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From Washington DC comes an unflinching, no-apology show confronting the crises shaking the US and UK - open borders, cultural collapse, economic chaos, and threats to our security. On this podcast, American grit meets British backbone to defend faith, family, freedom, and the future of the West.
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It’s not every day the world’s most powerful people look like they’re queuing for a mugshot. But as the Epstein files spill their secrets, comedians like JP Sears, famous for mocking untouchable elites, are suddenly sounding less like jesters and more like prophets.
With politicians, royals, and bankers being frogmarched to police cells from London to Oslo, the script has flipped. But in the US? The punchline is missing!
JP Sears, the man behind Awaken with JP, joins Harry Cole for a chat that was part gallows humour, part political autopsy. “Conspiracy theorists have unfortunately been right about everything,” quipped Sears, with the kind of weary pride only a man vindicated by world events can muster.
While ex-Prince Andrew’s passport is gathering dust in a British police station and a former Norwegian PM reportedly attempting to take his own life, the US is still stuck on zero arrests. Why? “Corruption,” says Sears, with the bluntness of a man who’s seen too many cover-ups.
And with both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton testifying to Congress over the Epstein files, JP Sears says he imagines their answers are "just as genuine as Pam Bondi's were."
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America and Israel have gone full Top Gun, raining down missiles on Iran terror targets. Meanwhile, Britain’s contribution is a polite statement about air defence. UK military bases are off-limits for US operations. The Prime Minister is acting more like a solicitor than a statesman, and the world’s watching.
Ben Wallace, ex-Defence Secretary isn’t impressed. “No one can predict when a regime will fall,” he says, but warns that air strikes alone won’t spark revolution. Trump called for Iranians to “rise up”, but Wallace doubts it’ll be that easy. “They’re the Stasi of the Middle East,” he quips, “they know how to keep a lid on things.”
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Iran woke up to fireworks of a different kind today after Donald Trump finally made good on weeks of threats and hit Iran hard. With Ayatollah Khamenei’s fate up in the air—literally and figuratively—the world is watching as the Iranian regime faces its biggest crisis in 47 years. “This is probably your only chance for generations,” Trump warned, urging Iranians to seize the moment, as opposition groups and the streets buzz with talk of revolution.
Ali Safavi is a member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and President of Near East Policy Research (NEPR), a consulting and policy analysis firm in Washington, DC. He joins Harry Cole to analyse the situation.
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Harry Cole is joined by David Carlucci, former New York State Senator.
Britain’s Online Safety Act gives its regulator, Ofcom, powers to fine tech firms up to 10% of their revenue for failing to remove harmful content. It even threatens prosecution for execs who don’t play ball. That’s enough to make Mark Zuckerberg sweat through his hoodie.
The US State Department isn’t amused. They’re backing laws to shield American companies from UK and European meddling. Their message: “Hands off our servers!” The result? A classic transatlantic standoff. Not since the Boston Tea Party has the UK been so eager to tell Uncle Sam what to do.
American tech firms are protected by the Constitution, but their platforms are global. What happens when British police turn up at your door for a spicy tweet? David Carlucci, former New York State Senator, admits the dilemma: “It’s not easy, but it’s interesting.”
As Elon Musk struts through Mar-a-Lago, Cole wonders if tech billionaires are running the show. Carlucci agrees: “People are nervous when they see unfettered access to the White House.” Trump promised to be for the little guy, but now he’s surrounded by the Silicon Valley elite.
With Europe and Australia tightening online rules, and America digging in its constitutional heels, the West is set for a showdown. Will the internet stay free, or will governments start playing whack-a-mole with offensive posts? One thing’s for sure—this digital drama is only just getting started.
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Manchester’s Gorton and Denton has gone green with the shock victory of the Green Party in a by-election that’s sent Keir Starmer and Labour’s top brass into meltdown. The Greens stormed to victory with over 40% of the vote, leaving Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in second place and Labour, once the king of this castle, languishing in a humiliating third. “A seismic result,” said James Heale of The Spectator.
