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Multipolarity
Charting The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order Philip Pilkington is an unorthodox macroeconomist. Andrew Collingwood is an equally skeptical journalist. Lately, both have realised that - post-Ukraine, post-Afghanistan withdrawal - the old, unipolar, US-led world order is in its death throes. In its wake, something new is being born. But what shape will that take? That will depend on a combustible combination of economics and geopolitics; trade and military muscle. Each week, our duo take three…
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Lovely Bubbly, EuthanisedUK, Is The Shine Coming Off Sheinbaum?
Would every company be affected if the AI bubble were to burst? That’s what Sundar Pichai, the head of Google's parent firm Alphabet reckons. The facts are…
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Turkish Power, Israeli Pivot: The New Middle East That Is Taking Shape with Firas Modad
Multipolarity Dialogues is a series of interviews that scan the geopolitical horizon. We talk to some of the sharpest analysts, thinkers, and experts about how…
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Premium Edition Teaser: Has China Won The Trade War?
This week, the Lads are taking the sword to Trump’s big deal with China. The South Korean talks were heralded by both sides as a breakthrough. They reached…
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What's The Worst That Could Happen? With Malcom Kyeyune
This week: Halloween Fright Night on Multipolarity. We’re taking various geopolitical doomsday scenarios, and running through how they would play out, in full…
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Audio Essays: Budapest Beanfest, Blessed are the Chipmakers
This week: two audio essays. Peace is coming to Budapest… whether you believe it or not. So says Philip Pilkington, our man on the ground. The show may be…
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Multipolarity Dialogues: The Dawn of China's New Military Tech Age with TP Huang
About a month ago, the foreign affairs and geopoltical media was abuzz with talk about the Victory Day military parade in Beijing. What had shocked was that…
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Golden Year, Colour Evolution, This Week In Political Instability
If you’re an enterprising nine year old looking to top up your pocket money, get yourself a bar of bullion. Gold is up to $4000 an ounce for the first time…
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Multipolarity Dialogues: Policy Tensor on China's South-Eastern March
Welcome to Multipolarity Dialogues – a series of interview that scan the geopolitical horizon. We talk to some of the sharpest analysts, thinkers and experts…
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Premium Edition Teaser: Bold & Bankrupt - The Truth About MMT
Modern Monetary Theory. Magical Money Tree. Whichever name you know it by, everywhere, these days, the intellectual salons hum with people trying to say that…
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Special Edition: The Multipolarity Hotline
This week, it's the sensual adventure in Geopolitical ASMR you've all been waiting for. Our two men talking to themselves on their mobile phones in separate…
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Multipolarity Dialogues: Carlos Roa On How The New Golden Road Is Shifting Power South
Multipolarity Dialogues is a new series of interviews that scan the geopolitical horizon. We’ll be talking to some of the sharpest analysts, thinkers, experts…
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Multipolarity Dialogues: David Lloyd Dusenbury and China's Long Cultural History with the West
Recently, Philip Pilkington and David Lloyd Dusenbury published a couple of papers and an article on the long story of China's intellectual history with the…
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Special Edition: Malcom Kyeyune on Venezuela, Iran, Taiwan, and The American Oligarchy
Friend of the Pod Malcom Kyeyune is back, and he’s got that late empire feeling. After the Chinese Military staged an extraordinary parade in Beijing…
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Premium Edition Teaser: Shanghai Surprise, Bolivarian Counter-Revoution, Bond Villains
Narendra Modi. In Shanghai. In the back of a car. With Vladimir Putin. Positively glowing. The tweets the Indians sent out at the Shanghai Co-Operation…
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Multipolarity Dialogues: Why Serbia Is In A Very Weird Place Right Now, with Misa Djurkovic
As they say in the Economist: "Serbia is at a crossroads..." Anti-corruption protests after the collapse of the station roof in Novi Sad have not gone away…
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All’s Fair In War, Slumdog Day Afternoon, Shite Christmas
With EU leaders summoned to the White House to take dictation, it seems as though the Ukraine War is entering its final phase. Can the Europeans take their…
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The Semtex Road, Baked Alaska, 404k
The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity is now open. Only problem? It goes through a geopolitical electromagnet pulling all the badboys of the…
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Airstrip Zero, Goodness Gracious Xi, AliBaba For Ali Baba
Lawds malarkey guv’nor, Blighty’s popped its clogs. Americans have been hoovering up ‘UK doom’ content ever since Elon Musk decided to push the grooming gangs…
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Premium Edition Teaser: The Bus To Nowhere
Get on the bus. Or get on the Trump train. At this week’s Chinese trade talks, Europe has found itself piggy in the middle in the great global realignment…
