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2 weeks ago | msn.com | Roland Oliphant |Venetia Rainey |David Blair

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2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Roland Oliphant |Venetia Rainey |David Blair

By Roland Oliphant,Venetia Rainey.,David Blair Battle Lines, a podcast from The Telegraph, combines on-the-ground reporting with analytical expertise to help the listener to better understand the course of world politics, wars and tensions, as fault lines grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous and confusing multipolar world. Listen to Battle Lines using the audio player in this article or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favourite podcast app.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | David Blair |James Crisp

Britain can still fulfil the Brexit dream of functioning like the Asian city-state. Here's how... Singapore's first leader, Lee Kuan Yew, was famed for his iron self-discipline. Yet, even he broke down in public when he announced Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia and its enforced independence in 1965. For an island state barely 30 miles wide, this was an economic shock infinitely greater than anything Donald Trump's tariffs might inflict on Britain today.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | David Blair |James Rothwell

In 2023, Rheinmetall churned out 150,000 rounds to be fired from tanks; last year, he raised this capacity to 240,000. "Europe's defence must become independent from the US, as Trump demands, and build up its armed forces massively," says Bernd Atenstaedt, the executive president of German Industry UK. Achieving this will require a sea change in German public opinion, once steeped in the post-1945 ethos of "never again".

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Venetia Rainey |Roland Oliphant |David Blair |Henry Bodkin

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