Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics

Roifield speaks to economist Wook Lee about the economic fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for Russia, Ukraine and the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mikhail Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union. Professor Iwan Morgan and Roifield talk about his life and the times and the period when Gorby mania gripped the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Errol Murray is a Journalism Lecturer/Social Media Trainer who works for the BBC. In 2019 he was sent by the BBC to help train Ukrainian journalists in new media techniques. This is an intimate and reflective look at his time there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Commonwealth originated from the British Empire. The Commonwealth started in 1926. This is when it changed from the British Empire to the Commonwealth. Around one-third of the world is in the Commonwealth, 2.5 billion people.  The modern Commonwealth was formed on 26 April 1949 when the leaders of Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the United King...

Today I'm joined by Paul Duddridge a conservative voice on TalkTV, BBC and ITV he is a Writer and Director who is also the Host of ‘The Politics People podcast. As the prospective leaders for the Conservative party embark on their third round of voting we try and understand just who stands for exactly what and who has the best chance of becoming the next PM of the UK. Rishi Sunak has topped the fi...

Today I'm joined by Kartik Raj of Human Rights Watch to discuss the deaths of at least 23 African men at the Melilla-Morocco border on June 24, 2022. The deaths occurred during an attempt by as many as 2,000 people to enter Spain by climbing the high chain-link fences surrounding Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa. An independent, impartial investigation should identify the cause...

Boris Johnson clings on to power amid a cabinet standoff and 42 resignations. Despite interventions from ministers including, Gove, Shapps and Patel and with the fat lady warming up to sing, he insists he won't step down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I'm joined by Amy Everit The President of Golden State Opportunity and the ex-State Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Steve Krone constitutional law expert and ex-Supreme Court staffer, Mark Pinsley Democratic party candidate for State Senate in Pensilyviania and political activist Andrea Soccorso from New york. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the first part of the pandemic, San Francisco County lost more than one in 20 residents San Francisco now has the fewest children per capita of any large American city, and a $117,400 salary counts as low-income for a family of four. I’d gotten used to the crime, rarely violent but often brazen; to leaving the car empty and the doors unlocked so thieves would at least quit breaking my windo...

Did the prime minister survive a vote on his premiership this week because the potential leadership contenders held off welding the fatal blow to his leadership? We are joined by Paul Duddridge, Mike Holden, Shannon Maybury, Nabanita Sircar and Pyotr Kurzan on this week's episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are joined by professor Karolina Wigura, Michael Donahue, Greg Satell, Ben Mendelson and Dr Dan as we look at the Russian advances in the east of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roifield speaks to Prof. Gary Gerstle about the last 40 years that chart the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War and their pivotal place in American and world history. They discuss how neoliberalism originated as much on the Left (the New Left) as on the right, among individuals such as Paul Goodman, Stewart Brand and Steve Jobs who were seeking ways to emancipate the self in an increasi...

In a week when a US federal mask mandate was struck down on public transport, we ask how many lives does the British prime minister have? Today we are joined by Pyotr Kurzin geopolitical expert from Washington DC and the host of the global gambit podcast, Greg Satell award-winning author and businessman who lived in Kyiv for over 10 years and Steve O'Neil who was deputy head of policy for the Libe...

Today I’m joined by Chuck Holton an American war correspondent. Holton is currently a War Correspondent for Newsmax and is embedded in Ukraine following the war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Le Pen, the far-right candidate for the French presidency, offered a worldview reminiscent of the Trump presidency, forget Brexit, here comes Marine Le Pen! Russia warns of nuclear weapons in Baltic if Sweden and Finland join Nato Elon Musk Tech entrepreneur offers to buy Twitter for $41.4bn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, with President Biden calling her "one of the nation's brightest legal minds". Ms Jackson, 51, will be the first black woman to serve in the court's 233-year history and only the third African American, replacing liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires at the end of the court's term in June. She has two degree...

Today I’m joined by Emily Channell-Justice the Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University to discuss part two of our discourse about how peace could be formed in Ukraine. In this section, we look at how the conflict will change the domestic and foreign policy of the US, UK and other countries around the world. Hosted on Acast. See a...

If the war ends in the next two weeks could we have a peace agreement? What if the Russians cease operations as the Ukrainians are making small gains. Can Russia Keep Crimea and Donetsk and Ukraine have enforceable security guarantees from the West, could that bring peace? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karolina Wigura is a historian of ideas, board member of the Kultura Liberalna Foundation in Warsaw and a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin She writes for the Guardian and the New York Times amongst other publicans and lives in Warsaw and works in Berlin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the world watches with alarm the despotic takeover of Ukraine by Russian forces, we speak to Carla Seaquist about its ramifications for Europe, The US and the world. About Carla For more than two decades—after shifting from playwriting to commentary on 9/11—prolific writer and public thinker Carla Seaquist has worked at the intersection of politics, culture, and the American character, and addr...

Durings Ukraine’s 30-years of independence since the Soviet Union’s collapse, it has had to contend with neighbouring Russia’s tightening grip and expanding power on the country's geopolitical future. Instead of following the current Russian invasion and the heroic defence of the Ukrainian people today I want to look at Ukrainian politics from 1991 to 2022 with Grreg Satell who lived in Kiev and w...

A loose coalition of truckers and conservative groups that began in western Canada has brought the country to a standstill provoking the Prime Minister to invoke emergency powers, we ask TV pundit Laura Babcock why this happened and what it means. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gregory is one of two co-founders and Chief Operating Officer for the U.S. based OSET Institute (“OSET”), a non-partisan non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation headquartered in Silicon Valley.  He leads all aspects of the Institute's resource development, corporate partner R&D alliances, public outreach, election official stakeholder relations, and government and legal affairs.&n...

Johnson is facing fury from The Conservative party over a drinks party at Downing Street on 20 May 2020. He admitted at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that he had joined colleagues in the garden for around 25 minutes to thank them for their hard work during the pandemic, while the country was on a strict lockdown. Mr Johnson claimed he had "believed implicitly that this was a work event"....

Senator Manchin's opposition, along with that of Senator Kyrsten Sinema, effectively kills the Biden administration's hopes of passing Build Back Better before the end of the year. Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, said on Sunday that he couldn't support the legislation, an ambitious package of social policies including prolonging Child Tax Credit, expanding Medicare, instituting paid employee le...