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Podcast: The TLS Podcast
Episode: The Iron Lady and the judo politician
Description: Norma Clarke considers the third and final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher; having spent the past twenty years reporting on Russia, Owen Matthews tries to put his finger on why Vladimir Putin may prove to be one of the most successful political leaders of our eraBooksThe Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the rest by Angela Stent The Putin System: An opposing view by Grigory YavlinskyKremlin Winter: Russia and the second coming of Vla...