These Times

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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 great forces, ideas and events that led us to where we are, whether in Britain, the United States, Europe or beyond. It’s a politics podcast for those who want a deeper, historical understanding of the news, to understand what has really shaped our world and why. We hope you enjoy! Don’t forget to rate, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts — and, of course, to get in touch with all your questions and comments so we can respond in future episodes. Email us at thesetimes@unherd.com or tweet us at @thesetimespod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Trump: the Multipolar President?
Mar 31, 2025
The rise of the multipolar world order
Mar 25, 2025
Trump’s Economic Revolution
Mar 18, 2025
Trump versus Zelensky and the Wars for Ukraine’s Resources
Mar 11, 2025
Crisis: Trump, Zelensky and a moment of truth for Starmer
Mar 04, 2025
The German Election: Friedrich Merz, “Independence” from America, and the Rise of the Far Right.
Feb 24, 2025
Trump, Putin and Europe’s Historic Crisis
Feb 18, 2025
Trump's Tariff War
Feb 11, 2025
Can Europe Survive Trump?
Feb 04, 2025
Europe’s Trump Shock
Jan 28, 2025
Why The Oligarchs Now Back Trump
Jan 21, 2025
Why Trump Wants Greenland (and more)
Jan 14, 2025
Who is Elon Musk?
Jan 07, 2025
The Year of War, Donald Trump and an Ascendant Turkey
Dec 31, 2024
The Year British Politics Hollowed Out
Dec 24, 2024
Can Syria Survive?
Dec 17, 2024
Europe’s Franco-German Crisis: Macron and Scholz Stare Into The Abyss
Dec 10, 2024
Revolution in Syria
Dec 09, 2024
Starmer adrift: What future for British politics?
Dec 03, 2024
Putin escalates: The threat of World War Three
Nov 26, 2024
Donald Trump: Peacemaker President?
Nov 19, 2024
Is Pop Culture Right Wing?
Nov 14, 2024
What Trump Means: Musk and Mars, Germany and Ukraine
Nov 12, 2024
Donald Trump: The Sequel
Nov 07, 2024
US Election Special: What's Wrong with American Politics?
Nov 05, 2024
Kemi Badenoch: On Race, Empire and Roger Scruton
Oct 30, 2024
Israel Attacks Iran
Oct 29, 2024
These Times Live: The Most Important Election in Modern History
Oct 23, 2024
Wanted: Europe’s Missing Leader
Oct 22, 2024
100 Days of Starmer: The Ghosts of British Politics
Oct 14, 2024
Israel Prepares to Strike Iran
Oct 07, 2024
Why Nasrallah’s Death Changes Everything
Sep 30, 2024
Tom Tugendhat: The Outside Bet?
Sep 26, 2024
Labour's Crisis Conference?
Sep 25, 2024
Hezbollah & Israel: Lebanon Stares into the Abyss
Sep 23, 2024
Robert Jenrick: The Next Tory Leader?
Sep 19, 2024
The Franco-German Crisis: Budgets and Borders Haunt Macron and Scholz
Sep 17, 2024
The Truth About Churchill and WWII: Rebuking Tucker Carlson and Darryl Cooper
Sep 11, 2024
Ukraine's Trump Dread: Zelensky's Kursk Gambit and the US Election
Sep 09, 2024
Starmer’s European Project: Why Britain Keeps Gambling on Germany
Sep 02, 2024
The End of the European Project?
Aug 12, 2024
When Israel Assassinates
Aug 06, 2024
Israel Edges Towards War With Hezbollah
Jul 29, 2024
Biden Quits: What next for the Democrats?
Jul 22, 2024
The Shooting of Donald Trump: America and Violence
Jul 15, 2024
Republics in Danger: Election Crisis in France and America—and Lessons for Britain
Jul 08, 2024
Labour's shallow victory, with Freddie Sayers
Jul 06, 2024
Labour Landslide: The Brutality of British Elections
Jul 06, 2024
Britain on the Edge: Election Day
Jul 03, 2024
Is Biden Gone? The Democratic Party after THAT debate
Jul 01, 2024
Apocalypse in Toryland
Jun 27, 2024
France Enters Its Summer of Crisis
Jun 25, 2024
Has the SNP Blown it?
Jun 20, 2024
When Scotland Votes
Jun 18, 2024
London's Dissident Left
Jun 13, 2024
Europe's France Shock
Jun 11, 2024
Nigel's Rebel Army: These Times Election Special
Jun 06, 2024
Can Biden Bring Peace to the Middle East?
