Kate Dixon
@katefdixon.bsky.social
Founder, Good Egg Productions | Creator of Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch Podcast (@BeebRoger) | views my own
Two great cover-ups. Everybody in Washington knows! says Rick Wilson, 30 years a Republican strategist, now one of Trump's loudest critics and "the Cassandra of the Republican Party."
Another great convo with @peteryork.bsky.social
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Another great convo with @peteryork.bsky.social
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October 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Two great cover-ups. Everybody in Washington knows! says Rick Wilson, 30 years a Republican strategist, now one of Trump's loudest critics and "the Cassandra of the Republican Party."
Another great convo with @peteryork.bsky.social
🎧 Full conversation: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Another great convo with @peteryork.bsky.social
🎧 Full conversation: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
"The industry, I think, would have welcomed a change because Lisa Nandy is not seen as being particularly effective, I don't think, and I do think that's a concern." Eye opening interview with @jakekanter.bsky.social this week.
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🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch
October 8, 2026 at 8:26 AM
"The industry, I think, would have welcomed a change because Lisa Nandy is not seen as being particularly effective, I don't think, and I do think that's a concern." Eye opening interview with @jakekanter.bsky.social this week.
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🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch
“What I'm less attracted to is the idea that any old story that you happen to bung on the internet & someone watches for or clicks on for three seconds counts as meaningful reach for the BBC, & they're too obsessed by that.”
Gt conversation - Roger Mosey, ex editor of Today & Head of BBC TV News.
Gt conversation - Roger Mosey, ex editor of Today & Head of BBC TV News.
“The cuts they’re making in news, in some cases, seem random and unjustified.”
What do those cuts say about the BBC’s vision for its future? @rogermosey discusses the BBC's priorities, digital ambitions and the case for public service broadcasting.
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What do those cuts say about the BBC’s vision for its future? @rogermosey discusses the BBC's priorities, digital ambitions and the case for public service broadcasting.
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October 1, 2026 at 9:51 AM
“What I'm less attracted to is the idea that any old story that you happen to bung on the internet & someone watches for or clicks on for three seconds counts as meaningful reach for the BBC, & they're too obsessed by that.”
Gt conversation - Roger Mosey, ex editor of Today & Head of BBC TV News.
Gt conversation - Roger Mosey, ex editor of Today & Head of BBC TV News.
Peter York's Culture Wars House Party is back for a new series - Hugo Drochon and Prof Joe Uscinski on the Great Replacement theory, and why "conspiracy theories are often for losers"
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September 29, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Peter York's Culture Wars House Party is back for a new series - Hugo Drochon and Prof Joe Uscinski on the Great Replacement theory, and why "conspiracy theories are often for losers"
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🎧 Full ep: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
"Unless you involve the public in that debate & give the British public a serious and meaningful space to talk about the relationship they want with the media.. you're never going to have genuine public democratic support for public media."
Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social
Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social
“Has the BBC board failed?
With more BBC job cuts announced, I talk to Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social – whose PhD examined the last BBC Charter Review about a “real moment of reckoning” for public service media.
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With more BBC job cuts announced, I talk to Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social – whose PhD examined the last BBC Charter Review about a “real moment of reckoning” for public service media.
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September 24, 2026 at 9:45 AM
"Unless you involve the public in that debate & give the British public a serious and meaningful space to talk about the relationship they want with the media.. you're never going to have genuine public democratic support for public media."
Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social
Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social
September 10, 2026 at 8:56 AM
"They have decimated their coverage of politics in the last 10 years… If you're a serious public service broadcaster, that should be one of your core things, and not spending millions of pounds on programmes like Match of the Day.”
Fascinating and fun listen with @iaindale.bsky.social on Beeb Watch
Fascinating and fun listen with @iaindale.bsky.social on Beeb Watch
David Cameron once offered Ann Widdecombe the ambassadorship to the Vatican. She turned it down.
Just one of the stories from @iaindale.bsky.social who talks LBC, the Tories, the BBC, and his memoir 'Have I Said Too Much?' in this week's episode.
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Just one of the stories from @iaindale.bsky.social who talks LBC, the Tories, the BBC, and his memoir 'Have I Said Too Much?' in this week's episode.
🎧 Full ep: podfollow.com/beebwatch
July 23, 2026 at 8:10 AM
"They have decimated their coverage of politics in the last 10 years… If you're a serious public service broadcaster, that should be one of your core things, and not spending millions of pounds on programmes like Match of the Day.”
