All The Best: Leo Panitch on the Election Campaign
Matt and Max are joined by legendary socialist thinker Leo Panitch as they discuss the election campaign, the leaders’ debates, and the hope of socialist transformation of the state.
Novara Live: Spin Dry
On this episode of #TyskySour, Aaron Bastani is joined by Ronan Burtenshaw to discuss what media, new and old, is influencing people’s decisions in this election.
Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?
What do London’s rough sleepers think of the general election? Ash Sarkar went and asked some of them.
GE2019: Austerity Was an Attack on Our Self-Esteem. We Deserve Better – Let’s Not Talk Ourselves Out of It
Phil Jones
Austerity has instilled in us the belief that good things are not possible, and we wouldn't deserve them even if they were. Phil Jones argues we should resist the idea that a better future is too good to be true.
Report: AI Border Guards are Being Tested at the Edge of Fortress Europe, Away From Public Scrutiny
Robbie Warin
Funded by the EU to the tune of €4.5 million, months of trials ending this summer using AI lie-detecting technology are being kept away from public scrutiny.
GE2019: Predatory, Poisonous, Vacuous. To Understand Boris Johnson Start With the Spectator
Aaron Bastani
The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics, argues Aaron Bastani. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large.
Novara Live: Oh GND, Oh GND
On this episode of #TyskySour Aaron Bastani is joined by James Meadway and Adrienne Buller as they discuss the day’s events and ask how quickly Britain could roll out Labour’s green energy plans.
The Bastani Factor: Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔
The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?
Novara Live: Playing the Trump Card
Donald Trump is in town to tell the British public he doesn’t want to buy our NHS. Will the British public buy his line? With Ash Sarkar and “angry medical student” Julia Simons.
Long Read: How Hostile Environment Confusion Is Continuing to Damage Asylum Seekers’ Health
Will Neal
Despite the formal suspension of data-sharing practices between NHS Digital and the Home Office in the wake of the Windrush scandal, the policy has left behind a legacy which continues to create confusion among medical practitioners while putting up barriers for people fleeing danger.
GE2019: How Much Difference Could Northern Ireland Make in The UK General Election?
Patrick Geddis
Seven seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland, with the DUP likely to lose out in several of them. What is this likely to mean for the UK as a whole?
Ash Wednesday: Housing Is F**ked
Do you ever get the feeling that life just isn’t as fair as it used to be? Here’s 3 ways in which the UK housing sector is completely and utterly f**ked.
GE2019: Against the Death Cult: We Must Not Let Ruthless Ideologues Destroy the Climate and Kill Us All
Eleanor Penny
We are over the brink, argues Eleanor Penny. People have already lost their lives to disasters rooted in fossil-fuel dependent extractive capitalism. But its not too late to break the stranglehold if we act now against the rightwing politicians and fossil fuel companies who are personally invested in destroying our planet.