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Intelligence Squared · 2025-07-19 · 27 min · 4,210 words

How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall

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Welcome to Intelligence Squared where Great Pines meet. I'm head of programming, Connor Boyle. In today's episode, we're hearing again from best-selling author Tim Marshall, who returns to the Intelligence Squared stage to mark the 10th anniversary edition of his global phenomenon book series, Prisoners of Geography. Tim is currently doing a live tour with Intelligence Squared. about how geography explains our world with an interactive lecture and questions for the audience.

Today we're going to hear the Q<unk>A section from his July event in Richmond Theatre, and while his next event in Manchester is sold out, there's still a few tickets for London in October if you'd like to come along. Just go to intelligencesquare.com slash attend to find out more. But now let's join Tim Marshall live from Richmond Theatre. How would you solve sovereignty in space? The same way we've always done it.

First come, first served, take what I bloody want. Once we've sorted it out, we need to talk about this and get some treaties, which is what's going to happen. Um there's something called the Artemis Accords, American led. We're in it, about thirty four countries are in, most of them democracies. Uh UAE, big spa uh big player in space, Israel, big

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