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Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

'Dangerously reasonable' analysis on politics, science, and particularly the bit where they bump into each other. I aim to give an independent, fact-focused, non-ideological take on the issues that matter.

338 episodes
How Elon Musk Sabotaged His Own Legacy
340June 30, 2025 4:58pm

How Elon Musk Sabotaged His Own Legacy

Musk has largely gone back to focusing on his own businesses - but he couldn't help making a last public stab at President Trump's big budget bill which will eviscerate support for EVs and clean technology, while boos...

What Are The REAL Lessons From Zohran Mamdani's New York Win?
339June 29, 2025 4:07pm

What Are The REAL Lessons From Zohran Mamdani's New York Win?

Lots of people have gotten excited about an upset win for an old-fashioned socialist candidate in the New York Mayoral race. Notwithstanding the implications or otherwise of the politics of it, the real lesson that De...

Trump’s Massive Canada Tantrum – The Trade War Is Back On
338June 28, 2025 2:31pm

Trump’s Massive Canada Tantrum – The Trade War Is Back On

Suddenly, Trump had a moment and called off the ongoing trade talks with Canada. The reason - or, at least, the excuse - was the incoming Digital Services Tax about to be implemented (and running as a forerunner to th...

Quackery at the Top: How RFK Jr. Is Rewriting Vaccine Policy
337June 27, 2025 3:46pm

Quackery at the Top: How RFK Jr. Is Rewriting Vaccine Policy

We heard all the promises during the confirmation hearing for Robert F Kennedy Jr. He was not anti-vax. He was not promoting conspiracy theories. He was not going to be messing around with immunisations schedules for...

How China Is Exploiting Trump’s Global Blunders
336June 26, 2025 2:24pm

How China Is Exploiting Trump’s Global Blunders

Trump's use of military force in Iran has made his enemies and rivals sit up and take notice - especially those in China who have been evaluating the likelihood of the US intervening should they finally decide to make...

Why THIS Is The Dumbest Thing Trump Does
335June 25, 2025 1:24pm

Why THIS Is The Dumbest Thing Trump Does

The NATO Summit came to a relatively successful conclusion, given the rather limited ambition it had set for itself. But throughout the event, Trump insisted on a version of reality of the recent US military strike ag...

Trump Floats Regime Change As Iran Strikes Back
333June 23, 2025 2:37pm

Trump Floats Regime Change As Iran Strikes Back

All of Trump's team were on message - the US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites was a one-off strike, not a declaration of war, and certainly not directed towards regime change in Iran. Then Trump floated exactly that,...

Trump Bombs Iran – Desperately Hopes That’s the End of It
332June 22, 2025 9:33am

Trump Bombs Iran – Desperately Hopes That’s the End of It

So the President Trump's United States just dropped a bunch of its 'bunker buster' bombs on the nuclear enrichment sites in Iran. Technically, that means it has joined the war between Iran and Israel. But it all depen...

Trump Enrages Key Ally Japan – Just As China Unveils A Game Changer
331June 21, 2025 3:05pm

Trump Enrages Key Ally Japan – Just As China Unveils A Game Changer

The Trump Administration's trademark abrupt bullying has just led to key regional ally Japan cancelling an annual security summit. Between America's sudden unreliable ally status, and its assault on Japan's economy vi...

Trump ‘Not Ruling Out’ Dropping A Nuke On Iran
330June 20, 2025 2:27pm

Trump ‘Not Ruling Out’ Dropping A Nuke On Iran

You read that right - The Fordow nuclear enrichment site in Iran, located as it is beneath a mountain, is considered by some in the Pentagon to be so hard to reach, that even America's famed 'bunker-buster' might not...

It’s Official - The World Hates Trump’s America
329June 19, 2025 2:51pm

It’s Official - The World Hates Trump’s America

New research by the Pew Research Centre has looked at worldwide attitudes to President Trump, and as a consequence Trump's America. Some of it won't be hugely surprising - yes, with the exception of five countries in...

Trump Broke The World Order - So Is War With Iran Next?
328June 18, 2025 1:06pm

Trump Broke The World Order - So Is War With Iran Next?

The G7 Summit of 2025 may come to represent the last gasp of the old rules-based world order, condemned to impotence and irrelevance as President Trump pondered whether to enter the war with Iran, and showed the shift...

How Trump Is Breaking the Last Barrier to Dictatorship
327June 17, 2025 2:34pm

How Trump Is Breaking the Last Barrier to Dictatorship

The most frequent setbacks to the Trump Administration have been in the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court with its Trump-appointed judges - as things it seeks to do are found to be illegal. Of course, this...

Why Ukraine Made The Iran War Inevitable
326June 16, 2025 3:02pm

Why Ukraine Made The Iran War Inevitable

The G7 summit is under way in Canada, and the biggest agenda item by far is the war between Israel and Iran. Almost certainly, nothing said or done there will make the slightest difference. Since Russia's war on Ukrai...

The Alarming Rise of Political Violence in America
325June 15, 2025 4:32pm

The Alarming Rise of Political Violence in America

This weekend, we saw the tragic eruption once again of political violence in America. Unfortunately, this is just the extreme end of a growing wave of threats, intimidation and occasionally worse that is hitting publi...

Trump’s Quiet Immigration U-Turn Just Exposed His Weakness
324June 14, 2025 3:06pm

Trump’s Quiet Immigration U-Turn Just Exposed His Weakness

Something happened almost, but not quite, unnoticed. Trump admitted that his administration's approach to its mass deportation project was having a major consequence - and the policy on illegal immigration has been qu...

Israel’s Iran Attack Just Exposed Trump’s Biggest Weakness
323June 13, 2025 2:32pm

Israel’s Iran Attack Just Exposed Trump’s Biggest Weakness

Israel has transformed the world geopolitical stage again by launching a direct and sustained assault on Iran. It wrongfooted President Trump by doing so in open defiance of his wishes, and it has presented him with a...

Trump’s America vs the World: AUKUS, NATO, G7 at Risk
322June 12, 2025 3:23pm

Trump’s America vs the World: AUKUS, NATO, G7 at Risk

A period of extreme stress has begun for many of the leaders of the free world. Beginning with the announcement from the US that it is throwing the Aukus partnership into the air to see if it lands 'America First' sid...

China Just Taught Trump’s America A Hard Lesson
321June 11, 2025 2:30pm

China Just Taught Trump’s America A Hard Lesson

China and the US just wrapped up two days of trade talks in London. But the fascinating thing is what they are NOT saying about what was agreed. There's more to it than meets the eye, and there's a reason why Trump is...

The Real Reason Trump Sent in the Troops — And What It Sets Up Next
320June 10, 2025 4:07pm

The Real Reason Trump Sent in the Troops — And What It Sets Up Next

The crisis in LA has deepened since we discussed it two days ago. President Trump doubled the number of National Guard, and added 700 US marines for good measure. He speculated about the merit of arresting state gover...

Why Trump’s Golden Dome Makes The World LESS SAFE
319June 09, 2025 2:47pm

Why Trump’s Golden Dome Makes The World LESS SAFE

It's a great idea in theory - an impregnable missile defence shield to protect the country from any attack from its numerous enemies around the world. But for a variety of reasons, numerous experts, agencies and count...

Trump Sends National Guard To LA - Why It’s Just The Beginning
318June 08, 2025 3:35pm

Trump Sends National Guard To LA - Why It’s Just The Beginning

The use of the National Guard to quell violent protests / riots in LA obviously crosses a line, but it's only the start of a journey that was mapped out by the authors of Project 2025 before Trump was re-elected. The...

