Jeffrey Sachs: On Putin's Peace Demands

Despite some cynicism over the UFO files, we could be about to see real evidence of aerial phenomena which even the brightest minds in government have been unable to explain. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spoke earlier this year about UFOs performing implausible maneuve ...  Show more

John Davidson’s unfortunately-timed tic at the BAFTAs has reignited the culture war on identity politics, after Hollywood luvvies such as Jamie Foxx branded the Tourette Syndrome sufferer a racist for blurting out the N-word against his own will. An online commentator who’s done ...  Show more

Vladimir Putin was looking for a swift invasion that would halt Ukraine’s drift toward the West, reveal NATO’s fractures and weaknesses and solidify Russia as a global power. In response, the West threatened moderate sanctions, but ultimately showed little interest in stepping ...

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has ordered Russian troops to cross the border into eastern Ukraine on what he claims is a “peacekeeping mission” in defence of the breakaway states of Donetsk and Luhansk. Western leaders have condemned the move as the beginning of an inv ...  Show more

Europe has been united by opposition to Putin’s war in Ukraine, but will this new found unity last and will Russia be permanently isolated? Gideon talks to Alexander Stubb, former prime minister of Finland, about how the conflict is reshaping Europe’s alliances with the rest o ...

President Putin has said that western sanctions imposed because of his attack on Ukraine threaten the entire world. But he added they weren't working, and that Russia wasn't losing anything. Also in the programme: US congressman Brad Sherman on Ethiopia; and the woman who can sni ...  Show more