David Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary, joins Emily Tamkin and Ido Vock to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the global hunger crisis. They also discuss the role of multilateral talks in the handling of future global crisis, the global Covid-19 vaccination programme and the latest developments in Israel and Gaza. In You Ask Us, they take listener questions on whether it's right to vaccinate teenagers in the rich world before elderly people...
May 21, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin are joined by political scientist Tarik Abou-Chadi to explore the plight of social democratic parties in Europe. In You Ask Us, they take listener questions on overlooked social democratic successes in Europe. Read more: Jeremy Cliffe: the British Left's electoral woes are part of a Europe-wide trend . Tony Blair: without total change, Labour will die . Emily Tamkin with the US take on Tony Blair's essay. If you'd like to submit a listener question for You Ask Us, ...
May 17, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin are joined by Dimi Reider and Ido Vock to discuss the escalating violence in Israel and Gaza. Read more: Dimi Reider on why Netanyahu and Hamas both risk losing control of the conflict Emily Tamkin on the international reaction to the crisis Ido Vock on the backdrop to the violence Anshel Pfeffer on how the Palestinian cause is slipping down the international agenda If you would like to submit a question for You Ask Us, please email podcasts@newstates...
May 14, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast On 6th May, Mamata Banerjee was sworn as Chief Minister of West Bengal for a third term after leading her party to a landslide victory in the State elections against India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In this episode of World Review from the New Statesman , Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin are joined by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee of the London School of Economics to explore what the BJP's defeat in West Bengal means for Indian politics. They also discuss India's ongoing...
May 07, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast In January, Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin made their predictions for world affairs in 2021. In this special live recording of the World Review podcast, Jeremy and Emily review their predictions, and take live audience questions in a special extended 'You Ask Us'. This episode was recorded as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival in partnership with the New Statesman magazine. Find out more at https://cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/ To submit a question for 'You Ask Us', please email podcasts@n...
Apr 30, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast In September, Germany will elect a new Chancellor to succeed Angela Merkel after her 16 years in power. In this episode, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC discuss the state of German politics as the parties prepare for a summer of campaigning ahead of the German general election. To submit a question for 'You Ask Us', please email podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk Subscribing to the New Statesman helps us keep producing this podcast. You can now subscribe for 12 weeks for just ...
Apr 23, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast While countries including the US and UK impose sanctions on China over anti-democratic reforms in Hong Kong, some commentators argue economic measures have "practically no effect" - and may contribute to anti-Asian sentiments in western countries. In this episode, Jessie Lau joins Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin to discuss the political gridlock over Hong Kong, and whether there are alternative actions that might prove more effective. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on the US rejoin...
Apr 16, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, to discuss the transatlantic movement to defund the police, and how the world can move to a better justice system. They also discuss key world events including developments in Ukraine, the death of Prince Philip, and the trial of Derek Chauvin. We'd love to hear from you! Find us on Twitter: @jeremycliffe and @emilyctam...
Apr 09, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC take on your questions for a spring special. They cover topics ranging from Europe's Green parties to Australia's misogyny crisis, by way of Iran, China, Israel and the United States. We'd love to hear from you! Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . Find us on Twitter: @jeremycliffe , @idvck and @emilyctamkin . Subscribing to the New Statesman helps us ke...
Apr 02, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined, from Milan, by the writer Tim Parks to discuss Mario Draghi's appointment as Italy's new Prime Minister, Europe's AstraZenaca debacle, and whether it's fair to say that Italy is in a state of perpetual chaos. We'd love to hear from you! Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . Find us on Twitter: @jeremycliffe , @idvck and @emilyctamkin ...
Mar 26, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard and a former Minister in the Lula and Rousseff governments, to discuss whether Brazil's stagnation will lead to crisis, if Lula can make a successful return to politics, and what the similarities are between Brazil and the United States. We'd love to hear from you! Send us your You Ask Us ques...
Mar 19, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast On March 23, Israel faces its fourth election in two years, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition with Benny Gantz's Blue and White party collapsed after just seven months. Current polling suggests neither of Israel's major political blocs can secure enough votes to form a majority. In this episode of World Review from the New Statesman , Alona Ferber joins Jeremy Cliffe and Ido Vock to discuss Israel's complex political landscape, and ask whether anythi...
Mar 12, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from Copenhagen, by Ravinder Kaur, author of Brand New Nation, to discuss the farmers' protest in India, how they've sustained momentum for a hundred days, and whether they can create a meaningful and lasting opposition to Modi's government. We'd love to hear from you! Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . Find us on Twitter: @idvck and @emilyctamkin ....
