Professor Julian Lindley-French is Chairman of the Alphen Group in the Netherlands and an expert analyst focussing on security and defence strategy and policy.

In this episode we discuss:

-Is the world is a safer place than in 2014 when I first interviewed him.

-Whether the West is still strong. Also, I put it to him that, perhaps, the West played its good hand badly after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

-The ongoing conflict in Gaza

-The terrible but largely unreported conflict in Africa's Sahel.

-The continued tension across the Straight of Taiwan.