Leaked Russian Spy Memo Says China Is The Enemy
317June 07, 2025 3:24pm

Leaked Russian Spy Memo Says China Is The Enemy

A leaked FSB briefing document has been revealed - and it is fascinating for what it shows about Russia's REAL attitude to its supposed close ally China. These are two authoritarians side by side in opposition to the...

The Musk vs Trump Civil War - Why It’s Bigger Than You Think
316June 06, 2025 1:23pm

The Musk vs Trump Civil War - Why It’s Bigger Than You Think

Yes, Elon Musk vs Donald Trump - it's very entertaining. The memes are flowing in industrial quantities. But a lot of people are missing just how important a pivot point this is. In classic authoritarian regimes, the...

China and Germany Manage Trump Like A Toddler
315June 05, 2025 3:27pm

China and Germany Manage Trump Like A Toddler

We got a surprise today, when it was suddenly announced that China's President Xi Jinping and President Trump had spoken directly on the phone. And then it was the turn of Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz to play t...

Why The Trump And Musk Explosion Was Inevitable
314June 04, 2025 3:52pm

Why The Trump And Musk Explosion Was Inevitable

Everyone - even me - was saying that sooner or later a huge falling out between President Trump and Elon Musk would have to happen. Just when we thought that had been avoided, suddenly it's all kicking off. The fact o...

Trump's Ambassador Tells Canada To Quit Moaning!
313June 03, 2025 11:46am

Trump's Ambassador Tells Canada To Quit Moaning!

Trump's Canada ambassador Pete Hoekstra already got noticed by scolding Canadians for boycotting American products in their stores. Now, he's back to tell the country that Trump just tariffed at 50% (steel and alumini...

Ukraine’s Bold Attack Exposes Trump’s Impotence on Russia
312June 02, 2025 3:26pm

Ukraine’s Bold Attack Exposes Trump’s Impotence on Russia

Ukraine sat down for more direct talks with Russia today - and that managed not to remotely be the story. More important was Ukraine's dramatic strike on air bases deep into Russian territory, where they demonstrated...

Even Business Travellers Are Scared Of Trump's America
311June 01, 2025 2:20pm

Even Business Travellers Are Scared Of Trump's America

We've heard about how tourists are either boycotting holiday travel to the US, or are just scared by stories of people being detained for days or weeks on the border. But now it seems that even business travellers, wh...

Why Trump’s MAGA Is Interfering In Poland Elections
310May 31, 2025 2:18pm

Why Trump’s MAGA Is Interfering In Poland Elections

Poland goes to the polls to elect its next president this weekend. And Trump's MAGA movement has been actively campaigning for the candidate it sees as most aligned with the Trumpian populist wave they want to sweep a...

Why Did Trump Suddenly Turn On China Again?
309May 30, 2025 3:12pm

Why Did Trump Suddenly Turn On China Again?

Everything seems to have settled down with President Trump's America and China now that they'd climbed down from their maximalist tariff barrage. But Trump doesn't do quiet and settled, and so he exploded the peace wi...

Trump’s Tariffs In Disarray - Why This Could Be A Dangerous Moment
308May 29, 2025 12:30pm

Trump’s Tariffs In Disarray - Why This Could Be A Dangerous Moment

President Trump has been having SO much fun, slapping tariffs on the EU, hitting China, randomly spraying charges on everybody including the penguins. But now it has been pointed out, not unreasonably, that maybe one...

Will Trump Succeed In Killing Climate Action Worldwide?
307May 28, 2025 11:44am

Will Trump Succeed In Killing Climate Action Worldwide?

We all know that President Trump has taken the decision to end climate action previously being taken by the United States - that is very much his prerogative, albeit that it makes sense only if you can pretend that cl...

Trump Quietly Launching Attack On European Democracy
306May 27, 2025 2:55pm

Trump Quietly Launching Attack On European Democracy

Having told the Middle East, that America wouldn't be telling the world 'how to live their lives', the Trump Administration is launching a very active campaign against democratic guardrails in Europe. It is doing so u...

Why Trump is Terrified Of ‘Crazy’ Putin
305May 26, 2025 1:58pm

Why Trump is Terrified Of ‘Crazy’ Putin

Fiona Hill was President Trump's Russia advisor in his first term - back when he had advisors who actually knew their subject. In an interview today with the Telegraph, she talked about the moment where she saw how Tr...

Gen Z Is ABANDONING Trump
304May 25, 2025 3:39pm

Gen Z Is ABANDONING Trump

A remarkable feature of the 2024 presidential election was just how much Gen Z voters swung towards Trump, particularly young men. There's a popular narrative as to why that happened, which right now is the one that b...

Why Insane Trump Tariffs Against EU And Apple Will Backfire
303May 24, 2025 3:40pm

Why Insane Trump Tariffs Against EU And Apple Will Backfire

Just when it seemed that things might be stabilising just a bit, Trump posted onto social media and suddenly we're right back into the throes of new trade chaos. A 50% tariff against the European Union. A 25% tariff a...

The Crucial Lessons From Biden's Decline America Needs To Learn
302May 23, 2025 11:00am

The Crucial Lessons From Biden's Decline America Needs To Learn

Books have been landing in recent weeks opening up windows into the behind-the-scenes action around the cognitive decline of US president Joe Biden, and how the messy events of his nomination, and then withdrawal, in...

Trump Is CLUELESS On What He Just Did To Himself
301May 22, 2025 3:24pm

Trump Is CLUELESS On What He Just Did To Himself

So we had another White House Struggle Session this week, this time with Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa. President Trump's ambush, watched silently by Elon Musk, unloaded a stream of accusations based...

Elon Musk Admits It’s Over – No More Political Money
300May 21, 2025 2:22pm

Elon Musk Admits It’s Over – No More Political Money

We've known Elon Musk was on his way out for several weeks, but yesterday he added the final straw - he said he was going to cut any political spending right down. This is the final end of his political adventure, bec...

The Truth About Trump and Putin's Big Phone Call
299May 20, 2025 2:22pm

The Truth About Trump and Putin's Big Phone Call

US President Trump and Russian President Putin held their direct call - the one that was supposed to see Trump pushing Putin into embracing a 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war. The outcome seemed not to be much in d...

The UK EU Brexit Reset Deal - Did It Blow Up UK Politics?
298May 19, 2025 2:57pm

The UK EU Brexit Reset Deal - Did It Blow Up UK Politics?

The UK and the EU announced a big post-Brexit trade deal today. For some, it was a common sense shift from the original terms of the Brexit deal to make trade a little easier, and to facilitate much needed defence co-...

Former US Ambassador To Ukraine SLAMS Trump Betrayal
297May 18, 2025 1:18pm

Former US Ambassador To Ukraine SLAMS Trump Betrayal

Bridget Brink was the US Ambassador to Ukraine during the three years post-invasion where the United States was standing relatively firm alongside its allies. Supporting the invaded party, opposing the aggressor. A mo...

Trump Ambassador Attacks Canada For Being Mean To America
296May 17, 2025 11:39am

Trump Ambassador Attacks Canada For Being Mean To America

So Trump's attempted interference in Canada backfired, and the Liberals' Mark Carney won the recent election. The question is - now what? Can Canada negotiate down those tariffs and establish a relationship with the U...