Jun 04, 2024
Sunak Jumps
May 28, 2024
Biden’s Car War With China
May 21, 2024
New World, New Labour
May 13, 2024
How the US Controls the World
May 06, 2024
The Future of the City, with Bim Afolami and Francesca Carlesi
May 02, 2024
Can Britain Afford More On Defence?
Apr 29, 2024
The Next Oil War?
Apr 22, 2024
Crisis: Iran Attacks
Apr 15, 2024
These Times Live: War and Peace in the Middle East
Apr 11, 2024
The Return of ISIS
Apr 08, 2024
Paul Morland: The Power of Population
Apr 01, 2024
We Need to Talk About Turkey
Mar 26, 2024
What’s the Matter with Western Europe?
Mar 19, 2024
What's the Point of Emmanuel Macron?
Mar 12, 2024
Britain's Lethal Economic Bind
Mar 05, 2024
Germany's Economic Reckoning
Feb 27, 2024
Europe’s Reckoning with Ukraine
Feb 20, 2024
The War for Ukraine: How History Came Roaring Back
Feb 13, 2024
Biden Resumes America’s Forever War in Iraq
Feb 06, 2024
Trump, the Borderlands, and a Global Crisis
Jan 30, 2024
Iran Lashes Out, with Ali Ansari
Jan 23, 2024
The War for Taiwan
Jan 16, 2024
The War for the Red Sea
Jan 09, 2024
New Year, New World
Jan 03, 2024
Europe’s Lost World: The Radetzky March and The Leopard
Dec 26, 2023
Europe’s Civilisational Turn?
Dec 19, 2023
Ukraine's Dark Winter Ahead
Dec 12, 2023
Europe's Bet on Net Zero
Dec 05, 2023
Can British Growth Ever Recover?
Nov 28, 2023
David Cameron's Failed Foreign Policy
Nov 21, 2023
Decision 2024: What’s at stake for Israel, Ukraine, and the world next year
Nov 14, 2023
Britain's Israel-Palestine Dilemma
Nov 07, 2023
Israel Invades: The Gazan Trap, with Shashank Joshi
Oct 31, 2023
Israel vs Iran: The Deadliest Foes
Oct 23, 2023
The Israel-Hamas War
Oct 16, 2023
Jamie Carragher: My History of Liverpool
Oct 10, 2023
Keir Starmer's Europe Problem
Oct 09, 2023
Rishi Sunak's Challenge
Oct 02, 2023
2. YOUR QUESTIONS: Charles De Gaulle, Brexit and Britain's History within the European Community
Sep 27, 2023
The Race for the Arctic
Sep 25, 2023
1. YOUR QUESTIONS: Will Northern Ireland ever truly be British; Blair’s missed opportunity; missing England; most surprising general elections.
Sep 20, 2023
How George Osborne’s All-In Bet On China Went Wrong
Sep 18, 2023
Rory Stewart's Divided Soul: An Interview with the Man Who Still Wants to be PM
Sep 13, 2023
How Worried Should We Be About Saudi Arabia?
Sep 11, 2023
Africa's Coup Belt
Sep 04, 2023
The Strange Legacy of Tony Blair
Aug 28, 2023
Thatcher’s Legacy: An Interview with Charles Moore
Aug 23, 2023
From Bruges to Brexit
Aug 21, 2023
The 1970s Strike Back with Dominic Sandbrook
Aug 14, 2023
Special Report: Inside Tony Blair Inc.
Aug 09, 2023
American Power in the Age of Biden
Aug 07, 2023
The Times of Joe Biden
Jul 31, 2023
Cancelled by Keir: An Interview with Jamie Driscoll
Jul 26, 2023
Europe's Right Turn?
Jul 24, 2023
Keir's Blairite Ultra: An interview with Pat McFadden
Jul 19, 2023
Inside NATO's Summit
Jul 17, 2023
Come on Arlene: An Interview with Arlene Foster
Jul 12, 2023
France on fire
Jul 10, 2023
Chaos in Russia
Jul 03, 2023
What would Thatcher do?
Jun 28, 2023
The Politics of Inflation
Jun 26, 2023
Britain's Place in the New World Order - Part 2
Jun 21, 2023
A New World Order? - Part 1
Jun 19, 2023
Is Boris Johnson History?
Jun 12, 2023
How "Made in China 2025" Changed the World
Jun 05, 2023
The History of Immigration
May 29, 2023
When Labour Wins
May 22, 2023
National Conservatism: New or Old?
May 15, 2023
Axis of Evil: An Interview with David Frum
May 10, 2023
Ukraine and the world order
May 08, 2023
Coronation and The Union - Part 2
May 03, 2023
Coronation and power - Part 1
May 01, 2023
These Times from UnHerd - Coming Soon
Apr 30, 2023