The Reaction Podcast

On this week's edition, Iain Martin is joined by George Trefgarne, CEO and Founder at Boscobel & Partners, to discuss the disastrous HS2 project and Max Mitchell from Reaction's Young Journalist's Programme talking party conferences and the second Republican debate. 

On the latest Reaction podcast Iain Martin talks to Walter Russell Mead, WSJ columnist and leading geopolitical commentator. They discuss the US election, China-US tensions, Taiwan, Europe's declining status, the rise of Asia, and Britain post-Brexit.

Iain Martin is joined by political commentator Tim Montgomerie. They discuss the state of British politics, Rishi Sunak's prospects, the next Tory leadership contest, the transformation of the Labour party and what the future of British politics looks like.

The Reaction Podcast is back. Host Iain Martin sits down with his friend and Times colleague Daniel Finkelstein to talk about his new book, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival .

Maggie Pagano, editor of Reaction, talks to Joe Murphy, doyen of Westminster hacks and former political editor of the Evening Standard, and Mark Fox, deputy chairman of Reaction, about Liz Truss's departure, who might take over and what it means for the future of the party. And whether the Tories can still win the next election with a new "unifying" leader. 

Can Boris Johnson survive the twin by-election defeats? Why has Dowden resigned? What on earth are the Tories playing at?

In this episode, Iain Martin is joined by Tim Montgomerie. They discuss the Tory leadership, inflation and central banks, and divides in the West over Ukraine.

In this episode Iain Martin is joined by Tim Montgomerie. They discuss the Tory leadership, inflation and central banks, and divides in the West over Ukraine.

In this week’s podcast, Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss Britain's energy crisis and the Chancellor's package to help Britons with the cost of living. Plus, what will be the legacy of Partygate for Boris Johnson's leadership?

n this week’s podcast, Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss a possible trade war between the EU and the UK, whether Putin is making progress in the Donbas, and the pros and cons of WFH.

In this week’s podcast, Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss the results of the French Presidential Election, Covid fines and the cost of living, and shifting war aims in Ukraine.

Partygate divisions, scandal that will bring him down, Ukraine war and French election

In this week's podcast Iain Martin and Maggie Pagano discuss Sunak's non-dom downfall, British science giving grounds for optimism and the conference hosted by Reaction and King's College London's on the Defence of Europe scheduled for the 9th of May. 

In this week's podcast Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss  how bad the UK economy is going to get and how world leaders can avoid escalating the war in Ukraine.

In this week's podcast Iain Martin talks to Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn about the West's astonishing economic response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, what has surprised them most about the course of the war and whether the war means Boris Johnson will survive.

In the latest edition of the Reaction podcast, Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss the crisis in Ukraine and the historical backdrop. How should the West respond? Will sanctions work? Is this a war likely to be limited to Ukraine or should the West prepare for a wider conflict if Putin challenges NATO?

In the latest episode of the weekly Reaction podcast, editor Iain Martin and Alastair Benn discuss the impact of the pandemic. We all want it gone, but before it slips into the rear view mirror of history what lessons are there to learn about the way it reshaped our politics and society?

The Reaction podcast is back in its original format. This week, the team Britain has taken a robust position on Russia and Ukraine. Have British policymakers called it right or the French drive for compromise more sensible. Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn, from the Reaction team, also discuss Boris Johnson's chances of survival, post-Covid politics and gender neutral toilets.

Reaction Press Review, the show where Reaction editors discuss the best stories, writing, podcasts and videos that have caught their attention in the last week. This week on episode 19, Iain Martin is joined by Mattie Brignal and Alastair Benn.  They discuss whether the West has underestimated Vladimir Putin's capacity to withstand sanctions, whether New Zealand will ever move on from Covid, and h...

On this latest episode of Press Review, editors Iain Martin, Maggie Pagano and Alastair Benn discuss Tory turmoil, Biden’s troubles, the threat of war, some economic good news, Shane Warne and more.

Merryn Somerset Webb talks to Reaction editor Iain Martin about her new book Share Power: How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works - and make money too. Who is shaping the big investment decisions globally? What should companies care about? Why don't more shareholders realise they have individual and collective power? What can be done to fix it? This is the latest episode of th...

Azeem Azhar is the author of Exponential: How Accelerating Technology is Leaving us Behind and What to do About it. Here he talks to Reaction editor Iain Martin, in the latest of our authors in conversation series. There is a growing gap between technologists and the rest of us, what Azeem describes as the exponential gap. What are the implications and how should we adapt?

In this extended podcast Iain Martin speaks to Iain Dale about his new book The Presidents: 250 Years of American Political Leadership. Iain Martin hosts Press Review episode 14 where the team cover stories on fears over the next pandemic, central banks and growing fears of inflation, the migration crisis in Europe, why the supply chain bottlenecks are finally easing up and the ongoing fallout fol...