🚨 Join us tomorrow! 🚨 Join Gideon Rachman, Helen Thompson POLIS and Leslie Vinjamuri, in discussion with Peter Trubowitz, for 'Anti-globalism, International Disorder and the West' at the #LSEFestival 2024! 🗓️ Fri 14 June, LSE ⏰ 6:30-7:30pm lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

In this week’s These Times Tom McTague and I discuss why Scottish votes from 2011 to 2021 turned Westminster politics upside down even as Scottish independence became ever harder.

🚨 Special Episode 🚨 "Has the SNP Blown It?" Tom McTague reports from a hustings in the Hebrides, before visiting Glasgow to find out if the SNP are really over... ft. Darren McGarvey Imogen Walker @AngusMacNeilSNP Torcuil Crichton MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar prod. Euan Dawtrey 🎧👇 unherd.com/these-times-wi…

For These Times this week Tom McTague and I turn back to France where the political crisis set in motion by Macron’s missing majority, the French budget deficit, and the Eurozone’s restored fiscal rules has led Macron to gamble on the spectre of the IMF to save the republic.

🚨 New election special "Apocalypse in Toryland' Tom McTague travels deep into the Tory heartlands to discover whether the Conservatives' Blue Wall is about to fall... ft. Claire Coutinho Bob theCat Bevan MBE Andrew Cooper Mike Martin MP 🎧👇 unherd.com/these-times-wi…

In this week's These Times Tom McTague and I turn to the future of Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate and as the President of the United States: what happens next when it is seen that the President is not in charge?

🚨 New ep! 'Britain on the Edge: Election Day' The time has come...Tom McTague reflects on his journey across the UK and tells the story of this bizarre election campaign, from Rishi in the rain to Boris's last-minute cameo... 🎧👇 unherd.com/these-times-wi…

For this UK election day on US independence day David Runciman and I talked with Galen Druke for FiveThirtyEightPolitics about why Labour is heading back to power with a post-script about the strange state of the US presidency. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mak…

This week for These Times Tom McTague and I convened again yesterday afternoon to talk about Labour’s extraordinary landslide and how the UK’s electoral system might be seen to have again brutally risen to the occasion.

The Conservatives' implosion came when the leadership decided that even paying lip service to idea that rules apply to the powerful, or that governments should try to act on the problems they say are facing western democracies, was beyond what could be expected of them.

In this week's These Times Tom McTague and I try to connect the absence of a parliamentary majority in France, Labour's landslide, and Biden's declaration of war on Democratic party 'elites' to hold on to office.

In this week's These Times Tom McTague and I turn to the assassination attempt on Trump and what it says about the US and violence, reflecting back in political time and on the stories Americans culturally tell about themselves from Blood Meridian +Nashville to the Sopranos.

While Labour promises an energy transformation, Great British Energy is not going to fix the macro-economic energy problem that engulfed Liz Truss' naivety, realise Net Zero, or deliver any energy.

In this week's @TheseTimes Tom McTague and I discuss Biden's withdrawal as the absence of cinema and how for all the high drama the 'what to do about China' question is shaping US politics in 2024 as firmly as it did in 2016, especially around California. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

In this week's These Times Tom McTague and I turn to the convergence of the world's geopolitical fault-lines around Israel's conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen, including why Netanyahu's "it's Iran versus civilisation" does not quite work in Washington.

In this week's These Times Tom McTague and I discuss Israel's assassinations last week in Beirut and Tehran as part of Israel's long history with targeted killings and how in the post-7 October Middle East old tactics have transformed consequences.

In this week’s These Times Tom McTague and I talk about Europe’s electoral, economic, + geopolitical landscape in a world shaped by US-China economic competition, domestic fragmentation, and the Ukraine war.

Although the government is asking for a strategy to deliver decarbonised electricity by 2030 because it appears not to have one, this letter still starts from the assumption that there are "a range of pathways" possible as if all is a matter of will. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66cda5c1…

Fossil-fuel energy discoveries, as in the east Mediterranean, create geopolitical rollercoasters: intense competition to extract with spillover and then serious problems for producer states as the recoverable scale disappoints with more fallout for pre-existing tensions.

In this week's These Times Tom McTague and I consider what is rather familiar about Keir Starmer's bid to reset the United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union.