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Did you read with with Tim Montgomery. Hello and welcome to Did You Read the Times Podcast.

In the absence of Tim Montgomery, you're in the hands of me, Philip Collins this week, and my distinguished panel of guests who are going to discuss a range of topics.

I have with me Susie Jagger the Times Deputy Chief Foreign Editor,

Philip Webster, the head of Digital and former political editor of the Times,

and Patrick Kidd, the man behind TMS The Times Diary.

This month's surprise and to date devastatingly successful assault by ISIS on northern Iraq has led to a new

cat cradle of shifting international alliances and the West's found itself to be

a new uncomfortable bedfellow with Tehran. So how do we manage these

new allegiances and are we right to blame much of the crisis deepening in the region to

President Obama's complete absence of any real foreign policy.

Cameron has played the Juncker appointment badly, unnecessarily losing Merkel on the way.

He can salvage something from the wreckage by facing other leaders down

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