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Splits in the Maga movement
4 december 2025 · 25 min
Gideon talks to Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of the National Interest, about the rows over racism, Epstein and Israel that have broken out in Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. Clips: Tucker Carlson, Right wing watch, Dana Loesch Lees meer
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress after clash with Donald Trump
Trump’s Maga coalition fractures over far-right interview
Maga vs AI: Donald Trump’s Big Tech courtship risks a backlash
Donald Trump’s Maga base split over handling of Jeffrey Epstein files
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The voice of moderate America
27 november 2025 · 28 min
Gideon talks to Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the senior Democrat on the US Senate Committee on foreign relations, about Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Can Congress stop the president from making big concessions to Russia and attempting regime change in Caracas? Clip: ABC News Lees meer
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Ukraine has no choice but to engage with US peace plan
Russia pursues peace deal — on its own terms
Donald Trump’s affordability problem: in charts
What is Venezuela’s ‘Cartel of the Suns’?
Mohammed bin Salman, the autocratic Saudi moderniser trying to escape his past
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Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death
22 november 2025 · 2 min
Investors are spending billions of dollars on novel ways to extend human life through inventive treatments, therapies, and even manipulating our genes. And increasingly, it seems as though anti-ageing efforts have moved from the super rich to a mass market consumer industry. In this series, we’re covering the past, present and future of the longevity movement. We’ll be looking at where the fixation on longevity is coming from, and trying to understand the practical and ethical issues at the heart of this cutting-edge field of research. Lees meer
From Silicon Valley fantasies, to Singaporean health spas, to Colombian genetic clinics and beyond, the FT’s Hannah Kuchler and Michael Peel ask whether breakthroughs in science and technology can really help us live longer, and even stop us aging altogether.
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US ‘wellness’ industry scents opportunity to go mainstream
The quest to make young blood into a drug
This season of Tech Tonic was produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon. The senior producer is Edwin Lane. Flo Phillips is the executive producer. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Fact checking by Simon Greaves, Lucy Baldwin and Tara Cromie. Original music by Metaphor Music. Manuela Saragosa is the FT’s acting co-head of audio.
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Europe’s triple shock: Putin, Trump and Xi
20 november 2025 · 29 min
The French pioneer of European integration Jean Monnet believed that Europe would be ‘built in crisis’. The war in Ukraine is putting this theory to the test, once again. Gideon discusses with historian Timothy Garton Ash how European leaders are responding to this latest crisis after the brief ‘holiday from history’ that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Clip: ITV Lees meer
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US and Russian officials draft new peace plan for Ukraine
The scramble for Europe is just beginning
Ukraine secures winter gas support from Greece
Poland blames Russia-linked operatives for rail explosion
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The battle for AI supremacy
13 november 2025 · 31 min
Gideon Rachman sits down with the FT's innovation editor John Thornhill and Caiwei Chen, China reporter for the MIT Technology Review, to discuss the race between China and the US to become the 21st-century AI superpower. The west is used to hearing about the might of the Silicon Valley giants, US cutting-edge research and chip dominance. But China has a different approach. Will its use of a cheaper and more efficient open AI model allow China to overtake the US with this era-defining technology? Lees meer
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The State of AI: is China about to win the race?
China offers tech giants cheap power to boost domestic AI chips
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here
The AI race
Who’s right about AI: economists or technologists?
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Donald Trump and autocracy in America
6 november 2025 · 32 min
Gideon Rachman talks to historian and author Anne Applebaum about the Trump presidency. The US president is increasingly accused of being a would-be dictator, but is it fair to compare Donald Trump to authoritarian leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping? Lees meer
This episode is an edited recording of an event organised by Intelligence Squared that took place in central London last month.
Clips: CBS 60 Minutes
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Trump’s fawning cabinet and the threat to US democracy
The Trump doctrine: don’t rely on America
The Trump Supremacy
Saudi Arabia in talks for US defence pact
How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
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US versus China: a test of strength
29 oktober 2025 · 29 min
Gideon talks to former US trade representative Michael Froman about Donald Trump’s visit to Asia this week, culminating in a meeting with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Apec summit in South Korea. What does it tell us about US trade priorities in the region and who is best placed to win the contest of strength between the US and China? Clips: NST online; Times Now Lees meer
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Will Trump push south-east Asia towards China?
