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RFK’s new British medical advisor on vaccines and Big Pharma
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aseem Malhotra is a deeply controversial British doctor who has just been appointed as Chief Medical Adviser of the Make America Healthy Again campaig...
Russia Victory Day: will Putin ever be toppled? | Vladimir Kara-Murza
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia is celebrating Victory Day, with 29 foreign leaders including the Chinese President Xi Jinping joining Vladimir Putin in Moscow to commemorate ...
Will India's missile strike on Pakistan lead to all out war?
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pakistan has described India's missile attacks that killed more than 30 people 'an act of war’, but India says it was retaliation for a terrorist as...
The War Room Co host: 'Trump government need to be pushing more'
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine has now signed a mineral and natural resources deal with the US perhaps taking President Donald Trump a step closer to fulfilling his promise ...
How Trump’s first 100 days changed the world - China, Canada, Ukraine
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has reached his 100 day milestone but he might not be celebrating quite so loudly after Canadians voted in a new government aggressively ...
Will Kashmir attack cause new India-Pakistan war?
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following a deadly attack in a tourist hotspot in Kashmir, with Indian Prime Minister Nerandra Modi...
How to take on Trump’s ‘unhinged’ politics | Rutger Bregman
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the world still reeling from Donald Trump's tariffs, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed the UK's growth forecast and says the glob...
President Xi or Trump - who's the UK's biggest threat? | Fourcast
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following President Donald Trump’s tariffs and President Xi Jinping's refusal to back down, the world is in a new era and the UK has a decision to m...
JD Vance would back Trump third term, says close friend
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump’s second term is almost at 100 days. Unlike 2016, he is now surrounded by passionate supporters and close allies. One key fig...
'This is amateur hour': Joseph Stiglitz on Trump tariffs and China
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Economic relations between the US and China are effectively over as the world’s two largest economies trade blows in a tit-for-tat trade war that’...
How trade wars can lead to real wars | Trump China tariffs
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump has authorised a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for all countries except for one, China. The president slapped a bespoke 14...
Will Trump’s tariffs cause global economic crash? | Robert Kaplan
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has announced global tariffs on an unprecedented scale, holding up a chart in the White House Rose Garden outlining what each country wil...
Is Israel already enacting Trump’s Gaza plan? Israel's deputy FM
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Netanyahu has said his intention is to implement Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, while Israel comes under intense criticism after the bodies ...
UK Economy - How Bad Is It? The Spring Statement Explained | Fourcast Live
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Fourcast breaks down a huge day for the UK economy and British politics, as Rachel Reeves delivers her Spring Statement with cuts to welfare and a...
Russian ambassador to the UK on Trump Putin talks and Ukraine’s future
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have spoken on the phone for over 90 minutes thrashing out a deal to halt the bloodshed in Ukraine, and Russia has now...
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill hundreds, Francesca Albanese reacts
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been broken, as Israel launched overnight air strikes on Gaza that Hamas says has killed more than 400 peop...
Ukraine Russia war: will Putin really accept Trump's deal?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Zelenskyy has signed up to Donald Trump's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia and in return American arms and intelligence have star...
Russia Ukraine: will Trump’s peace plan just lead to more war? | Timothy Snyder
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has read out a letter from Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying Ukraine is ready to negotiate and the president says he's getting strong signals fr...
Is Trump sacrificing Ukraine to Putin?
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine, in another move that has shocked Europe, thrilled Vladimir Putin and Russia and dismayed Ukrai...
Did Starmer get anything for Ukraine from Trump 'love-in'?
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has met Donald Trump at the White House but will his flattering words and invitation from the King be enough to persuade America not to t...
Russia Ukraine war: can Europe stop Putin on its own?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the war between Russia and Ukraine hits its 3 year mark, Germany elects a new government to join its beleaguered neighbours in trying to get Europe...
Ukraine peace talks: what do Russia and US really want?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
America’s Marco Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov have met in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine war peace talks. The US says a peace deal must be "fair, end...
Ukraine war: how Trump and Putin want to change the world
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Trump is invited to Moscow and praises Putin after a call with the Russian leader about peace negotiations, his defence secretary Pete Hegseth says...
Keir Starmer’s biggest headache: Donald Trump or Brexit?
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has spent the week turning the world upside down again - launching a trade war with China and claiming America will take over the Gaza St...
