Mallen Baker: Faultlines
Episodes
Ukraine’s HUGE advantage in 2023
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia suffers a major blow on the battlefield the strategic implications of which highlight its biggest challenge. Republicans in the US celebrate th...
World turns on China Covid tourists
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for 30th December 2022, as Covid rages across China, some countries bring in restrictions on travellers blaming the ...
Putin's stunning admission
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Putin makes a startling statement after Ukraine’s Zelensky makes an appearance in the US. Scottish lawmakers pass a controversial trans sel...
Putin and Xi are missing
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The EU is rocked to its core by a massive corruption scandal that its enemies believe could become a rout of the bureaucrats. China is seeing its hosp...
Xi Jinping's spy tech squashes protests
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Woke World Cup proves Putin right?
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The EU and the US have a huge falling out over Biden’s big subsidies for climate change action. China looks to be crossing the tipping point on its ...
China divides and conquers at the G20
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
China dominates the world stage at the G20 summit and Western countries start dialling back their hostility to it. Ukraine’s power grid is seriously...
Will Ron DeSantis save America from itself?
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US mid-term elections deliver a surprising result that arguably makes US civil war just a bit less likely. Ukraine takes back control of Kherson c...
America's democratic decline
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
America prepares itself for the mid-term elections as late polls suggest Republicans may soon control both houses, Brazil’s president Bolsonaro narr...
The most dangerous decade
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US political support for Ukraine shows first signs of fracturing as Vladimir Putin predicts the most dangerous decade. The UK has a new prime minister...
Is nuclear war Putin's last stand?
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine continues to make advances as the world is newly alarmed about potential nuclear war. The UK’s brand new government sees more consequences f...
Putin’s plan to bring the West to its knees
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Putin draws his red line and dares the West to cross it by formally annexing four regions of Ukraine. The UK Truss government’s mini-budget explodes...
Putin's end game is in sight
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia announces a major mobilisation of its citizens while repeating its threats of nuclear war. The UK’s new government announces the unbanning of...
Vladimir Putin's VERY BAD WEEK
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Putin has a bad week in the war, and not a great time with China’s Xi Jinping who has ‘concerns’ about Ukraine. Sweden sees an election upheaval...
New PM has the WORST job
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Truss is poised to become the next UK prime minister - I look at what she’s said so far she will actually do. A critic of Vladimir Putin mysteri...
Putin burns Europe's gas
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As energy prices across Europe are soaring, Russia is burning off its excess gas highlighting Putin’s high stakes gamble. UK prime minister candidat...
Killing more people than Covid?
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The UK government identifies causes for the surge in excess deaths which, for 2022, could be killing more people than covid, Liz Cheney loses her elec...
Pelosi PROVOKES CHINA and leaves
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
China responds with fury to the visit by US House speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. The referendum in Kansas pushes back on banning abortion and changes...
Biden gets his climate bill
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A major climate change bill suddenly appears in the US when everyone was least expecting it. More signs of the health impact of lockdowns are emerging...
Beast mode Biden and the coming civil war
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden nearly declares a climate emergency – would it be a move too far for America’s fragile situation? The final two candidates for UK prime ...
Putin TURNS OFF the gas
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia turns off the gas supply, and Europe’s fear it won’t be turned back on has far reaching impacts. President Biden goes to deal with people h...
Boris gets EXIT done
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson is finally felled as a long downward spiral comes to an end China brings in and then abandons vaccine mandates as the UK and some other ...
Supreme Court kills climate action?
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US Supreme Court rips up a key measure on climate change and makes America a bit less governable even than it already was. Meanwhile Democrats try...
Bad leaders fighting the inevitable
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for 24th June 2022, Boris Johnson teeters on the brink once again after the worst by-election results in living memo...
Jan 6th Trump trial is all about elections
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for 10th June 2022 In the US, the Jan 6th hearings begin but it’s really all about future elections not past ones....
