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The growing divide between Washington and the global south is playing out in Beijing’s favor.

Changing perspectives: We live in a sticking-to-my-story society of same-as-me bubbles and echo chambers that tend to confirm our biases.

Just as social media competes for individuals’ attention, so do global crises.

Will the far right be the big winner in this year’s European elections? If so, what would its victory mean for the future of the EU? And who is the far right? Five years ago, Europe’s leaders rightly recognised that Europeans were suffering a vertigo moment. In Milan Kundera’s words, vertigo is not the same as a fear of falling – rather, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. Then, voters toyed with far-right populists and contemplated collapsing the union, but eventually the majority chose to vote for mainstream parties.

Mark Leonard welcomes Cinzia Bianco and Theodore Murphy to discuss the crisis in the Red Sea and its escalation…