
Australian-British writer and journalist Latika M Bourke discusses geopolitics, national security and defence with invited guests. www.latikambourke.com
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 38 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | PoliticsNews | |||

This week Latika Takes: The Podcast interviews Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the woman widely regarded as having won Belarus's elections in 2022, who now lives in exile in Lithuania.
Tsikhanouskaya, a mother of two, discusses being an opposition activi... more
This week, US Ambassador John Bolton joins Latika Takes: The Podcast to discuss US national security and global security under the second Trump Administration.
Ambassador Bolton served as one of Donald Trump’s national security advisers in the US P... more
This week, Australian-Chinese writer and journalist Cheng Lei joins Latika Takes: The Podcast from London, where she appeared at PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
In this emotional and heartfelt discussion, Lei and Latika are moved ... more
This week Latika Takes: The Podcast is in in Washington DC and meets Alex Butterworth and chef Bart Hutchins, a former staffer to US President Barack Obama.
Alex Butterworth at one point attempted to run for the West Australian federal seat of Pear... more
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I dived in with the author of Putin’s sanctions book. Excellent interview and discussion. I had to scroll a fair way to find a female interviewee but that I’m sure is less bias by LB than gender bias in the world.
I’ve been enjoying the eclectic range of guests on Latika Takes. It is a gentler pace than other political podcasts but - and this is rare - rarely, she effortlessly gets conversations going and manages content without the need for a double-act.
In the latest one, Latika asks an old-school US Democrat apparatchik all the questions I want answered, specifically “How angry is everyone with the way the Democrats stuffed up the latest US election?” (my words not her polite ones).
I’m proud that on... more
Latika was once a promising journo based in Canberra. She moved to Londoninium and turned into a Tory.shill.
She now transparently shilling peas for the Liberal Party. An off-brand partisan hack who eschewed ethical journalism to be sharri markson-lite.
Interviews are predictable and derivative. Don’t bother.
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