Today, DMG Media announces its brand-new weekly global news podcast, 90 Seconds to Midnight, hosted by the Daily Mail's Special Correspondent David Patrikarakos.
The podcast promises listeners informed analysis, discussion, and on-the-ground reporting about the week’s most influential geopolitical flashpoints.
The Doomsday Clock is the symbolic countdown to human extinction; a universally recognised, annual indicator of the world’s vulnerability to man-made global catastrophe. If the clock strikes midnight, the world will have ended.
Today, the clock sits as close to midnight as it has ever been – just 90 seconds away. And is it any wonder?
Ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Middle East. The continued expansion of nuclear arsenals around the world. The advance of generative AI and its potential for disinformation. The climate crisis. The list of potentially world-ending dangers feels increasingly – and depressingly – long.
The Doomsday Clock is set annually, but given the scale of the challenges facing humanity on a daily basis, this podcast will be setting its own version of the clock each week.
Each week, David will be joined by expert guests. Today's episode features Ukrainian war reporter, Illia Ponomarenko, recorded on-location in Kyiv. Upcoming contributors include journalist and historian Anne Applebaum on the rise of dictators around the world; historian Niall Ferguson on the new global confrontation led by China, Russia and Iran; and former Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy.
At the end of every episode, David will ask his guests one question: are we closer, or further away, from midnight?
Host David Patrikarakos grew up with an Athenian father who moved to Britain following the 1967 Greek Junta, and a mother driven out of Iran by a gang of geriatric ayatollahs. Geopolitics has been an inescapable part of his life since birth.
After an ill-advised (and ill-fated) foray into law, he became a foreign correspondent and then – almost by accident – a war correspondent. He is interested in the forces shaping our age. War, sadly, is chief among them.
90 Seconds to Midnight is available on all podcast platforms from today, Thursday 12th September 2024.
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