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Did you read? With Tim Mongh. Did You Read, Read, with Tim Montgomery.

Welcome to Did You Read the latest edition of the Times Opinion Podcast.

My name is Tim Montgomery, and this week I'm joined by Susie Jagger, Patrick

Kidd and Roger Boys.

Libya is at risk of fracturing into three fiefdoms, Tripoli in the West, Benghazi in the east, and Saba in the south.

Libya has enjoyed no stability since the overthrow of Gaddafi and points to a sobering third chapter of the Arab Spring,

the first being uprising and coup, second nascent democracy and third terrifying chaos. As the Middle East burns, literally,

we have a foreign secretary with no foreign policy experience and a

government with no foreign policy at all. It's a hot summer. Wars in Syria,

Iraq, Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan, trouble brewing in the South China Sea, Libya in flames.

It hasn't been that bad for a century.

All these flare-up seem insoluble, so it's tempting to look away do the Harold Macmillan thing and

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