Trump’s Insane Bid To Put Ex FBI Director In Jail - For Free Speech
295May 16, 2025 1:13pm

Trump’s Insane Bid To Put Ex FBI Director In Jail - For Free Speech

Every relevant senior member of the Trump cabinet has come out with an attack on former FBI Director James Comey - a truly astonishing exercise in gaslighting to swear that something nobody had previously suggested wa...

Why Trump REALLY Lifted Sanctions On Syria
294May 15, 2025 2:35pm

Why Trump REALLY Lifted Sanctions On Syria

President Trump has had perhaps his best week so far of his second term, being hosted by some of the richest countries of the world. He has also been making jaws drop with bold moves, particularly in meeting the new l...

How Putin, China And The World Are Learning How To Play Trump
293May 14, 2025 4:29pm

How Putin, China And The World Are Learning How To Play Trump

It used to be that the United States, as the dominant world power, was the most powerful driving force behind world events, for better or for worse. It made mistakes sometimes, but it was a player. Now, with Trump in...

Why Trump’s MAGA Base Is FURIOUS With Him
292May 13, 2025 3:00pm

Why Trump’s MAGA Base Is FURIOUS With Him

We've been taking it as read that Trump's MAGA base would stay unquestioningly loyal to him no matter what. But that support is starting to splinter. One half are noticing the blatant corruption, and they aren't happy...

How Trump's Lying Is Making The Whole World Stupid
291May 12, 2025 3:19pm

How Trump's Lying Is Making The Whole World Stupid

Yes, yes, we all know Trump lies - so what? Well, the point is that since the US is now bullying the entire world on trade, as well as using its leverage over various countries in other ways - this has changed the ent...

Why Trump Is Already Panicking About The Midterms
290May 11, 2025 2:40pm

Why Trump Is Already Panicking About The Midterms

Trump only just completed his first hundred days, so it's a bit early to be thinking about it all ending, right? Except, by all reports, Trump is already obsessed about the looming midterm elections. Why? Because if h...

Why Trump LOST To China Even Before Talks Started
289May 10, 2025 1:29pm

Why Trump LOST To China Even Before Talks Started

Having created a major impasse between the US and China with mutual tariff obliteration, Trump has been trying to work out how the US can extract itself from at least some of the self-inflicted harm. Since neither lea...

US Caught Spying On Greenland To Prepare For Takeover
288May 09, 2025 2:19pm

US Caught Spying On Greenland To Prepare For Takeover

Trump may have (reluctantly) accepted that Canada is not going to fall into his embrace, but he is going full speed ahead in his quest to get Greenland. This was evident when he sent JD Vance to visit there, and it wa...

How Trump Bullied Tariffed Nations To Accept Musk’s Starlink
287May 08, 2025 1:41pm

How Trump Bullied Tariffed Nations To Accept Musk’s Starlink

On Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day', a number of countries suddenly discovered that they were to be whacked with massive tariffs from the United States - including some of the poorest countries in the world. They qu...

Why Trump Will Fail — But What Comes After Will Be Worse
286May 07, 2025 11:20am

Why Trump Will Fail — But What Comes After Will Be Worse

Whether in his stated terms, the policy changes he aims to make, or in the Project 2025 actions he's taking to bring in an autocratic system to the US, there are a number of reasons why President Trump is almost sure...

The Trump-Style Farage Revolution Coming To The UK?
285May 06, 2025 11:54am

The Trump-Style Farage Revolution Coming To The UK?

In elections in Canada and Australia, we saw figures who had been even lightly associated with Donald Trump's MAGA movement losing, whereas before Trump had returned to office, they had been leading. But in the UK, Ni...

Trump’s America Declares A WORLD WAR Against Truth
284May 05, 2025 1:21pm

Trump’s America Declares A WORLD WAR Against Truth

How do we know if the economy is doing well? There are reliable statistics for that. How do we know what's happening with the climate? There is reliable data for that. How do we know what are the worldwide energy tren...

Will Ukraine Rain (Missiles) on Putin’s Parade?
283May 04, 2025 2:39pm

Will Ukraine Rain (Missiles) on Putin’s Parade?

Russia's President Putin is gearing up for the annual grand military parade in Moscow. This year is a big one because it's the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and bigger names from the subset of the geopol...

Trump’s Deportation Blitz Is Failing Badly In The Courts - Why It Matters
282May 03, 2025 3:03pm

Trump’s Deportation Blitz Is Failing Badly In The Courts - Why It Matters

On day one, he declared several emergencies. Later, he backed this up by invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This has been an ongoing and deliberate push by President Trump to extend the powers of the executive, to overco...

The MAGA-Inspired Populist Surge That’s Changing Everything
281May 02, 2025 2:33pm

The MAGA-Inspired Populist Surge That’s Changing Everything

In some places, such as Canada and maybe this weekend Australia, populist-right politicians, although they clearly show the signs of being influenced by Trump's MAGA movement, have been disavowing the link as their po...

Ukraine’s Minerals Deal with the US: Hidden Costs, False Promises?
280May 01, 2025 1:55pm

Ukraine’s Minerals Deal with the US: Hidden Costs, False Promises?

So Ukraine has finally signed the Minerals Deal with the Trump Administration. And news commentators are full of speculation about how much this deal now has changed Trump's orientation with the Ukraine war, how much...

Tariffs Chaos Shrinks US Economy - And This Is Just The Start
279April 30, 2025 3:11pm

Tariffs Chaos Shrinks US Economy - And This Is Just The Start

The news arrived today that the US economy has dramatically cratered - shrinking in the first quarter of the year, whereas it had been strongly growing before. It is fairly clear with the breakdown that this is due to...

The Trump Spoiler Move That May Be Carney's First Big Test
278April 29, 2025 12:43pm

The Trump Spoiler Move That May Be Carney's First Big Test

Mark Carney's Liberal Party has won the Canadian election. It was close, but still extraordinary that he was able to turn around the massive deficit the party originally had with Pierre Poilièvre's Conservatives. And...

What Everyone Missed About This Iconic Moment
277April 28, 2025 1:15pm

What Everyone Missed About This Iconic Moment

The big story about the Pope's funeral - bigger than the event itself on some measures - was a 15 minute one-on-one conversation between Presidents Trump and Zelensky - captured in a photo that is already on its way t...

Why Trump Is Suddenly Lying About Talking To China
276April 27, 2025 11:12am

Why Trump Is Suddenly Lying About Talking To China

We're used to the idea that Trump lies a lot - I mean, even his supporters know this, although they will use euphemisms to make it sound ok. But WHY has Trump suddenly started telling people that Xi Jinping has called...

Why Elon Musk’s DOGE has been a dismal failure
275April 25, 2025 2:43pm

Why Elon Musk’s DOGE has been a dismal failure

Musk's time with DOGE is coming to an end - or at least will be massively dialled back. But the fact is that the exercise, which promised so much, seems to have ended up a failure on every measure. It failed to save t...

Trump's tariff blunders blow up in his face
274April 24, 2025 2:06pm

Trump's tariff blunders blow up in his face

It's official. Trump's tariffs on the world, but especially on China, are making the whole world poorer. Trump wants China to make a deal - but he set the terms of the negotiation in such a way as to make it certain t...

Trump’s Meltdown As Ukraine Surrender Plan Fails
273April 23, 2025 1:31pm

Trump’s Meltdown As Ukraine Surrender Plan Fails

At the start of the day, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff were on their way to a top-level meeting in London to discuss President Trump's seven-point "peace" plan. But when the details of the plan were revealed, Ukraine...

