The myth of the reforming monarch - Britain and the Gulf w/ David Wearing
David Wearing joins PTO to discuss his article 'The myth of the reforming monarch: Orientalism, racial capitalism, and UK support for the Arab Gulf monarchies' We talked about the nature of Britain's...
25 Jun 20231h 5min
Excerpt - The anti-woke grift w/ Aurelien Mondon
The recent National Conservatism conference in Britain brought together an array of politicians, journalists, and academics of varying stripes of conservatism, but united by their hostility to so-call...
14 Jun 20232min
The backlash against Palestine solidarity w/ Hil Aked
Hil Aked joins PTO to talk about their new book, Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity, the first book length treatment of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain. We talked about the ...
16 Mai 202359min
Interregnum - Israel's radicalising ethnonationalism
Richard Seymour discusses the protest movement in Israel that has emerged in response to the plans of the most right-wing Israeli government in history to dramatically curtail the power of the judicia...
24 Apr 202345min
Excerpt - France's social explosion w/ Sebastian Budgen
Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to talk about the protest movement in France, sparked by Emmanuel Macron's pension reform bill. We talked about why the new bill has encountered such broad opposition i...
31 Mar 20234min
Fascist echoes w/ Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the key causal factors that allowed fascism to emerge in the early twentieth century and whether conditions that would enable fascism on the interwar model exist t...
16 Mar 202342min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the lockdown files
Richard Seymour returns to respond to listener's questions on the recent episode on the so-called lockdown sceptics. We talked about the leaking of former UK health secretary Matt Hancock's pandemic w...
3 Mar 20237min
The Ukraine war: one year on w/ Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers returns to talk about the Ukraine war, one year after the beginning of the Russian invasion. We discussed why the Russian military have been so unsuccessful in their aims and whether the e...
27 Feb 202340min
