Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard
Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive...
24 Mar 20252h 25min
Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean
After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the bes...
20 Mar 20251h 6min
Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton
The ‘special relationship’ is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to Washington allows London to maintain a semblance of ...
17 Mar 20251h 33min
Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican
In the wake of Assad’s regime collapse and the call for the Kurdish Worker’s Party to disband, Elif Sarican talks to Richard Hames about how to make sense of this new world, and whether or not the Kur...
13 Mar 20251h 14min
Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly
The US is no longer supporting Ukraine, and in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. Germany is taking off its hallowed ‘debt brake’ to allow it, while Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capa...
11 Mar 20251h 17min
Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White
When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecolog...
11 Mar 20251h 29min
ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield
What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre compa...
9 Mar 20251h 10min
Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?
Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. Contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined, from the plantation to the infirmary, the lepe...
6 Mar 20251h
