China's history is on the table
Fuchsia Dunlop has dedicated much of her life to eating Chinese food.If you’re interested in Chinese cuisine and culture, you may have come across her through television programmes, heard her on the r...
9 Sep 45min
Life as a leftist has been a complete failure
Alexei Sayle has never much cared for a conventional view of the world.Born in 1950s Liverpool to committed communist parents, he was named after Maxim Gorky - real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. Dye...
2 Sep 33min
Is Trump a Russian asset?
In 2011, Luke Harding was ordered to leave Russia - the first Western journalist to be exiled since the fall of the Soviet Union. As the Guardian's senior correspondent, he continued to watch Russia f...
19 Aug 56min
Is Britain a liberal country?
Most people would say that Britain is, by and large, a liberal country. Individuals have the freedom to express their individual beliefs, others are expected to accept this difference in opinion with ...
12 Aug 41min
The man who sold the World Cup
For ten years Gianni Infantino has run FIFA more or less unchallenged - cosying up to Putin, the Saudis, and above all Trump, and turning the World Cup into the most commercially aggressive tournament...
5 Aug 34min
What the hell is going on on the British right?
For decades, hell, even centuries, there’s only been one show in town for the British right - the Conservative Party. But now, as the British electoral system complains and convulses and shudders and ...
29 Jul 47min
How will history remember Keir Starmer?
Keir Starmer is no longer prime minister, Andy Burnham is. What just happened? Why did it happen? And what now? Oli Dugmore is joined by the New Statesman's editor-in-chief Tom McTague for a Starmer r...
22 Jul 49min
Gary Stevenson is lobbying Andy Burnham
Gary Stevenson, economic campaigner and YouTuber, is using this change in government to lobby for a wealth tax. Without one, he predicts, "society will collapse". He joins Oli Dugmore on this episode ...
15 Jul 40min
