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
The man who killed Gandhi w/ Dhirendra K. Jha
Dhirendra K. Jha joins PTO to talk about his book, Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India. We talked about Godse's childhood and how is belonging to the elite Brahmin cl...
18 Feb 202355min
Macrodose - the UK avoids recession, just…
James Meadway breaks down the news that the UK narrowly avoided dipping into recession at the end of last year, a deeper dive into what that actually means for people in the UK in real terms and how a...
15 Feb 202314min
Interregnum - on the lockdown 'sceptics'
Richard Seymour discusses his recent blogpost on the so-called lockdown sceptics, and in particular the work of Toby Green and his book 'The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Po...
11 Feb 202342min
Macrodose - I want to be in America
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: new figures that signal positive news for the US economy (0:48), how good news for the US might be bad news for the rest of the globe (6:09) and th...
8 Feb 202315min
Interregnum - on the lockdown 'sceptics'
Richard Seymour discusses his recent blogpost on the so-called lockdown sceptics, and in particular the work of Toby Green and his book 'The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Po...
7 Feb 202342min
The largest wave of strikes in a generation, but will they win?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the UK’s recording-breaking wave of strikes (0:42), how these compare to other strike movements around the world (4:43), and a ...
1 Feb 202316min
Macrodose - Dedollarisation, Bretton Woods III, and a global wealth tax?
In this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the shift away from the dominance of the dollar (0:41), what this means for US economic power (3:13), and a call from noble-prize winning economist ...
25 Jan 202314min