Fascinating and fun listen with @iaindale.bsky.social on Beeb Watch
Fascinating and fun listen with @iaindale.bsky.social on Beeb Watch
"That doesn't make them wrong."
Ex-BBC & ITV chairman Michael Grade — who also just finished chairing Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator — argues different outlets can have different editorial priorities without either side being biased.
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Ex-BBC & ITV chairman Michael Grade — who also just finished chairing Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator — argues different outlets can have different editorial priorities without either side being biased.
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
July 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
"That doesn't make them wrong."
Ex-BBC & ITV chairman Michael Grade — who also just finished chairing Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator — argues different outlets can have different editorial priorities without either side being biased.
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
Ex-BBC & ITV chairman Michael Grade — who also just finished chairing Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator — argues different outlets can have different editorial priorities without either side being biased.
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
🇬🇧 What would British fascism look like?
Great convo 👇
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social argues that American myths, British nostalgia and white supremacy are more tightly linked than we like to think.
🎧@peteryork.bsky.social Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Great convo 👇
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social argues that American myths, British nostalgia and white supremacy are more tightly linked than we like to think.
🎧@peteryork.bsky.social Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
July 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
🇬🇧 What would British fascism look like?
Great convo 👇
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social argues that American myths, British nostalgia and white supremacy are more tightly linked than we like to think.
🎧@peteryork.bsky.social Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Great convo 👇
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social argues that American myths, British nostalgia and white supremacy are more tightly linked than we like to think.
🎧@peteryork.bsky.social Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
"If the rationale for the ITV deal is we can't survive unless we are owned by a larger company, what does that mean for the survival of Channel 4?"
A prescient point from an excellent interview with Prof Cathy Johnson of @universityofleeds.bsky.social who also unpacks the latest media green paper.
A prescient point from an excellent interview with Prof Cathy Johnson of @universityofleeds.bsky.social who also unpacks the latest media green paper.
"ITV have said if we don't get prominence legislation, we'll just won't renew our licence."
🎙️Prof Cathy Johnson on the Sky/ITV deal and government's new media green paper. We unpack why prominence, discoverability & amplification are now central to media policy
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🎙️Prof Cathy Johnson on the Sky/ITV deal and government's new media green paper. We unpack why prominence, discoverability & amplification are now central to media policy
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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch
Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...
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July 9, 2026 at 8:28 AM
"If the rationale for the ITV deal is we can't survive unless we are owned by a larger company, what does that mean for the survival of Channel 4?"
A prescient point from an excellent interview with Prof Cathy Johnson of @universityofleeds.bsky.social who also unpacks the latest media green paper.
A prescient point from an excellent interview with Prof Cathy Johnson of @universityofleeds.bsky.social who also unpacks the latest media green paper.
Kate Ferguson @wordsaredeeds.bsky.social of @ibvprev.bsky.social went from genocide prevention in Rwanda to noticing the same warning signs here at home.
She's got a "dread trio" of threats -one unthinkable a year ago.
🎧 @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House Party
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She's got a "dread trio" of threats -one unthinkable a year ago.
🎧 @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House Party
podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
July 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Kate Ferguson @wordsaredeeds.bsky.social of @ibvprev.bsky.social went from genocide prevention in Rwanda to noticing the same warning signs here at home.
She's got a "dread trio" of threats -one unthinkable a year ago.
🎧 @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House Party
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She's got a "dread trio" of threats -one unthinkable a year ago.
🎧 @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House Party
podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
"I think there really could be something quite exciting to be done in that space, but it does require the BBC to have a little bit of a shift in mind set." A refreshing take on local journalism from Jonathan Heawood of @publicinterestnews.org.uk
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July 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
"I think there really could be something quite exciting to be done in that space, but it does require the BBC to have a little bit of a shift in mind set." A refreshing take on local journalism from Jonathan Heawood of @publicinterestnews.org.uk
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🏳️🌈 @peteryork.bsky.social eteryork.bsky.social talks to @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social about 5 decades of culture wars - & what the Supreme Court ruling really means for trans rights.
“Things are not over by a long shot.”
🎧 Peter York's Culture Wars House party podcast
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“Things are not over by a long shot.”
