This Time Tomorrow

With their recent invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro, the United States are signalling a return to a “spheres of influence” world order. By treating Vladimir Putin as a peer and focussing US dominance on the Western Hemisphere, the US is retreating from the rules-based international order it once upheld. Was the US intervention in Venezuela part of an implicit bar...

In this monologue, Omri reflects on… time. Yes, time, that old, finite, existential resource. And he does so by linking personal focus to global political urgency. Because at a time when digital “surveillance capitalism” monetises our attention, fuels our distraction, and weakens our democracy and collective problem-solving, major crises are being ignored. Climate change, AI, inequality, and risin...

In Bulgaria, Gen Z has toppled the government after weeks of protests. What happened? Why? And what’s next? In the US, a longer version of the National Security Strategy has leaked… and, again, it’s bad news for democracy in Europe. In Israel, democrats are still reeling after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked president Herzog for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-y...

As fathers, this one is close to our hearts. Join Omri and Benni for the 33rd episode of This Time Tomorrow as they sit down with co-founder George Gabriel to talk about The Dad Shift — the campaign for better paternity leave in the UK. In a wide-ranging conversation, they dig into the economic case for better paternity leave, exploring why backing fathers isn’t just socially important, it also ma...

Sometimes, all you need to do is to enforce the law. Just enforce the law. In the 32nd episode of This Time Tomorrow, we give a nod of appreciation to the European Commission for doing the right thing and issuing a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act. But is that enough? Is Elon Musk shaking in his boots? And what now? Next up, we hea...

In episode 31 of This Time Tomorrow, Omri, Benni and Daniela dig into a question rattling America’s progressive middle: what message do Democrats send when they surrender the government shutdown fight without a real struggle? After years of promises to stand firm for working people, the party’s reflex to cave leaves many wondering what the Democratic leadership is actually willing to risk. Unlike...

When the political world begins to describe acts of cruelty as technical mastery, then that’s a sure sign that our collective humanity is starting to wither away. Gestures of tenderness, hesitation, or mercy start to look clunky… and inefficient. And when they disappear completely, cruelty no longer shocks us. Indeed, it simply looks like order is being restored. In this monologue, Ted applies Gon...

The 30th episode of This Time Tomorrow is about the cost of conviction. It’s about the vulnerability that comes with standing up for what’s right, the pain of being ruthlessly targeted, and the resilience it takes to… keep going. Join Omri and Benni as they speak with Nina Jankowicz, who in 2022 briefly led the Disinformation Governance Board at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Just three...

Antilopes in the boardroom at Disney? Or zebras? Who knows—but Jimmy Kimmel is back on air again, and that tells us something about the power of unsubscribing. What next? How about Russia’s new routine violations of NATO airspace in Europe, or Benjamin Netanyahu’s shake-up at the Shin Bet, or Trump at the UN, or the indictment of James Comey… It’s a packed agenda as contributing editor Daniela Van...

From Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address to Elon Musk… erm, inciting violence on the streets of London? And then on to Brazil, where former President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to prison. And the USA? Not today! (Almost!) There’s only time for so many fires all at once... Join Omri and Benni for the ride as they… - get kind of excited about Ursula’s 28th regime - express renew...

This monologue doubles as a book review of a book that doubles as a weather forecast. Confusing? In Deaf Republic (2019) by Ilya Kaminsky, deafness becomes an act of collective resistance after a deaf boy is murdered by a soldier at a puppet show. It’s a book of some 60 poems that show us how love, tenderness and laughter can manifest as resistance, defiance, and insurgency. This is not poetry for...

In this episode of This Time Tomorrow, Omri and Benni are joined by political scientist Angelos Chryssogelos to discuss the global rise of populism. From Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, from Yanis Varoufakis to Wolfgang Schäuble, from Brexit to Covid-19, from Viktor Orbán back to Trump again, the guys explore how populist movements distort our relationship with truth and facts, dismantle liberal dem...

In this episode of This Time Tomorrow, Omri and Benni are joined by political scientist Angelos Chryssogelos to discuss the global rise of populism. From Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, from Yanis Varoufakis to Wolfgang Schäuble, from Brexit to Covid-19, from Viktor Orbán back to Trump again, the guys explore how populist movements distort our relationship with truth and facts, dismantle liberal dem...