American Institutions Fight Back Against Trump Power Grab
272April 22, 2025 2:31pm

American Institutions Fight Back Against Trump Power Grab

President Trump came out of the gates quickly in his second term, testing the limits of his power in all directions at once, and assaulting numerous institutions to show them that he could bully them into compliance w...

Pentagon Chaos: Will Trump Finally Fire Pete Hegseth?
271April 21, 2025 12:01pm

Pentagon Chaos: Will Trump Finally Fire Pete Hegseth?

Reports are coming into view about complete disarray at the Pentagon under Trump's controversial pick for secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth. He has fired all his senior advisors, he is isolated, unqualified and unexp...

Should Denmark Throw America Out Of Its Greenland Base?
270April 20, 2025 12:15pm

Should Denmark Throw America Out Of Its Greenland Base?

Answering a question from a Patreon supporter - Should Greenland kick the US out of its one remaining Greenland base, since - if Trump were to make good on his threat to take the island by force - it could be used as...

Why Did Trump Suddenly Stop Attacking Canada?
269April 17, 2025 1:54pm

Why Did Trump Suddenly Stop Attacking Canada?

We've been witnessing something really strange over the last three weeks. Trump has been ... silent. OK, only about one thing, but even so. He's been wholly quiet on the subject of Canada, and his previous expressed d...

Trump Defies Courts To Lock People Up Without Due Process
268April 15, 2025 12:18pm

Trump Defies Courts To Lock People Up Without Due Process

The Supreme Court ruled decisively 9-0 that the man incorrectly removed from the USA to one of the most notorious prisons in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia, that he should be returned to be afforded the due process any hu...

Can the West Trust China More Than Trump?
267April 14, 2025 2:36pm

Can the West Trust China More Than Trump?

The Trump / China Trade War enters its third week, and the stakes are only getting higher and the measures more intense. While Trump is busy pulling various other countries into the White House to beat them down in ne...

How Trump Is Dismantling Election Protections
266April 13, 2025 2:50pm

How Trump Is Dismantling Election Protections

If the Trump administration is taking the United States in the direction of autocracy, there are certain steps that you would commonly expect to see being taken, in common with other countries that have taken this jou...

Harsh Tariff Truths Sinking In, While MAGA Celebrates Trump 'Genius'
265April 10, 2025 2:32pm

Harsh Tariff Truths Sinking In, While MAGA Celebrates Trump 'Genius'

Trump reversed course, and the stock market flowered in response, and everything's now OK, right? Well, except that a lot of damage has been done, most of the tariffs actually still remain, and there's no sign that th...

Trump’s Panic Tariff Pause - Why It Might Be Too Late
264April 09, 2025 2:23pm

Trump’s Panic Tariff Pause - Why It Might Be Too Late

The news is just in - after all the bluster and the boasting, Trump finally noticed that not all was going swimmingly with his tariffs on the entire world, and he has hit the pause button. For everyone save China, bec...

Why China Won't Back Down On Trump's Tariff Shakedown
263April 08, 2025 1:50pm

Why China Won't Back Down On Trump's Tariff Shakedown

When President Trump announced his tariffs to the world, China was right at the top of the list, and it was hit with one of the largest tariffs of the day. This was supposed to get Beijing to the negotiating table to...

The GOP Is ALREADY Preparing for the Post-Trump Fight
262April 07, 2025 2:53pm

The GOP Is ALREADY Preparing for the Post-Trump Fight

Trump is at the centre of things - throwing the global economy into turmoil in the aim of reshaping everyone's relations with the US, as well as reshaping geopolitical alliances and introducing autocratic measures int...

Is Trump about to invoke the insurrection act?
261April 06, 2025 1:02pm

Is Trump about to invoke the insurrection act?

President Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act back in 2020, but he was prevented by the opposition of his then-defence secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But now those people have been replaced with loya...

Is The US (Still) On Course For Civil War?
260April 05, 2025 9:58am

Is The US (Still) On Course For Civil War?

I've been talking about the likelihood of the US heading towards a second civil war for some time on this channel. Patreon supporter Peter asked me if I still felt that to be the case, with everything that's been happ...

Why does JD Vance hate Europe?
259April 04, 2025 1:41pm

Why does JD Vance hate Europe?

The recent Signalgate text messages leak gave us a real insight into just how much JD Vance really actually hates and despises Europe - much more than had previously been stated in public. We'd seen him argue that Eur...

Trump Sparks World Economic Crisis
258April 03, 2025 1:10pm

Trump Sparks World Economic Crisis

President Trump called it 'Liberation Day' - but that's not what many others were calling it. Instead, the wide-ranging raft of tariffs levied on imports to the US, which seemed based on wholly fictitious claims of ho...

Trump’s Science Purge: Why Researchers Are Leaving the US in Droves
257April 02, 2025 1:07pm

Trump’s Science Purge: Why Researchers Are Leaving the US in Droves

Health researchers, climate scientists, and more - they are finding significant projects being axed for what appear to be purely ideological grounds. This can include projects you would think would be immune to such f...

Elon Musk is nearly finished at DOGE - what next?
256April 01, 2025 1:44pm

Elon Musk is nearly finished at DOGE - what next?

Elon Musk has been all over the Federal Government for the last ten weeks. But his original term of office is coming to an end, and both Trump and Musk himself are now talking as though that will be it. He has to get...

Marine Le Pen BARRED - Harsh Justice Or Legal Coup?
255March 31, 2025 2:20pm

Marine Le Pen BARRED - Harsh Justice Or Legal Coup?

The front-runner for the next French Presidential elections, according to current polls, Marine Le Pen has been sensationally barred from standing by a judge who was sentencing her in an embezzlement case. The verdict...

What Makes A Democracy Turn Into A Dictatorship?
254March 30, 2025 12:55pm

What Makes A Democracy Turn Into A Dictatorship?

In their book 'How Democracies Die', Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify the four tells for a despot-in-waiting, the democratic guardrails that all dictators-in-progress seek to dismantle, and how they go abou...

JD Vance SLATES Denmark, Hides from Greenland
253March 28, 2025 2:25pm

JD Vance SLATES Denmark, Hides from Greenland

So the visit to Greenland of the Vice President JD Vance finally happened. Originally intended to be a 'charm offensive' to the population, eventually the Americans could find no Greenlanders who wanted to talk to the...

Ukraine Stunned As Trump’s Ruthless Minerals Grab is BACK ON
252March 27, 2025 12:39pm

Ukraine Stunned As Trump’s Ruthless Minerals Grab is BACK ON

In the immediate aftermath of the debacle in the Oval Office, it was reported that Trump wanted the minerals deal toughened up to 'punish' Ukraine. This week we got first news that this is exactly what has been done -...

National Security Disaster Gets Bigger - And They Just Don’t Care!
251March 26, 2025 2:04pm

National Security Disaster Gets Bigger - And They Just Don’t Care!

After various members of the senior Trump administration stated flatly that no classified information was revealed in the group chat on the bombing of Yemen, The Atlantic went ahead and published the entire chat threa...

Is INCOMPETENCE America’s biggest security threat?
250March 25, 2025 1:18pm

Is INCOMPETENCE America’s biggest security threat?

Convention would have you believe that the most classified American secrets - such as live military operations to strike at targets abroad - are handled with total security and professionalism. There are strict protoc...

Trump's shock move on Greenland provokes fear and fury
249March 24, 2025 12:23pm

Trump's shock move on Greenland provokes fear and fury

If the people of Greenland thought they would get a respite while they engage in the slow negotiations to form the next government following their recent election - they were wrong. The surprise announcement that top...