China calls for ‘extraordinary measures’ to achieve chip breakthroughs
Why China keeps winning the trade war
China doubles down on industrial policy
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Nuclear weapons and the balance of terror
23 oktober 2025 · 33 min
Gideon talks to the historian and author Serhii Plokhy about how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed our calculations about the risk of nuclear war. They discuss the history of the atom bomb from its first use in 1945 to the risk of a resurgence of proliferation. Clip: Harry S Truman Library Lees meer
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The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy — why nations want the bomb
US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium
The covert trip by Iranian nuclear experts to Russia
The old nuclear rules won’t stop proliferation
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Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
21 oktober 2025 · 2 min
Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You might be living with lead and not know it: the toxin is often invisible to the human eye, but wreaks havoc on our bodies once we’re exposed. The first episode of Untold: Toxic Legacy launches October 22. Lees meer
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Taiwan under threat: how strong are its defences?
16 oktober 2025 · 30 min
Gideon talks to Taipei-based policy analyst J Michael Cole about how the Taiwanese are handling the threat of invasion from Beijing. Clips: APT News; RTI English. Lees meer
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TSMC’s stock market rally is a triumph of need over fear
Taiwan accelerates ‘T-dome’ missile plan against China threat
Taiwan backtracks on chip export curbs to South Africa after China spat
Taiwan becomes largest importer of Russian naphtha
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What chance for Trump’s Gaza peace plan?
9 oktober 2025 · 26 min
Gideon talks to former White House official and Middle East expert Philip Gordon about Donald Trump’s plan for a peaceful end to the Gaza conflict. What are the chances that it can succeed and what are the main stumbling blocks? Clip: TRT World Lees meer
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner join Israel-Hamas talks in Egypt
What remains of Gaza?
Trump goes mainstream on the Middle East
How Donald Trump’s Gaza deal came together
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Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Mission to Mars
6 oktober 2025 · 2 min
US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to actually settle on Mars, transforming the human race into an interplanetary species. Lees meer
In a new series of Tech Tonic, the FT’s Peggy Hollinger asks if we’re really about to land, and even live, on the red planet.
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Musk’s mission to Mars
Three days with America’s rocket chasers
Tech Tonic is produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. The senior producer is Edwin Lane. Flo Phillips is the executive producer. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. Manuela Saragosa is the FT’s acting co-head of audio.
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David Lammy on the fight for democracy
1 oktober 2025 · 27 min
Gideon interviews Britain's deputy prime minister David Lammy at the Labour Party conference at a meeting hosted by the Tony Blair Institute. They discuss how the Starmer government, which has had a tough first year in office, can turn things around, as well as the Gaza peace plan, ties with the Trump administration and how to fight 'the politics of grievance'. Clip: Keir Starmer Lees meer
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Starmer urges Labour to launch ‘patriotic’ fight against Reform
How Donald Trump’s Gaza deal came together
Trump goes mainstream on the Middle East
‘Lost the plot’: Tony Blair’s Gaza role prompts incredulity — and some hope
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How to fix America
25 september 2025 · 29 min
Gideon talks to Matt Duss, former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders and executive vice-president of the Washington-based Center for International Policy. They discuss recent curbs on free speech, former president Joe Biden’s foreign policy mistakes, and how identity politics has been used to distract voters from the ever widening gap between rich and poor. Clips: DRM News; Forbes Lees meer
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Jimmy Kimmel hits out at ‘anti-American’ threats to free speech as show returns
Inside Disney’s decision to bring back Jimmy Kimmel
America’s accelerating exit from itself
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Russia’s drone incursions put Baltics on alert
18 september 2025 · 27 min
Gideon talks to former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis about Russia’s recent drone incursion into Polish airspace. What message should Europe and Nato take from this? How worried are the Baltic states about a possible expansion of Vladimir Putin’s war aims? And how vulnerable are they to attack? Clips: BBC, BFBS Lees meer
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What is Vladimir Putin’s game plan against Nato’s eastern flank?
