Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with Fiona Hill. Fiona Hill is one of the most authoritative voices on the forces reshaping global politics today. Born in County Durham from 2017 to 2019, she was a senior advisor on Europe
European and Russian affairs at the White House, and in October 2019 she was a key witness in President Trump's first impeachment inquiry. In 2024 and 2025, she co-led the British Government Strategic Defence Review, which sets out how the UK should scale up its response to risks from an emboldened Russia and a less predictable United States. Hill joined us at Union Chapel, live on stage with John Sopel, to share her insights on the world in 2026. Let's join them now live on stage in London. Well, uh, thank you all so much for coming and for queuing up in the drizzly rain.
It was a perfect London evening out there for you all. Um, I could spend probably the next 20 minutes just talking about the prodigious achievements of Fiona, the extraordinary backstory, but I'm not, because if you want that, read her wonderful memoir, There is Nothing for You Here, which I think may well be on sale at the back afterwards, as well as a book called Unprecedented, which uh no, actually, it's called something else. It's called Strangeland. And it's anyway, I won't talk about the author.
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