Downstream: The IDF Killed My Entire Family, and the British Government Helped Them w/ Ahmed Alnaouq
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and author. In October 2023, while he was in the UK, an Israeli airstrike hit his home in central Gaza, killing 21 of his immediate family, including his fath...
10 Jun 20251h 25min
Novara FM: Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide w/ Matt Mahmoudi
The genocide in Gaza has been the most automated in history. Systems like ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’ reportedly speed up the process of tracking and targeting Palestinians. The genocide’s brutali...
5 Jun 20251h 16min
Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince
Dale Vince is a former new age traveller and the inventor of a string of transformative technologies: the world’s first green energy company, the electric supercar, and the Electric Highway charging n...
2 Jun 20251h 41min
ACFM Microdose: Superheroes
Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological a...
2 Jun 20252h 1min
Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit w/ Kojo Koram
Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his ‘Island of Strangers’ speech. But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism? And how did he shape the far right’s existent...
29 Mai 20251h 13min
Novara FM: The New Party, Beyond London w/ Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam
There will be a new party. And also, there already is one. We put the strategies of Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam head to head: do we need a new party? Should it be led by Jeremy...
27 Mai 20251h 19min
Downstream: How to Be a Morally Effective Person w/ Rutger Bregman
This week’s guest is best known for hijacking a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, where he told a room full of billionaires to stop avoiding taxes. He now claims that this f...
26 Mai 20251h 23min
Novara FM: What Communism Actually Is w/ Jasper Bernes
Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach. Or, we could define it differently, as “the real movement that abolishes the present state of thi...
22 Mai 20251h 23min
