We talk to historian Tom Holland about the fall of the Roman Republic and the parallels with today. Why does Roman history still exert such a strong pull over our imaginations? Are politicians like Trump and Berlusconi recognisable types from the ancient past? And is contemporary democracy vulnerable to the same forces that brought down the Roman Republic? Plus, we discuss Putin's claim that Russia is now the Third Rome. What is he getting at? With Helen Thompson.
Q & A with Helen and David: Trump and Everything Else
Q & A With Helen and David: UK Politics and the Union
Q & A with Helen and David: Geopolitics
Ed Miliband's Big Ideas
Covid-Union-Labour-Brexit-Climate
Why Constitutions Matter
England, Their England
Niall Ferguson on Catastrophe
Election Fallout
Michael Lewis on the Pandemic
After Merkel, What?
Union at the Crossroads
Wales, England and the Future of the UK
Adam Curtis
How's Biden Doing
Technopopulism
The Tragic Choices of Climate Change
Sunakonomics
Northern Ireland: Past, Present, Future
What Does Jeremy Think?
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