Sitemap - 2024 - Latika Takes

My plans for Latika Takes in 2025

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Did Russia just down another passenger plane?

Why we can be grateful for Prince Andrew this Christmas

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It's been tough work keeping up with Australia's excuses for its shut embassy in Kyiv

Latika Takes interviews the UK's Foreign and Defence Secretaries

Latika Takes interviews Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna

What I'm Reading: Syria - the aftermath

Authoritarians are strong until they're not

What I'm Reading: The fall of Assad

Von der Leyen's Mercosur moment

Latika Takes: The Podcast from the Australian Institute of International Affairs conference

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Latika Takes interviews urban warfare strategist John Spencer

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🦋 To tweet or to fly

Keir Starmer revives Golden Era China policy

On Australian politics: A despatch from Canberra

What I'm Reading: US election wash-up edition

Latika Takes Interviews Michael Green from the United States Studies Centre

What I'm Reading: The Trump 2.0 Special Edition

Ressurected Trump realigns American politics

Yes, foreign policy is a driving issue for US voters

Latika Takes interviews former US Ambassador to Palau John Hennessey

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Latika Takes interviews pollster James Johnson, author of The Next America

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I asked the three Commonwealth candidates if the body should be used to counter China

Latika Takes interviews Stephanie Baker, author of Punishing Putin

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Australian tanks to go to Ukraine but why so late?

Latika Takes interviews Tymofiy Mylovanov, Former Economy Minister of Ukraine and President of the Kyiv School of Economics

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Sue Gray's departure will test whether Labour's problem is staff or Keir Starmer himself

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What the Conservatives can learn from a potato head

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Mykola Bielieskov joins Bourke & Ryan

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Keir Starmer: The grifter that keeps on grifting

Tax the city to pay for undersea cables, says former Cabinet Minister

Latika Takes interviews Australia's Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham

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Anne-Marie Trevelyan joins Bourke & Ryan

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Campaigning on vibes is great, until the change you promised actually means pain

Benjamin Tallis joins Bourke & Ryan

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Democrats release copy and paste foreign policy

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Nancy Pelosi exposes Anthony Albanese's weakness

Kyiv Independent reporter Francis Farrell joins Bourke & Ryan

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Meet the MP savaged by his own government for visiting Taiwan

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Latika Takes interviews Australia's Opposition Leader Peter Dutton

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Three years left to prepare for war, warns new army boss

Latika Takes interviews Australia's former High Commissioner to the UK George Brandis

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One in five chance of full-scale war with China, warns Defence White Paper author

Bourke & Ryan: The podcast, featuring Mike Pezzullo

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Biden's decline has become an American freak show

What the hell is going on in French politics? Part II

What I'm Reading: UK election special edition

Keir Starmer's landslide conceals real dangers for Labour

The Boris lesson? Make it a lot harder to knife PMs says Iain Duncan Smith

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, featuring Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko

What the hell is going on in French politics?

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Julian Assange walks free, why now?

I asked Matt Pottinger and Elbridge Colby if they want to serve in a Trump Administration

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, featuring Australian Cabinet Minister Bill Shorten.

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Deepfakes are okay in political campaigns says Boris Johnson's election-winning strategist

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'That day has finally arrived': The story of the UK election is the next opposition and David Cameron's legacy

France's Emmanuel Macron plays Russian roulette, calls election for three weeks time

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, Episode 7

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Memo to the Five Eyes: Follow TikTok ban

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, Episode 6

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The Christopher Luxon interview

'Teenage Dad's Army' Keir Starmer mocks national service, is that just what Rishi Sunak wanted?

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, Episode 5

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Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, Episode 4

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Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast, Episode 3

Why did intelligence agencies keep MPs in the dark about these hackers?

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Fearing Europe's deindustrialisation Ursula von der Leyen's derisking grows fangs

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast Episode 2

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Albanese's outing at women's rally shows left not immune from the gender blowtorch

Bourke & Ryan: The Podcast

I asked Britain's Two Christophers how they will plead to spying charges

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Germany and UK charge nationals with spying for China

'Must laugh at us': Putin succesfully scared the West into self-deterrence with empty nuke threats

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Prepare now for Trump and the Trumpers taking it to the streets, retired General warns

What gun laws can’t stop

We'll need 'deep pockets' for Ukraine, British minister warns

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Why these winemakers aren’t banking on China despite the wine ban ending

JAUKUS gets the green light

Why the UK's David Lammy should be more worried than Kevin Rudd about Trump 2.0

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I visited four countries to learn about disaster resilience, here's what I learnt

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'No longer necessary', China drops tariffs on Australian wine after three years of economic coercion

Western response to Chinese hacking weak and bureaucratic

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We suffer tremendous freedom guilt says Cheng Lei, after Chinese detention

Analysing the latest Threat Assessments

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Long-read: In conversation with the Czech Republic's Foreign Minister

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Australia's spy boss made an error of judgement in 'outing' traitor MP

Tony Abbott slams GOP's 'Putin Fascination Syndrome'

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Five photos that show India's transformation

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'None of us can afford to sit on the sidelines' Modi told on Ukraine

The man who led the campaign for Magnitsky sanctions wants a Navalny Act

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NATO lifts its game as Trump rattles the Trans-Atlantic alliance

Attacks on shipping hurt the Global South, so why is China so passive?

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Keir Starmer should look twice at how Australian Labor's small-target strategy has worked out

Death penalty sentence exposes limits of Australia's 'stabilisation' with China

Facebook turns 20, a discussion

Long-read: Big Tech's election year, in conversation with Katie Harbath

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What the prospect of a second Trump presidency means for WikiLeaks

We don't expect US to come to our rescue says Taiwanese diplomat

Trump could quit race over repeated gaffes claims former Ambassador

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No 'Sir Galahad or Boudica to ride to the rescue' warns former Tory leader

Escalation fears, 'underwhelming' Borrell, why the EU has been slow to act on the Red Sea

What the words 'soberisation' and 'dosing' tell us about Putin's nuclear intentions

David Lammy's foreign policy speech avoids the T-word

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'Improbable' China will negotiate end to Ukraine war

Raise debt for green jobs to give hope to unhappy middle class, says Macron

Journalists should welcome AI says Microsoft CEO

What the Tories can learn from the surprising recovery being staged by the Australian Liberals

Australia stopped the boats, why is promising to do the same a risk for Rishi Sunak?

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'A real-life Top Gun Maverick moment': US and Britain strike Houthi targets in Yemen

What David Cameron said about Huawei 'inconceivable' says former intelligence committee chair

Keir Starmer just said one of the most refreshing things I've ever heard a politician say

Why China's latest target is France's Emmanuel Macron

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BYD overtakes Elon's Tesla. Why do EVs have geopolitical significance?

Australia's prime minister suggests he doesn't want to add to 2024's record year of elections

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