Choo-Choo! All Aboard the Deselection Express!
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin celebrate the completion of Jeremy Corbyn’s Red Army Takeover of the Labour Party.
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Lexit 2019?
On the first #NovaraFM of 2018, James Butler and Aaron Bastani discus Brexit, ‘Lexit’ and the progress and potentials of leaving the European Union. Are we all Lexiters now?
Prisons: Abolition or Reform?
Hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann interview Dr David Scott, who explains what prison abolition is and what the alternatives are. They discuss the failings of the current penal system, the naive utopianism of reform and the practicalities of penal abolition.
ATB: Now We’re Paying Even More to Commute to Work for the Privilege of Being Exploited
Becky Boumelha joins Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly to talk the serious issue of party democracy after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the important matters of the day such as “melt of the week” – Richard Branson’s little beard.
2017: Year in Review
James Butler is joined by three Novara Media editors – Aaron Bastani, Ash Sarkar, and Michael Walker – to look back over 2017’s political highs and lows, successes and failures, breakthroughs and reversals.
Nina Power: Decapitalism
On #NovaraFM, Nina Power joins James Butler to talk about ‘decapitalism’ – from severed heads to sovereignty to contemporary anticapitalism and more.
Commentators Wake From 7 Month Coma Unaware Politics Has Changed
Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly return to the Novara shipping container to talk Nick Cohen’s coma, Frank Sinatra’s being a comrade, the prescience of Seumas Milne, and of course – melt of the week.
WTF Is Prison Even For?
On The Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann ask: what is prison actually for? They discuss the history of the prison, its relationship to capitalism and colonialism, and what this means for our criminal justice system today.
Radical Happiness: Lynne Segal
James Butler is joined by Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, and longstanding left feminist, to discuss radical happiness, utopia and political joy.
DUP… Easy As 1, 2, 3
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for yet another episode of All The Best exploring the chaos at the heart of Brexit, please enjoy and tell your comrades about it
Budget2031
Aaron Bastani is joined by Grace Blakeley and James Meadway as they ask whether the recent budget offered conclusive proof that Britain’s economic model is dead.
You Lost, but Call It a Purge If It Makes You Feel Better
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for episode three of All The Best, with a new feature – “Melt of the Week” – and a highly developed discourse on the ethics of growing human organs in pigs
Britain’s Prison Industrial Complex
The Lockdown is a show all about prisons and the criminal justice system in Britain. Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss what the prison industrial complex looks like in Britain and why privatisation in the prison system matters.
Climate and Capital: After COP23
James Butler is joined by Asad Rehman and Suzanne Dhaliwal to talk about climate change, global justice, and the aftermath of the latest conference in Bonn.
Steve Kinnock: Leader, Captain, Legend
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin record the second episode of All The Best in the wake of the BBC’s #LabourSummer
Sovereignty, Austerity, Nationalism: Britain and Europe
On #NovaraFM, Dawn Foster and Michael Walker join James Butler to discuss some of the driving forces behind recent political stories: sovereignty, austerity, nationalism.
Exponential Technologies: What Do They Mean?
On #NovaraFM, Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the exponential trends behind a range of disruptive technologies which, some claim, pose a threat to market capitalism and the society of work.
Pass the Duchy’s Tax Bill to the Cayman Isles
After a false start Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin kick off All The Best with an eye watering opening gambit featuring the indefatigable Ash Sarkar. Take care, be well.