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The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 206 episodes

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203. The Man Taking On Infantino: UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin

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202. Is Peace in the Middle East Closer Than We Think? (A Palestinian & An Israeli's View)

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201. How Westminster Breaks Politicians and Why Britain Isn't Ready for War

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200. Count Binface: Nigel Farage's Biggest Threat?

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199. Is Trump's Chaos Pushing Iceland Towards the EU? (Prime Minister of Iceland, Kristrún Frostadóttir)

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198. How Trump’s Imperial Presidency Really Works

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197. The Billionaire Tax Debate (Gabriel Zucman)

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196. How America Talks Itself Into Endless Wars

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195. Can the West Reclaim its Power from Trump? (Malcolm Turnbull)

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194. Is Putin Losing His Grip on Russia?

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193. James Cleverly: Why Has There Been A Radical Shift On The Right?

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192. Are We On The Brink Of World War III? (Odd Arne Westad)

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191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

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190. How the Media Still Misunderstands Trump (Tina Brown)

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189. Rahm Emanuel: China, Technology, and the Future of the Democratic Party

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188. Will AI Give China or the US Total Power? (William MacAskill)

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187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

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186. President Aleksandar Vučić: Russia, China, and How Serbia Could Join the EU

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185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar)

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184. President of Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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183. From Bradford to Westminster: Faith, Identity, and Power (Naz Shah)

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182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride)

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181. Ai Weiwei: China, Censorship, and Dissidence Through Art

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180. The Only European Leader Defying Trump? (Pedro Sánchez)

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179. President Stubb: Trump’s Unlikely Best Friend

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178. Gavin Newsom: The Next President Of The United States?

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177. Olaf Scholz: Putin, Power, and Far-Right Populism

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176. How Close Are We To War With Iran? (Robert Malley)

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175. Ex-Director of GCHQ: China, Russia, and the Threats Facing the UK (Jeremy Fleming)

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174. Taking On Europe's Last Dictator: The Fight Against Lukashenko and Putin

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173. The man Putin can’t silence: Bill Browder and sanctioning Russia

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172. Neil Kinnock: Trump, Thatcher, and Why Labour Lost In 1992 (Part 2)

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171. Neil Kinnock: A Labour Rebel’s Path To Power (Part 1)

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170. President of Moldova, Maia Sandu: Holding the Line Between Democracy and Putin

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169. Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia vs. Musk, AI, and the Battle for Truth

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168. A Climate Special: Populism, Security, and Leadership

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167. Faith, Depression, and Finding Calm in the Chaos (Professor Mark Williams)

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166. John Swinney: Identity, Independence, and The Future of Scotland

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165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership

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164. Zack Polanski: Do The Greens Have What It Takes?

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163. Prison Reform, Masculinity, and Restorative Justice (James Graham and Jacob Dunne)

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162. Gareth Southgate: Patriotism, Leadership, and How To Inspire Young Men

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161. Putin, Trump, and 500 Years of Resisting Russia (Radek Sikorski)

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160. Michael Gove: Education, Brexit, and Trump (Part 2)

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159. Michael Gove: My Journey From Left to Right (Part 1)

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158. Baroness Hale: The Supreme Court, Boris Johnson, and the ECHR

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157. Ukraine, Diplomacy, and the Future of Europe (Dmytro Kuleba)

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156. Defence Secretary, John Healey: Is Britain Ready For War?

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155. Mike Pompeo On Russia, Trump, and China

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154. Maro Itoje: Inequality, Identity, and Hope

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153. The Man Who Invented The World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee)

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152. "A War on Children": A Generation in Gaza at Risk (James Elder)

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151. Prime Minister of Norway: On Trump, Tech, and Brexit Lessons (Jonas Gahr Støre)

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150. Nicola Sturgeon: What Really Happened In The Scottish Referendum (Part 2)

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149. Nicola Sturgeon: On Margaret Thatcher, Alex Salmond, and the Push for Independence (Part 1)

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148. The President of Guyana: The Fastest Growing Economy in the World (Irfaan Ali)

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147. I Thought It Was a Prank - Then I Was Chancellor: Jeremy Hunt (Part 2)

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146. The Rise and Fall of The Conservative Party: Jeremy Hunt (Part 1)

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145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2)

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144. Gary Stevenson: From Teenage Drug Dealer to Millionaire Trader (Part 1)

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143. Iraq, Trump, and America’s Slide to Authoritarianism (Congressman Seth Moulton)

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142. The Truth About Net Zero's Credibility (Emma Pinchbeck)

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141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides)

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140. The Next President of France? Gabriel Attal on Macron, Le Pen, and Israel-Iran

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139. Speaker Kevin McCarthy: In Defence of Donald J. Trump

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138. The Anxious Generation: How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains (Jonathan Haidt)

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137. Jacinda Ardern: Why I Stepped Down as Prime Minister of New Zealand

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136. Ed Miliband: Farage, Starmer and The Fight for Net Zero (Part 2)

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135. Ed Miliband: Blair, Brown, and Battling his Brother (Part 1)

