A Blair for All Seasons

Cartoonist, author, and mayor enthusiast Mattie Lubchanksy rejoins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the continuing war on the creative industries being waged by AI - including Meta’s great book ...

28 Mar 20259min

Riley, Nova, and HK discuss the Labour Party’s planned campaign of social murder against the disabled in the UK - including a deep dive on the ongoing poster-to-policy pipeline around the recent (and ...

25 Mar 20251h 2min

Federal labour lawyer Carey Shockey joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the rapid deterioration of the rule of law in the United States, its roots in Reagan and the bipartisan support for the...

21 Mar 202510min

Riley, Nova, and Hussein talk about the trials and tribulations of trying to give every job in the world to a computer, as “Agentforce” fails to materialise, discuss Jan Marsalek (finally), and look a...

18 Mar 20251h 4min

This Machine Kills’ Ed Ongweso Jr returns to the pod to talk about his series of essays talking about what he calls The Silicon Valley Consensus - an ongoing chapter in our interest in the convergence...

14 Mar 202510min

We start by looking at Canada’s destiny as the last holdout of Deloitte Pride Float liberalism, and then Neom’s ongoing woes as executives supported by McKinsey start frantically figuring out how to m...

11 Mar 20251h 9min

It’s time for another examination of historical parallels with lessons for our own time - today Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss the late Byzantine empire… a state with such a self referential,...

7 Mar 202510min

QAA’s Julian Feeld joins us to discuss how Q-Anon has metastasised into mainstream political thought in the global North, and will usher in a whole new era of traumas and catastrophes that will in tur...

4 Mar 20251h 11min