Russians lose internet access as Ukrainian drones hit close to home
Baltic states know Russian occupation is never temporary
Moscow holds Ukrainian children at hundreds of sites across Russia
Europe turns to Ukrainian tech for ‘drone wall’ against Russia
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Israel's man without a plan
11 september 2025 · 30 min
Gideon talks to journalist Anshel Pfeffer about Israel’s ‘strongman’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They discuss how his ‘brazen disregard’ for international norms has helped him to cling to power, but also left him at the mercy of more and more extreme forces in Israel. This episode is an edited recording of an event organised by Intelligence Squared that took place in central London earlier this month. Clips: LBC; CNN; BBC Lees meer
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Israel unbound: was Qatar a strike too far?
EU moves to freeze some funding to Israel over war in Gaza
Israeli annexation of the West Bank would be ‘red line’ for UAE
Netanyahu’s disastrous plan to take control of Gaza
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Lea Ypi on parallels between the 1930s and today
4 september 2025 · 29 min
Gideon talks to Albanian academic Lea Ypi about her book Indignity. In the book, she describes how living first under the Ottoman empire, then as part of fascist Italy and later in a post-war communist state affected the lives of her grandparents. They discuss possible parallels between the first half of the 20th century and the times we are living in today and ask what lessons can be drawn from this history to avoid making the same mistakes. Clip: AQSHF Lees meer
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Kant and the case for peace
Albania’s ‘old sheriff’ on course to win fourth term as prime minister
Why the EU’s migration dilemma is pushing the bloc further right
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Taiwan’s Trump problem
28 augustus 2025 · 26 min
The longheld US position to defend Taiwan’s independent status in the face of Chinese aggression is looking shaky under the Trump administration, in spite of Taiwanese efforts to court the American president. This week, Gideon talks to analyst and author James Crabtree - former director of the Asia office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies - about why the US now seems more interested in doing a deal with China than showing support for Taiwan. They also discuss the broader implications that this, and other issues, might have for US alliances across the Indo-Pacific region, including relations with South Korea, Japan, Australia and India. Lees meer
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Taiwan raises defence spending by 23% under US pressure to counter China threat
Donald Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te from New York stopover
US cancelled military talks with Taiwan
Trump is the gift that keeps giving to China
The geopolitics of chips: Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’
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Trump ‘plays into Putin’s hands’
21 augustus 2025 · 23 min
Gideon discusses the outcome of the recent Alaska and Washington summits with Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. Has Russia emerged as a clear winner? What can be achieved without more pressure on Vladimir Putin? How effective would western security guarantees be to prevent future Russian aggression? Lees meer
Clip: Sky News
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Ukraine talks expose Trump’s dreadful attention to detail
Donald Trump says US could play role ‘by air’ in Ukraine security guarantee
Donald Trump says US to ‘co-ordinate’ Ukraine’s security with Europe
‘Stab in the back’: Kyiv reels as Trump embraces Putin’s terms
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What next for India as Trump-Modi friendship sours?
14 augustus 2025 · 23 min
The Trump administration has hit India with 50% tariffs. And just after a short military conflict between India and Pakistan, President Trump played host to Pakistan’s army chief of staff at the White House. Gideon discusses what this means for India and for the region with Tanvi Madan, author of a noted history of the US-India relationship. Clip: WION. Weekend Festival link Lees meer
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Donald Trump tariffs threaten Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ drive
How Pakistan wooed Trump — and rattled India
Narendra Modi tells Indian farmers he will ‘never compromise’ in face of 50% US tariffs
India’s Russian oil conundrum: yield to Donald Trump or face tariff backlash
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The cold war guru whose warnings on Russia still stand
7 augustus 2025 · 30 min
Zbigniew Brzeziński was one of the most influential statesmen of the cold war. But many of the geopolitical problems he wrestled with in Russia, China and the Middle East, have returned with a vengeance. Among his many prescient ideas, ‘Zbig’ as he was known, predicted that American hubris might lead to an ‘alliance of the aggrieved’ between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Gideon discusses his life and legacy with FT colleague Ed Luce, who has written an acclaimed biography of the Polish-born strategist. Clip: Voice of America Lees meer
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A new cold war with China won’t help the US
The World of the Cold War — timely reading in an age of US, Russia and China tensions
The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump
King of Kings — the 1979 revolution that changed Iran and the world
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Can Israel translate power into peace?
