Downstream: Individualism is Destroying Our Freedom w/ Grace Blakeley
Common sense tells us that free-market economies maximise freedom and that planned economies, typically found under socialist governments, curtail it. But what if this is completely the wrong way arou...
13 Touko 20241h 9min
Novara FM: Know Your Enemies w/ Matthew Sitman & Sam Adler-Bell
George Bernard Shaw once joked that the US and the UK are “two countries divided by a common language.” Can the same be said of their conservatives? As we brace for a joint election year, Eleanor Penn...
10 Touko 20241h 28min
Downstream: George Galloway’s Plan to Destroy the Labour Party
George Galloway has been elected as a member of parliament for four separate constituencies – with only Winston Churchill beating him. Perhaps more remarkably still, he won on three of those occasions...
5 Touko 20241h 25min
ACFM Microdose: Reactionary Democracy w/ Aaron Winter & Aurelien Mondon
How do mainstream politicians and pundits contribute to the normalisation of far-right ideas, even as they claim to reject racism and populism? That’s one of many vital questions asked by Aaron Winter...
5 Touko 20241h 6min
Novara FM: Your Neighbour Kills Puppies w/ Tom Harris
In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pigs. But ...
2 Touko 20241h 25min
Downstream: How Austerity Harms Britain’s Most Vulnerable Children w/ Teresa Thornhill
Teresa Thornhill is an author and former child protection lawyer. Throughout her long career, working for both local authorities and advocating on behalf of parents, she has been a first hand witness ...
29 Huhti 20241h 31min
Novara FM: Read Some Effing Jameson! w/ Sianne Ngai and Matthew Beaumont
The exhortation to “read some effing Orwell!” is an old chestnut of the online left, whether ironic or sincere, or somewhere in between. But if we’re looking for a writer whose body of work truly anti...
25 Huhti 20241h 19min
Downstream: This Is How Israel Controls Palestinians w/ Eyal Weizman
It’s not what you know; it’s what you can prove. For years, Forensic Architecture has exposed state crimes against civilians, nature, and humanity. This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar meets its direct...
22 Huhti 20241h 10min
