Downstream: This Much We Agree On: Britain Is In Decline w/ Peter Hitchens
In 2024 the Conservative party suffered their worst defeat in two centuries. But while Labour struggles in office, the Tories are going nowhere fast. Meanwhile Britain shambles on without an economic ...
31 Mars 20251h 37min
ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid
The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a mental tool and a thought corrosive. Looking back on six years of the podcast, Nadia, Keir and Jem decide...
30 Mars 20251h 37min
Novara FM: Geoengineering is Coming Whether We Like it Or Not w/ Laurie Laybourn
We’ve entered a new climate reality. The pace of the energy transition has picked up – and so have the impacts of climate change. But has there ever actually been an energy transition? Or do we just u...
27 Mars 20251h 16min
Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard
Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive...
24 Mars 20252h 25min
Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean
After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the bes...
20 Mars 20251h 6min
Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton
The ‘special relationship’ is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to Washington allows London to maintain a semblance of ...
17 Mars 20251h 33min
Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican
In the wake of Assad’s regime collapse and the call for the Kurdish Worker’s Party to disband, Elif Sarican talks to Richard Hames about how to make sense of this new world, and whether or not the Kur...
13 Mars 20251h 14min
Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly
The US is no longer supporting Ukraine, and in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. Germany is taking off its hallowed ‘debt brake’ to allow it, while Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capa...
11 Mars 20251h 17min
