TALKING POLITICS

Trump's Cabinet

We try to make sense of what Trump's Cabinet appointments tell us about a Trump Presidency.  What will oil baron Rex Tillerson do as Secretary of State?  What will fast food tycoon Andrew Pudzer do at Labor?  Rick Perry has been put in charge of one of the agencies - Energy - that he previously promised to eliminate (and then forgot).  So we ask: is this about what Trump wants to undo, not what he wants to do?  Plus we talk Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and (very briefly) Theresa May's trousers.  At the end, Maha, Aaron and Finbarr give us some good news after all the doom and gloom of 2016.

Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? This is the political conversation that matters. Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.