Has the European populist wave been killed by MAGA?
248March 23, 2025 3:19pm

Has the European populist wave been killed by MAGA?

Over the last few years, the rise of populist and far right parties in a number of key European countries has been a feature of the changing political landscape. With the emergence of Giorgia Meloni into the mainstrea...

America’s Institutions Are Caving to Trump —Here’s Why
247March 22, 2025 2:53pm

America’s Institutions Are Caving to Trump —Here’s Why

One of the key guarantees against authoritarian rule in the United States is the independence of a number of key institutions, especially the judiciary, but also academia, the press, and legislators. We know that Pres...

Is Trump's America leading the world to autocracy?
246March 20, 2025 2:29pm

Is Trump's America leading the world to autocracy?

A new report about the state of democracy in the world makes for sobering reading. But the most striking thing about it is that it adds additional content to note that, since the date of the report deadline, the first...

Why Trump's Putin call was a total bust
245March 19, 2025 2:01pm

Why Trump's Putin call was a total bust

So President Trump finally held his call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. And for all his advance pronouncements that they would be carving up the assets of Ukraine in this call, it seems as though they got now...

UK's Net Zero consensus EXPLODES
244March 18, 2025 1:56pm

UK's Net Zero consensus EXPLODES

The Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has announced an end to her party's support for the previously consensus climate change policy target of net zero by 2050. In a speech that has created shockwaves through th...

Trump boasts of giving Ukraine's assets to Putin
243March 17, 2025 1:11pm

Trump boasts of giving Ukraine's assets to Putin

President Trump and President Putin have a direct call scheduled to take place tomorrow (Tuesday 18th Mar). In talking about it, Trump said that part of the discussion would cover the division of assets, including lan...

Two signs Putin could be about to TURN on Trump
242March 16, 2025 1:29pm

Two signs Putin could be about to TURN on Trump

The awkward pause continues, with Russia's President Putin keeping the world, and specifically President Trump, waiting and guessing about his ultimate response to the Ukraine ceasefire proposal. But while Trump conti...

Elon Musk is self-destructing
241March 15, 2025 1:40pm

Elon Musk is self-destructing

Nobody has been so embedded with the Trump operation as Elon Musk has been over the last couple of months. And it's fair to say he's been everywhere - every government department, all over social media, in the faces o...

How Putin is playing Trump on Ukraine ceasefire
240March 14, 2025 12:07pm

How Putin is playing Trump on Ukraine ceasefire

Putin has said he accepts Trump's unconditional ceasefire agreement ... with some conditions. In this video, we look at the game of chess that's being played out, the complementary objectives Putin is trying to achiev...

Has Trump's Gaza plan been thwarted?
239March 13, 2025 1:07pm

Has Trump's Gaza plan been thwarted?

Trump had a dream of the Gaza Riviera, where the Palestinians had been cleared from their own country and resettled in neighbouring Egypt and Jordan, leaving a redeveloped paradise for the beautiful people to enjoy. U...

The US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan - Why it's a big problem for Putin
238March 12, 2025 12:10pm

The US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan - Why it's a big problem for Putin

So the US - Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia conclude with a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire. A full ceasefire, not the partial one the Ukrainians had initially wanted. Why is the distinction between the partial and tota...

What would fascism in America REALLY look like?
237March 11, 2025 2:05pm

What would fascism in America REALLY look like?

Various people have been asking if the radical new type of government the US has found itself with - undoubtedly more authoritarian by instinct than previous incumbents - should be labelled with one of the big ugly wo...

Why Trump’s Ukraine betrayal will come back to bite the US
236March 10, 2025 2:27pm

Why Trump’s Ukraine betrayal will come back to bite the US

The US-Ukraine talks begin tomorrow in Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine at least will find out then just how ruthless the US intends to be in threatening to let Putin overrun their country unless they agree to cede territory...

Is Mallen 'off the fence' on President Trump?
235March 09, 2025 12:15pm

Is Mallen 'off the fence' on President Trump?

I've had a couple of YouTube comments recently asking if the slightly different tone of videos in the last few weeks means that the non-partisan position of the channel has been put aside. In other words, am I now 'of...

Yes, Trump really DOES mean to annex Canada
234March 08, 2025 12:19pm

Yes, Trump really DOES mean to annex Canada

When he first said it, everyone thought he was joking. It was a joke that Canadians found insulting, but even so. But then in subsequent discussions, Canadian prime minister Trudeau and his officials found that Trump...

Trump just killed NATO - but they won't admit it
233March 07, 2025 12:20pm

Trump just killed NATO - but they won't admit it

The current European leaders, along with the NATO Secretary General, are all agreed that NATO remains solid, the United States partnership likewise, the mutual defence promise at the heart of the Treaty has the full c...

Trump's secret moves to bring down Zelensky
232March 06, 2025 12:14pm

Trump's secret moves to bring down Zelensky

Today it was revealed that senior members of the Trump administration have been talking to the political opposition in Ukraine, seeking to find who would be the alternative leader to Zelensky who would be more palatab...

Ukraine's Zelensky is walking into a trap
231March 05, 2025 10:53am

Ukraine's Zelensky is walking into a trap

Zelensky has sent the letter to president Trump that was demanded - agreeing to sign the one-sided minerals deal, to put himself 'under Trump's strong leadership' and to agree to an early ceasefire. This is what Ukrai...

European peace plan in tatters as Trump cancels Ukraine support
230March 04, 2025 11:33am

European peace plan in tatters as Trump cancels Ukraine support

In spite of Europe's hopes that somehow there would be a path to keeping Trump onside with supporting Ukraine, the inevitability of the dashing of those hopes is now plain to see. Trump has pulled military support for...

Trump's pro-Putin anti-Zelensky stance hardens
229March 03, 2025 12:21pm

Trump's pro-Putin anti-Zelensky stance hardens

Europe and Ukraine's desperate plan is to win back Trump to the cause of supporting Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. But while they work on the details of that, the US is relaxing more of its measures agains...

The Starmer plan to win Trump for Ukraine back - and why it will fail
228March 02, 2025 1:08pm

The Starmer plan to win Trump for Ukraine back - and why it will fail

Europe has been regrouping with president Zelensky and trying to come to terms with the fallout from the massive meltdown in the Oval Office on Friday. And British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is primed to act as a key...

What nobody's saying about the Oval Office meltdown
227March 01, 2025 9:41am

What nobody's saying about the Oval Office meltdown

Macron and Starmer had had visits to the White House that had been described as triumphs, simply because they avoided humiliation. In other words, they avoided exactly what then happened with President Zelensky at the...

Starmer's visit to Trump - not quite a triumph
226February 28, 2025 12:05pm

Starmer's visit to Trump - not quite a triumph

We are being told that UK prime minister Keir Starmer's visit to Trump in the White House was a 'triumph'. On one level - that of managing a potential unpredictable encounter that could have spiralled off into embarra...

Did Trump accidentally save Canada's Liberals?
225February 27, 2025 11:15am

Did Trump accidentally save Canada's Liberals?

For the last couple of years, it has looked a foregone conclusion that Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party was going to go down in flames at the next election, and Trump-aligned Pierre Poilievre would rise in his place, br...

Trump's minerals deal changed the world
224February 26, 2025 11:35am

Trump's minerals deal changed the world

Ukraine has negotiated a form of Trump's critical minerals deal that it is prepared to sign. We haven't seen it yet, but it's clear that it has been nudged just over the line with the removal of the most egregious dem...