31 juli 2025 · 28 min
Israel has demonstrated its capacity to strike at its enemies far and wide since the Hamas attacks of October 7 2023. But what will it do with this military dominance? The FT’s Charles Clover puts this question to Palestinian historian Yezid Sayigh. They discuss the weakness and instability of neighbouring Arab states and how the Netanyahu government’s moves to prevent Palestinian statehood represent the biggest threat to peaceful coexistence in the region. Clips: France 24; Channel 4 News Lees meer
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Has Gaza tested the limits of Donald Trump’s support for Benjamin Netanyahu?
UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Israel ends Gaza crisis
Israel’s quiet war in the West Bank
The world is failing the Palestinian people
Gaza: a war without end?
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Our shrinking and ageing world
24 juli 2025 · 28 min
Humans have never been healthier or better fed. We’re living longer, but having fewer children - and many countries’ populations are now shrinking. Gideon discusses these trends with demographer Nicholas Eberstadt. Have smartphones played a role in our declining fertility? How will we look after our elderly people? Is migration the answer? Clip: CBC Lees meer
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The fight to revive Europe’s shrinking rural areas
Population undercounting threatens public policy, scientists warn
Japan urged to use gloomier population forecasts after plunge in births
The unspoken truth about the baby bust
Brain ageing is the best predictor of longevity, scientists find
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The war in Gaza - what do Israelis want?
17 juli 2025 · 29 min
Israel’s military victories have brought little comfort to Israelis who are focused on the fate of those hostages still in Gaza. Sasha Polakow-Suransky, FT executive opinion editor, talks with Dahlia Scheindlin, Israeli pollster and author of The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled about what Israelis want. Why has widespread opposition to many of the Netanyahu government’s policies so far failed to translate into political change? And why do Israelis seem unable to sympathise with the plight of the Palestinians who are also caught up in the conflict? Clips: Reuters; France 24 Lees meer
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Israel strikes Syrian military headquarters in Damascus
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government teeters as ultra-Orthodox party quits coalition
EU weighs sanctions on Israel as concerns mount over Gaza aid deal
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
Israel’s quiet war in the West Bank
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Putin steps up summer offensive against Ukraine
10 juli 2025 · 19 min
Russia’s attacks on Ukraine are escalating, both on the front lines and across urban centres. Ben Hall, the FT’s Europe editor, talks to military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady about Ukraine’s battle to hold onto territory until a ceasefire can be agreed. Clips: Channel 4; ABC Lees meer
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Russia attacks Ukraine’s draft offices
Russia hits Ukraine with biggest air attack of the war
Nato’s summit cannot disguise Ukraine’s plight
Kyiv’s sleepless nights under fire
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Is the US heading for a debt crisis?
3 juli 2025 · 24 min
Gideon talks to Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund and author of a new book: How Countries Go Broke. They discuss the size of the US debt and what history tells us about identifying warning signs. Clip: CBS Lees meer
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Is Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ a political curse for Republicans?
Fears over US debt load and inflation ignite exodus from long-term bonds
Donald Trump’s big, beautiful act of self-harm
The fall in the dollar is not scary
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Too soon to celebrate peace between Iran and Israel?
24 juni 2025 · 25 min
Gideon discusses whether the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran can hold with Vali Nasr, Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Can anyone claim victory from the war? Where does this leave the battered regime in Tehran and its nuclear ambitions? And what will the US need to do to ensure that intense fighting doesn’t break out again? Clips: Channel 4 News; BBC Lees meer
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Best summer books of 2025: Politics
How Donald Trump brokered a shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire
Gulf expat bubble punctured by missiles
Where is Iran’s uranium? Search continues for 400kg stockpile
Iran’s supreme leader faces his defining moment
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Israel goes to war with Iran
18 juni 2025 · 30 min
Israel has launched an aerial bombardment of Iran, with the aim, it says, of ending Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Gideon talks to Philip Gordon, who was national security adviser to former US vice-president Kamala Harris, about how realistic Israel’s aims are, Iran’s capacity to fight back, and whether the US is about to be drawn into another conflict in the Middle East. Clips: Channel 4 News, The Independent Lees meer
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War on Iran is splitting Trump’s Maga movement
Can an American bunker-buster destroy Iran’s nuclear mountain?
Could strikes on Iran cause a nuclear disaster?
