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548 - Trump v Pope

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Episodes

Trump v Pope

Is the Strait of Hormuz Iran’s trump card?

What was the point of Artemis II?

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The gathering economic storm

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Back from the brink: The Iran ceasefire

The medications that can trigger sex and gambling addictions

Why Hungary’s chaotic election matters to Trump

Why the Royal visit to the US is dividing Brits

I wargamed Iran for the Pentagon - here is how it could end

JD Vance’s Iran test

Has Trump pushed Cuba to the brink of collapse?

Meta and YouTube lose in a landmark trial

Is the Iran war helping Putin?

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The cities built on scamming us all

Are we heading for World War Three?

The Venezuela model for regime change

Trump's Iran options

Netanyahu is not dead. So why did the internet think he was?

The war in Lebanon, explained

Listener Q&A on Iran

How does war affect a child’s brain?

Was the air strike on an Iranian school a war crime?

Jeremy Bowen: Trump has called for an Iran uprising. The lessons from Iraq in 1991 loom large

How the Oscars went international

Why is Donald Trump obsessed with the Chagos Islands?

Iran: Is diplomacy dead?

Are oil prices determining the course of the Iran war?

Spain stands up to Trump

Do Trump and Netanyahu have conflicting end goals on Iran?

Could Iran be the next ‘forever war’?

Iran under attack: The view from inside

Iran war: Chaos engulfs the Gulf

What next for Iran?

Mexico’s most wanted cartel boss is dead. Is it enough for Trump?

Is a peace deal with Putin possible?

Ukraine’s defiance, four years on

Inside Iran after the crackdown

The new race to the Moon

What the former prince Andrew’s arrest means for the Royal Family

What ‘looksmaxxing’ tells us about modern masculinity

The tightrope of reporting in Putin’s Russia

Gisèle Pelicot on confronting shame and finding hope

Is social media having its Big Tobacco moment?

Epstein’s global network: What the files reveal

With Jimmy Lai in jail, have Trump and the West abandoned Hong Kong?

The ‘weight loss revolution’ changing the world

The origins of ICE

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