Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties w/ Owen Hatherley & Ash Sarkar
The 2000s in Britain was a decade of education, regeneration, falling inequality and Dizzee Rascal. But beneath the fleeting prosperity lurked a culture of cruelty. It was palpable in politicians’ di...
22 Feb 202459min
The US Must Stop Funding Israel | Bernie Sanders meets Ash Sarkar
Bernie Sanders needs no introduction. Ash caught up with the senator to talk about his new book ‘It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism’, the speed of political change and whether what is happening in G...
20 Feb 202417min
Downstream: Israel Will Never Be Safe While Occupying Palestine w/ Yousef Alhelou
Yousef Alhelou has spent the four or so months since October 7th covering the Israeli assault on Gaza through his Instagram account. In that time, his audience has grown by hundreds of thousands. Aaro...
19 Feb 20241h 31min
Novara FM: Can International Law Protect Gaza? w/ Rob Knox
As Israel extends its bombardment of Gaza into Rafah – a supposed safe zone where 1.7 million Palestinians are seeking refuge – the limits of the “laws” of war seem horribly apparent. Following South ...
15 Feb 20241h 29min
Novara FM: How To Be Honest About Empire w/ Sathnam Sanghera
Certain historians and politicians like to claim that the British Empire was “on balance” a good thing. Slavery was evil, they admit, but abolition was good. Racism was wrong, but free markets are des...
8 Feb 202457min
Downstream: Why No One Should Have More Than £10 Million w/ Ingrid Robeyns
Should there be a cap on how much wealth one person can have? If we’re serious about tackling poverty, the answer can only be yes, says Ingrid Robeyns, author of Limitarianism: The Case Against Extrem...
5 Feb 202457min
ACFM Trip 40: UFOs
Should the left care about the existence of aliens? The ACFM gang explore the impact of UFOs on political thought in this Trip. Keir, Jem and Nadia discuss the connections between UFO conspiracies and...
4 Feb 20241h 25min
Downstream: Would the World Be Better Without Religion? w/ Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar
Twenty years ago, it was taken for granted that on average, people globally were shrugging off the shackles of organised religion. The world was destined for secularism. But with demographics trends i...
29 Jan 20241h 40min
