Your hardy editors bring you a Snow Day Special, where James Butler, Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker talk conspiracy theories, books that changed them, desire in politics – and what their younger selves would think of them now.
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin get together for an intimate fireside chat about Conservative smears, Brexit and the resignation of Comrade McNicol. Enjoy and be well!
On #NovaraFM, Richard Seymour joins James Butler and Aaron Bastani to talk about right-wing smear campaigns, the changing shape of the press and the vexed relationship between media and politics.
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss the myth of rehabilitation in prison and how the language of rehabilitation disguises the true nature of the criminal justice system.
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley, Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker to discuss public ownership from nationalisation to socialisation – and what a truly democratised economy might look like.
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin are joined by Ash Sarkar to chat the snowflake right, culture wars, why Arsenal is a euphemism for our broken economy and which Kanye album is best.
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Zoe Williams, Ash Sarkar and Eleanor Penny to discuss the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which offered limited suffrage to women, and discuss the changing face of feminism in the past century.
The Lockdown hosts interview Chryssy Hunter, an activist with Bent Bars and researcher currently completing her PhD on neoliberal legislation and the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people.
On #NovaraFM, Mark Bergfeld joins James Butler to discuss German politics, from #NoGroKo movement against a new grand coalition, the Left Party, the rise of the far right and German social movements.
On #NovaraFM, James Butler and Ash Sarkar are joined by Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations, to talk about racism, resistance and the rebirth of the right.
Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly welcome Tony Blair’s former director of political operations John McTernan to All The Best to discuss their competing world views in a comradely fashion.
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley and Ann Pettifor to discuss the decline and fall of Carillion, outsourcing, financialisation – and how to transform public investment in Britain.
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin celebrate the completion of Jeremy Corbyn’s Red Army Takeover of the Labour Party.
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?
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.
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