Is DOGE starting to FAIL?
223February 25, 2025 12:50pm

Is DOGE starting to FAIL?

For the last few weeks, all we've been hearing about has been Doge! According to some, it's slashing through government bureaucracy spectacularly laying waste to fraud and mismanagement. According to others, it's thra...

Can Europe go it alone in supporting Ukraine?
222February 24, 2025 11:12am

Can Europe go it alone in supporting Ukraine?

Germany elected a new government yesterday, and the new chancellor led off with his ambition to make Europe and Germany independent of America. As if to highlight this, the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine was m...

Ukraine stunned by US demands it withdraws Russia-critical UN motion
221February 23, 2025 10:09am

Ukraine stunned by US demands it withdraws Russia-critical UN motion

February 24th is the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and - as with the previous years, Ukraine and co-sponsors has put a motion to be voted on by the UN general assembly condemning Russia's actions and ab...

US threatens to PULL STARLINK from Ukraine
220February 22, 2025 8:23am

US threatens to PULL STARLINK from Ukraine

Zelensky's refusal to sign an apparently absurdly one-sided deal where Ukraine hands over half of the value of its resources for nothing in return from the USA, has led to pressure being applied. Previously, it was pr...

Anti-woke right divided on Trump's Ukraine pitch
219February 21, 2025 1:32pm

Anti-woke right divided on Trump's Ukraine pitch

Trump's demand for total loyalty while also making statements such as 'Ukraine started the war' and 'Zelensky is a dictator' is dividing his natural support base. Some are dancing one hundred percent to his tune. Othe...

How Russian disinformation poisoned our society
218February 20, 2025 12:16pm

How Russian disinformation poisoned our society

The mere word 'disinformation' has become controversial in the modern culture wars - which is great news for the hostile states who actually use disinformation as a tool of 'war by other means'. In this video, we talk...

Trump and Putin's shock call - what no-one's saying
217February 14, 2025 11:57am

Trump and Putin's shock call - what no-one's saying

This week, Putin and Russian commentators were delighted, and Ukraine and Western ones were distraught, when Trump announced that he had a long call with Vladimir Putin, and they would be meeting soon to begin negotia...

China's shocking progress on Taiwan a test for Trump
216February 11, 2025 12:49pm

China's shocking progress on Taiwan a test for Trump

China has its sights on reunification with China - what people don't realise is how much progress it has been making over the last year in the direction of satisfying that goal. How has their thinking been affected by...

Trump's Gaza plan has changed the Middle East
215February 07, 2025 1:28pm

Trump's Gaza plan has changed the Middle East

When Trump announced his extraordinary vision for the future of the Gaza Strip, many dismissed it as just a madcap idea. But while the enormity of what it would represent has been sinking in, a number of people have s...

Trump shreds American soft power
214February 04, 2025 1:53pm

Trump shreds American soft power

President Trump has bashed America's close allies Canada and Mexico in return for stuff they were already doing anyway. He has threatened the EU with likewise, and pummelled Colombia into instant submission. And that'...

DC air crash tragedy - can we get past the politics?
213January 31, 2025 1:30pm

DC air crash tragedy - can we get past the politics?

At Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, we have seen a major tragedy with the mid-air collision of a passenger airliner and a military helicopter. Almost immediately, the public space has been awash with a blame...

China's new AI destroys America's tech complacency
212January 27, 2025 12:43pm

China's new AI destroys America's tech complacency

The Chinese company DeepThink has just released its latest AI large language model - and it has caused a massive reaction. It runs rings around the American AI models for how cheaply and efficiently it is produced and...

Trump's Ukraine war pitch: NOT what we were expecting
211January 24, 2025 12:12pm

Trump's Ukraine war pitch: NOT what we were expecting

In his first week back as president of the United States, Donald Trump started making significant noises on the Ukraine war, and his opening pitch could certainly not be described as good news for Vladimir Putin. But...

How the mainstream media lies to you
210January 17, 2025 1:34pm

How the mainstream media lies to you

You hear it often - the mainstream media lies. You can't trust them. But the fact is that - in volume terms - they do so only very occasionally. It's just that in tends to be in dealing with the most important and con...

Musk and Cummings 'plot' to overthrow Keir Starmer?
209January 14, 2025 5:03am

Musk and Cummings 'plot' to overthrow Keir Starmer?

Reports came out on Sunday that the former advisor to the prime minister and Brexit campaign supremo Dominic Cummings has been in discussion with Elon Musk about how to get rid of Keir Starmer before the next schedule...

Why Trump's Greenland gambit has changed everything
208January 10, 2025 12:28pm

Why Trump's Greenland gambit has changed everything

In a press conference this week, president-elect Trump said that he wanted to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal - not ruling out the use of military force to do so. Oh, and Canada, but limiting himself to...

Elon Musk takes on the world - this won't end well
207January 04, 2025 4:43am

Elon Musk takes on the world - this won't end well

Elon Musk has been ... busy. Attacking Keir Starmer and his government in the UK, whilst praising Tommy Robinson and calling for him to be released from jail. And attacking Olaf Scholz, and calling for Germany's contr...

This podcast / channel in 2025
206January 01, 2025 1:10pm

This podcast / channel in 2025

This channel has always had a perspective, but it has been something of a blank page - always looking at whatever seems important that has come into view. But it's time for that to change - for the channel to become m...

2025 will be PEAK TRUMP - but it's going to be tougher than he thinks
205December 28, 2024 6:23am

2025 will be PEAK TRUMP - but it's going to be tougher than he thinks

Looking forward to 2025 - there's no doubt it is going to be the year of Trump. But not only that, it's going to be the year of peak Trump. With every year that follows, his power to achieve his domestic agenda starts...

Normalising violence - the response to Luigi Mangioni
204December 13, 2024 1:45pm

Normalising violence - the response to Luigi Mangioni

In the last week, there has been much comment on the astonishing internet response to the murderer of CEO Brian Thompson. Large numbers of people have expressed support and admiration for the action, have heralded Man...

Are Nigel Farage and Elon Musk about to transform UK politics?
203December 06, 2024 1:08pm

Are Nigel Farage and Elon Musk about to transform UK politics?

This week, Keir Starmer made a keynote speech laying out his six milestones for how the Labour government should, in his view, be judged at the next election. It's not the first time since taking office he has launche...

Do-it-yourself cults - are you in one?
202December 05, 2024 11:26am

Do-it-yourself cults - are you in one?

Lots of groups in these polarised times get accused by their opponents of 'being in a cult'. And sometimes, actually quite often, they have a point. But beware, because half the time while you're pointing to someone e...

UK Parliament approves assisted dying - at least in principle
201November 29, 2024 12:23pm

UK Parliament approves assisted dying - at least in principle

The UK Parliament today debated a groundbreaking assisted death bill that could reshape how we approach end-of-life care. The Labour Party has brought forward legislation that would introduce new palliative care optio...

Electric vehicles facing struggles worldwide
200November 27, 2024 1:29pm

Electric vehicles facing struggles worldwide

We know the story - China is dominating the EV industry with its remarkable and cheap cars which the Western bloated manufacturers simply can't compete with. But of course, there's a lot more going on than that. In Ch...

The British farmers protests - explained
199November 25, 2024 1:04pm

The British farmers protests - explained

In the UK, farmers are protesting in a way they haven't in recent times. They are furious about proposed inheritance tax changes to be brought in by the Labour government. The government claims the changes will only a...

