The GameStop Stock Surge
As GameStop shares keep rising while hedge funds lick their wounds, are Reddit users a real threat to the power of Wall Street? Plus, Ben Smoke speaks about the Stanstead15 on the day they have seen their convictions overturned in the Court of Appeal. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
GameStop: How the Online Crowd Stormed the FinTech Scene
Paolo Gerbaudo
Think the Tories Can’t Possibly Paint Britain’s Pandemic Response As a Triumph? Think Again
Aaron Bastani
Johnson Is to Blame
Boris Johnson has claimed that his government “did everything” they could to protect lives and tackle the coronavirus pandemic. As the death toll exceeds 100,000 people, we explain why Boris Johnson was lying. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
The Influencer Industrial Complex. Interview With Moya Lothian-McLean
The last few years have heralded the rise of the influencer: social media users who have, in essence, found a way to get paid for being themselves on the internet. But has this commodification of the self poisoned the public sphere? Or are we witnessing the end of gatekeeping – and the beginnings of a […]
To Defeat the Far Right, Portugal’s Left Must Learn From Its History
Joana Ramiro
Amazon Delivery Drivers Are Being Shamed for Relieving Themselves in Public – But Bezos is to Blame
Sophie K Rosa
Schools Out Till Easter?
Government briefings suggest schools will stay closed until Easter. Is this a policy progressives should support? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Chloe Tomlinson
Unfinished Revolutions: What Were the Roots of the Arab Uprisings?
David Wearing
I Was an Egyptian Revolutionary
10 years ago a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, thousands poured onto the streets of Egypt to confront a dictatorship. In this video one protestor reflects on his experience all those years ago.
Boris Johnson Ends ‘War on Woke?!’
On Wednesday, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Boris Johnson said there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being ‘woke’. Yet the signature of the Tories in recent years has been a ‘war on woke’, with MPs and media outriders attacking ideas of social and economic equality while using the term. […]
The New ‘More Deadly’ Covid Variant
Boris Johnson has announced the new covid variant may be more lethal. We ask clinical epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani how worried the public should be about this variant. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
