Breaking Britain: A Podcast about the Politics of a Disunited Kingdom
Breaking Britain is a podcast produced by the Europe's Borderlands Research Group at the European and International Studies Department in King's College London. Hosted by Russell Foster and Alex Clarkson, it will explore the pressures unravelling the unity of Britain and reopening the future of the island of Ireland in a European context. In each episode we will discuss the challenges reshaping a disunited kingdom as well as a wary republic with scholars and commentators who can provide expert insight into political faultlines within the nations of Britain and the island of Ireland.
Latest Episode
Surviving the America Crisis: How Mexico and the rest of Latin America are adapting to the Trump Era - With Geoffrey Pleyers (20.05.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Crises that Shaped European Politics 3: Europe's Security and Russia's Invasions of Ukraine - With Christoph Meyer 14.03.2025
- Crises that Shaped European Politics 2: Europe after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - With Lee Savage 19.02.2025
- Crises that Shaped European Politics 1: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and EU Security - With Ben Jones 14.01.2025
- The Battle for Britain: The Impact of the 2024 Election on Scotland, Wales and the British State - With David Leask 21.06.2024
- The Battle for Britain: The Impact of the 2024 Election on UK Foreign and Defence Policy - With Ben Jones 14.06.2024
- Power Verticals and Protests: Russia and Turkey during the Crisis of the 2010s - With Dimitar Bechev 15.02.2024
- Did the Crisis of the 2010s Make Brexit Inevitable? - With Annette Dittert 05.02.2024
- Russia's Turn to Confrontation and the Crisis of the 2010s - With Ruth Deyermond 14.12.2023
- The Sahel Wars and the Crisis of the 2010s - With Andrew Lebovich 07.12.2023
- Sinking Services?: Britain's Crisis of State Capacity - With Glen O'Hara 05.07.2023
- Lavender Politics?: The Impact of LGBT Voters on British Political Debate - With Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte 17.05.2023
- Brexit Economics: The Old Roots of Britain's New Economic Challenges - With John Mills 21.04.2023
- The Politics of School Meals: Food, Community and the British Welfare State - With Heather Ellis 16.03.2023
- Aftermaths: Foreign Policy and the Battle for the Soul of the British Left - With Oz Katerji 02.03.2023
- Strong and Stable?: The Bank of England in the Age of Brexit - With Tony Yates 13.02.2023
- Echoes of Empire: Geopolitics and Populism in Central and Eastern Europe - With Marcus How 16.01.2023
- New Turkey, Old Problems: Managing Crisis in Turkey and Europe - With Selim Koru 10.01.2023
- Russian Riddles: The Future of Russia's Relationship with the US, EU and UK with Anton Barbashin 17.02.2022
- So Close, Yet So Far Away: The Netherlands, Brexit and Europe's Future - With Caroline de Gruyter 11.12.2021
- The Law and the Rules: Poland and the UK in the Age of Populism 08.11.2021
