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Well, after an unscheduled break last week, we are back this week with another Times

Opinion podcast and in a little while I'll be talking to John O'Sullivan in Sydney.

John has been watching the drama surrounding the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

who has just survived a vote of his party caucus and that John will be talking about

what that means not just for Tony Abbott but for conservative

parties around the world and for the austerity issue more generally but we're

going to begin with a special focus on the deteriorating situation in Ukraine we can have a special focus on the deteriorating situation in Ukraine. We're going to have a

special focus on Russia's place in the world and what our response both as the

West and Britain in particular should be to it.

And for that I am joined by Anne Applebaum of the Legatum Institute,

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