Here's What Happens If Trump Wins in 2024 | Stories of Our Times

Jan 4, 2024 | Despite being banned from the ballot paper in two states (so far) and multiple legal hurdles, Donald Trump looks on course to take on Joe Biden in the election. He’s joked about becoming a dictator for a day, and says he will carry out mass deportations - and that’s just the tip of the iceberg…

Trump Involvement in Israel Conflict Will Be a 'Tragedy for the Whole World' | Yossi Beilin

Nov 1, 2023 | “God forbid if he wins it will be a tragedy for the whole world and we will suffer.” A second term for Donald Trump in the White House could risk peace in the Middle East, warns Yossi Beilin, architect of the Oslo Accords.

There must surely be a circus somewhere in the States that is looking to employ a clown! – © Mark Alexander

Israel Should Not Form a Truce with a Terrorist Group’ | Hadley Freeman

Oct 28, 2023 | “Why is this on Israel? To have a humanitarian truce with a terrorist group that wants to destroy it?” It's “reasonable” for Israel to respond to Hamas says the Sunday Times Columnist Hadley Freeman.

Times Radio: Lebanon Cannot Stop Hezbollah Mobilising If Israel Do Not De-escalate | Lebanese Ambassador

Oct 19, 2023 | "Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese society. Of course, they have their modus operandi. But until now, they've been exerting self-restraint." The Lebanese ambassador to the UK will not say if Lebanon would stop Hezbollah from becoming involved in the Israel-Gaza Conflict.

Israel Has 'No Strategy' to Stop Hamas | Sir Richard Dalton

Oct 13, 2023 | “Clearly, what Hamas has done was an obscene terrorist atrocity. But Israel should not be committing war crimes in response.” Israel’s response to the Hamas attack is “not proportionate” and has “no strategy whatsoever” says former Ambassador to Iran Sir Richard Dalton.

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Israel Latest: 'All Hell Will Break Loose’ | Lord Richard Dannatt

Oct 10, 2023 | “This is a really critical moment in world history.” Whatever Israel does “will have huge consequences” and “all hell will break loose” if they provoke an attack from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, says Lord Richard Dannatt, former head of the British Army.

Oligarchs' 'Hatred' for Putin Grows as He Stops Caring about Ukraine Losses | Bill Browder

Sept 25, 2023 | "There's not enough soldiers on the front line and so Putin doesn't rotate them out. He doesn't care. 300,000 Russian men have died in this war." Only violence holds Putin in power as he becomes hated by his inner circle and callous about military failures in Ukraine, says Bill Browder on Times Radio's Frontline.

Could Donald Trump Be America’s First President from behind Bars? ‘It’s Legal and It’s Possible’

Aug 5, 2023 | “There was a mayor in Boston who actually served as the mayor of Boston from a prison cell, and he was elected while he was in prison. So this has happened on the local level.” Paul Callan, criminal defence attorney and legal analyst, warns that although it “sounds absolutely crazy, it could happen”.

BBC in Shock as There Are Now Seven Allegations against Huw Edwards | Oliver Whitfield Miocic

Jul 13, 2023 | “Even though almost everybody in the building knew, to have that name confirmed still came as a shock to many here.”

Huw Edwards: BBC to focus on ‘fact finding’ as police say no criminal case: Broadcaster resumes investigation as Sun faces questions over its suggestion presenter had bought explicit images from 17-year-old which the young person denied »

Top News Anchor Is Identified as Person Suspended by the BBC: The wife of Huw Edwards, one of the BBC’s most prominent figures, said in a statement that her husband suffered from mental health issues. The police said there was no evidence of a crime. »

Huw Edwards will now be remembered in a very different way: The newsreader who told the world of Queen Elizabeth II's death is now known for being the presenter at the heart of the latest BBC scandal »

Why Diana’s Brother Won't Go to the King's Coronation | Earl Spencer

Feb 20, 2023 | "I think of Diana every day, but in different contexts and the whole royal thing, I don't find it as interesting ... I just get on with my life." Earl Spencer says he won't be attending the Coronation on #timesradio.

What Is the Future of Truss without Trussonomics?

"Jeremy Hunt is, effectively, the prime minister."

The new chancellor of the exchequer is 'unsackable' and has been given 'carte blanche' to reverse Liz Truss's economic policy, Caroline Wheeler, political editor of the Sunday Times tells Hugo Rifkind.

Jeremy Hunt Replaces Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer

"The Prime Minister is now the prisoner of the markets."

Jeremy Hunt will be the fourth chancellor of the exchequer in four months, and will have 'total authority over the Prime Minister.'

