Iain Martin
@iainmartin1.bsky.social
Director of the London Defence Conference. Engelsberg Ideas editor. Weekly newsletter at Reaction on Substack. Author.
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Bear with, bear with ... hotfoot from Bournemouth, I was allowed by the chaps to do my own 5-point plan on what the Lib Dems need to do next (after Tim's similar re Reform) ... 📻 ... *hard hat*. With @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/2YHL...
How do the Liberal Democrats become more relevant in a landslide parliament?
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September 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Bear with, bear with ... hotfoot from Bournemouth, I was allowed by the chaps to do my own 5-point plan on what the Lib Dems need to do next (after Tim's similar re Reform) ... 📻 ... *hard hat*. With @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/2YHL...
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Action replay of this earlier contretemps? No! But just Montie and me this week as @iainmartin1.bsky.social and @steverichards.bsky.social are gallivanting - NAO new ep about political friendships from different 'teams' open.spotify.com/episode/5FUd...
August 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Action replay of this earlier contretemps? No! But just Montie and me this week as @iainmartin1.bsky.social and @steverichards.bsky.social are gallivanting - NAO new ep about political friendships from different 'teams' open.spotify.com/episode/5FUd...
Labour rebels making a catastrophic economic error leading Britian leftwards. Me on the cost of the last couple of days of chaos. www.reaction.life/p/labour-reb...
Labour rebels making a catastrophic economic error sending Britain leftwards
I hope to be proven mistaken when I say that this brings us close to a crunch moment, when we will be lucky to avoid a Greek-style crisis.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Labour rebels making a catastrophic economic error leading Britian leftwards. Me on the cost of the last couple of days of chaos. www.reaction.life/p/labour-reb...
Iran’s regime stuffed - what if the CRINK is losing? My newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Iran’s regime stuffed - what if the autocratic CRINK is losing?
The Iranian regime made fatal miscalculations that undermine the axis of countries working for the defeat of the West.
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June 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Iran’s regime stuffed - what if the CRINK is losing? My newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
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Happy 1st birthday to us! A year of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. Concept was Tim’s - on most political podcasts everyone agrees. We disagree but we like each other. Here’s to year two. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
What if Remain had won the Brexit referendum?
Podcast Episode · Not Another One · 30/05/2025 · 51m
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May 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Happy 1st birthday to us! A year of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. Concept was Tim’s - on most political podcasts everyone agrees. We disagree but we like each other. Here’s to year two. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Britain’s economy and its politics were broken by the financial crisis. My latest newsletter for subscribers, on RBS and the ongoing impact of the crash… open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Britain’s economy and our politics were broken by the financial crisis
The impact of the collapse and rescue of RBS was much bigger than we understood at the time
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June 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Britain’s economy and its politics were broken by the financial crisis. My latest newsletter for subscribers, on RBS and the ongoing impact of the crash… open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
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📻 🎂 🎉A double birthday! - I turn *sorry I didn't quite catch that* today (a medical miracle) and Not Another One is A YEAR OLD! First anniversary Brexit ep - it's been growing through word of mouth: Montie @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3noq...
What if Remain had won the Brexit referendum?
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June 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
📻 🎂 🎉A double birthday! - I turn *sorry I didn't quite catch that* today (a medical miracle) and Not Another One is A YEAR OLD! First anniversary Brexit ep - it's been growing through word of mouth: Montie @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3noq...
Happy 1st birthday to us! A year of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. Concept was Tim’s - on most political podcasts everyone agrees. We disagree but we like each other. Here’s to year two. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
What if Remain had won the Brexit referendum?
Podcast Episode · Not Another One · 30/05/2025 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Happy 1st birthday to us! A year of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. Concept was Tim’s - on most political podcasts everyone agrees. We disagree but we like each other. Here’s to year two. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government? Latest episide of Not Another One with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government?
Podcast Episode · Not Another One · 28/05/2025 · 54m
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May 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government? Latest episide of Not Another One with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government? Latest episide of Not Another One with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government?
Podcast Episode · Not Another One · 28/05/2025 · 54m
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May 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government? Latest episide of Not Another One with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal
America gets to keep on using the base, India is pleased and the poor old British taxpayer pays the bill
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May 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal
America gets to keep on using the base, India is pleased and the poor old British taxpayer pays the bill
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May 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Is Boris Johnson planning a comeback? On the latest episode of our Not Another One podcast, we discuss Keir Starmer’s EU reset and the likely political implications. With Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Is Boris Johnson planning a comeback?
Podcast Episode · Not Another One · 21/05/2025 · 47m
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May 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Is Boris Johnson planning a comeback? On the latest episode of our Not Another One podcast, we discuss Keir Starmer’s EU reset and the likely political implications. With Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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The power of political language. Weekend edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and me. On soundbites, speechwriting, phrase making and persuasion, from Churchill through Thatcher, Blair, Brexit and more. Plus some Trump.
