
Teaser - PTO Extra! The Labour leadership - Starmer's contest to lose? w/ Tom Blackburn
Tom Blackburn joins me to chat about the Labour leadership contest, why Keir Starmer is the front runner, the importance of open selection, and what Jess Philipps' brief campaign tells us about the La...
25 Jan 20201min

#72 Popular culture and the middle class takeover w/ Rhian Jones
Rhian Jones joins me to discuss her article in Tribune Magazine, An Enterprise Allowance of the Left: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/10/an-enterprise-allowance-of-the-left which looks at the disappear...
21 Jan 202020min

#71 Hostile Environment w/ Maya Goodfellow
Maya Goodfellow joins me to discuss her new book, 'Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats'. We talked about the historical roots of the hostile environment policy, the punitive, cruel a...
15 Jan 202035min

Teaser - PTO Extra! Whatever happened to Tory decline? w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge
Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss the Conservative's electoral victory and why he believes that the 2019 election result does not simply cancel out the long term problems the Conservatives fac...
10 Jan 20202min

#70 The Middle East after Suleimani w/ Paul Rogers
International security expert Paul Rogers joins me to discuss why the United States carried out the assassination of Qassem Suleimani and whether the attack will spark a broader regional war. We also ...
7 Jan 202027min

#69 Where now for Labour and the left? w/ Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour joins me to discuss the reasons for Labour's electoral defeat and why the left overestimated Labour's chances. We also chatted what we can expect from Boris Johnson's government and th...
5 Jan 202045min

#68 The Clamour of Nationalism w/ Sivamohan Valluvan
Sivamohan Valluvan joins me to discuss his new book, 'The Clamour of Nationalism, Race and Nation in Twenty-first-century Britain'. We spoke about why the current era is better characterised as a rea...
19 Dec 201936min

Election Special: At the sharp end of British foreign policy w/ David Wearing
David Wearing joins me to discuss the defence, security and international trade policies of Labour and the Conservatives, and why the election result is a matter of life and death for many people beyo...
9 Dec 201938min



