What's Donald Trump really up to with Gaza takeover plan?
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump, with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, has said the US should take over Gaza, own it, and turn it into the "Rivi...
Is Donald Trump’s tariff war about to totally backfire?
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s long promised trade war has begun, sort of - the US president threatened to slap tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners, bef...
Does Reeves and Starmer economic growth plan make any sense?
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a major speech on growing the UK economy, Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she will make Cambridge and Oxford the “Silicon Valley of Europe” and b...
Ukraine war: will Donald Trump make a deal with Vladimir Putin?
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos he said, again, that he wants a peace deal with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukrain...
Could Trump’s executive orders totally change America?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States of America, he signed executive orders to take the US out of the Worl...
Trump inauguration: is this the end for progressives in America?
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as President of the United States of America for the second time - but, from TikTok and the southern border, to Ukr...
Israel Hamas war: will Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal last?
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel and Hamas have finally reached a ceasefire deal over the war in Gaza days before Donald Trump takes over from Joe Biden as the next US presiden...
Do Starmer and Reeves have a ‘big idea’ to save the economy?
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amid turmoil in the bond market and a plummeting pound, Sir Keir Starmer has had to defend his chancellor Rachel Reeves while dealing with the resigna...
Elon Musk v Donald Trump - who has the real power? | The American Fourcast
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silicon Valley’s billionaires are making headlines again as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’s going to get rid of factcheckers on his social medi...
Israel, Syria, Iran: how the Middle East is about to change
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the Israel Gaza war reportedly on the brink of a ceasefire and Iran reeling after the devastation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the fall of Bashar ...
Syria: how to rebuild a 'corrupted narco-state'
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a matter of days since Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria was toppled by a lightning-quick offensive led by the rebel group Hayʼat Tahrir al-...
Assad falls: should it be a moment of joy or fear for Syria?
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus to Russia where Vladimir Putin is reportedly sheltering the former Syrian dictator - for those Syrians who have defi...
The real reason Syrian rebels attacked Assad now
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Syrian rebels launched the biggest attack in years against President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces, reigniting a bloody civil war - but with V...
How is the Ukraine-Russia war escalating?
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Putin fired an experimental hypersonic missile at Dnipro - one of Ukraine’s biggest cities - and has talked about the nuclear option again...
Nadine Dorries on Tory sleaze and scandal and her church abuse
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A close ally of Boris Johnson and open critic of Rishi Sunak and Kemi Badenoch, Nadine Dorries examines the current state of the Conservative Party in...
Musk, Gaetz, Gabbard: who could Donald Trump fire first? | The American Fourcast
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the shape of Donald Trump’s administration is becoming clearer - and it’s like...
Will Trump and his new team make the world safer or more dangerous? | The American Fourcast
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a week since America voted to return Donald Trump to the White House, and there are already reports of new appointments - including Marco ...
Will Donald Trump be an ‘authoritarian’ in power? | The American Fourcast
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has won the election, beating Kamala Harris and the Democrats, and will be the next president of the United States - but what kind of lea...
Trump v Harris: we predict who will win US election | The American Fourcast
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making their final pitch to voters, as an American election race that has seen assassination attempts and President...
Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative race but can she really beat Labour?
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the Conservative Party after beating Robert Jenrick in what is an historic moment - the first black female leader o...
US election: how Kamala Harris can still beat Donald Trump | The American Fourcast
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are out trying to salvage their US election campaigns after a series of gaffes started by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe cal...
Budget 2024: will Labour’s £40bn tax hike backfire?
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After months of speculation, leaks, and endless criticism, Rachel Reeves has finally delivered Labour’s first budget in 14 years and it had £70 bil...
Harris v Trump latest: should the Democrats be panicking? | The American Fourcast
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the US election heats up Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain neck and neck in the polls, but even as the Democrats have the likes of Beyoncé and...
MPs go head-to-head in assisted dying debate
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Assisted dying could very soon be legalised in the UK, with MPs being given a free vote by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a bill that’s just been in...
How Keir Starmer's next 100 days could be worse than his first
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Morgan McSweeney-Sue Gray saga, endless stories about freebies and gloomy economic forecasts ahead of Rachel Reeve’s first budget - so, how badl...
