Preview Mode Links will not work in preview mode

The Fourcast

Nov 25, 2022

It’s been one month since Rishi Sunak became prime minister of the United Kingdom and so he’s now just three weeks off lasting longer at Number 10 than Liz Truss did.

After the disaster of the mini budget, Sunak has been the safe pair of economic hands needed to calm things down, reassure the markets and try to get...


Nov 18, 2022

Donald Trump has announced his Presidential run, undeterred by last week’s US midterm elections, where the red wave of Republican victories never came, and many in his only party blamed him for putting up bad candidates and spouting election lies.

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Patrick Murray, the Director of...


Nov 11, 2022

This week Chinese president Xi Jinping told his military to prepare for war in what he called an increasingly “unstable” security environment. 

China just had its 20th party congress, with Xi Jinping securing an unprecedented third term in power. And amid rising tensions between China and the US, the first in-person...


Nov 4, 2022

Has anything really changed since COP26?

In the year that Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering a global energy crisis, we’ve also seen the drastic impact climate change is having on our planet: with catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, a megadrought in the US and record-breaking heat waves across Europe. 

With COP27 fast...