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Alex joins us to go in on now-indicted Mayor Eric Adams. We go through the many hilarious details of the unsealed indictment, the Turkish Connection, airline bribes, New York to Easter Island via Ankara travel, ice cream trickery, and windows literally falling off of Turkish buildings in NYC. We also look at Tablet magazines full-throated defense of Adams & the necessity for foreign bribes.
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Tickets for our Election Eve live show with Episode 1 on Monday 11/4 in LA available now at: https://link.dice.fm/b1eb3de54f54 -
Contents
IntroWhat We Mean By SophistryWhat The Ancients ThoughtLeo StraussModern Sophistry (Link) (Link)Sophistry & Democracy
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Day 953.
Today, as Kyiv denies they'll make any territorial compromises in the search for peace, we hear the story from Georgia where upcoming elections could well point the country in an orbit away from Russia.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Kateryna Shenheliia-Hanapolska (Freelance Journalist). @eshenheliia on X.
Hamish de Bretton Gordon (Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.
Stream Link for David's Funeral:
His funeral will be live streamed here at 11.15 (BST) on Thursday 3 October:
https://youtube.com/live/cMqwb1Rc0Qk
Content Referenced:
KHARRP - helping people in the eastern territories of Ukraine rebuild their lives
https://kharpp.com/
Ada Wordsworth's Newsletter, with reference to David:
https://kharpp.substack.com/p/the-end-of-summer
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In today's special episode David Knowles speaks to historian, author and podcaster James Holland (@James1940 on X) about the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
This was recorded and edited by David shortly before his sudden passing.
The Second World War was catastrophic for Ukraine: millions died in the fighting and occupations, the battles that crossed the country were brutal and grinding, the country’s Jews were exterminated in the ‘Holocaust of bullets’, and the eventual Soviet victory ensured decades of further domination and control from Moscow.
This episode aims to give a broad account of the period and explore some of the key issues and stories.
James Holland: https://griffonmerlin.com/
'We Have Ways of Making You Talk' Podcast:
https://www.goalhangerpodcasts.com/we-have-ways-of-making-you-talk
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Day 958.
Today, after yet more long-range Ukrainian strikes against Russian targets, we hear that as executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops have allegedly surged this year, as a top Kyiv official warns it could indicate a shift in Moscow’s policy.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
RolandOliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.
With thanks to Liz Cookman (Ukraine Correspondent). @liz_cookman on X.
Articles referenced:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/06/steep-rise-in-russian-executions-of-ukrainian-prisoners/
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Day 962.
Today, further the latest military and political updates, we hear from a colleague of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who has reportedly died in Russian captivity, and from representatives of the British Council to discuss the work of their organisation on the ground in Ukraine.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
With thanks to British Council CEO Scott McDonald & its Ukraine Country Director Colm McGivern and Inna Varenytsia (Journalist). @InnaVarenytsia on X.
Content Referenced:
Putin owes Iran - he may be about to find out how much (James Kilner in The Telegraph) -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/11/putin-owes-iran-may-find-out-how-much/
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna ‘dies in Russian captivity’ (The Telegraph) -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/10/ukrainian-journalist-dies-russian-jail/
No war won by single weapon, says No 10 (The Telegraph) -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/10/starmer-storm-shadow-ukraine-russia-zelensky-nato/
David's episode on underground schools in Ukraine -
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lessons-in-a-bomb-shelter-going-to-school-in-wartime-ukraine/id1612424182?i=1000662968777
Learn more about the British Council:
https://www.britishcouncil.org/
https://www.britishcouncil.org.ua/en
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Day 961.
Today, we report accounts of house-to-house fighting in Donetsk, discuss Zelensky’s impromptu tour of key European capitals, and hear extraordinarily candid reflections from Washington’s most senior man in Moscow at the time of the full-scale invasion.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondant). @JamesERothwell on X.
With special guest John J Sullivan (United States Ambassador to Russia, 2020 - 2022).
Content Referenced:
Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West (by John J. Sullivan)
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-j-sullivan/midnight-in-moscow/9780316571111/
Episode interviewing Stephanie Barker on the economic war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8a0e74pgSA
Russia on mission to cause mayhem on UK streets, warns MI5 (BBC):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8e15yr1gwo
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