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Kim Leadbeater, MP: My Sister's Murder and Why I Never Wanted To Go Into Politics

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582. Netanyahu’s Fight for Survival and the Gaza Film That Shocked Rory and Alastair

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581. Trump and Putin vs. Zelensky: Is Europe Sleepwalking into Disaster?

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Addiction, Breakdown and Finding Persevilience: Rory Interviews Alastair

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580. How to Solve Britain’s Youth Unemployment Crisis

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579. Trump’s Public Execution Order and Burnham’s Brexit Intervention

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578. Alastair and Michael Gove Disagree Agreeably on Brexit and Israel

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577. Is Badenoch Finally Stopping Farage and Why Are French Schools on Fire?

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576. How Xi is Outplaying Trump and Tensions in Northern Ireland

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575. Alastair Reacts to Burnham’s Speech and Rory’s Viral Stare

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Why Nuclear War Is More Likely Than You Think (with Carlo Rovelli)

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574. Germany’s Political Disaster and Can the Lib Dems Fight Back?

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573. Burnham and Carney vs. Trump, and the Diana Dispute

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The Greatest Threat Humans Just Can’t Stomach with Yuval Noah Harari

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572. Trump’s Next Middle East Crisis and Reform’s £72m Megadonation

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571. Rory and Alastair Challenge Ed Miliband on Israel-Palestine

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"Our Generation Was Lied To": Two Gen Z MPs on Fixing Politics

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570. Why Trump Acts Like a Russian Asset and Miliband’s West Bank Sanctions

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569. Farage’s Foreign Funding Scandal and Germany’s Far-Right Breakthrough

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Becoming Burnham: The Manchester Arena Call, Westminster Plotting, and Keir vs Andy

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568. MAGA's Plan to Make Britain Look Broken and Iceland's 'Brexit' Moment

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567. Who Really Benefits from AI and Will Data Centres Decide the Midterms?

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Becoming Burnham: People Pleasing, The Shadow Years and Losing to Jeremy Corbyn

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566. Carney vs. Trump and Alastair’s Advice for Burnham’s First PMQs

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565. Zelenskyy’s Corruption Problem and Is History Repeating Itself in Germany?

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Becoming Burnham: Thatcher, Hillsborough, and the Anger that Shaped Him | Part 1

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564. Burnham’s Media Machine and West Bank Settler Impunity

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563. Britain’s Afghanistan Shame and the Jason Arday Tragedy

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Will Climate Action Go Backwards Under Burnham?

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562. The Right’s War With Itself and Burnham’s Prisons Challenge

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561. How Trump’s Chaos Keeps Splintering the World Order

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The Truth About Climate Migration – It's More Complicated Than You Think

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560. Trump's Hamas Disarmament 'Deal' and Europe's FIFA Boycott

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559. Who Really Benefits from the Ceuta Migration Crisis?

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Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?

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558. The 'Cockroach' Uprising and Should We Stop Data Centres?

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557. Can Burnham Deliver Britain's Biggest Change in Generations?

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Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis

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556. The US-China AI Arms Race and Badenoch vs. Rory’s Centrism

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555. Burnham’s Cabinet Purge and the Rough Sleeping Pledge

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The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know

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554. Burnham’s Worldview, Trump's Ceasefire Collapse, and Advising Count Binface

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553. Farage in Meltdown and The Killing of Ann Widdecombe

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552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine

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551. Will Farage’s Trumpian Resignation Stunt Backfire?

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550. Will Farage's Extreme Wealth Be His Downfall?

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549. Mamdani’s Wrecking Ball and the Rise of Anti-Migrant Vigilantes

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548. Burnham vs. Westminster and Trump’s Next Target

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547. The Truth About Russian Oil, Net Zero, and North Sea Drilling

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546. Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens Next?

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545. Burnham Beats Reform: Britain’s Next Prime Minister?

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544. How Trump Is Weaponising AI and Martial Arts at the White House

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543. The Disaster Britain Still Can't Escape and Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’

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542. Starmer Loses His Defence Secretary: What Next?

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541. Trump’s World Cup Mess and Kushner’s Albania Deal

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540. The Untold Iran Crisis, Henry Nowak, and Farage’s Politics of Rage

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539. Embezzlement, the Mandelson Texts, and Hasan Piker's UK Ban

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538. The Pope’s AI Warning and Alastair Reacts to Blair’s Attack

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Who Funds Reform? The Missing Millions

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537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

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536. Is Trump’s Corruption Machine Reaching New Extremes?

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Struggling or Snowflakes? The Gen Z Mental Health Story

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535. The Ebola Outbreak and the British Far-Right’s Next Move

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534. Is Wes Streeting Trying to Sabotage Andy Burnham?

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533. Andy Burnham's Big Gamble: Can He Beat Reform?

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532. The Trump-Xi Showdown and Putin’s Conscription Con

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531. Starmer on the Brink: What Next?

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Enraged or Engaged? Angela Rayner on The Gen Z Story

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Divided or Dependent? The Real Gen Z Story

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530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

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529. Antisemitism, Polarisation, and How the King Outplayed Trump

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528. Trump vs. Germany and Farage’s £5m ‘Gift’

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Lucky or Left Behind? The Gen Z Money Story

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527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

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526. Trump's Orwellian Maths and the King's Special Relationship Mission

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525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

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524. Starmer’s Mandelson Mess and the Iranian Nuclear Threat

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523. The Starmer-Mandelson Scandal: Lying or Incompetence?

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Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

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522. Has Hungary Shown Britain How to Beat Farage? (Question Time)

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521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

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520. Orbán Ousted: Is The Tide Turning Against Far-Right Populism?

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519. Trump's NATO Threat & a Critical Election in Hungary (Question Time)

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518. Is Trump a Fascist and is His War on Iran Unwinnable?

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The Real Reasons Populism Is Taking Over

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517. Is Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba? (Question Time)

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516. Trump’s Iran Delusion and the Limits of American Power

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Dominic Sandbrook on Big Brother, Surveillance, and Fear (The Book Club)

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515. Starmer’s Foreign Aid Betrayal, Islamophobia & Australia’s Far Right (Question Time)

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514. Who Is Profiting from Trump's Iran Catastrophe?

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513. Inside Iran: The Country Trump Cannot Control? (Question Time)

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512. Trump’s Iran Disaster and the GB News Propaganda Machine

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511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

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510. How The Iran War Is Spiralling Into a Global Crisis

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The Future of Warfare: Anthropic vs OpenAI

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509. Labour's Polanski Problem and the Student Loans Scandal (Question Time)

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508. Is Starmer Sleepwalking into War with Iran?

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507. The Ayatollah Is Killed - REACTION

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506. Trump Attacks Iran: What Happens Now?

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505. Are Trump and Putin Underestimating Ukraine?