Adventures in the Culture War w/ Ash Sarkar
The government has spent the week trying to out-Reform Reform by stirring up yet another moral panic about immigration. The Home Office has been boasting about its crackdown on “foreign criminals and ...
13 Feb 202546min
Trump’s Gaza madness ft Lewis Goodall
Donald Trump has left the world reeling with a plan to turn Gaza into *checks notes* “the Riviera of the Middle East”. He vowed that the US will “take over” and “own” the Gaza strip, effectively endor...
6 Feb 202546min
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline
Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse.Nish and Coco dig into some scary data about Gen Z. A poll of 13-27 year olds this week suggested nearly half of them favour a...
30 Jan 202545min
Trump 2.0: Fear and Loathing in DC
A trigger warning for progressives: this episode contains explicit Trump content.Nish and Coco’s nightmare begins with inauguration Trump meme coins, grinning tech bros and disputed Nazi salutes. Then...
23 Jan 202547min
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich
Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declared, with a multibillion-pound investment and huge public rollout. Amid bond market chaos...
16 Jan 202551min
Billionaire BS: How can Britain Stop Musk’s Disinformation?
Happy New Year - is 2025 going to be the year of disinformation? Elon Musk started in attack mode with a flood of vitriolic and false tweets about UK grooming gangs. In Musk’s crosshairs: Keir Starmer...
9 Jan 202547min
Just Stop Politics - 2024 Wrapped! w/ Desiree Burch and Liz Bates
What a year! While Rishi Sunak held true to his January commitment to hold the election in the second half of the year - the spectacle that followed couldn't have been predicted as 2024 dawned. Nish a...
19 Des 202450min
FIFA World Cup: Trade Deals 1, Human Rights Nil
In the same week FIFA decided an appalling human rights record is no obstacle to Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 World Cup, Keir Starmer was schmoozing the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Wh...
12 Des 202449min