Sayeeda Warsi on Gaza, Islamophobia and ‘disturbing’ Conservative Party
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Britain's first Muslim cabinet minister, has long been an outspoken critic of her own party over its attitudes towards Islam. ...
Can anyone save the Conservative Party from oblivion?
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conservative Party leadership favourites Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick have found themselves embroiled in controversy over comments they’ve made ...
Tory conference: could Boris Johnson really make a comeback?
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite warnings to keep it clean, Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly have been quietly tearing chunks out of each other ...
What Starmer’s speech reveals about how Labour will change UK
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Keir Starmer has made his speech on the penultimate day of the Labour Party Conference, and his first as prime minister. He’s pledged “nationa...
Can Labour save the economy? Rachel Reeves speech analysed
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Reeves has just delivered her Labour conference speech as the UK’s first female chancellor, defending the “hard but fair” choices that La...
Has Keir Starmer’s Labour conference been ruined by freebie fiasco?
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Keir Starmer was surely hoping Labour’s conference would be a celebration of his landslide election victory - but with bitter briefings against ...
What Donald Trump and Elon Musk's alliance is really about | The American Fourcast
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk has been criticised over comments he made on Twitter/X in the wake of the apparent attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump,...
Starmer says 'NHS must reform or die', here’s how to save it
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A damning new report, commissioned by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his health secretary Wes Streeting, has laid bare the shocking state of the NHS ...
Donald Trump Kamala Harris debate: everything you need to know | The American Fourcast
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The long anticipated presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris has happened - Trump says he won and afterwards Harris got a Taylor Sw...
How to stop scandals like Grenfell from happening again
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Grenfell Inquiry into the tower block fire that killed 72 people in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea has delivered a devastating final...
Is Kamala Harris the next Barack Obama - or Hillary Clinton? | The American Fourcast
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Walz, Barack and Michelle Obama, and even Oprah Winfrey have taken to the DNC stage to lay the ground for Kamala Harris’ run for the White House...
Nancy Pelosi on Elon Musk, Donald Trump and hammer attack horror | The American Fourcast
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Pelosi has been at the top of US politics for nearly 40 years - as the first, and only, woman in US history to serve as speaker of the House, sh...
Could Walz and Harris force 'weird' Trump out of the race? | The American Fourcast
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris has chosen Governor Tim Walz as her Vice President for the 2024 Democrat ticket. After considering nearly a dozen candidates, Harris lan...
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? | The American Fourcast
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris is the favourite to be the Democratic nominee for president after Joe Biden’s shock decision to drop out of the race - ...
RNC speech: has Donald Trump really changed after shooting? | The American Fourcast
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An assassination attempt, J.D. Vance - a relatively unknown Ohio Senator - picked as Donald Trump’s Vice President, and current President Joe Biden ...
Biden v Trump: is the West on the brink of collapse?
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a week-long victory lap in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer flew to America for the Nato summit where he met US President Biden and Ukraine’s presiden...
Election results: what will Starmer really do with landslide win?
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Conservative party have suffered their worst ever defeat and Keir Starmer has been swept to power in a landslide victory - but huge challenges are...
Will the UK face a right-wing rebellion in future if Labour win?
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If the polls are to be believed, Sir Keir Starmer could be set to beat Rishi Sunak’s Conservative’s and gain a record majority in Parliament, but ...
Can Sunak save Tories in dying days of election?
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s less than one week until election day, and so far the headlines have been dominated by betting scandals, the rise of Reform, and Rishi Sunak’...
Betting scandal: can Rishi Sunak’s campaign get any worse?
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Davey has now joined Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak scrambling to check who in their party could get caught up in the betting saga - but is this stor...
Would Labour election win kill or save Scottish independence?
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The SNP have released their manifesto and, on the first page, they’ve promised again to make Scotland independent - but with polling suggesting that...
Labour manifesto: has Sunak left UK too broke for Starmer to fix?
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Labour have launched their manifesto with just two things on the cover - a picture of Keir Starmer and the word “change” - but how much change are...
Can Sunak's manifesto stop Farage taking over Tory Party?
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak has unveiled his manifesto, promising billions in tax cuts and lower immigration - but after his D-Day disaster and Nigel Farage back in t...
Could Sunak D-Day disaster cause Tory election wipeout?
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak has apologised and admitted it was a “mistake” to leave D-Day commemorations early, but many in the Conservative Party are already fur...