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Manchester’s Gorton and Denton by-election is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The Green Party has dropped a campaign ad entirely in Urdu, featuring photos of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and plenty of shade thrown at Reform and Keir Starmer. Sectarian politics, anyone? “We are through the looking glass now, aren’t we?” asked Harry Cole. Winston Marshall thinks we’re not just through it—we’re stuck there.
Marshall didn’t mince words. “We’re witnessing the Lebanonization of Britain,” he declared. Forget shared language, legal system, history, or religion—Britain’s got none of that anymore, according to him. He blames turbocharged mass migration for the growing cultural chasm.
With Thursday’s by-election looming, Marshall predicts a Green win—left-wing territory, after all. Reform might be rising, but the seat’s been Labour for a century. Marshall calls the Greens “extreme far left: legalise all drugs, no borders”. Combine Labour and Greens, and the majority’s secure. Cole says it’s a preview of the “grim time” ahead for British politics, with splits everywhere.
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Harry Cole is joined by former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy.
Two years on from October 7th, Levy reckons Israel dodged a bullet. The “circle of fire” plan—where Iran’s proxies would invade from all sides—never fully materialised. Hamas is battered, Hezbollah’s in tatters, and the Houthis are at arm’s length. Iran’s nuclear dreams? “Seriously degraded,” says Levy.
But while Israel’s neighbours might finally appreciate its strategic value, many Western allies are now suffering from what Levy blames a “poisonous PR campaign” by Hamas that managed to radicalise Western public opinion. “The information war was fought as fiercely as the one in Gaza,” he says.
Iran is expected to submit a written proposal on how to avoid its standoff with the United States in the wake of U.S.-Iran talks in Geneva on Tuesday, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Top national security advisers met in the White House Situation Room to discuss Iran and were told all U.S. forces deployed to the region should be in place by mid-March, the official said.
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It’s not every day the British ambassador presents credentials to the US President with a predecessor behind bars. But that’s exactly what happened in the White House this week. While the tea was served, the elephant in the room was huge: Peter Mandelson, once cabinet minister and ambassador, now arrested and bailed.
And Prince Andrew? The second son of the Queen. The brother of the King. Now embroiled in a police investigation that could be the trial of the century. If charged and found guilty, Andrew might be swapping Windsor for Wormwood Scrubs.
Royal expert Robert Jobson says: “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up,” he says. Money paid to Virginia Giuffre, emails to Epstein, and a parade of lies. “He’s lied to his mother. He’s lied to the country."
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It’s not easy being a Republican these days. On one hand, party strategists are obsessed with the economy. “Stick to the message!” they cry, hammering away at gas prices, groceries, and the cost of dog walking. On the other, Donald Trump is more interested in reshaping the world order. Iran? Cuba? Even Greenland gets a mention. The result? Two campaigns running in parallel, and neither seems able to control the other.
Jon Levine, from the Washington Free Beacon, sums it up: “Success is its own justification.” If Trump can pull off a foreign policy win, say flipping Iran to a pro-American regime, who cares about the price of tomatoes? Legacy, not lunch, is what animates the man.
While Trump’s gaze is fixed on foreign affairs, Marco Rubio is quietly becoming the White House’s adult-in-chief. Levine calls him “a rock star,” noting he's got the president’s ear and isn’t embroiled in the cabinet chaos plaguing others. Pam Bondi’s Epstein disaster and Christine Noem’s Minneapolis mess, the bar for “peak performance” is low.
Across the aisle, things aren’t much better. AOC’s Munich trip was “the 20 most awkward seconds in television history.” Her foreign policy boils down to “Israel bad.” Ask her about Taiwan, and it’s meltdown time. Gavin Newsom tries to out-Trump Trump with jokey tweets, but landmines await: “Can a biological man compete in women’s sports?” No answer. “What’s the minimum age for gender reassignment?” Silence.
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First things first: Trump isn’t the first US president to dabble in what’s called the “Madman Theory.” Richard Nixon tried it back in the day, acting unpredictable to scare adversaries into submission.
According to Author James D. Boys, Trump has taken that theory and dialled it up to eleven. He says to be a true implementer of the madman theory, one has to be sane, "it has to be feigned,” Boys says. In other words, you’re not supposed to actually be a lunatic, just act like one.
