Andrew Lownie: Is Britain Lost? The Queen, Brexit and a Country Adrift

Is the UK lost as a country in 2026? Historian and royal biographer Andrew Lownie joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour to take apart a Britain that has burned through six prime ministers in a decade, lost the Queen as its unbroken link to the past, and walked away from Europe with nothing put in its place.Lownie, author of Entitled, Traitor King and Stalin's Englishman, has spent his career prising open the British establishment's instinct to bury its own secrets — the cover-ups around Prince Andrew, the appointment of Peter Mandelson, the files that quietly stay closed. We start there, then widen out to the bigger question: has Britain become ungovernable, and does it need an honest new story about itself rather than empire nostalgia?We get into the collapse of the political centre and the Reform surge, why nearly 700,000 people left the UK in a single year — many of them young or wealthy, and many landing here in the Gulf — Poland's economy on track to overtake Britain's, whether the monarchy can survive as "the last unprotected institution," King Charles's soft-power masterclass in Washington, and where a self-described "very minor power" actually fits in a multipolar world.A serious conversation about national decline, identity and the architecture of British power — told through one of its sharpest observers.🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts:▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerS...🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK...🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpower...