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Rule Britannia
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Join LBC's Tom Swarbrick as he interviews leading experts, politicians and industry influencers to gather a weekly round up of the most important world news and hidden topics that you won't have heard about.Find out just what goes on behind closed doors and how today's decisions will affect Britain's future.Subscribe on Global player or wherever you get your podcasts, now!
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The 4 Days That Changed Britain
Between the 12th March and the 16th March, the government advice to the public about Coronavirus changed swiftly and dramatically. What happened during those 4 days to prompt that change? This week, Tom speaks to Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of war studies at Kings College...
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What is the United Nations responsibility during the Coronavirus crisis?
The divide in responses to and the extent of the damage wrought by covid 19 is becoming much starker. As we know, direct country to country comparisons do not take into account demography, geography or the original scale of the outbreak. One thing though that is clear is that it is the nation...
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How did Taiwan get their Covid-19 response so right?
Can the UK find solutions by looking abroad? Was Britain too slow compared to how others responded to the developing Coronavirus crisis? Much of the world is now looking at one small island, Taiwan, with a population of 24 million, they have only had 427 cases so far, and 6 deaths due to…
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The conspiracy theory gaining momentum
If the facts around coronavirus and the way it’s affecting all of us were bad enough... wait to you hear the conspiracy theory nonsense. Over the past few weeks, misinformation and conspiracy has gained traction in the mainstream, with real-world consequences. This week, Tom speaks to Professor...
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Is this a China crisis?
Polling shows attitudes towards China are hardening, the Japanese are shifting production out of China, and the US are flirting with cutting funding to the World Health Organisation. Equipment sent from China for testing has been sent back as faulty. Is the relationship between nations breaking...
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How do you bring everyone home?
The Foreign Office launches the biggest repatriation of Brits in peacetime. 3/4s of a million stranded and told to get home. What’s it like trying to coordinate an effort like that inside Govenrment and is the foreign office, the longest arm of the British state, up to the job? Joining Tom this...
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Has Coronavirus changed Britain forever?
We are living through a generation-defining event - a moment of national emergency. How Britain responds to the coronavirus is critical to its future: economic, political, social, well-being. But this outbreak isn’t the first pandemic, and won’t be the last. What seems clear from the history of...
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Global Pandemic: the impact on the UK of coronavirus
Join LBC's Tom Swarbrick as he interviews leading experts, politicians and industry influencers to gather a weekly round up of the most important world news and hidden topics that you won't have heard about. Find out just what goes on behind closed doors and how today's decisions will affect...
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The new 'Migrant crisis' heading towards Europe
As tens of thousands of displaced people make their way to the Greek border, is Europe experiencing the beginnings of the “Migrant Crisis” 2.0? Erdogan and Putin meet in an attempt to resolve the seemingly intractable problems in Syria which have resulted in the mass movement of at least a…
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China's decade: Is the emerging-superpower a force for good, or a World menace?
As the Coronavirus outbreak spreads throughout the world and causes stock market panic, Tom discusses the implications for the country at the epicentre of it, China. The rise of China presents opportunities and threats to the existing world order and asks huge questions of the U.K. about our...
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Under the Gilets Jaunes: How an online petition started a civil movement.
This week Tom has an exclusive interview with one of the founders of the Gilets Jaunes protest movement, Priscillia Ludosky. The story of the “Yellow Vests” is one of violence and protest, police brutality and a restlessness, among some, with democratic processes. Priscillia tells Tom about how…
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How Russia is using a pipeline to divide Europe and influence the World
As the Prime Minister reshuffles his Cabinet team, what effect will this have on the UK's foreign and defence aims? The billions-strong swarms of locusts now threatening a humanitarian catastrophe in Africa. And as leaders gather for the Munich Security Conference, Tom discusses an emerging…
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Terror on the streets of London; what can be done?
Another terror attack on the streets of London. Another knife-wielding terrorist, recently released from prison, shot dead in broad daylight by armed police. The Government making changes to the law to stop the automatic early release of terror convicts from prison. But that is only half the…
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Global Health Emergency: As Coronavirus spreads, Jeremy Hunt gives Britain's response.
This week: As the U.K. leaves the European Union, Tom interviews Jeremy Hunt who could have been the Prime Minister to have taken the U.K. out and, as Foreign Secretary and Health Secretary, spent many years around the Cabinet table debating the best way forward for Britain. What will post-Brexit...
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A Deadly Pandemic Looms & Russia Using Chemical Weapons and Spin
This week: - With the world's countries poised to defend themselves against a threatening pandemic, what can be done to control the coronavirus, and what is China's role in controlling the situation. - In a bizarre turn, the Saudi Arabian crown prince is accused of being behind the recent hack of...
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War in space; fiction or a near reality? Trump's vision for the future of warfare.
This week: - In a historic moment, president Trump swears in America's first Chief of Space Operations, what will be the worldwide response to policing space? - With Prime Minister Boris Johnson in support of Trump's Iran deal, will a lasting peace be possible from the current tensions in the...
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Iran Crisis: WW3 averted? Plus, what do the "roaring 20s" have in store?
This week: - Iran and the US, daggers drawn over the killing of the head of the Quds force in Baghdad, what happens next? - What will 2020 bring, and what can we expect from the new decade? The crystal ball comes out! - And with space becoming a fearcly disputed territory, will Britain need a...
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10 Million Dead by 2050. The Silent Killer That Touched As All. How Can We Stop It?
This week: - Why the US blocked a move by Britain at the UN to debate North Koreas Human Rights record. - Nobel peace prize winner and State Counsellor of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, faces allegations of genocide while she was in office. - In American politics, can president trump survive the...
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In an unsafe world, can NATO last: And how does this inform China and Russia's new place in the world?
This week: - Can Nato's deep divisions be healed? What does the future hold for world peace if the alliance was to dissolve? - With less than a week until the general election, which party holds the most influence, and where will the balance of power lie when the voted have been counted? Join…
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When terror came to Britain, how the UK fought terrorism and what can be done.
This week: - The row about Nato and its future sees Merkel throw diplomatic shade at Macron, day’s ahead of the summit in London. - China’s dark secret...the persecution of more than a million ethnic minority’s in detention camps... - And the growing row about cuts to the U.K. armed forces...is...
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Britain's role in Hong Kong Chaos and Russian Nuclear Threat with Professor Michael Clarke
What exploded over Russia, caused a spike in radiation and left many dead or injured? And what is Britain's role in Hong Kong's violent chaos? Why has Iran turned off the internet? And what is the future of Saudi Arabia's oil? Join LBC's Tom Swarbrick for this episode of Rule Britannia, an in…
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Berlin Wall, China Meddling, Foreign Policy with Sir Rifkind
What is upsetting France and Britain but not Germany? Violent protests around the world - what is it that ties these together What's the biggest decision you've made in your life? Join LBC's Tom Swarbrick for this episode of Rule Britannia, an in depth exploration of week's events and the news…
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Join LBC's Tom Swarbrick as he interviews leading experts, politicians and industry influencers to gather a weekly round up of the most important world news and hidden topics that you won't have heard about.Find out just what goes on behind closed doors and how today's decisions will affect Britain's future.Subscribe on Global player or wherever you get your podcasts, now!
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