Former Treasury minister, David Gauke tells Ruth Davidson what the market reaction has been to an expected u-turn on last month's mini-budget.


Liz Truss appoints Jeremy Hunt as chancellor after sacking Kwarteng: Former leadership contender is back in cabinet as PM tries to reach out to other sections of Tory party »

Was that it? Eight-minute Liz Truss press conference will not steady ship: Prime minister took only four questions but showed lack of contrition in lightning fast appearance that will not have secured goodwill »

Four bruising questions but even fewer answers from Liz Truss: She picked favoured reporters and offered repetitious platitudes to pointed inquiries. How long can PM last? »

Three weeks of chaos that cost more than Kwarteng’s job – in numbers: On 30 September, the then chancellor’s mini-budget triggered a chain of events that led to a dramatic downfall »

Putin’s New Military Commander, General Surovikin, Is a ‘Nasty Piece of Work’

"The latest general to be top, General Surovikin, is a particularly nasty piece of work."

Putin’s new military commander Sergey Surovikin "knows no limit to war", international politics professor Scott Lucas tells #TimesRadio

Russia Is about to Become a Failed State, Former US Army Major Says

"He [Putin] has no friends. He’s a rogue nation on the verge of becoming a failed state." Not a single country supports Putin’s sham referenda, or annexations, pushing Russia to becoming a 'failed state', Major John Spencer tells #TimesRadio.

Is This the End of Iran as We Know It? | Shahin Gobadi

"I would describe this as a revolution." We are witnessing the end of the Iranian regime, it's just a question of when, says Shahin Gobadi, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Would Putin's Successor Be Worse? | Putin Biographer, Robert Service

"Putin is unmoored from reality." The Russian President's isolation isn't helping his judgement, but it's unlikely his successor would be any different, says Robert Service, Emeritus Professor of Russian history at St. Anthony's College, Oxford and a biographer of Vladimir Putin.

'Truss Doesn't Understand What I Wrote about Economics' | Rick Perlstein

When the Times interviewed Liz Truss at the end of last year, she told us she "read anything" by the American historian Rick Perlstein He chronicles the rise of the new US right between 1960 and 1980, in the Nixon and Reagan eras. Perlstein is confused by her endorsement.

I have stated many times already that Liz Truss and her neoliberal, so-called trickle-down economic fantasy is going to be a disaster for this country. I stand by my words. Neoliberal economics, aka Reaganomics, aka Thatcherism is the last thing we need in the present economic circumstances. Furthermore, had such economic theory been truly effective, this country would have growth in the stratosphere by now! Thatcher came to power in 1979. She was ousted in 1990 in an ignominious coup reminiscent of a banana republic.

I was one of Thatcher’s biggest fans back in the day. But economic circumstances were totally different in those years. The UK had also been in the grip of socialism for many years prior to Thatcher’s ‘Revolution’; so, nothing in the coutry worked. Arguably, Thatcherism was the very medicine the country needed at that time.

However, no prime minister since Thatcher, be he/she a Conservative PM or a Labour PM, has ever had the courage to truly abandon Thatcherism. Now, Liz Truss is going to double down on Thatcher’s neoliberal ideas; and arguably in an even more extreme way!

Thatcherite policies are NOT what this country needs at this time. The economic problems which this country is facing and which this country needs to solve now are totally different from those that Thatcher faced. Doubling down on Thatcherism at this time is madness. Moreover, the only thing that can be said about Arthur Laffer’s ‘laffer curve’ is that it is ‘laffable’! Such an absurdidy! – © Mark Alexander

Times Radio: We've Lost the Next Election, Says Conservative MP Charles Walker

"It's hard to construct an argument now that the Conservatives can win that general election. I suspect conversation is, yeah, how much do we lose it by."

Is a Coup against Putin Underway? | Dr Neil Melvin

May 14, 2022 • “As things have started to go quite badly for Russia, there have been rumours of discontent among some of the security services.”

Is a coup against Putin underway? Kait Borsay and Jenny Kleeman ask the Director of International Security Studies at RUSI on #TimesRadio.

Is Putin ill? | General Richard Shirreff & Sir Alan Duncan

May 1, 2022 • The UK has predicted that Vladimir Putin will use Russia's victory day parade on May the 9th to announced the mass mobilisation of reserves for a final push in Ukraine.

Speaking on Times Radio Breakfast, former NATO's deputy supreme allied commander General Richard Shirreff and former foreign minister Sir Alan Duncan spoke to Jenny Kleeman and Chloe Tilley about what NATO should do to counter Putin's efforts and how his mental and physical health impact his strategy.