Teaser - PTO Extra! Northern Ireland and the politics of John Hume w/ Daniel Finn
On Monday the Nobel laureate, and co-architect of the Northern Ireland peace process John Hume passed away at the age of 83. A giant of the political scene in Northern Ireland he was most well known f...
7 Aug 20203min
#93 Towards a New Cold War? China and the US w/ Tobita Chow & Jake Werner
Tobita Chow and Jake Werner join me to talk about the roots of the increasingly antagonistic relationship between China and the United States, the reasons for bipartisan consensus on China's increasin...
6 Aug 202035min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Outsourcing and the UK's Covid-19 shock doctrine w/ Rachel Shabi
Rachel Shabi joins me to talk about her recent article in the New York Review of Books - 'The Pro-Privatization Shock Therapy of the UK’s Covid Response'. We talked about why the UK Government's respo...
30 Jul 20203min
#RedHacks - Ana Naomi de Sousa on privilege and representation in journalism
In the latest episode of #RedHacks - a series of conversations on journalism in the neoliberal world - Joana Ramiro talks to filmmaker and writer Ana Naomi de Sousa about being a non-white journalist ...
27 Jul 202034min
#92 Covid-19 and transforming the global food system w/ Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese
Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese join me to talk about their recent article in the Guardian in which they argue that the principal driver of zoonotic diseases is the factory farming of animals and that t...
18 Jul 202036min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Sweatshop reshoring - fast fashion and Leicester's lockdown w/ Ashok Kumar
On the 30th of June the city of Leicester, in the East Midlands of the UK was put back into lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases. The new outbreak of the virus put the spotlight on the garment...
11 Jul 20203min
#91 Corona, climate, chronic emergency w/ Andreas Malm
Andreas Malm joins me to talk about his new book, 'Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century'. We talked about why in the case of Covid19 most of the rich countries...
6 Jul 202027min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Understanding racism in America and Britain w/ Gary Younge
Award-winning author, broadcaster and academic Gary Younge joins me to talk about his experience of reporting on racism in the United States for the Guardian, the current Black Lives Matter movement i...
30 Jun 20202min
