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Watergate now
A minor burglary started the most famous political scandal of modern times. It still resonates
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Biden poses as a war leader
A former prime ministerial speech writer decodes the President’s address to the US people after 13 U.S. troops and dozens of Afghans were killed in an attack at the Kabul Airport on August 26.
Our six point plan for Biden’s Covid summit
The president is close to announcing a special gathering of world leaders to draw up a strategy to end the pandemic. Here are the main issues they must tackle
Slow View
The Tortoise Take: Be more Biden
The US president understands that this is an age to borrow and spend. The UK’s chancellor, Rishi Sunak, should be no less ambitious
Slow View
Philip Collins: Biden brought the daylight
A former prime ministerial speechwriter assesses the president’s Inaugural Address, which may have lacked a strong central idea – but struck the right tone
The Backstory
Episode 4: Wolfgang Ischinger
Andrew Neil talks to a man once described as Europe’s most powerful ambassador about Germany’s shifting security policy and why he would still invite Russia’s foreign minister to the Munich Security Conference
The Backstory
Episode 3: Robert Kagan
Andrew Neil talks to the hawkish US foreign policy thinker about Russia’s war in Ukraine, his belief in liberal interventionism and why he thinks there’s a constitutional crisis in the United States
The Backstory
Inside the Interview: General David Petraeus
In a bonus episode for Tortoise members, Andrew Neil reflects on his interview with former CIA director and commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus
The Backstory
Episode 1: General David Petraeus
Andrew Neil talks to the former CIA director about Ukraine, America’s role in the world and its politics at home
Quarterly
Watergate now
A minor burglary started the most famous political scandal of modern times. It still resonates
Primary Sources
Biden poses as a war leader
A former prime ministerial speech writer decodes the President’s address to the US people after 13 U.S. troops and dozens of Afghans were killed in an attack at the Kabul Airport on August 26.
Our six point plan for Biden’s Covid summit
The president is close to announcing a special gathering of world leaders to draw up a strategy to end the pandemic. Here are the main issues they must tackle
Slow View
The Tortoise Take: Be more Biden
The US president understands that this is an age to borrow and spend. The UK’s chancellor, Rishi Sunak, should be no less ambitious
Slow View
Philip Collins: Biden brought the daylight
A former prime ministerial speechwriter assesses the president’s Inaugural Address, which may have lacked a strong central idea – but struck the right tone
Slow View
Michael Brendan Dougherty: What Trump got right
The president leaves office with few admirers and facing an impeachment trial. But that doesn’t mean we should ignore his agenda altogether
Edith
Edith – Goodnight Trumps
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Former US Defense Secretary: The attack on the Capitol was a ‘coup’
Chuck Hagel, a Republican senator for 12 years and Barack Obama’s defence chief, was speaking to this week’s Tortoise Slow Newscast
This week in Tortoise: The Trump hangover
The Backstory
Episode 4: Wolfgang Ischinger
Andrew Neil talks to a man once described as Europe’s most powerful ambassador about Germany’s shifting security policy and why he would still invite Russia’s foreign minister to the Munich Security Conference
The Backstory
Episode 3: Robert Kagan
Andrew Neil talks to the hawkish US foreign policy thinker about Russia’s war in Ukraine, his belief in liberal interventionism and why he thinks there’s a constitutional crisis in the United States
The Backstory
Inside the Interview: General David Petraeus
In a bonus episode for Tortoise members, Andrew Neil reflects on his interview with former CIA director and commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus
The Backstory
Episode 1: General David Petraeus
Andrew Neil talks to the former CIA director about Ukraine, America’s role in the world and its politics at home