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  • The Bigger Picture: Trump, Ukraine and what it means for Europe & Labour MPs' offensive messages

    The Bigger Picture: Trump, Ukraine and what it means for Europe & Labour MPs' offensive messages
    2025/02/20
    Political commentator Mike Indian discusses President Trump's recent statements on Ukraine, accusing it of having started the war, blocking elections and President Zelensky of being a dictator. How viable is Keir Starmer's statement that the UK will stand by Ukraine? After 78 years, relying on NATO for joint defence is no longer a certainty and puts presure on the UK's spending priorities. He also discusses the lack of awareness shown by Labour MPs over their offensive WhatsApp messages. Taken with other things, like gifts and fibs on CVs, it is death by a thousand cuts though Labour's big majority means that most MPs – bar Reeves – are expendable. However, the local elections could weaken Starmer's authority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    27 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Trump is playing a clever game & could the Tories become the UK's 4th party?

    The Bigger Picture: Trump is playing a clever game & could the Tories become the UK's 4th party?
    2025/02/13
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that people are misreading Donald Trump. Discussing Greenland, Gaza, the Panama Canal, North Korea, NATO and more, he says that there is coherency there. Trump enjoys chaos and is actually thinking several chess moves ahead. He is forever and a day a New York real estate developer – loud, proud, bold and radical. Tim feels that with Reform consistently ahead in the polls and poised to have the largest UK party membership, this is the most important development in British politics in 40 years. The Conservative Party may haemorrhage money, talent and members and could even find themselves the fourth party behind the LibDems at the next election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    28 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Starmer & the EU, Is Reeves' growth speech enough and Trump & Gaza

    The Bigger Picture: Starmer & the EU, Is Reeves' growth speech enough and Trump & Gaza
    2025/02/10
    While "Never Here" Keir Starmer thinks the UK can reset its position with the EU, political commentator Mike Indian believes the government is viewing the stagnating EU with rose-tinted spectacles and that this will not be a panacea for our financial troubles. Despite talking about it a great deal, the government has done little so far to promote growth and Reeves' recent speech highlighting a third runway at Heathrow will do little to change that. We need a better-connected country and should be encouraging local mutuals. Mike finds Trump's ideas for Gaza irresponsible and risks plunging the region back into conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    26 分
  • The Bigger Picture: What Labour is getting right (& the Tories wrong) and Trump's Executive Orders

    The Bigger Picture: What Labour is getting right (& the Tories wrong) and Trump's Executive Orders
    2025/01/30
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that there was much in Rachel Reeves's recent speech, including her desire to see expansion at Heathrow, that was sensible and should have been done years ago by the Tories. But there was no realisation that her Budget had been disastrous, particularly on taxation. The Conservatives, though, are going about opposition in totally the wrong way and should recognise that there is a higher calling. With Trump's issuing of so many Executive Orders – so many his opponents will have trouble pushing back on all of them – he feels that America has almost discovered a monarchical system of government. But although some Europeans may be envious of the can-do spirit, he worries whether the polarisation of American politics may portend darker days ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    26 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Trump's return as President, UK infrastructure & how safe is Rachel Reeves?

    The Bigger Picture: Trump's return as President, UK infrastructure & how safe is Rachel Reeves?
    2025/01/23
    Political commentator Mike Indian says that Trump's return to the White House represents a pivot back to US isolationism which leaves a void to be filled and means a less secure world. Despite outward appearances, he feels that Trump's Presidency should not be seen as normal. The UK Government's removal of legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects is, he says, a welcome development. While the Chancellor is under pressure from increasingly nervous money markets, Mike feels it is too early to write Rachel Reeves off yet, pointing out that her fortunes are very much bound up with Sir Keir Starmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    25 分
  • The Bigger Picture: Is Labour pivoting right, a must-read book & Canada's federal elections

    The Bigger Picture: Is Labour pivoting right, a must-read book & Canada's federal elections
    2025/01/17
    Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University wonders, now the wheels are coming off the government's bus, if Labour is pivoting to the right, with rumoured welfare cuts, implementing the university free speech law and scrapping the banning of gas boilers by 2035. If so, how will the Conservatives react? He strongly recommends Peter Turchin's book, "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites an Indicators of Revolution" and what it means for our times. And he discusses the probable change in government in Canada in the autumn and whether a new Conservative government will reconsider the role of the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    27 分
  • The Bigger Picture: The Chancellor & the markets, the grooming inquiry call and Elon Musk & Reform

    The Bigger Picture: The Chancellor & the markets, the grooming inquiry call and Elon Musk & Reform
    2025/01/09
    Political commentator Mike Indian discusses the Chancellor's options in face of the rise in UK borrowing costs and fall in sterling. Will Keir Starmer retain confidence in her? His own future will be determined by her fate. He also addreses the grooming inquiry call and vote, worrying it all feels like too little too late. We owe it to the victims to see that the Jay Report's findings are implemented and that failings in the system need to be addressed. He also discusses Elon Musk's intervention and his relationship with Reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    25 分
  • The Bigger Picture: The political economy of time, the new "New Right" and the economic case against EVs

    The Bigger Picture: The political economy of time, the new "New Right" and the economic case against EVs
    2025/01/02
    As 2025 begins, Professor Tim Evans takes the opportunity to discuss the political economy of seasonality and time and reflect upon the importance of time, which some political regimes have tried to amend. He feels we are starting to see the birth of a new "New Right", 45 years on from Reagan and Thatcher. While Milei, Trump and Farage have many different ideas, it appears that they are consulting each other, which might make 2025 a rollercoaster year. He also considers the unintended consequences of the push to electric vehicles, with a divide growing between those who have driveways (and cheap charging) and those who do not. If the US brings down the price of oil, the attraction for EVs will decline and further embolden those who oppose the rush to Net Zero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    29 分