodan Milosevic
Jun 12, 2022
EP33: Justin Trudeau
Jun 05, 2022
EP32: Richard Nixon
May 22, 2022
EP31: Aleksandar Vucic
May 15, 2022
EP30: Imran Khan
May 08, 2022
EP29: Iain Macleod
May 01, 2022
EP28: Mohammed bin Salman
Apr 24, 2022
EP27: Tony Benn
Apr 17, 2022
EP26: Solomon Mujuru
Apr 10, 2022
EP25: Eamon de Valera
Apr 03, 2022
EP24: Jacob Zuma
Mar 27, 2022
EP23: The Adventure Capitalists
Mar 20, 2022
EP22: Margaret Thatcher
Mar 13, 2022
EP21: Tony Blair
Mar 06, 2022
EP20: Sheikh Hasina
Feb 27, 2022
EP19: (The Rather Less Horrible) Arnold Schwarzenegger
Feb 20, 2022
EP18: Saunders Lewis
Feb 13, 2022
EP17: Lee Kuan Yew
Feb 06, 2022
EP16: Dwight Eisenhower
Jan 30, 2022
EP15: Hamid Karzai
Jan 23, 2022
EP14: Eric Zemmour
Jan 16, 2022
EP13: Newt Gingrich
Jan 09, 2022
EP12: (The Rather Less Horrible) Michael Foot
Dec 19, 2021
EP11: Alfonso XIII of Spain
Dec 12, 2021
EP10: Suharto
Dec 05, 2021
EP9: Rodrigo Duterte
Nov 28, 2021
EP8: (The Rather Less Horrible) Neil Kinnock
Nov 21, 2021
"The Rather Less Horrible..."
Nov 17, 2021
EP7: Alexander Lukashenko
Nov 14, 2021
EP6: Boris Yeltsin
Nov 07, 2021
EP5: Muammar Gaddafi
Oct 24, 2021
EP4: Antonio Salazar
Oct 17, 2021
EP3: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Oct 10, 2021
EP2: Indira Gandhi
Oct 09, 2021
EP1: Silvio Berlusconi
Oct 03, 2021
A government as good as our people
Sep 22, 2021