In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks with Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat about the Muslim Brotherhood.
What happens when a Western democracy encounters an ideological movement it no longer has the language — or the institutions — to understand?
The former Security Minister and long-time observer of the Middle East explains what the Brotherhood is, how it operates, and why the British state is struggling to deal with it.
In this episode, Thomas questions Tom about…
Tom’s time in Egypt during the Arab Spring
His conversations with Brotherhood members
The UK government’s secretive 2014 review of the Brotherhood a nd why Parliament challenged it
The institutional blind spots inside Whitehall and MI5
How Brotherhood-linked networks operate in Britain today
Why talking openly about the Brotherhood is so politically and legally fraught
Strategies for the UK government to tackle the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood
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Conflicted is a Message Heard production.
Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.
This episode was produced and edited by Thomas Small.
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Conflicted Returns: A New Era Begins
Conflicted is back. Aimen and Thomas return with a renewed mission and a bold vision for the future of the show. In this special relaunch episode, they look back at the journey so far, celebrate the global community that’s grown around Conflicted, and reveal what’s coming next in an ever-more turbulent world.
In this episode, Aimen and Thomas:
Offer a sweeping recap of Conflicted’s story arcs, themes, and analyses
Reveal what the next phase of Conflicted has in store for dear listeners
Reassert Conflicted’s commitment to rising above the polarisation and simplifications dominating mainstream media
Celebrate the many friends of the show—journalists, scholars, analysts—who have helped Conflicted become a global phenomenon
Thank the listeners whose engagement, questions, and curiosity have shaped Conflicted’s direction (and good-naturedly endured Aimen’s dad jokes)
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This week on Conflicted, we’re unlocking another episode we first released for members of the Conflicted Community.
In this interview from last January, I talk with Martin Plaut, a distinguished journalist who has reported on conflicts across Africa for decades, and whose book Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War was an essential resource for us in preparing our series on Ethiopia. We discuss:
Ethiopia’s recent Tigray War and why it proved so consequential for the Horn of Africa
How the federal government — with Eritrean support — turned against the Tigray region despite its long rule in Ethiopia
Martin’s personal story of growing up in apartheid South Africa and his early political activism
His current work on the history of African slavery and common misconceptions surrounding it
Speaking of slavery in Africa, Martin’s latest book Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement has recently been published. I hope to get Martin back onto the podcast to talk all about it!
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India and the Future of World Order: A Conversation with T.V. Paul
This week on Conflicted, Thomas is joined by T.V. Paul, Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University.
Prof. Paul is one of the world’s leading thinkers in international relations and author of Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era and The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Thomas speaks with Prof. Paul about:
India’s strategy as a rising power in a shifting multipolar world
How ‘soft balancing’ works as an alternative to military alliances
The benign and malign dimensions of American hegemony
Why globalization both empowered and destabilized the global middle class
India’s complex status anxiety and its quest for recognition
How China and India navigate rivalry, nationalism, and regional threats
The future of the liberal international order—and whether it can survive
What a new global settlement might require from the West, China, and India alike
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Conflicted Revisited… Husam Mahjoub – How Foreign States are Fuelling Sudan’s Civil War
This week on Conflicted, we’re unlocking for everyone an episode we first released a year ago for members of the Conflicted Community — an interview with Hussam Mahjoub, a Sudanese journalist, political activist, and founder of the independent TV channel Sudan Bukra, which has become a vital source of truth amid the chaos of war.
When it was recorded, Sudan was already sliding into catastrophe. But in the months since, the country has fallen even further into one of the world’s most devastating wars. The conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has shattered the country: communications have collapsed, hospitals have shut, and millions are displaced or facing famine.
In this conversation, Hussam helps us understand how Sudan got here. He traces the rise of the RSF from the Janjaweed militias that terrorised Darfur twenty years ago, and walks us through Sudan’s modern history, from the long dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir, to the 2019 revolution, and the collapse of hopes for civilian rule.
Hussam also offers an insider’s view of the regional powers shaping Sudan’s fate — Egypt, the Gulf states, and Russia’s Wagner network — and how rivalries over gold, trade, and influence have turned Sudan’s agony into a proxy struggle.
Listening now, his analysis feels prophetic. The structural forces he identified then have since erupted into the full-scale war we see today.
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An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.
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