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Multipolarity Dialogues: Steve Hsu on China's Tech Frontiers
Steve Hsu is a physicist, a tech founder, the hub of a network of cutting edge thinkers, and the host of the excellent Manifold Podcast. After a…
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Special Edition: Global Cakeism
Philip Pilkington is away in Belgrade on a foreign assignment, which means we’re serving up a Sleepless In Seattle-style double header, on tariffs. First off…
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Milei Down and Die, Tears of a Clown, Very Stable Genius Coins
In a viral video clip, tantric sex expert Javier Milei once said that he only makes love once every three months. Let’s see if he goes to the IMF any more…
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The Twelve Day War, 5 Percent? Get Bent, Dead Dollar Bounce
Nothing Ever Happens. Or does it? A week on from a one act play of a war, we pick through the charred remains of the Fordow Nuclear Site. We’re looking for…
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Premium Edition Teaser: Iran Special
Was it real? As we record this on the morning of the 23 June, we are a little over 24 hours removed from Operation Midnight Hammer, in which USAF assets…
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Special Edition: Malcom Kyeyune on Military Parades and Hypersonics Over Tel Aviv
Malcom Kyeyune is one of the oldest friends of Multipolarity. In his first 2025 appearance, he catches up with Andrew about the state of the world. Trump’s…
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Musk Rat Love, Remember the LA mo’, Promising The Rare Earth
The Big Divorce has finally hit. Like a country rock record written by the WWE, the Trump Musk split has been its own kind of kino. But beyond two hotheaded…
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Special Edition: Pilkington Launches "The Collapse Of Global Liberalism"
This week, we’re going as big picture as imaginable. Philip Pilkington has a thesis about liberalism itself: 1. That it is bad. 2. That it is ending. That’s…
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Premium Edition Teaser: Xi Blinded Me with Science, Every Ottoman for Himself, Poison Ivy
China is planning a new version of its Made In China 2025 industrial strategy. Just as America is punching holes in its own science funding budget, we'll be…
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Special Edition: A Tale of Two Great Walls?
Two audio essays, half a world apart. Nixon went to China first. Now, Philip Pilkington is there; to see what fifty years of openness to the West has done for…
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The Abraham Discords, Bloody Vicious Rocket, The Grand Old Duke Of Tariffs
More ordnance in the Middle East. Rumours are that Trump is agreeing to a two state solution; Israel is out in the cold; Netanyahu is not having his calls…
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Romanian Light, Rocket From The Crypt, Authoritarians For Democracy
No one imagined that Romanian elections would become a big spectator sport, but they’ve really proved us wrong. Remember the TikTok Secret Police Election?…
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Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You Bloody Bastard, Wanging On
Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question. What…
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Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire Strikes Back
Gold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types…
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Special Edition: Bretton Woods 3
This week, in a special experiment, we've gone live on Twitter Spaces. As Trump's tariffs bite, and the current account deficit zooms to the front of modern…
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Special Edition: Tariffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm. Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them. What could the greatest…
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Special Edition: The Coming Bear Market and Fortress Europe
Coming up this week: an audio essays special edition. Philip and Andrew, going head to head, a half hour each, on two big stories that have a more medium-term…
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Premium Edition Teaser: Jeffrey Has Entered the Chat Man-Who-Kuo?, Fight for Your Reich to Party
Was the editor of the Atlantic actually accidentally included in some rangy groupchat among bros that included a denunciation of European defence policy? Are…
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Punching Right, School of Hardware Knocks, The Trump Put
The British right is starting to fracture on the Ukraine issue. Where once they would reliably be called upon to paint themselves blue and yellow and raise a…
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Nasty NASDAQ, Of Euro-Bondage, Syria Seems to Be The Hardest Word
Tesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a…
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Special Edition: Zelensky Takes A Direct Strike, The Steel Porcupine, RIP Collingwood
As the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold. Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue. We cover everything -…
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Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian Grand Strategy
In Germany, there’s been an election. And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members . Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize…
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Special Edition: Munich!