May 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The power of political language. Weekend edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and me. On soundbites, speechwriting, phrase making and persuasion, from Churchill through Thatcher, Blair, Brexit and more. Plus some Trump.
The power of political language. Weekend edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and me. On soundbites, speechwriting, phrase making and persuasion, from Churchill through Thatcher, Blair, Brexit and more. Plus some Trump.
May 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The power of political language. Weekend edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and me. On soundbites, speechwriting, phrase making and persuasion, from Churchill through Thatcher, Blair, Brexit and more. Plus some Trump.
The myth of the Single Market open.substack.com/pub/siliconc...
The myth of the single market
Why Europe’s internal barriers are higher than Trump's tariffs
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May 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The myth of the Single Market open.substack.com/pub/siliconc...
Is the Tory party dying? The next general election, probably only three years away, is shaping up to be a Starmer v Farage contest. My latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Starmer v Farage - is the Tory party dying?
The old two party system looks very vulnerable and Reform may be on the verge of replacing the Conservatives
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May 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Is the Tory party dying? The next general election, probably only three years away, is shaping up to be a Starmer v Farage contest. My latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
Island of strangers… Has Starmer got it right or wrong on immigration? The latest episode of Not Another One with Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie, Steve Richards and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Has Starmer got it right on immigration?
Podcast Episode · Not Another One · 14/05/2025 · 59m
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May 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Island of strangers… Has Starmer got it right or wrong on immigration? The latest episode of Not Another One with Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie, Steve Richards and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Transgender revolutionary madness and the extraordinary power of very bad ideas. My latest newsletter is on revolutions and why they usually go wrong. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
The transgender revolution and the extraordinary power of very bad ideas
Throughout history, time and again it happens. Revolutions are radicalising events and people get hurt in the process.
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April 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Transgender revolutionary madness and the extraordinary power of very bad ideas. My latest newsletter is on revolutions and why they usually go wrong. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...
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I was on the M3 but the others had a good old chinwag about British Steel the Birmingham bins and more - plus the listener whose data analysis finds me "admirably restrained" re Thatch mentions - tee hee @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/3uig...
Is the UK government right to take control of British Steel?
Not Another One · Episode
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April 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I was on the M3 but the others had a good old chinwag about British Steel the Birmingham bins and more - plus the listener whose data analysis finds me "admirably restrained" re Thatch mentions - tee hee @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/3uig...
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Has anyone been keeping a list of subjects you “need to do a whole podcast about at some point”? There seems to be at least one every episode of (the excellent) #notanotherone podcast. @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Has anyone been keeping a list of subjects you “need to do a whole podcast about at some point”? There seems to be at least one every episode of (the excellent) #notanotherone podcast. @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
🎙️‘Perceptions of defence in a changed world’
@starychsam.bsky.social and @paulmason.bsky.social are joined by @iainmartin1.bsky.social, Director, London Defence Conference, and Dr Hillary Briffa, Senior Lecturer, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
#DefenceTalks
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🎙️‘Perceptions of defence in a changed world’
@starychsam.bsky.social and @paulmason.bsky.social are joined by @iainmartin1.bsky.social, Director, London Defence Conference, and Dr Hillary Briffa, Senior Lecturer, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
#DefenceTalks
@baesystems.com
Perceptions of defence in a changed world
Watch now | Season 2 | Episode 5
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April 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
🎙️‘Perceptions of defence in a changed world’
@starychsam.bsky.social and @paulmason.bsky.social are joined by @iainmartin1.bsky.social, Director, London Defence Conference, and Dr Hillary Briffa, Senior Lecturer, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
#DefenceTalks
@baesystems.com
🎙️‘Perceptions of defence in a changed world’
@starychsam.bsky.social and @paulmason.bsky.social are joined by @iainmartin1.bsky.social, Director, London Defence Conference, and Dr Hillary Briffa, Senior Lecturer, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
#DefenceTalks
@baesystems.com
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never going to get bored of photographing spring blossom
March 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
never going to get bored of photographing spring blossom
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We are delighted and honoured to announce that @iainmartin1.bsky.social will be joining our Advisory Board 🌍
Read the full announcement here 👇
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Read the full announcement here 👇
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March 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We are delighted and honoured to announce that @iainmartin1.bsky.social will be joining our Advisory Board 🌍
Read the full announcement here 👇
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Read the full announcement here 👇
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Not Another One on the welfare reform green paper - shallow or radical? reform or just cuts? With @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and me open.spotify.com/episode/2wft... (also on all the other platforms but I'm an apple refusenik so here's the spotify - plse subscribe!)
Starmer’s Welfare reform - bold radicalism or chaotic and shallow?
Not Another One · Episode
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March 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Not Another One on the welfare reform green paper - shallow or radical? reform or just cuts? With @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and me open.spotify.com/episode/2wft... (also on all the other platforms but I'm an apple refusenik so here's the spotify - plse subscribe!)