The parallels between Nixon and Trump don’t end there. Both have a love-hate relationship with the media. Both see “deep state” conspiracies everywhere. But while Nixon kept his paranoia hush-hush, Trump shouts it from Truth Social.
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Prince Andrew, now just Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has been arrested for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly leaking British state secrets. The once 'untouchable' Duke of York found himself very much touched by the long arm of the law.
As the world watched him leave a police station in a police car, even former Trump spokesman Sean Spicer admitted: “I was shocked.” Britain’s monarchy is reeling, the tabloids are salivating, and Buckingham Palace’s phone lines are probably melting.
But the royal drama isn’t just about Andrew’s questionable taste in friends. The real bombshell? Evidence of a “paper trail", including emails where Andrew allegedly forwarded government documents (some about China!) to Epstein. Like Al Capone and his tax returns, it’s not always the crime you expect that gets you, “It’s all there in black and white".
Even as the US tries to focus on the economy and the upcoming midterms, the word “Epstein” just won’t go away. Spicer insists this saga won’t sway voters as Americans vote with their wallets, not their outrage, he says.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been released under investigation following his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his ties to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The former prince, who became the first senior royal in modern history to be arrested, is accused of sharing sensitive information with Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy.
Andrew was pictured slouched in the back of a vehicle on Thursday evening as he left Aylsham police station in Norfolk after he was in custody for around 11 hours.
His brother, the King, said earlier that “the law must take its course” after expressing his “deepest concern” over the arrest, which came after millions of files were released by the US Department of Justice in relation to the Epstein scandal.
Kinsey Schofield, host of Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered, says the UK is boiling over. “The temperature is hotter here than anywhere else,” she observes. “People want the powerful held accountable.” Meanwhile, the US is still wondering if it’s time to get its own hands dirty.
But this isn’t just a British problem. Epstein’s slimy tentacles wrap around the globe: Australia, France, Scandinavia, Berlin – all investigating. Bill Clinton’s due to testify to Congress. Hillary’s up next!
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As Trump toys with the idea of a strike on Iran, Tucker Carlson finds drama at Israeli passport control and the American right throws a wobbly over who’s in and who’s out. Is this the dawn of a new forever war or just another spin on the outrage carousel?
If you thought passport queues were stressful, spare a thought for Tucker Carlson. The Fox firebrand claims he was “detained” in Israel, his passport snatched by grumpy border guards.
But this isn’t just about Tucker’s travel woes. The American right is having a barney over Israel, Iran, and everything in between. Harry Cole says Tucker is driving a wedge into where there used to be a solid US-Israel bromance.
Harry Cole is joined by Jon Levine from The Washington Free Beacon.
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Donald Trump has urged UK PM Sir Keir Starmer not to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a day after the US said it approved of the deal. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the US president said Sir Keir would be making “a big mistake” if he proceeded with plans to hand over the islands – which are home to a joint US-UK military base.
Ben Judah, foreign office insider and former special adviser to David Lammy, exposes the truth behind Keir Starmer's disaster Chagos Island deal. He reveals how Democrats pushed Labour into making the deal when Starmer came to power, how the lights are blinking on the deal's life support machine, and the role played by the deep state.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer may have thought defining Islamophobia would be simple, but the Labour Party has had to think again. Fiyaz Mughal, a veteran campaigner against anti-Muslim hatred, says the term is “useless.” Why? Because Islam is a faith, not a race. Trying to mash the two together is, in his words, “a fudge” that’s set to give lawyers and politicians a migraine.
So why the panic? Look to the ballot box. Labour’s desperate to keep Muslim voters onside, especially in an upcoming by-election. But as Mughal says, “Labour are caught like rabbits in the headlights.” They promised the moon in opposition. Now they’re stuck—caught between angry activists and the cold glare of legal reality.
Ministers are terrified of a row before polling day. If Labour loses, Mughal reckons, “that definition is dead on arrival.” Even if they win, he predicts it’ll be quietly binned. “Somewhere along the line, a minister will say, just drop this, it’s too much headache.”