“For the vast majority of people, life is unlikely to get better in the next five years. If you belong to that group of people, then you already know that. Unfortunately, that’s not the worst of it. The worst of it is that unless something changes, then life is also likely to get a lot more violent. And not just other people’s lives. Yours as well. Do I want you to be afraid? No. But perhaps we sh...

”What I’m concerned with here is the role of Germany in Ukrainian defence, and that’s really European defence,” says Benni at the top of this episode. ”Why the h*** aren’t the Germans doing more? Why isn’t Germany really leading Europe on this existential issue? What’s holding us back here?” In the 25th episode of This Time Tomorrow, Benni and Omri talk to Nico Lange—former chief of staff at the G...

Democracy is not just elections, says Andreas Poléo in this monologue for democracy. It is about you. You have privilege. You see injustice. You feel anger. You see corruption. Change is hard. Even when you try, nothing moves. And yet you must take responsibility. Live with intention. Act on your values. Society wants you passive. They want you obedient. But you can choose. You can wake up. You ca...

Political campaigns are not what they used to be. Once it was about speeches, tabloids, and TV spots. Now it is behavioural experiments, voter modelling, and psychological targeting happening quietly behind the scenes. This is not just campaigning. It is science for sole purpose of securing power. It’s Moneyball applied to the War Room. Sacha Issenberg called it the Victory Lab — the conceptual sp...

Where do we even start with this one? The thing about the constitutional collapse in the US is that it’s unfolding before our very eyes, on our screens, all of the time. It’s not a single event. It is an ongoing erosion playing out in public view. This is not your everyday partisan struggle. So let’s call it what it is. From the January 6th Capitol insurrection to repeated threats of government sh...

Where do we even start with this one? The thing about the constitutional collapse in the US is that it’s unfolding before our very eyes, on our screens, all of the time. It’s not a single event. It is an ongoing erosion playing out in public view. This is not your everyday partisan struggle. So let’s call it what it is. From the January 6th Capitol insurrection to repeated threats of government sh...

Bother! Benni’s gone holidaying… So what do we do? In the 21st episode of This Time Tomorrow, Omri calls Ted on his rotary dial phone (you’ll get it if you listen to the episode) to discuss media ethics in the era of Joe Rogan… and it’s all because of something BBC journalist Nick Robinson told The Guardian last month . As trust in traditional journalism crumbles and podcasts rise to fill the gap,...

Is your car spying on you? Do you need a cloud subscription just to use your vacuum cleaner? Was your device built to be unrepairable? Sometimes, a political movement starts with a broken MacBook. In the 20th episode of This Time Tomorrow, Omri and Benni sit down with prominent Right to Repair advocate Louis Rossmann to unpack the growing fight for consumer rights. From locked-down electronics to...

A new kind of warfare is taking shape… and this one does not unfold in trenches or airspace, but in servers, software, and digital networks. In the 19th episode of This Time Tomorrow, Omri and Benni speak with Francesca Bosco about the emerging architecture of cyberpeace, and the silent battles already underway in cyberspace. What happens when a hospital is forced offline mid-surgery because of ra...

As the boundaries between law, politics, and public morality blur, a global pattern is beginning to emerge… one where legal transgressions no longer spell the end of political careers. In the 18th episode of This Time Tomorrow, Omri and Benni sit down with Prof. Dr. Franz-Alois Fischer to discuss the place where law meets democratic legitimacy. Why are electorates increasingly willing to overlook...

As traditional party politics fray across Europe, Austria offers a revealing case study in democratic reinvention. Over the past three decades, political entrepreneurs have disrupted the status quo, giving rise to new movements that challenge the dominance of legacy parties. From Jörg Haider’s nationalist surge in the 1990s to the more recent ascent of the Greens and NEOS, Austrian politics has be...

As Europe faces mounting threats to its core values, the UK’s relationship with the EU takes on renewed significance. Brexit may have formally separated the UK from the European Union, but the shared challenges confronting the continent demand cooperation rather than division. In the face of Russian aggression and rising authoritarianism, there is an urgent need for solidarity in defending not jus...