Wake Me When November Ends

Was Rishi Sunak not actually as bad as we remember? No, we haven’t hit our heads… Yes, he led the Conservatives to their worst ever defeat and pandered to the far right with the hopeless Rwanda detention scheme. But he also inherited the wreckage of Liz Truss’s 49 days in power. ...  Show more

Setting out the stories of the next seven days… France wakes to scenes of urban destruction straight out of wartime. Are the “cost of living protests” even protests any more, and can lame duck president Emmanuel Macron prevent them from running out of control? Also: Trump’s betra ...  Show more

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Sir Kim Darroch, the former British ambassador to the United States, and author of Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of T ...  Show more

Has Michelle Obama given up on her own plea that "when they go low we go high"? How will male voters respond to the idea of the first US First Gentleman? Will RFK Jr drop out of the race to endorse Donald Trump? This week, Alastair Campbell joins Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci ...  Show more

Who are the Democrats speaking out against Joe Biden? What happens to NATO if Donald Trump gets elected? Could next week be the president’s crunch point? Join Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci as they answer all these questions and more on The Rest Is Politics US. INCOGNI DEAL: ...  Show more

What does the rise of President Joe mean for Britain and our shapeshifting creep of a PM? If Donald Trump can’t win in America’s democracy, would he really destroy it? And why are politicians so bad at Twitter? We’re thrilled to welcome special guest Emily Bazelon from the podcas ...  Show more