90 Seconds to Midnight

By: Daily Mail
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  • The Doomsday Clock is the symbolic countdown to human extinction; a universally recognised, annual indicator of the world’s vulnerability to man-made global catastrophe. If the clock strikes midnight, the world will have ended. Today, the clock sits as close to midnight as it has ever been – just 90 seconds away. And is it any wonder? Ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Middle East. The continued expansion of nuclear arsenals around the world. The advance of generative AI and its potential for disinformation. The climate crisis. The list of potentially world-ending dangers feels increasingly – and depressingly – long. The Doomsday Clock is set annually, but, given the scale of the challenges facing humanity on a daily basis, as of September 5, we will be setting our own version of the clock each week. Welcome to 90 Seconds to Midnight: the Daily Mail’s new weekly global news podcast, promising listeners informed analysis, discussion, and on-the-ground reporting about the week’s most influential geopolitical flashpoints. Hosted by the Mail’s Special Correspondent David Patrikarakos, every episode ends with one question: are we closer, or further away, from midnight?
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Episodes
  • Historian Simon Schama: Trump 'gets off on tariff porn'

    Historian Simon Schama: Trump 'gets off on tariff porn'
    Nov 7 2024
    After perhaps the most extraordinary election result in US history, David Patrikarakos speaks to famed historian Sir Simon Schama to unpack what on earth happens next. The pair also discuss how a second Trump term will push America toward authoritarianism and why Ukraine may be the biggest casualty of the result. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • Trump expert Michael Wolff: ‘He's on the edge of freaking out!’

    Trump expert Michael Wolff: ‘He's on the edge of freaking out!’
    Oct 31 2024
    On the eve of the US Presidential election the foremost chronicler of Trump’s first term, Michael Wolff, speaks with David Patrikarakos to share what is really going on in Trump’s camp; what is really driving the former President and why his son-in-law may become one of the most influential figures in global geo-politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • How billionaires Putin and Xi are funding war

    How billionaires Putin and Xi are funding war
    Oct 24 2024
    Despite years of intense sanctions, regimes like Russia and Iran are not only surviving but thriving at keeping the money rolling in. What makes it worse is that we can’t blame it all on Tehran or Moscow. The uncomfortable truth is that much of this network of corrupt finance was created by us in the West… London being a primary culprit. In this episode David Patrikarakos speaks to Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum about how these countries are using shadow financial networks to earn and launder hundreds of billions every year, how it's having an increasingly dangerous effect on global geo-politics and why the West is partly to blame. Producer: Max Bower Editor: Alex Graham Executive Producer: Bella Soames Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Host: David Patrikarakos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    41 mins

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