Will ZERO COVID end Xi Jinping’s rule?
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shanghai emerged from lockdown but the zero Covid policy is putting doubt over Xi Jinping’s status as dictator for life. President Biden u-turns wit...
Zelensky admits the tide may be turning
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia starts making ground in the Ukraine war as the parts of its military machine finally start working together. America endures another school mas...
How global FOOD CRISIS will turn into riots
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The growing global food crisis starts to see unrest spreading in the countries that are being worst hit. Russia finally crushes resistance at Mariupol...
How Russia plans to CRIPPLE the West
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Russia’s campaign in Ukraine does badly on the ground it is raising alarm bells thanks to its manoeuvres in space. China and now North Korea batt...
Putin's dismal victory
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A split in the EU over oil sanctions over Ukraine and a panic at the White House over being blamed for dead Russian generals. Elections in the UK, and...
Putin cuts off the gas
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia begins cutting the flow of gas to EU countries that refuse to pay the bill in Roubles. Russia also bombs Kyiv while the UN secretary general is...
Allies and media panic at Biden genocide claim
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden caused another stir by labelling Russia’s war in Ukraine as genocide. Boris Johnson survived a week where he went from glory to disg...
UK to get EIGHT new nuclear stations?
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The war in Ukraine shifts to the South East as atrocities against civilians are being revealed. The UK government launches its bold and ambitious ener...
Ukraine's first big mistake
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Ukraine war shifts into another gear as Russia moves its forces and the West tries to psyche Putin out, and Ukraine's perfect PR war suffers a fir...
Energy crisis BLOWS UP COP26
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The massive consequences of the Ukraine war on the world’s energy supplies continue to emerge, and one of them is to blow up the promises made at th...
The truth about Ukrainian bioweapons
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Russian military tightens the noose around Kyiv while Moscow takes claims of bioweapons to the UN security council. Despite Putin’s new laws, th...
The "worst is yet to come"
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The invasion of Ukraine has continued, with a significant shift towards indiscriminate shelling of civilian targets, not to mention a nuclear power pl...
Putin, Ukraine, and the NEW WORLD ORDER
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia invades Ukraine. We talk about why it happened, why the response by the West will make zero difference to what happens next, and whether this i...
The END GAME for Covid restrictions
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UK prime minister Boris Johnson says he’ll end all Covid restrictions in two weeks, and the inevitable backlash is in full swing. Justin Trudeau’s...
Farage to go after Net Zero referendum?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Boris Johnson falters, momentum is growing for a new populist campaign to bring down net zero with him - and Nigel Farage thinks he might be just t...
The knives are out for Boris Johnson
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Tory civil war to take out Boris Johnson goes up a gear, but he plans to fight to the end. Joe Biden’s voting reform bill fails as predicted and...
Why the Jan 6th focus isn't working for Biden
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this news roundup of the week, President Biden talked about Trump’s threat to democracy while his supporters care more about whether their kids a...
Surfing into 2022 on a wave of stupid
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, continuing good news on omicron fails to stem the tide of policy chaos and disarray, Germany shuts down three of it...
Has "the science" fallen into disrepute?
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The threat of new restrictions in England recede in the face of the latest scientific studies into Omicron, the scientific advisors on both sides of t...
Terrifying mild disease sweeps the nation
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s round-up of the news, Boris Johnson gets battered from all signs as people demand a return to competent government, the Omicron varia...
Why are we still panicking?
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK government continues to suffer the death of a thousand self-inflicted wounds, the evidence seems to be growing that the Omicron variant causes ...
Europe goes all compulsory on vaccines
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Germany locks down the unvaccinated and signals a vote on mandatory vaccination. The Womens Tennis Association cancels all events in China over missin...
Variant of concern
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s news roundup, a new Covid-19 variant in Africa is causing enough concern that the UK is banning flights from affected countries. Germ...
Europe turns on the unvaxxed
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Europe joins Biden’s America in using the power of the law against the unvaccinated. The world of women’s tennis refuses to bend to China’s will...