Sunak v Starmer debate: are Conservatives telling lies?
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Devastating polling, the return of Nigel Farage and more talk of defections - it was almost looking like a truly nightmarish week for Rishi Sunak, but...
Is ‘left wing purge’ key to a Starmer election victory?
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reports that Labour are set to bar Diane Abbott from standing in the general election have sparked outrage, with the veteran MP accusing Keir Starmer ...
Why Rishi Sunak really went for snap general election
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Campaigning is underway after Rishi Sunak’s shock decision to call a snap general election - and the decision by Nigel Farage not to stand as a cand...
Will Tory culture wars actually help Labour?
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are Labour and the Conservatives already prepping for the election? Both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are certainly behaving like they are. The Labo...
Has Natalie Elphicke defection actually harmed Labour?
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the second time in a fortnight, the Conservatives have been dealt a jaw-dropping blow - another MP has defected. This time, it is Dover MP and rig...
Are election results worst of all worlds for Tories?
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Conservatives are facing their worst local election results in 40 years - and yet it looks like Rishi Sunak may cling on after Ben Houchen secured...
Ukraine Russia war: has the West got it all wrong?
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak has pledged he'll ramp up Britain's defence budget and announced a £500 million military aid package to Ukraine, in the same week a long-...
Mark Menzies: is UK politics full of scandal?
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Political Fourcast, another scandal hits the Tories - Mark Menzies MP loses the whip as the Conservative Party investigates claims th...
What impact will war in Gaza have on UK political parties?
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Political Fourcast - as war rumbles on in Gaza, we discuss how foreign policy affects domestic politics, and how the government’s d...
Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Rwanda flights unlikely to take off before the summer, if ever, could Rishi Sunak find himself in the departure lounge before any asylum seeker? ...
Did Tory budget steal Labour policies - and May election rumblings
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will we have a May General election? Will there be massive Conservative defeat in any Election that we do have this year? And what’s the economy got...
Israel-Hamas at war: Israel 'has lost the moral high ground', says NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 110 days since the war started, over 25,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive on Gaza, prompting the charity Oxfam to describ...
Israel-Hamas at war: Palestine’s Ambassador to the UK
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A four day temporary cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been extended by two days, and brings a glimmer of relief and hope to Palestini...
Israel-Hamas at war: Israel's Ambassador to the UK
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pressure on Israel to pause fighting and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza is growing, with leaders around the world including President Biden calling ...
Israel / Gaza conflict: Day 4
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Fourcast, our correspondents are on the ground with the very latest on the war between Israel and Hamas, as Israelis shelter fr...
Israel / Gaza news special
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Israel declares a ‘complete siege’ of Gaza, and the death toll in Israel continues to rise, we bring you the latest from the region, with Matt ...
Why Ukraine isn't joining Nato
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the Nato summit this week, the star attraction was President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. But while he knew he was among friends - and allies were keen to...
The Mediterranean migrant crisis: the people drowning as Europe pushes them away
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the sinking of the Titan submersible dominated news headlines. Five people killed underwater. That same week, our international correspon...
Mutiny in Moscow: why it’s not all over for Vladimir Putin
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This hasn’t been the greatest week for Russia President, Vladimir Putin in two decades of power in the Kremlin. A mutinous band of mercenaries, that...
A journey through hell: walking the migrant route through the Darién gap
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Darién gap is a stretch of land between Colombia and Panama, an unavoidable section of the route from South America to Central America that thous...
Inside the village divided over asylum seekers
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March this year, the owner of a hotel in the Leicestershire village of Kegworth signed an exclusive contract with the Home Office to use his hotel ...
Thucydides Trap: are America and China destined for war?
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This past week, the G7 - the group of the world’s richest democracies - gathered in Japan to discuss Ukraine, Russia, global affairs, and their incr...
When will Ukraine strike-back at Russia?
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For weeks now, the world has been waiting for Ukraine to launch their spring counter offensive against Russia. But how much longer will we wait? Or ha...
How fentanyl is becoming the deadliest drug ever
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fentanyl is killing at least seventy thousand Americans a year. It’s a synthetic drug, it’s up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times...
King Charles III Coronation: made-up rituals and fake history
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
70 years on from the last Coronation, when Britain was still an empire and hardly anyone had a TV - what does Charles the Third’s crowning say about...