🎧 Peter York's Culture Wars House party podcast
podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
June 23, 2026 at 8:36 AM
🏳️🌈 @peteryork.bsky.social eteryork.bsky.social talks to @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social about 5 decades of culture wars - & what the Supreme Court ruling really means for trans rights.
“Things are not over by a long shot.”
🎧 Peter York's Culture Wars House party podcast
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“Things are not over by a long shot.”
🎧 Peter York's Culture Wars House party podcast
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Why is the radical right doing so well? Because they've been losing for 50 years.
Prof Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social explains in the latest Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast with @peteryork.bsky.social
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Prof Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social explains in the latest Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast with @peteryork.bsky.social
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
June 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Why is the radical right doing so well? Because they've been losing for 50 years.
Prof Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social explains in the latest Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast with @peteryork.bsky.social
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Prof Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social explains in the latest Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast with @peteryork.bsky.social
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary?
Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast
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Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast
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June 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary?
Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast
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Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast
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Reposted by Kate Dixon
“If you’re only making the case in places that you feel are friendly and supportive, you’re by your very nature just talking to a certain audience."
Ex BBC Dir of Communications John Shield picked up from my Beeb Watch podcast.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...
Ex BBC Dir of Communications John Shield picked up from my Beeb Watch podcast.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 4, 2026 at 9:02 AM
“If you’re only making the case in places that you feel are friendly and supportive, you’re by your very nature just talking to a certain audience."
Ex BBC Dir of Communications John Shield picked up from my Beeb Watch podcast.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...
Ex BBC Dir of Communications John Shield picked up from my Beeb Watch podcast.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...
"There were things like crew & participants telling us about the use of alcohol, for instance, which was something we had assumed since 2019 had been pretty much banned, if not really strictly controlled...That was a real surprise to us".
@recaretv.bsky.social
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@recaretv.bsky.social
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May 28, 2026 at 8:17 AM
"There were things like crew & participants telling us about the use of alcohol, for instance, which was something we had assumed since 2019 had been pretty much banned, if not really strictly controlled...That was a real surprise to us".
@recaretv.bsky.social
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@recaretv.bsky.social
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Two Good Egg guests. One weekend. Two big stories. Great conversations
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Gabriel Gatehouse on the Observer's cover: did the CIA poison Gordon Banks in 1970? 🎙️ podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
@RobBurl's BBC/trans investigation in UnHerd more coverage in the Times. 🎙️ podfollow.com/beebwatch
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Gabriel Gatehouse on the Observer's cover: did the CIA poison Gordon Banks in 1970? 🎙️ podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
@RobBurl's BBC/trans investigation in UnHerd more coverage in the Times. 🎙️ podfollow.com/beebwatch
May 26, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Two Good Egg guests. One weekend. Two big stories. Great conversations
👇
Gabriel Gatehouse on the Observer's cover: did the CIA poison Gordon Banks in 1970? 🎙️ podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
@RobBurl's BBC/trans investigation in UnHerd more coverage in the Times. 🎙️ podfollow.com/beebwatch
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Gabriel Gatehouse on the Observer's cover: did the CIA poison Gordon Banks in 1970? 🎙️ podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
@RobBurl's BBC/trans investigation in UnHerd more coverage in the Times. 🎙️ podfollow.com/beebwatch
How the Weird Stuff Took Over Politics
Excellent convo on with @peteryork.bsky.social and Gabriel Gatehouse (ex‑BBC, The Coming Storm).
They discuss QAnon, Epstein, UFOs/UAPs, & what supposedly “weird” stories reveal about how power works in US and UK politics.
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Excellent convo on with @peteryork.bsky.social and Gabriel Gatehouse (ex‑BBC, The Coming Storm).
They discuss QAnon, Epstein, UFOs/UAPs, & what supposedly “weird” stories reveal about how power works in US and UK politics.
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May 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
How the Weird Stuff Took Over Politics
Excellent convo on with @peteryork.bsky.social and Gabriel Gatehouse (ex‑BBC, The Coming Storm).
They discuss QAnon, Epstein, UFOs/UAPs, & what supposedly “weird” stories reveal about how power works in US and UK politics.
🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Excellent convo on with @peteryork.bsky.social and Gabriel Gatehouse (ex‑BBC, The Coming Storm).
They discuss QAnon, Epstein, UFOs/UAPs, & what supposedly “weird” stories reveal about how power works in US and UK politics.
🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
“If you cut lots of jobs and lose lots of journalists with experience, there's a price to be paid..... Fran Unsworth was the author of this policy, ...and she says it's contributed to the problem ... she herself says that, and she devised it.”
Great convo with @robburl.bsky.social
Great convo with @robburl.bsky.social
Has the BBC been “captured”?
Great conversation with @robburl.bsky.social – writer & ex BBC Editor of Live Political Programmes & Deputy Editor of Newsnight – about his UnHerd piece on the BBC, trans coverage, culture & due impartiality.
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Great conversation with @robburl.bsky.social – writer & ex BBC Editor of Live Political Programmes & Deputy Editor of Newsnight – about his UnHerd piece on the BBC, trans coverage, culture & due impartiality.
🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/beebwatch
May 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
“If you cut lots of jobs and lose lots of journalists with experience, there's a price to be paid..... Fran Unsworth was the author of this policy, ...and she says it's contributed to the problem ... she herself says that, and she devised it.”
Great convo with @robburl.bsky.social
Great convo with @robburl.bsky.social
The brilliant Bonnie Greer - you hang on every word.
@peteryork.bsky.social talks to Bonnie Greer – Chicago‑born playwright, critic and public intellectual – talks Trump, power, “my stuff” politics & why she thinks we’re living in a post‑America era.
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@peteryork.bsky.social talks to Bonnie Greer – Chicago‑born playwright, critic and public intellectual – talks Trump, power, “my stuff” politics & why she thinks we’re living in a post‑America era.
🎧👇
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May 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The brilliant Bonnie Greer - you hang on every word.
@peteryork.bsky.social talks to Bonnie Greer – Chicago‑born playwright, critic and public intellectual – talks Trump, power, “my stuff” politics & why she thinks we’re living in a post‑America era.
🎧👇
podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
@peteryork.bsky.social talks to Bonnie Greer – Chicago‑born playwright, critic and public intellectual – talks Trump, power, “my stuff” politics & why she thinks we’re living in a post‑America era.
🎧👇
podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Reposted by Kate Dixon
Great pick up from my interview with @adamboulton.bsky.social on Beeb Watch this week.
Listen to the full interview here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Listen to the full interview here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
GB News should lose its licence, says ex-Sky News editor Adam Boulton
Veteran broadcaster accuses channel of ‘clear violations’ of Ofcom’s due impartiality rules
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Great pick up from my interview with @adamboulton.bsky.social on Beeb Watch this week.
Listen to the full interview here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Listen to the full interview here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
"I certainly think that the whole question of elected politicians presenting current affairs and news programmes, the so called 'presen-tician', is something which it could fairly easily be outlawed."
"And you would like it outlawed?"
"Yes. I think it should be outlawed."
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"And you would like it outlawed?"
"Yes. I think it should be outlawed."
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May 14, 2026 at 12:50 PM
"I certainly think that the whole question of elected politicians presenting current affairs and news programmes, the so called 'presen-tician', is something which it could fairly easily be outlawed."
"And you would like it outlawed?"
"Yes. I think it should be outlawed."
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"And you would like it outlawed?"
"Yes. I think it should be outlawed."
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"Ofcom has let it go so far, the elastic band has stretched so far that I would say perhaps it's snapped." Chris Banatvala on GB News and due impartiality.
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🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
May 7, 2026 at 8:32 AM
"Ofcom has let it go so far, the elastic band has stretched so far that I would say perhaps it's snapped." Chris Banatvala on GB News and due impartiality.
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🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
“Do. Not. Trust. Us. This is the end of the affair.”
Historian @marcishore.bsky.social joins @peteryork.bsky.social to talk fear, history and the US moral abyss – from fascism and shameless politics to Trump, Putin, Ukraine and Europe’s dangerous denial.
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Historian @marcishore.bsky.social joins @peteryork.bsky.social to talk fear, history and the US moral abyss – from fascism and shameless politics to Trump, Putin, Ukraine and Europe’s dangerous denial.
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May 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM
“Do. Not. Trust. Us. This is the end of the affair.”
Historian @marcishore.bsky.social joins @peteryork.bsky.social to talk fear, history and the US moral abyss – from fascism and shameless politics to Trump, Putin, Ukraine and Europe’s dangerous denial.
🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Historian @marcishore.bsky.social joins @peteryork.bsky.social to talk fear, history and the US moral abyss – from fascism and shameless politics to Trump, Putin, Ukraine and Europe’s dangerous denial.
🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...