The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? w/ Emma Dowling
Emma Dowling joins PTO to talk about her new book 'The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It'. We chatted about the scale of the care crisis today, how social reproduction theory can help ...
11 Mar 202126min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Shamima Begum and normalising citizenship revocation w/ Nisha Kapoor
On Friday the UK's supreme court ruled against allowing Shamima Begum, the young British woman who in 2015 travelled to Syria to join ISIS, to return to the UK to contest the Home Office's removal of ...
28 Feb 20213min
#111 Why the Luddites were right (part 2) w/ Gavin Mueller
Gavin Mueller joins PTO for part two of our conversation on his new book, 'Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites were Right About Why You Hate Your Job'. We talked about Taylorism and the deskilling o...
24 Feb 202126min
Teaser - Understanding Burma's coup w/ Carlos Sardiña Galache
On the 1st of February, the Burmese military launched a coup d'état against the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy which had been returned to power in Novembe...
18 Feb 20212min
#110 Biden begins w/ Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff joins PTO to talk about what can be expected from the Joe Biden administration in the United States, both domestically and on foreign policy. We discussed the scale and scope of the admin...
13 Feb 202131min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Is Scottish independence inevitable? w/ Rory Scothorne
With support for Scottish independence at an all time high, and with Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National Party predicted to win a landslide in May's Scottish parliamentary elections, PTO spoke t...
8 Feb 20212min
#109 Why the Luddites were right (part 1) w/ Gavin Mueller
Gavin Mueller joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job'. In the first part of our conversation we talk about the history of th...
3 Feb 202135min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Richard Seymour on the UK's disastrous Covid-19 response
With the UK Office of National Statistics reporting that covid-19 related deaths in the UK have exceeded 100,000, PTO spoke to Richard Seymour about why the UK government's covid response has been so ...
28 Jan 20211min