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134. Palestine's Most Popular Politician: Marwan Barghouti's Son on Occupation, Resistance, and Hope

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133. Trump vs. Europe: Flattery, Pushback, and Powerplays (Congressman Jim Himes)

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132. Former Head of MI6: Russia, China, and Trump (Sir Alex Younger)

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131. The Global Health Crisis: USAID cuts, Trump, and the limits of AI (Atul Gawande)

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130. The Prime Minister of Australia: Trump, China, and Social Media (Anthony Albanese)

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129. Trump’s America: Fear, Polarisation, and The Future (Ezra Klein)

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128. Whips, Chaos, and secrets from Westminster (Simon Hart)

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127. Donald Trump vs American Freedom: Who Wins? (Moises Naim)

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126. Israel, Gaza, and the United Nations (Francesca Albanese)

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125. Peter Kyle: AI, grief, and the power of Elon Musk

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124. The Man Who Got To Trump (Michael Wolff)

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123. Canada Decides: Who will be the next Prime Minister? (Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney)

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122. How Europe can survive Trump (Frans Timmermans)

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121. Yulia Navalnaya: The Woman Who Could Bring Down Putin

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120. The New President of Syria: Trump, Palestine, and having a $10 million bounty on your head (Ahmed al-Sharaa)

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119. Tommy Vietor: How Democrats can fight Trump

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118. Ex-Head of Mossad: Hamas, Ceasefire, and Netanyahu (Uzi Arad)

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117. Is the UN fit for purpose? (Tom Fletcher)

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116. Is AI the answer to human suffering? (James Manyika)

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115. Ben Wallace: Britain's mistake in Ukraine, Trump vs. NATO, and visiting Iran with Jeremy Corbyn

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114. The future of Wales (Eluned Morgan)

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113. How likely is World War 3? (Ian Bremmer)

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112. Bill Clinton: Putin, Palestine, and Trump

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111. Angela Merkel: Putin, Trump, and Europe's future

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110. Chris Patten: Conservatism, China, and the future of democracy

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109. Is it time to legalise assisted dying? (Kim Leadbeater)

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108. Mhairi Black: Independence, inequality, and the future of the SNP

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107. General David Petraeus: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the US military's role in the world

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106. Michael Lewis: Donald Trump, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the future of the USA

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105. War and Peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East (George Mitchell)

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104. Timothy Snyder: How will the US election result impact Ukraine?

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103. Archbishop of Canterbury: Faith, mental health, and the future of the Church

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102. Alan Johnson: From Blair to Starmer - What can Labour learn? (Part 2)

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101. Alan Johnson: The Prime Minister We Never Had? (Part 1)

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100. Anne Applebaum: Corruption, Populism, and Ending the War in Ukraine

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99. Team of Rivals: Blair, Brown and the secrets of New Labour (Douglas Alexander)

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98. Nate Silver: Can we predict who will win the 2024 US election?

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97. How to fight fake news and strengthen democracy (Audrey Tang)

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96. Frank Luntz: The World's Most Prolific Pollster

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95. DNC Special: An alternative view from a Trump supporter (David Urban)

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94. DNC Special: The Young Buck (Josh Elliot)

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93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro)

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92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland)

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91. DNC Special: The Pollster (John Anzalone)

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90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas)

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89. David Davis: The danger of Farage and the battle for the soul of the Tory Party

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88. Bush and Iraq, being J.D. Vance’s boss, and why Trump loses (David Frum)

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87. Nick Clegg: Biden, Brexit, and kicking Trump off Facebook (Part 2)

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86. Nick Clegg: Coalition, Cameron, and Chaos (Part 1)

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85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower

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84. Denmark's former PM on the power of centrist politics, fighting misogyny, and joining the Kinnock empire (Helle Thorning-Schmidt)

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83. The Man Who Ran Downing Street

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82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS

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81. Alex Chalk, Lord Chancellor: How to fix Britain’s prisons

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80. Bridget Phillipson: Can we save Britain's schools?

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79. Nadhim Zahawi: Iraq, Conservatism, and why he backed Boris Johnson

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78. David Blunkett: Education, policing immigration, and the future of the Labour Party (Part 2)

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77. David Blunkett: Tony Blair, growing up blind, and where Margaret Thatcher went wrong (Part 1)

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Legacy... Margaret Thatcher

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76. Rachel Reeves: Britain’s next Chancellor?

