ACFM Trip 43: Cool
What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it obviously wouldn’t be cool. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool can ever be politically useful, and what happens when cool ...
26 Touko 20241h 38min
Novara FM: How Trans Misogyny Works w/ Jules Gill-Peterson
The difference between sex and gender is fundamental to how we talk about trans people. But what if it obscures the richness of life outside of gender norms? There is so much more to gender non-confor...
23 Touko 20241h 21min
Novara Live: Rishi Sunak Announces July General Election
In the pouring rain and 20 points behind in the polls, Rishi Sunak has announced that a UK general election will take place on 4 July. Michael Walker and Moya Lothian-McLean report. Plus: Ireland, Sp...
23 Touko 20241h 2min
Downstream: The Truth About Incels w/ William Costello
The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that is true? Ash Sarkar is joined by William Costello – ...
20 Touko 20241h 42min
Novara FM: Living Through the Chinese Miracle w/ Yuan Yang
No country has ever changed so fast as China. From the west, we see only the dazzling headline figures – 15% growth in some years. But it’s on the ground, in the huge shifts in the patterns of daily l...
16 Touko 20241h 8min
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
