Novara FM: Police State of Mind
Rivkah Brown presents a special episode examining how the blue tentacles of police power creep into our lives.
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Novara FM: Afterburn
Kate Aronoff explores climate denialism, oil companies' predictions of the future, and the fate of the Green New Deal.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 16: the Long ‘90s
The one where the gang remember the end of history.
Novara FM: Get Free
Annelien De Dijn asks us: what if everything you thought you knew about freedom was wrong?
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Kill the Bill
Does the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill pose a serious threat to movements on the left? The gang convene to discuss the politics of protest.
Novara FM: From War to Constitution—and the Problem of England
Linda Colley takes James Butler through the age of war and revolution which gave birth to the modern constitution – and peers into England's political future.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
Jeremy Gilbert tunes into the politics of folk music, from communist troubadours to pastoral psychedelia.
Novara FM: A Plague of Blue Locusts: On Police Power
Mark Neocleous joins James Butler to unravel the knot of police power, sovereignty and social order.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 15: Folk
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert dig into the politics of folk, from island cults to progressive patriotism.
Novara FM: Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs
'To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.' Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.
Novara FM: After Storming Heaven
James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.
Novara FM: In the Cookshops of the Future
Peter Hudis joins James Butler to gaze into the future – and explain why the left must stake a claim to it.
Novara FM: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 14: Desire
The #ACFM gang explore the political power of desire, from the storming of the Capitol to the Corbyn cult.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Tabitha Bast on Dating and Desire
Do dating apps leave us unprepared for offline love? Nadia Idle talks to psychosexual therapist Tabitha Bast about the politics of desire.
Novara FM: I Am Not My Work
Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.
Novara FM: Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 13: Crowds
With the pandemic keeping us in isolation, the crew return to discuss crowds. Are they forums for collective joy, or platforms for demagoguery?