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Stay in the Room Podcast
Stay In The Room Because the people who leave are the ones who lose Political analysis at home and abroad — power, fragmentation, and the case for staying in the conversation
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Episodes
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Third Family
The Third Family Two nuclear powers are weakening the rules, and Europe is being invited to do the same. Breaking them would cost it the only thing holding it…
Stay in the Room PodcastTwo Rooms
The argument about Ukraine has split into two rooms, each sure the other is selling propaganda. They agree on more than they admit, and much of what divides…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Roundabout
At the end of November 2018 I drove into Lyon from the north, on my way to Les Menuires for the ski season, with everything I owned in the car. Protesters had…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Waiting Room
The Waiting Room The date everyone is watching is November 3. Most of what Europe depends on keeps a different calendar. This project supports Ukraine’s right…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Waiting Room
The Waiting Room The date everyone is watching is November 3. Most of what Europe depends on keeps a different calendar. This project supports Ukraine’s right…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Five Thousand Men Who Weren't There
The Five Thousand Men Who Weren’t There What happens to a movement that has to keep topping itself Earlier this month, in an interview with Tommy Robinson…
Stay in the Room PodcastSame Target, No Agreement
Same Target, No Agreement Why horseshoe theory reaches for the wrong explanation, and what a better one predicts In the first week of November 1932, Berlin’s…
Stay in the Room PodcastSame Target, No Agreement
Same Target, No Agreement Why horseshoe theory reaches for the wrong explanation, and what a better one predicts In the first week of November 1932, Berlin’s…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Permission Slip
The Permission Slip Why the argument for letting Russia win keeps arriving in the same three parts On Monday, on his own programme, George Galloway announced…
Stay in the Room PodcastWhat Power Is For
On Saturday afternoon at Farmleigh House in Dublin, standing beside the Taoiseach, the President of the United States said two things about Britain. The first…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Nearest Boat
A volunteer named only as Neil was photographed and put on social media as a traitor. He told the BBC what his crew had actually been doing. They had been…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Price-Takers
On Thursday the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia rang the President of the United States twice in one day. The first call told him the Houthis were advancing on…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Wrong Obstacle
On Friday, on a stage in Birmingham, Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella signed a document. Reform UK has published it, and it is worth reading yourself, because…
Stay in the Room PodcastWhich Way They’re Facing
Reform UK’s conference runs at the NEC in Birmingham today and tomorrow. It opened under a Channel 4 News investigation, broadcast on Thursday evening, in…
Stay in the Room PodcastNothing Falls Down
NOTHING FALLS DOWN Some political claims hold the roof up. Some are bolted to nothing. The difference is testable, and it does not run between left and right…
Stay in the Room PodcastEveryone Can Count
At around ten past eight on the evening of Friday 28 August, a Russian drone hit a warehouse in the village of Myla, in the Bucha district of Kyiv Oblast. The…
Stay in the Room PodcastBritain Has Already Answered
Britain Has Already Answered America supplied the deadline. Britain supplied the evidence. They arrived one day apart and almost nobody put them side by side…
Stay in the Room PodcastWhere the Framework Stops
In November last year, John Mearsheimer stood in front of a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels and told the people in the room that the American…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Removability Test.
THE REMOVABILITY TEST Written on the evening of Thursday 27 August 2026. The dates in this piece matter more than they usually would, so it seemed worth…
Stay in the Room PodcastSelling the Roof
Richard Tice stood up in Westminster on Monday and said something largely true. There are about 1.3 million households on social housing waiting lists in…
Stay in the Room PodcastThe Fence Around the Congregation
You know why this one is difficult. So let’s deal with it at the top rather than hoping you’ll stay long enough for me to get to it. Over the last two years…
Stay in the Room PodcastExplainer: WHOEVER'S ON DUTY
Before anyone reaches for it: this is not a piece claiming Trump has a secret grand strategy, and it is not a piece claiming he has no strategy at all. The…
Stay in the Room PodcastWHOEVER'S ON DUTY
Stay In The Room is a political analysis project published on Substack. It looks for the structures underneath the week’s events — the conditions that produce…
Stay in the Room PodcastWASHINGTON’S LOUDEST CLAIMS HAVE THE LEAST DOCTRINE BEHIND THEM
WASHINGTON’S LOUDEST CLAIMS HAVE THE LEAST DOCTRINE BEHIND THEM Greenland, Nato, the euro and the Strait of Hormuz rest on radically different foundations. The…
Stay in the Room PodcastTHE LOUDEST BIT HAS THE LEAST BEHIND IT
Friday afternoon, a police academy on Long Island. Trump tells a room full of law enforcement officers he’ll soon be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of…