If I Speak: 71: If I’m So Angry Then Why Am I Crying?!
Moya presents an intrusive thought about rage and resentment. Plus: help for a listener whose friends have taken an anti-trans turn.
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ACFM: Is Cleanliness the Most Powerful Taboo?
Who's doing the dishes in the communist utopia? ACFM investigate the politics of cleaning and cleanliness.
Novara FM: Israel-Iran War, Escalation Pauses
"They don't know what the fuck they're doing".
If I Speak: 70: Can You Ever Change What You Want?
Moya and Ash talk about what to do with their impossible desires and offer advice to a listener whose female bestie has ditched him.
Novara FM: How BlackRock and Global Finance Stole Your Future
It's Finance Against Democracy.
If I Speak: 69: Is Marriage a Hard Border? W/ Jeremy Atherton Lin
Is marriage like an island, or more of an open house? Ash talks about state-sanctioned relationships with memoirist Jeremy Atherton Lin.
Novara FM: How to Redistribute the Globe
It's the Land, Stupid.
If I Speak: 68: Help! My Housemate Is a Pig
Moya and Ash deal with your dilemmas, including a daughter who wants to give away her inheritance and a renter whose housemate is a total pig.
Novara FM: Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide
Why do the IDF and NHS both work with Palantir?
If I Speak: 67: What’s Up With Generation Alpha?
Moya and Ash think about how kids these days are shaped by parenting, advertising, social media and anxiety.
ACFM: Are Superheroes Inherently Reactionary?
The ACFM hosts explore the enduring popularity of superheroes.
Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit
It's in the water.
Novara FM: The New Party, Beyond London
Which way forward for the left?
If I Speak: 66: I’m Right, You’re Wrong, End Of!
Moya has a thought about our need for certainty, and Ash responds with a claim about polarised thinking.
Novara FM: What Communism Actually Is
The riddle of history, solved.
If I Speak: 65: Has Your Smartphone Broken Your Brain?
Ash and Moya face up to all the ways their smartphone has warped their minds.
ACFM: Does the Left Need New Heroes?
The ACFM crew ask whether the idea of the hero is a right-wing fantasy.
Novara FM: Are India and Pakistan Gambling With Nuclear War?
Last week, we were as close as we've been for decades.