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Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Elon Musk - what do these men have in common? Just a few days from Donald Trump’s second inauguration as US President, hearings to confirm the team around him have started in earnest and the incoming 47th president has managed to pull together a coaliti ...  عرض المزيد

Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Elon Musk - what do these men have in common? Just a few days from Donald Trump’s second inauguration as US President, hearings to confirm the team around him have started in earnest and the incoming 47th president has managed to pull together a coaliti ...  عرض المزيد

The 90's is often heralded as the era of Blur, Oasis, Pulp - but this decade belongs as much to boybands as it does to Britpop. But what was behind these manufactured groups? What does this era reveal about Britain's relationship with class and masculinity? And will Robbie Willia ...  عرض المزيد

Would it be politically safe to go back on their promise not to raise income tax if the increase only affected high earners?, a listener writes in to ask. Hannah Barnes is joined by political editor Andrew Marr and associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe, and in the first half ...  عرض المزيد

Can Elon Musk reshape British democracy? The X-owning billionaire has waded into one of the darkest scandals in recent British history: the horrific rape and abuse of thousands of girls across the UK by so-called “grooming gangs”.  Musk’s inflammatory posts on his social media pl ...  عرض المزيد

Donald Trump is talking about the 'Gulf of America' but in reality the US is no where near as powerful as it once was. Kate Lamble is joined by this week's cover writer Robert D. Kaplan, as well as George Magnus and Jonny Ball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info ...  عرض المزيد