Did COP26 fix climate change?
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COP26 is almost finished – what did it actually achieve? The UK and the US have declining covid cases but are contemplating vaccine mandates anyway....
Our leaders are all idiots
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Boris Johnson government grapples with the consequences of its apparent incompetence in the fall-out over sleaze. The Biden administration grapple...
COP26 has failed before it even begins?
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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New lockdown pressure grows
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this news roundup of the week, the UK government is fighting calls to bring back Covid restrictions as cases increase. Boris Johnson launched the l...
China en route for world domination?
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The former chief software officer of the US Defence Department declares that China has won the race for AI supremacy and is assured of future world do...
Everything's falling apart?
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK faces a winter of discontent as everything seemingly falls apart at once. Some significant new promises are made in advance of the COP26 climat...
The slippery slope to war?
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new defence pact against the growing influence of China receives a furious response. America ponders whether a top general committed treason in an a...
Biden's war on the unvaxxed
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden announces it’s time to blame the unvaccinated and mandate them into compliance. China says ‘no’ to pressure on climate change. A...
"Immoral" rich world booster vaccines?
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Europe and the US are all focused on booster shots for the vaccine, in the face of significant criticism. Joe Biden announces America will focus on it...
From farce to tragedy
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The retreat from Afghanistan takes an extremely grim turn, with consequences being felt across the world. Excess deaths and supply chain chaos are evi...
America's Afghanistan shame
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden’s withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan has been condemned across the world as catastrophic and incompetent, horrifying America’s ...
What is the cost of net zero?
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hard questions are finally starting to be asked about what will be the real cost of net zero carbon by 2050. President Biden infuriates his environmen...
The Biden honeymoon is over
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Vaccine coercion is contagious
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Governments are upping the pressure on the unvaccinated. The true costs of net zero carbon policies begin to emerge. And a lot of people who should kn...
Let's call the whole ping off
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the UK, the pingdemic is bringing the country to its knees in ways that Covid-19 never managed. China is taking a battering from both world opinion...
Shocking medical fraud explodes Ivermectin
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dramatic evidence of medical fraud seems to undermine the case for Ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment. The EU launches its massive Green Deal plan and...
Unhappy Freedom Day
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the UK, the promised freedom day is on the horizon and yet nobody’s happy. An attribution study shows just how extraordinary was the recent heatw...
Hancock's Covid rules killing the UK?
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
intrusive rules that have just become dumb. Northwestern America has been hit by a truly intense heatwave feeding into the debate around Joe Biden’s...
Nobody is telling the truth
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden’s losses on climate change and voting rights show just how weak the administration’s position currently is. Rumours swirl of a top-level...
Still leading the free world?
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden goes out to tell the world and Vladimir Putin particularly that he’s not Donald Trump. The UK pushes back the opening from lockdown by a m...
Biden gives UK a Brexit kicking
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The US delivers a formal rebuke to the UK normally reserved for enemies not allies, falling vaccination rates mean the US is unlikely to meet its targ...
Freedom denied?
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK government wreaks havoc with yet more sudden changes on Covid policy. Dr Anthony Fauci’s emails become the latest topic of furious partisan b...
Return of the Leaky Lab
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The mainstream focus has turned to seriously consider the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis. The UK prime ministers’s former number one aide Dominic Cumming...
The BBC in disgrace
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The BBC faces its biggest scandal, over its own deceit that may have led to the death of Princess Diana, The latest Israel Palestine conflict may be a...
Hackers expose America’s weakness
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A major American gas pipeline is taken out by hackers giving a taste of how the coming cold war is going to work. The CDC says that actually the vacci...
Trump 2024 depends on Facebook?
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook grapples with the realisation that what it does next may affect whether Donald Trump stands for election in 2024. Britain engages in a wet fi...
Biden's Big Promise
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden makes big promises to lead the world on climate change, but not everyone’s convinced. Europe tries to tackle the downsides of artifi...