Let them kill us’: millions of Iranians refuse to leave Tehran
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Nato’s moment of truth
12 juni 2025 · 29 min
Gideon talks to Oana Lungescu, Nato's former and longest-serving spokesperson, about what to expect from this month’s summit and what's at stake? Can Europe convince the Trump administration that Russia is a risk they need to take seriously, and will an agreement to increase defence spending be enough to satisfy the US president? Clips: Sky; Channel 4, Aljazeera Lees meer
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Europe, the US and the question of values
Europe confronts Trump’s triple threat on Ukraine, Nato and trade
Europe has a weaker hand than it thinks on Ukraine
Nato defence ministers to discuss path to 5% military spending
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What drives China’s strongman?
5 juni 2025 · 31 min
Gideon Rachman and China historian Rana Mitter discuss the evolution of Xi Jinping from internal exile, to party apparatchik, to strongman leader. What motivates Xi and what’s behind his friendship with the Russian leader? This episode is an edited recording of an event organised by Intelligence Squared that took place in central London late last month. Clip: CGTN Lees meer
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Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange
4 juni 2025 · 2 min
In a special six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss the economic events reshaping the world in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s election. Lees meer
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A foreign policy debrief with Jake Sullivan
29 mei 2025 · 52 min
President Biden’s time in office was a momentous period in world affairs and American foreign policy. The Taliban returned to rule Afghanistan, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Hamas attacked Israel all on the watch of National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan. Lees meer
Gideon talks to Sullivan about the Biden legacy and hears how and why events unfolded and what the Trump administration is doing now.
Clips: BBC, CBS, Sky News, The Guardian, Radio Free Europe, CGTN
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Is Trump a threat or an opportunity for the EU?
22 mei 2025 · 27 min
The EU is in Donald Trump’s cross hairs. So how should it respond? In this week’s episode, Paschal Donohoe, Ireland’s finance minister and president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, discusses whether the euro can challenge the dollar. He tells Gideon that European integration should go even further - and makes the case for immigration and a new relationship between the EU and the UK. Lees meer
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India and Pakistan: what now?
15 mei 2025 · 22 min
After a short but intense clash, a ceasefire is holding between India and Pakistan, but tensions remain high. Both sides claim victory, but the rapid escalation in the conflict bodes ill for future diplomacy between the two countries. Gideon talks to Professor Sushant Singh, lecturer in south Asian Studies at Yale University, about the conflict and what’s at stake if tensions escalate again. Clips: Times of India, Fox News Lees meer
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How can Democrats combat Donald Trump?
8 mei 2025 · 28 min
Donald Trump continues to issue a blizzard of controversial statements and executive orders. His political opponents often seem confused, even stunned. So how should the Democratic party take on the US president? Gideon talks to Senator Andy Kim, a new Democrat from New Jersey, on the merits of different approaches to opposition and what is needed to win back voters. Lees meer
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Are we any closer to peace in Ukraine?
1 mei 2025 · 21 min
US efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have so far not yielded anything close to a peace deal. Both Russia and Ukraine have objected to some aspects of the Trump administration’s plan. What – if anything – might make a lasting peace possible? Gideon Rachman speaks to Sir Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London, about what each party wants from a peace deal. Lees meer
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El Salvador’s ‘jailer for hire’
24 april 2025 · 26 min
Gideon talks to the FT’s Michael Stott about Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, whose friendship with Donald Trump has been in the spotlight over his willingness to imprison US deportees, notably Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Clip: The White House Lees meer
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El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisoners
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Iran’s nuclear talks could reshape the Middle East
17 april 2025 · 24 min
Nuclear talks between the US and Iran began last weekend in Oman, and are set to continue in the coming weeks. President Trump has warned that if the talks fail the US could take military action against the Islamic republic – an idea that Israel's government is pressing for. What might a new nuclear deal with Iran look like – and how might it change the geopolitical picture in the Middle East? Clip: The Express Tribune Lees meer
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The end of globalisation as we know it
10 april 2025 · 28 min
Gideon talks to the economic historian Harold James about the economic and political implications of Donald Trump's tariffs. What are the similarities with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930? What kind of forces will his decision to smash the global economic order unleash? Clip: CBC Lees meer
