Novara Live: Yanis Varoufakis on the Coronacrisis
Yanis Varoufakis had a front row seat for the EU’s last existential crisis. Now that Europe is struck with coronavirus, are its leaders making the same mistakes all over again.
Ash Wednesday: Why They Always Lyin’?
There’s another epidemic raging in the UK, concentrated in the highest echelons of government. It’s called lie-abetes.
Opinion: Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground
Eleanor Penny
Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.
Novara Live: Counting the Cost of COVID-19
Do official statistics show the true death count and economic cost of COVID-19? Plus Rebecca Long-Bailey’s communications boss Matt Zarb-Cousin joins Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani to discuss how the left lost the Labour leadership race.
Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear
Sophie McKay
With the government’s most recent measure to support self-employed workers leaving many with no support at all, the dangerous and uncertain nature of freelance work has been exposed, writes Sophie McKay.
The Bastani Factor: Billionaires Can’t Sit Out the Coronavirus
BIllionaire David Geffen recently posted a picture about his ‘self-isolation’ on board his $590 million boat. But whatever they might think, the ultra rich can’t detach themselves from the Coronavirus pandemic – nor its political consequences.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Acid Lockdown
The #ACFM crew discuss life in lockdown including cheese care packs, the moral economy, and the crisis of liberalism.
Opinion: The Corona-Crisis Reveals There Is No Such Thing As Low-Skilled Labour
Phil Jones
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that our lives are in fact precariously balanced on the supposedly low-skilled labour of others - a vast majority of them women. This ugly revelation is a chance to learn and reimagine the way we value work, writes Phil Jones.
Novara Live: Keir We Go
What does Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle tell us about his plans for the party? Plus, the government’s disastrous handling of care homes and COVID-19, with Michael Walker, Lara McNeil and Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: Novara REACTS to the Labour Leadership Election Results
What do the results of the Labour Leadership contest tell us about the campaigns? In what direction will the victor take the party? Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani react to the news of who will succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Opposition.
‘We Want a Rent Strike Now’: the People Poised to Take on Their Landlords
Sophie K Rosa
In the absence of government-backed rent relief or rent suspensions, people across the country are unable to pay their rent. Sophie K Rosa speaks to some of the people ready to go on rent strike.
Novara Live: We Were Warned
Italy gave the British government warning of the catastrophic consequences of COVID-19. So why have we entered this crisis so woefully underprepared? With Ash Sarkar, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani
Beyond Bernie: the Democratic Socialists of America Are Organising for the Bigger Picture
Eleanor Salter
For the Democratic Socialists of America, the project to change the horizons of American politics does not begin and end with the presidential race. The organisation's strength lies in its ability to organise at both an electoral and grassroots level, writes Eleanor Salter.
The Lockdown: The Lockdown: Arresting the Virus
Oonagh Ryder and Carl Cattermole speak to Kevin Blowe about the new police powers that the Coronavirus Act 2020 has brought in. They are also joined by Becka Hudson to discuss the government's focus on criminalisation over public health.
Opinion: Labour Can Only Win by Building on the Corbyn Era, Not Destroying It
Aaron Bastani
Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership twice, despite a war waged against him from within the party and by the media. He won for a reason, writes Aaron Bastani; if the next Labour leader wants to become prime minister they must acknowledge this, and build on his legacy, not destroy it.
Opinion: By Letting Small Businesses Fail, the State Is Handing Power to Corporate Giants
Grace Blakeley
The world’s biggest businesses will benefit from the coronavirus crisis as they devour the carcasses of their smaller rivals, writes Grace Blakeley. But this is not just the nature of the market, it comes down to who the government chooses to help and who it chooses to abandon.
Novara Live: The Great(er) Recession
How much of our economy will survive the COVID-19 recession? What will come next? Plus, the government’s testing fiasco, with Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani and James Meadway.
Opinion: Coronavirus Has Shown That Care Services Are Vital. Now Let’s Build a State That Cares
Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg
Moments of rupture provide us with a critical opportunity to imagine and create a different world, write Lynne Segal and Catherine Rottenberg. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything so far, it is that we are in urgent need of a politics that puts care front and centre.