Mar 05, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sir John Jenkins, formerly the UK's ambassador to Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia, joins Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin to look at the decade that's passed since the Arab Spring, and what lessons have been learnt in both the region and the wider international community. Further reading: Sir John Jenkins' piece, The lights that failed , discusses why the cause of liberal democracy collapsed in the Middle East. BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has written for the ...
Feb 26, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Large scale protests have been taking place in Myanmar since a military coup on February 1st deposed the democratically-elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. This week, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar reported that the military were being deployed to the city of Yangon, raising fears of bloodshed. Protesters are calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, but activist groups have raised concerns that even...
Feb 19, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast On 17th March the Netherlands will to the polls in the 2021 general election. In this episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by Pepijn Bergsen, a research fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House, to discuss the upcoming Dutch elections. Will Geert Wilders improve his far-right party's performance from 2017? Is the coronavirus pandemic and the EU's troubled vaccine rollout having an impact in the polls? And...
Feb 12, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast On his return to Russia from Germany, where he'd been recuperating after being poisoned by a nerve agent, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested for criminal charges resurrected by the Kremlin from a years-old conviction. In the days since, peaceful protesters have taken to the streets demanding Navalny's freedom. They've been met with brutality. Does this mean trouble for Vladmir Putin and the Kremlin? In this episode, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are join...
Feb 05, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Rui Zhong, Program Assistant for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, to discuss how Wuhan has (or hasn't) bounced back from the first days of covid-19, whether there's a growing anti-China sentiment globally, and how administrations from the US to the EU and Britain should handle diplomacy with Beijing in 2021. We'd love ...
Jan 29, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the week when Germany's governing party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), elected Armin Laschet as its new leader, and Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin are joined on World Review by Constanze Stelzenmüller , Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution. In this episode, they discuss what these new appointments mean for the future of relations between Europe and the US, and how the...
Jan 22, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast The movers have arrived, and the Trump administration is finally leaving the West Wing of the White House after a tumultuous - to say the least - post-election period. As the outgoing president is locked out of his social media accounts and impeached for a historic second time accused of inciting the riot on Capitol Hill, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined on the World Review podcast by the New Statesman's senior writer Sarah Manavis to discuss th...
Jan 15, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Paris sit down to look ahead at the stories that might dominate 2021 – from protests in Belarus to friction in Asia via elections in Latin America – and the global impact they could have. They also take stock of the events of the last week, including the scenes as Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol building. Read more: Emily: Seven predictions for the world in 2021 Jeremy: Ten crucial about the world in 2021 We'...
Jan 08, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined, from Paris, by regular contributor Ido Vock to put 2020 under the microscope and look at the good news, bad news and under-reported stories from a tumultuous year. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to purchase your subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Dec 28, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, from Tunis, by Layli Foroudi to discuss the decade that has passed since a Tunisian fruit-seller sparked the protests and revolutions known as the Arab Spring. They also discuss the latest from Europe, the USA and India. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to purchase...
Dec 18, 2020•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Mark Lowcock, the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. They discuss how covid-19 has impacted the Global South, what aid should look like during this time, and whether societal institutions will survive the difficulties of 2020. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't...
Dec 12, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined from Warsaw by Annabelle Chapman, a European political writer and NS contributor, to discuss the abortion protests in Poland, the rise and rise of illiberalism in Europe's 'renegade' states and whether a Belgian sex party could spell trouble for Viktor Orbán. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subsc...
Dec 04, 2020•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from London, by the NS's Political Correspondent, Ailbhe Rea (also a co-host of the famed New Statesman Podcast). They discuss Joe Biden's Irish roots and what they could mean for Brexit, and try their hand at resolving the island of Ireland's border issues. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe...
Nov 27, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment and author of When Crime Pays. They discuss Indian-American voting patterns, the Biden administration's possible relations with South Asia, and recent elections in Bihar. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subsc...
Nov 20, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Ido Vock in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Evan Osnos, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of Joe Biden: American Dreamer. They discuss President-Elect Biden's next moves, how he might handle diplomacy with China, and whether the Lincoln Project impacted the election result. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe &n...
Nov 13, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Ido Vock in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by New Statesman contributor Gary Younge to discuss the fallout from the US presidential election, as Joe Biden appears to be on the cusp of victory. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to purchase your subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 06, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's bonus episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Ido Vock in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by the New Statesman's data guru Ben Walker to look at the fallout from the electoral stalemate, and what might happen next in this extraordinary contest. Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to purchase your subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
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