Novara Live: The Senior Tory MP With the Most Outrageous Side Job
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm
From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]
Opinion: Bogus ‘Nature Based Solutions’ Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Kirtana Chandrasekaran
'Nature-based solutions’ to the climate crisis are the talk of the town at Cop26. But while they’re an intoxicating idea, they’re really a wolf in sheep’s clothing, argues Kirtana Chandrasekaran.
Planet B: Laleh Khalili on Sovereignty and Seafarers
From city ports to the open sea, worker exploitation and environmental degradation are both rife and invisible.
Novara Live: Johnson Under Pressure As Tory Corruption Scandal Deepens
As MPs debate Tory corruption, Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure to clean up parliament. How do we make MPs honest, & should we abolish the House of Lords?
Planet B: Planet B: Tina Ngata on Decolonising Oceans
Why we can't protect our oceans without challenging the colonial mindset.
ACFM: Trip 20: Revolution
The gang square up to a suitably momentous topic for their 20th Trip.
Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab
Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron
The Tories' recent proposal for a new era of 'community-powered Conservativism' is an audacious, though ultimately hollow, bid to park tanks on the left's lawn.
Novara Live: Corruption Runs Through the Veins of the Tory Party
Threats to withdraw funding from rebel MPs' constituencies, a potential peerage for Paterson and the PM refuses to come clean on lavish getaways. It's just another week for a government rotten to the core.
ACFM: Microdose: Revolution From Cromwell to Castro
The gang speed through several centuries of political upheaval to work out what makes a revolution.
Novara Live: Owen Paterson Resigns Amid Johnson’s Embarrassing U-Turn
Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar explore the embarrassing U-turn performed by Boris Johnson over the Owen Paterson scandal and the resignation of the Tory MP at the centre of it all.
Opinion: Who Should Pay Up for Climate Carnage?
Harpreet Kaur Paul
Unprecedented storms and floods are ripping across the Global South. Many at COP26 are calling for rich countries to pay for the damage, writes Harpreet Kaur Paul.
Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Water
How do we add a splash of blue to a global Green New Deal? Harpreet Kaur Paul investigates.
Novara Live: Shameless Tories Rig Rules to Protect Corrupt MP
Tory MP Owen Paterson was found to have breached MP lobbying rules by an independent standards committee. The Tory response: abolish the committee and replace it with a new one.
Report: The Inside Story of Keir Starmer’s Farcical Diversity Audit
Oliver Eagleton
As Black Lives Matter drove a clamour for institutional change in 2020, Labour promised to respond. A year later, party insiders speak of union busting and double-standards in the name of diversity. Oliver Eagleton reports.
Report: Workplace Strikes in the US Are Surging – But Workers Have a Difficult Path to Victory
Luis Feliz Leon and Maximillian Alvarez
Discontent fuelled a notable uptick in strikes in the US last month, dubbed ‘Striketober’. Rather than simply celebrating this increase in worker militancy, the left must focus on turning this moment into a movement.
Planet B: Planet B: Kate Aronoff on What America’s Climate Role Should Be
The renowned climate journalist explores the power – and limitations – of rebooting the New Deal on a global scale.
Analysis: Will Climate Change Itself Derail Plans to Reduce Emissions?
Nicholas Beuret
First problem: climate change itself is slowing down decarbonisation plans. Second problem: decarbonisation plans risk creating a hell of a lot of emissions. So where do we go from here?