America's extremes are tearing it apart
198November 23, 2024 2:28am

America's extremes are tearing it apart

One of the regular topics of discussion in the media in the US recently has been how polarised and divided the country has become, even to the extent where there is regularly speculation about what a new civil war wou...

China has now caused more global warming than the EU
197November 20, 2024 12:30pm

China has now caused more global warming than the EU

This week sees the COP29 conference on climate change, where the expectation is that the next US president will walk away from the issue, leaving China a golden opportunity to step into the role of global leadership i...

Trump's cabinet picks get wild - but can they get through?
196November 15, 2024 1:49pm

Trump's cabinet picks get wild - but can they get through?

Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr are amongst the recent names released by President-Elect Trump as his nominations for his cabinet. To say the least, they have caused something of a stir - a lot more...

Why Kamala lost and Trump won big
195November 08, 2024 1:05pm

Why Kamala lost and Trump won big

After years of our lives being taken up by the campaign for the US presidency, we finally have a result. And against the apparent polling, it is a clear and unambiguous result. Donald Trump has performed the most rema...

The US election is here, and it got even more stupid
194November 01, 2024 12:55pm

The US election is here, and it got even more stupid

The US election has ... finally ... arrived. It's all over, bar the shouting. Except that the shouting has gotten pretty loud, and it's likely to continue for quite some time after the election has taken place. This p...

Israel and Hamas War - Making sense of where we are
193October 13, 2023 1:02pm

Israel and Hamas War - Making sense of where we are

It has been the sort of week that will be referred to in decades, even centuries, hence as being one that was a turning point in history. There is a lot to come, but let's see if we can make sense of where we have got...

Electric vehicles - the new battleground for the world
192September 29, 2023 1:52pm

Electric vehicles - the new battleground for the world

In the US, in the UK and the EU - the proposed shift from internal combustion cars to electric vehicles is starting to become a major factor in a big political shift that's going on. What's driving it (pun not intende...

UK net zero debate just changed ... for the better
191September 22, 2023 2:22pm

UK net zero debate just changed ... for the better

This week, Rishi Sunak just announced pushing back of a few net zero targets - but much more significantly signalled a shift in campaign positioning that has thrust the issue to the centre of the conflict between the...

Civil war talk hits the mainstream
190September 01, 2023 2:14pm

Civil war talk hits the mainstream

More mainstream voices are starting to be raised highlighting the likely outcome for where America is currently headed. One of them is Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor whose book 'Principles for dealing with a chan...

Is Elon Musk now the face of unaccountable power?
189August 25, 2023 2:17pm

Is Elon Musk now the face of unaccountable power?

Elon Musk is so often at the centre of every important issue or controversy - he is a techno-optimist, he is pro-free speech, he is desperate for man to colonise Mars - you name it. He is also powerful on the world st...

Ukraine's slow counter-offensive - this could last for years
188August 11, 2023 1:17pm

Ukraine's slow counter-offensive - this could last for years

Two months in to Ukraine's counter-offensive, and so far - while there have been gains - they are well short of what people had hoped for. The implication is that this war is going to last years not months, notwithsta...

A new political phase on climate change is emerging
187July 28, 2023 1:00pm

A new political phase on climate change is emerging

Over time, how we understand an ongoing issue, and aim to act on it, will evolve and change. We've been in the same phase on climate change for several decades - but right now it seems as though we may be entering the...

Exclusive diversity - has values-led business gone astray?
186July 21, 2023 1:12pm

Exclusive diversity - has values-led business gone astray?

Maybe companies should have values. But should they have the sort of values that are about holding powerful corporations to account, or the ones that turn powerful corporations into policeman over how we live our live...

Can Britain stop worshipping its failing health service?
185July 07, 2023 2:02pm

Can Britain stop worshipping its failing health service?

Support this channel! https://patreon.com/mallenbaker The Mallen Baker Show covers news, current affairs, science and politics. It aims to be independent, fact-focused and non-ideological. A rational and re...

Putin's bad week
184June 30, 2023 2:48pm

Putin's bad week

It wasn't a coup, but it looked like a coup. Putin wasn't bothered, but he certainly looked bothered. Really, it was just a protest. The sort of protest where you destroy military planes on the way. So just what HAS b...

The Boris question: Should voters be allowed to vote for liars?
183June 16, 2023 12:51pm

The Boris question: Should voters be allowed to vote for liars?

Boris Johnson has left the building - before launching a broadside against the Parliamentary Privileges Committee process just before it delivered its damning verdict. It found that he had lied repeatedly - which isn'...

Will Rishi and Joe save us from the AI slaughterbots?
182June 09, 2023 12:51pm

Will Rishi and Joe save us from the AI slaughterbots?

This week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met the US President Joe Biden and amongst the various topics they discussed was Britain’s desire to carve out a role for itself on the discussion around Artificial Intell...

1.5 degrees warming coming soon?
181May 19, 2023 1:00pm

1.5 degrees warming coming soon?

There has been a lot of talk this week about how the world may nose its way across the 1.5ºC line soon. It's been held up as a major landmark for so long - and generally with menaces attached. So is it truly on the ca...

Donald Trump could be president in 2025
180May 12, 2023 1:03pm

Donald Trump could be president in 2025

Trump's Town Hall on CNN gave him his very best day of his 2024 election campaign, by far. How did it happen at all? And how much does it really change the equation for the next election, and indeed the next period of...

Nobody tried to kill Putin
179May 05, 2023 12:53pm

Nobody tried to kill Putin

A drone attack hits the Kremlin building. Once again, the world is left wondering "who dunnit?". Was it a false flag attack by a Russian leadership determined to drive a wedge between Ukraine and its allies? Or an att...

The REAL reason Xi Jinping called Zelensky
178April 28, 2023 12:53pm

The REAL reason Xi Jinping called Zelensky

He's spoken to Vladimir Putin five times since the war started - but this was the first time he picked up the phone to Ukraine's Volodymir Zelensky. What does the call say about China's intended role in the Ukraine wa...

Poverty vs Climate Change - The World Bank's Dilemma
177April 21, 2023 1:00pm

Poverty vs Climate Change - The World Bank's Dilemma

During the last week, a major summit that was supposed to advance climate onto the World Bank agenda hit an impasse. Meanwhile, China is rapidly gaining as the alternative lender to developing countries. The stakes ar...

The dismal truth revealed by the US intel leak
176April 14, 2023 1:10pm

The dismal truth revealed by the US intel leak

A hugely significant leak of US intelligence has dominated the week ... and it's one unlike any that came before it. But what's really interesting, is what it says about the rapidly changing place of America in the wo...

Trump Indictment - America Gambles Bigly
175April 07, 2023 1:00pm

Trump Indictment - America Gambles Bigly

Some reflections on the week that saw former president Donald Trump appearing in criminal court for the first - but surely not the last - time. Is this a shrewd political game? Or crass stupidity pushing the country c...

China makes its move on Ukraine
174March 17, 2023 2:00pm

China makes its move on Ukraine

China’s Xi Jinping to visit Putin in Moscow as China outflanks the US on the world stage. Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse – is the world economic system teetering on the edge of major meltdown? And Dutch farmers hi...

Nordstream sabotage - now it's getting weird
173March 10, 2023 1:12pm

Nordstream sabotage - now it's getting weird

Suggestions come from US intelligence that a pro-Ukraine group was responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions. We learn that the UK government had an undisclosed position to reject the lab leak hypothesis to...