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75. The Greek Prime Minister vs Rishi Sunak: The Elgin Marbles, immigration, and the EU

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74. Kwasi Kwarteng: Liz Truss, becoming Chancellor, and Britain on the brink (Part 2)

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73. Kwasi Kwarteng: Boris Johnson, the British Empire, and Rwanda (Part 1)

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72. Nancy Pelosi: From JFK's inauguration to fighting Donald Trump

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71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert

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70. Sadiq Khan: Faith, power, and the truth about Boris Johnson

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69. The brutal truth about net zero and how to vanquish climate populists, with Dieter Helm

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68. Israel-Gaza: How the conflict divided Britain and the US, with Ed Kessler

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67. A Tale of Two Spies: The former heads of MI5 and MI6 on the Iraq War, double agents, and the IRA

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66. Antony Gormley: Art, religion, and the battle for culture

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65. Albin Kurti, Prime Minister of Kosovo: Vladimir Putin, surviving prison, and Serbia

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64. Caroline Lucas: Leading the Green Party, leaving politics, and the importance of protest

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63. Sajid Javid: Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Shamima Begum (Part 2)

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62. Sajid Javid: Austerity, the Tory leadership contest, and the problem with 'islamophobia' (Part 1)

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61. James Rubin: Working for Biden, American intervention, and the fight against Russian disinformation

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60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director

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59. Robert Sapolsky: The psychology behind Donald Trump, the science of stress, and the illusion of ‘free will’

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58. Humza Yousaf, First Minister of Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon, independence, and his family's escape from Gaza

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57. Tucker Eskew, spin doctor to George W. Bush and Sarah Palin: Why I'm voting Democrat

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56. Bill Gates: Conspiracy theories, AI, and the politician he most admires

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55. Gillian Keegan: The future of British schools, union 'barons', and Sunak's Rwanda battle

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54. Guy Verhofstadt: Is there a case for a European army?

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53. Seb Coe: Corruption, gender, and the geopolitics of sport

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52. Tom Holland: How religion shaped politics and the Western world

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51. Tim Peake: Will humans colonise Mars?

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50. Angela Rayner: From zero GCSEs to Britain’s most powerful woman?

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49. Christiana Figueres: COP28, Costa Rica, and surviving the climate crisis

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48. Simon Sebag Montefiore: The impact of conflicting histories in the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars

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47. Tony Klug: Could the Israel-Hamas conflict restart the peace process?

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46. Arancha González Laya: The World’s Most Powerful Organisations

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Introducing... Legacy

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45. Dr Comfort Ero: Resolving deadly conflicts & reforming the UN

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44. Mark Carney: Bank of England, Trussonomics, and Brexit

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43. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Trump, Biden, and the American Dream

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42. Sayeeda Warsi: Britain and the Muslim World

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41. Reid Hoffman: Bankrolling Biden to beat Trump, the "PayPal Mafia", and Musk's messiah complex

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40. Minette Batters: The Most Powerful Farmer in Britain

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39. Theresa May: Donald Trump, David Cameron, and ‘Brexit means Brexit’ (Part 2)

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38. Theresa May: Windrush, police, and the cult of personality (Part 1)

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37. Chris Hipkins, New Zealand PM: Working with Xi Jinping, fighting to stay in power, and zero covid's double-edged sword

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36. Andy Burnham and Andy Street: A Tale of Two Cities

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35. Cathy Ashton: Dealing with Putin and Lavrov, Kosovo–Serbia, and 'radical humility'

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34. Ed Davey: Leading the Lib Dems, fighting the Tories, and a coalition with Starmer’s Labour?

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33. Mustafa Suleyman: Will AI save or destroy humanity?

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32. Miriam González Durántez: Navigating Silicon Valley, the Cameron-Clegg years, and the fight for gender equality

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31: Yuval Noah Harari: The dangers of AI and the future of humanity (Part 2)

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30: Anthony Joshua: Responding to failure, Saudi Arabia, and Tyson Fury

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29: Yuval Noah Harari: Crisis and tragedy in Israel (Part 1)

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28: Paul Nurse: The power of genetics, battling politicians, and the fight against cancer

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27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers

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26: Francis Fukuyama: Trump, Modi, and ‘The End of History’

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25: Michael Ignatieff: Fighting Orban's Global Conservative Cabal

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24: John Major: The Gulf War, Black Wednesday, and Populism (Part 2)

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23: John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street (Part 1)

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22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance

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21: Mary McAleese: Building bridges as the President of Ireland

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20: Jonathan Powell: How to negotiate with terrorists

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19: Leo Varadkar: Ireland's Taoiseach on NATO, China, and Joe Biden

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18: George Osborne: Austerity, Boris Johnson, and the UK's next Prime Minister

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17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA

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16: Tony Blair: Taking insults, swallowing pride, and negotiating with both sides

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15: Hillary Clinton: Fighting Putin, the Return of Trump, and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden

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14: David Miliband: The Age of Impunity

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13: Brian Cox: Succession, socialism, and Scotland

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12: David Baddiel: God, Anti-Semitism and the Y-Word

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11: Gary Lineker: Politics, football and the BBC

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10: Rahima Mahmut: The Uyghur Genocide

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9: Bernie Sanders: A fight for equality

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8: Bertie Ahern: The Troubles, peace, and the future of Ireland

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7: Fiona Hill: Working with Trump and fighting against Putin

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6: David Lammy: The Future of Foreign Policy

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5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport

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4: Michel Barnier: The Truth Behind Brexit

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3: Alan Milburn: Can the NHS be saved?

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2: Marina Litvinenko: Fighting Putin's poison

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1: Michael Heseltine: From Thatcher to Sunak

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