Interregnum - Who will be Britain's next Prime Minister?
Richard Seymour and I discuss the Conservative Party leadership election and the legacy of Boris Johnson. We talked about which conservative candidate has the most dangerous agenda and why it is that ...
16 Juli 202238min
Interregnum - the labour movement resurgent?
Richard Seymour on the recent wave of strikes in the UK, and whether the upsurge of industrial action signals the long hoped for revival of Britain's labour movement.
2 Juli 202242min
Excerpt - Sebastian Budgen on Macron's defeat in France's legislative election
Sebastian Budgen returns to the show to talk about the second round of the French legislative elections. We discussed the breakthrough of Jean Luc Melenchon's NUPES coalition and the broader prospects...
22 Juni 20225min
Accidental Gods w/ Anna Della Subin
Anna Della Subin joins PTO to talk about her book Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. The book tells the stories of men who have inadvertently been turned into living Gods - from Gandhi...
15 Juni 202243min
Excerpt - The French left unites against Macron w/ Sebastian Budgen
Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to discuss the upcoming French legislative elections and the prospects for the new left popular union coalition, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise. We t...
29 Maj 20223min
The radicalisation of Russian nationalism w/ Oleksiy Radynski
Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski joins PTO from Kyiv. We talked about the current situation in the city and the popular mood in Ukraine. We went on to talk about Oleksiy's article 'The ...
17 Maj 202255min
Excerpt - Jeremy Gilbert on New Labour's early days
The 2nd of May marked the 25th anniversary of New Labour's coming to power and the election of Tony Blair as prime minister. I spoke to Jeremy Gilbert about how he viewed the New Labour project at the...
9 Maj 20223min
Interregnum - The Disenchanted Earth
Richard Seymour discusses his new book, The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism. We talked about why the Marxist left for a long time gave relatively little attention to the ...
6 Maj 202245min