Should you fear the blood clots? | The Mallen Baker Show
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK regulator confirms a likely link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and extremely rare blood clots. The prosecution in the George Floyd trail runs...
America holds its breath
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The George Floyd murder trial gets underway in America as a row breaks out in the UK about the idea that Britain might NOT be institutionally racist. ...
China's Big Mistake
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The West hardens its lines against China, while Joe Biden struggles with the border crisis the EU steps back, for now, from the brink of vaccine natio...
Vaccine madness | The Mallen Baker Show
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Europe’s vaccine madness puts off its citizens from getting vaccinated even as it threatens to seize other people’s vaccines. Joe Biden’s puzzle...
Save us from online harm
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heavyweight figures call for action against online harm in the UK. US democrats cite exactly that principle to call for conservative channels to be re...
Vaccine passports are coming
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine passports seem inevitably on the horizon whether we like them or not. The US continues to fail in achieving unity. And companies push ahead on...
World order "crumbling"
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK defence minister gives a stark warning that the current world order is crumbling and it’s becoming more likely that use of biological and che...
Climate action for thee but not for me
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it’s the UK and French governments or climate czar John Kerry, everybody gets hammered for saying one thing and doing another this week. Chi...
Vaccine Wars
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A vicious vaccine war breaks out as the EU threatens to divert doses from the UK, Joe Biden launches a barrage of first week measures on climate chang...
The rise of Captain Unity
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden is inaugurated as Captain Unity, with a mission to unite America. The EU and Australia open new fronts in the war against the tech giants. A...
The BIG TECH coup
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tech giants demonstrate their power in obliterating any online presence for Donald Trump and taking down the independent Parler platform. In the U...
WHAT NEXT after the US Capitol Building drama?
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the week that rocked America and the world, we look at what really happened in Washington DC and, more importantly, what happens next.Support th...
Attack of the MUTANT VIRUS
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A mutant virus cancelled Christmas – was it just another example of over-reaction by the government? A Brexit trade deal limps over the line at the ...
A merry little COVID Christmas
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While Europe locks down, Britain resists for now the pressure to abandon its plans to let people use their own judgement on how they spend Christmas. ...
Sweden's Covid approach FAILED?
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden’s totally different approach to the pandemic has failed, and it’s now caved in and followed the rest of us into lockdown. That’s what som...
High Court says NO PUBERTY BLOCKERS for kids | The Mallen Baker Show
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A huge judgement as the High Court rules that children cannot consent to body-changing trans treatments such as puberty blockers. Britain picks playgr...
Will they take the Covid VACCINE?
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It seems as though it’s unending covid lockdowns until the vaccines arrive. But will people take them when they get here? Joe Biden pleases some and...
The Boris climate gamble | The Mallen Baker Show
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson launches his ten-point plan for the green industrial revolution. Question marks get raised over whether Covid-19 actually started in Chi...
Joe Biden WON’T HEAL America
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden promises that he can heal America, but there are good reasons to think that he’s wrong. A vaccine is on the way that has a 90% effectivene...
The Lockdown LIE? | The Mallen Baker Show
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
England goes into full lockdown and within days the data that put it there is being ripped apart. The US presidential standoff gets uglier as Presiden...
The Secret Covid Report REVEALED | The Mallen Baker Show
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As European countries are locking down again in the face of the pandemic, we discover the previously secret UK government advice directing its actions...
Things they tell us (that just AIN'T SO) | The Mallen Baker Show
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this round-up of the week, the final presidential debate takes place against the backdrop of highly partisan media reporting. The UK throws more ar...
Courting climate controversy | The Mallen Baker Show
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this round-up of the week, the UK government says ‘no’ to the scientists over covid lockdowns, Supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett outrages...
Why the debates don't work | The Mallen Baker Show
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this round-up of the week, following the vice presidents debate we ask what we learned from the two candidates who are actually able to speak in co...