UK Covid lockdown mistakes revealed
172March 03, 2023 12:57pm

UK Covid lockdown mistakes revealed

It’s retro news week, apparently. A massive leak of whatsapp text messages from the heart of government shows the unedifying reality of the UK’s response to Covid. The US energy department declares that it now believe...

Are we inevitably drifting towards technocracy?
171February 28, 2023 1:00pm

Are we inevitably drifting towards technocracy?

Last week, the former UK Labour prime minister Tony Blair, and  the former would-be Conservative prime minister William Hague produced a joint report calling for a British technology revolution. Some of the response t...

One year on - Not where we wanted to be
170February 24, 2023 12:55pm

One year on - Not where we wanted to be

The world marks the one year anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war with big speeches on all sides saying nothing new. China puts itself forward as a neutral peace broker in ways that may please neither Russia no...

Will Russia or Ukraine exhaust themselves first?
169February 17, 2023 1:00pm

Will Russia or Ukraine exhaust themselves first?

As the anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war approaches both sides burn through their resources at a rapid rate. The EU’s corruption crisis continues to deepen as more MEPs are named in the Qatargate scandal. Sc...

Did the spy balloon wreck US China peace hopes?
168February 10, 2023 1:00pm

Did the spy balloon wreck US China peace hopes?

A Chinese sky balloon is blown out of the sky along with recent hopes of easing tension between the two countries. Russia apparently begins to ramp up for a major offensive as President Zelensky visits the UK and Euro...

Trans row could dethrone Scotland's leader
167February 03, 2023 1:00pm

Trans row could dethrone Scotland's leader

Corruption continues to be the focus as more are raided in Ukraine and the EU and the UK have problems of their own. The UK’s armed forces recruitment comes under scrutiny with allegations that competence is no longer...

Did corruption in Ukraine deflect from the war?
166January 27, 2023 1:00pm

Did corruption in Ukraine deflect from the war?

Support this channel! https://patreon.com/mallenbaker The Mallen Baker Show covers news, current affairs, science and politics. It aims to be independent, fact-focused and non-ideological. A rational and re...

Putin's real war is not in Ukraine
165January 13, 2023 1:00pm

Putin's real war is not in Ukraine

Putin’s latest moves suggest he’s fighting a political war at home as much as a military one in Ukraine. China urges its people not to travel for the Chinese New Year as Covid starts to hit the rural areas hard. Presi...

Ukraine’s HUGE advantage in 2023
164January 06, 2023 2:02pm

Ukraine’s HUGE advantage in 2023

Russia suffers a major blow on the battlefield the strategic implications of which highlight its biggest challenge. Republicans in the US celebrate their election gains by demonstrating an inability to agree on electi...

World turns on China Covid tourists
163December 30, 2022 1:33pm

World turns on China Covid tourists

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 fear of new variants. Russian oligarchs continue to die by sudden f...

Putin's stunning admission
162December 23, 2022 1:24pm

Putin's stunning admission

Vladimir Putin makes a startling statement after Ukraine’s Zelensky makes an appearance in the US. Scottish lawmakers pass a controversial trans self-ID bill, creating a likely constitutional crisis with the UK govern...

Putin and Xi are missing
161December 16, 2022 1:33pm

Putin and Xi are missing

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 hospitals rapidly overwhelmed as the Covid takes off, but they’re not r...

Xi Jinping's spy tech squashes protests
160December 02, 2022 1:25pm

Xi Jinping's spy tech squashes protests

Support this channel! https://patreon.com/mallenbaker The Mallen Baker Show covers news, current affairs, science and politics. It aims to be independent, fact-focused and non-ideological. A rational and re...

Woke World Cup proves Putin right?
159November 25, 2022 1:35pm

Woke World Cup proves Putin right?

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 zero covid policy as cases surge upwards. Does the virtue signalling...

China divides and conquers at the G20
158November 18, 2022 2:17pm

China divides and conquers at the G20

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 knocked out by Russian attack as the UN criticises it for human righ...

Will Ron DeSantis save America from itself?
157November 11, 2022 2:13pm

Will Ron DeSantis save America from itself?

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 city as senior figures in the US administration urge them to negotia...

America's democratic decline
156November 04, 2022 3:12pm

America's democratic decline

America prepares itself for the mid-term elections as late polls suggest Republicans may soon control both houses, Brazil’s president Bolsonaro narrowly loses his election but does that actually mean the Amazon rainfo...

The most dangerous decade
155October 28, 2022 1:00pm

The most dangerous decade

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 in Rishi Sunak who promises a return to competence in government....

Is nuclear war Putin's last stand?
154October 07, 2022 1:30pm

Is nuclear war Putin's last stand?

Ukraine continues to make advances as the world is newly alarmed about potential nuclear war. The UK’s brand new government sees more consequences from its self-sabotage. And EU members push back against the bloc’s pl...

Putin’s plan to bring the West to its knees
153September 30, 2022 1:25pm

Putin’s plan to bring the West to its knees

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 in their faces and gives Labour real hope of regaining power. And co...

Putin's end game is in sight
152September 24, 2022 4:21am

Putin's end game is in sight

Russia announces a major mobilisation of its citizens while repeating its threats of nuclear war. The UK’s new government announces the unbanning of fracking and the most radical tax cutting day in fifty years. And in...

Vladimir Putin's VERY BAD WEEK
151September 16, 2022 1:14pm

Vladimir Putin's VERY BAD WEEK

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 as concern about gun crime and immigration creates a populist backlash....

New PM has the WORST job
150September 02, 2022 2:32pm

New PM has the WORST job

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 mysteriously falls from a window and his history making predecessor, Mikhail...

Putin burns Europe's gas
149August 26, 2022 2:04pm

Putin burns Europe's gas

As energy prices across Europe are soaring, Russia is burning off its excess gas highlighting Putin’s high stakes gamble. UK prime minister candidate Rishi Sunak blows up the secrecy behind the UK’s covid lockdowns. C...

Killing more people than Covid?
148August 19, 2022 1:15pm

Killing more people than Covid?

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 election, and Sam Harris goes viral in a bad way – all in the name of k...

Pelosi PROVOKES CHINA and leaves
147August 05, 2022 1:35pm

Pelosi PROVOKES CHINA and leaves

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 the landscape for the midterm elections. Europe and elsewhere cont...

Biden gets his climate bill
146July 29, 2022 2:23pm

Biden gets his climate bill

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 but people are instead focusing on monkeypox. The UK NHS shuts dow...

Beast mode Biden and the coming civil war
145July 22, 2022 1:20pm

Beast mode Biden and the coming civil war

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 minister are settled but whether they like net zero or not, their optio...

Putin TURNS OFF the gas
144July 19, 2022 10:27am

Putin TURNS OFF the gas

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 he labelled as pariahs even as America’s own bad behaviour is brought to...

Boris gets EXIT done
143July 08, 2022 1:15pm

Boris gets EXIT done

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 countries are showing an unexplained increase in non-covid deaths....

Supreme Court kills climate action?
142July 01, 2022 1:32pm

Supreme Court kills climate action?

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 to put Roe v Wade on the ballot for 2022 elections while taking Do...

Bad leaders fighting the inevitable
141June 24, 2022 1:30pm

Bad leaders fighting the inevitable

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 memory. The US Supreme Court delivers a huge decision (and that's BEFOR...

Jan 6th Trump trial is all about elections
140June 10, 2022 1:00pm

Jan 6th Trump trial is all about elections

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. The European Parliament goes into full meltdown as its signature cli...