The Late Edition
Latest Episodes
Monday 23 April
We discuss the increasing fragmentation of Isis, whether Macron’s Trump-whispering will prove successful and how the European Commission plans to protect whistleblowers.
Friday 20 April
We unpack German nationalists’ mooted desire to shut Berlin’s most notorious nightclub, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s magnificent cape, Lars von Trier’s Cannes rehabilitation and a new law in France against calling veggie…
Thursday 19 April
Terry Stiastny and Robert Fox on how the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting might just have proved its utility, the risks of rolling back New York’s double-jeopardy law, worrying signs of Trumpism in Brazil…
Wednesday 18 April
We discuss the end of the Castro dynasty, what the Windrush scandal says about English institutions and the Commonwealth’s inability to confront member states’ outdated laws. Plus: eighty years of the Man of Steel.
Tuesday 17 April
Joy Lo Dico and Jacob Parakilas explore the problems faced by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. Plus: the Russian state’s clampdown on Telegram, the encrypted messenger service, Macron’s warning words to the European Parliament…
Monday 16 April
Jane Kinninmont and Stephen Dalziel unpack the misinformation surrounding Syria’s White Helmets, the new problems faced by the Windrush generation, the importance of moral fibre in world leaders and whether Elon Musk has been…
Friday 13 April
Fernando Augusto Pacheco, Tom Edwards and Daniel Bach discuss Donald Trump’s conspicuous absence from the Summit of the Americas, the arresting winner of the World Press photo of the year, whether eating popcorn in…
Thursday 12 April
Jonathan Fenby and Sebastian Borger on Trump’s sudden militaristic reticence, trouble with the new partners for Merkel, disarray at the top for Sweden’s literati and the distasteful issue of duel food.
Wednesday 11 April
Florence Biedermann and Victor Bulmer-Thomas weigh up Donald Trump’s escalating Twitter threats, Emmanuel Macron’s controversial approach to French Catholics and Nicolas Maduro’s decision not to represent Venezuela at the upcoming Summit of the Americas.
Tuesday 10 April
Samira Shackle and James Rodgers discuss Donald Trump’s intervention in Syria, the threat faced by foreign correspondents around the world, Northern Ireland 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement and what Mark Zuckerberg’s outfit…