A piece of our time: a special edition covering the Vance speech, the Ukraine peace plan, and the EU response.
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Save The Aid, The UK Art of The Deal, If I Speak I Am In Trouble
They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. But what if you’re a germ? As the USA.I.D demolition continues, we’re beginning to see the outlines of what might…
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Born in the USAID, Deep Deep Trouble, Customs of the Natives
USAID is being dismantled brick by brick, the bricks are being pulped, the pulp is going in the blower, the dust is being scattered to the four winds. R.I.P…
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Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine, and the Hegemon's End
No European who saw it would have avoided a pang of dread, when a meme appeared online this week, in the wake of the DeepSeek AI phenomenon. It pictured three…
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Pardon?, Little Red Note, Shall We Tell Peter Zeihan?
This week is a paywalled premium episode. *** Joe Biden spent his final week minting pardons like Mugabe minted bank notes. In fact, his last act in office was…
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Trump Regime Detonates UK?, Biden's AI Chips Ban, Trussification Part 4
Britain is under attack by the world’s two worst entities - rape gangs and bond market speculators. As Starmer mounts a last stand, we’re reporting from the…
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Special Edition: Dissident Former Diplomat Ian Proud on UK-Russia Relations
Ian Proud was once Britain's man in Moscow. A career diplomat of 24 years, he got to look in directly upon the withering relationship between the United…
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Special Edition: Steve Hsu on China, Tech, and Trumpism 2.0
Trumpism 2.0 offers both danger and opportunity. Trumpism 1.0 was built around being tough with China. And while that is no longer a rhetorical priority for…
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Premium Episode Teaser: Syria's Big Comeback, Georgia's Last Colour Revolution, Vive Le 6ieme Republique!
Don’t call it a comeback! Four years after the last embers appeared to have been snuffed out, this week, the Syrian Civil War shocked fans by announcing it’s…
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Special Edition: The First Medium Range Ballistic Missile Ever Fired In Anger
As the first every intermediate range ballistic missile to be fired in anger lands on Ukraine, it is more than just a world historic event in the evolution of…
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We Didn't Start The Fire: Multipolarity is 100
In a very special episode, we’re celebrating our hundred with a walk back along the yesteryears of Multipolarity. Two yesteryears in particular - 2023 and…
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Post Election Special: Question Marco, Queen of the Ashes, Straw Polls
From Marco Polo to Marco Rubio – the West keeps rediscovering that China is a big Asian landmass with a mind of its own. So is Trump’s hawkish new Secretary of…
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America Votes, Europe Decides
At the centre of the Global American empire, a storm is coming. But it’s in the European periphery that the effects will be the most acute. Can anyone steer a…
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Special Episode: Warwick Powell on How To Build A New Global Currency
After the BRICS meeting in Kazan, a picture of a bundle of fake BRICS banknotes began to circulate online. Right up to a picture of Putin holding one, like a…
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Moldova Joins The Club, Chindia, Keir There And Everywhere
Moldova has voted to join the EU – A referendum won by less than a single percentage point. It’s less clear when the EU’s citizens get their vote on whether…
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Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters, First Come First Serb, Strait Talk
Oil might be about to fall out of bed, because of an almighty concatenation of the US elections, the Houthis in the Red Sea, the Israelis striking Iran, and…
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Special Edition, feat. Malcom Kyeyune: Helene Is A Disaster, The Foam Dome Bursts
Something a little bit different. In a crowded news week, we’re bringing you only two stories - but three hosts. Katrina, Sandy, Helene. In the annals of…
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The Grand Opening of the Northern Front, The Lebanisation of Lebanon, The Hungaro-Austrian Empire…
Hezbollah has been decapitated. As the turban falls off Hassan Nasrallah for the final time, we’ll be assessing whether anyone will pick up the crown of Jihad…
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Special Episode: Philipp Mattheis on Germany's Downward Spiral
For decades now, Germany has stood as the doughty centurion at the gates of European civilisation. A nation of recyclers, engineers, and a super-sensible…