![The Globalist show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/034/185/small/monocle-24-the-globalist.png)
Summary: After the US director of national intelligence Dan Coats resigns and a Trump loyalist is ushered in, we ask: just how bad an idea is it? Plus: what next for Northern Ireland, why Seoul-Tokyo relations have taken another turn for the worse, and why Bear Grylls and Narendra Modi are making an unlikely joint TV debut.