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British leader Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to launch a government probe into a Labour think tank accused of commissioning a dirty dossier on British journalists. The Cabinet Office is investigating the behaviour of Labour Together hiring a private investigator to look into two Sunday Times reporters digging into their dodgy donations.
It resulted in several baseless smears being made against the journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke. The boss of Labour Together at the time was Josh Simons, who is now an MP and Cabinet Office Minister.
Lord (Toby) Young of the Free Speech Union calls it “the censorship industrial complex.” He claims Labour-linked outfits like Hope Not Hate and the Centre for Countering Digital Hate are just “factories for manufacturing smears against pesky gadfly journalists.”
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Meet the new rulers of the West: Forget kings, queens, or elected officials, it's Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman who are building the tools that run our lives, from AI to space rockets. Journalist Matt Taibbi says concerns about AI and control are real and probably worse than people think.
Are these tech titans shaping society, or just playing political God? And can anyone actually stop them?
Taibbi is laser-focused on Big Tech’s grip on information. In a world where the lines between private industry and government blur, he warns that giving governments power to regulate tech to protect people, is a lose-lose situation. So choose your overlord: corporate or bureaucratic!
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The Jeffrey Epstein Files are back and with millions of documents still under wraps and fresh revelations threatening to topple governments (hello, Britain!), the world’s most infamous dead paedophile is causing chaos from beyond the grave. Journalist Owen Shroyer joins Harry Cole Saves The West to discuss the latest.
While US politicians seem to be treating the Epstein files like a damp squib, the UK is having a full-blown panic. With Peter Mandelson’s name surfacing and Prince Andrew facing fresh police probes, Britain’s establishment is sweating bullets.
Shroyer reckons the real issue is the cover-up. “The administration’s been complicit,” he says. “And I still think it’s ongoing.” With billionaire names like Les Wexner now in the spotlight, and Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly ready to sing like a canary for clemency, the plot thickens. “Epstein was either the smartest guy with money or he had dirt on Wexner,” Shroyer speculates. “Nobody gives away their entire fortune for nothing.”
And forget Russian boogeymen. Shroyer’s theory? Epstein was tied to intelligence agencies, with MI6, CIA, and Mossad all in the mix. “He almost became an umbrella over them,” Shroyer claims. The files show Epstein’s network was even working to influence elections and overthrow Putin. If true, this isn’t just a sordid sex scandal, it’s a spy thriller.
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Harry Cole is joined by author and historian Raymond Ibrahim to discuss whether Western plans for multiculturalism have gone off the rails. Ibrahim says integration is only possible with smaller numbers; large influxes lead to “parallel societies,” “no-go zones,” and the rise of radicalism among young Muslims who, he claims, “despise liberal ideology.”
The more the West appeases, the more it’s disrespected, he argues. “Gays for Gaza?” Not likely, says Ibrahim, “useful idiots” is his phrase for left-wing allies who, he says enables the West's weakening.
Are we at a tipping point? “It’s already here,” says Ibrahim. Even if you closed the borders tomorrow, you’d still have to “live with” a big, non-integrated, and potentially hostile population. His predictions aren’t cheery: violence, disorder, and a “combustible situation.”He points to the UK’s grooming gang scandals and claims that, unlike the US, Europe’s problem is “existential”. Islam has, he says, “been trying to conquer Europe for centuries.”
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Operation Metro Surge, the high-octane ICE campaign, netted over 4,000 arrests. Officials claim it forced local police to play nice, rolling back “sanctuary” protections. But the real question: is this victory or chaos?
Harry Cole points out that masked agents people in the streets isn’t exactly a tourism advert. “International press love to hate us,” says former Trump Attorney Christina Bobb, spinning the backlash as just another day in Trump World.
While Trump tries to show unity, Republicans are the ones tripping up his agenda. Congress hasn’t confirmed his picks. Tariffs have been stripped away. Even the flagship immigration crackdown has run into resistance. Bobb says: “The Republican Party is in trouble… not necessarily Trump.”
If ICE wasn’t enough, the Epstein scandal is haunting the halls of Congress. Both parties are accused of covering up the infamous client list. Bobb says the real issue isn’t Epstein, but an “influence operation” involving powerful people across nations.
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