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Markets could get a lot worse — and quickly
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China in the age of Trump 2.0
3 april 2025 · 29 min
German businessman Joerg Wuttke has been an observer of China since the 1980s, watching it evolve from backwater to superpower. He talks to Gideon about US-China rivalry and how Europe can find its place as a trading partner to both powers. Clip: CNBC Lees meer
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The making of Vladimir Putin
27 maart 2025 · 29 min
Gideon talks to Russia experts Catherine Belton and Arkady Ostrovsky about Vladimir Putin’s goals. They discuss his early ambition to restore Russia’s status as a global superpower. And they go on to analyse why, after a quarter of a century in power, Putin may see his best chance yet of achieving that goal - at a cost of hundreds of thousands of Russian lives. This episode is an edited recording of an event organised by Intelligence Squared that took place in central London earlier this month. Lees meer
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Mexico hopes to stave off Trump tariffs
20 maart 2025 · 28 min
Thirty years ago Mexico made a fateful decision to open its economy and engage with the US. Now that decision is being tested by Donald Trump’s tariff threat. Gideon talks to Mexican economist Luis de la Calle about the impact this could have on his country's economy and that of the US. Clips: ABC News; Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Lees meer
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Europe's response to the threat from Trump
13 maart 2025 · 28 min
Europe is facing its biggest defence challenge since the second world war. This is compounded by the destabilising impact of US tariffs. So how is it measuring up? Gideon puts this question to Arancha González Laya, dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Science Po and a former foreign minister of Spain. Clip: Emmanuel Macron Lees meer
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How should Canada react to Trump’s threats?
6 maart 2025 · 22 min
Canada’s Liberal party will elect a new leader this weekend and Chrystia Freeland is running to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister. Donald Trump’s belligerence towards his northern neighbour seems to have restored the party’s popularity ahead of a general election this year. Chrystia tells host Gideon Rachman that Canadians are sticking together and that they have some strong cards to play. Lees meer
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Ukraine weathers new geopolitical climate
27 februari 2025 · 22 min
Gideon tests the mood in Kiev three years after the Russian invasion as the Trump presidency upends previous tenets of international politics. He talks to Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and Oleksandr Khomiak, director of Drone Space Labs, a defence start-up. Clip: European Commission Lees meer
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s toughest battle begins
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Mathias Döpfner: Transatlantic alliance in danger
20 februari 2025 · 34 min
Gideon dissects US vice-president JD Vance’s incendiary speech at the Munich Security Conference with German businessman Mathias Döpfner. They discuss the state of the transatlantic relationship and how Donald Trump’s actions towards Russia and Ukraine could mark a turning point. They are then joined by FT colleague Laura Pitel to talk about Döpfner’s media empire Axel Springer and the cancellation of federal government subscriptions to the Politico Pro news service. Clip: The White House Lees meer
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US systems unravel under Trump
13 februari 2025 · 22 min
Gideon talks to Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at Tufts University in the US, about why it’s no longer possible to trust America and what the rest of the world can expect from the Trump presidency. Clip: CBC Lees meer
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Trump, Putin, Xi and the new age of empire
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Trump sets his sights on Gaza property deal
6 februari 2025 · 27 min
Gideon talks to Andrew England, the FT's Middle East editor, about the US president's 'crazy' plan for a takeover of the Gaza Strip. And he talks to Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid about the prospects for his country as it finally returns to peace and stability. Lees meer
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Bangladesh students win a chance for change
30 januari 2025 · 20 min
Gideon talks to Muhammad Yunus, interim leader of Bangladesh, who was invited by students to take charge after their revolution last July. He describes the alleged corruption that took hold when Sheikh Hasina was in office and his vision for a better future for the country. Clip: AP Lees meer
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Bangladesh requests UK minister’s bank account details in corruption probe
Bangladesh central banker accuses tycoons of ‘robbing banks’ of $17bn with spy agency help
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Finland's president on Europe in a Trumpian world
23 januari 2025 · 25 min
As Donald Trump begins his second term as US president, and Russia presses forward in Ukraine, Gideon Rachman speaks to Finland’s President Alexander Stubb about Europe’s place in the world. They also discuss the risk of strategic irrelevance in Europe, the rise of the far right, Finland’s position in Nato – and whether other European countries need to be a bit more like Finland. Clip: Reuters Lees meer
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