This week climate change protestors occupied key parts of London’s infrastructure in an effort to force the government to declare a climate emergency. Aaron argues that with the severity of the climate crisis we face these actions are increasingly urgent.
With Tory MP Suella Braverman repeating the alt-right conspiracy theory of ‘cultural marxism’, Aaron thought he’d take a closer look at the idea.
With Bernie Sanders coming out against open borders, and Labour reaffirming their commitment to ending freedom of movement last week, you might well be wondering if along with pastels and culottes, socialism in one country is back.
As May pleads with Merkel and Macron, Labour’s Remainer MPs are getting organised. Can the UK avoid a no-deal Brexit, and will all hell break loose if Corbyn strikes a deal with May? With Ash Sarkar and Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP.
Theresa May has invited Corbyn for talks about a “compromise” Brexit, but is it just a trap? Catch Sienna Rodgers and Owen Jones on a #TyskySour special.
On the 9th April, Benjamin Netanyahu will defend his premiership in Israel’s General Election. On tonight’s #TyskySour, we ask whether after 50 years of occupation, elections in Israel matter for Palestine. With Salma Karmi-Ayyoub and Yair Wallach
A week after the tragic events in Christchurch New Zealand, Ash shares some reflections.
“Taxes” was the word on everyone’s lips after the annual Davos conference this year. The man who had dared utter it amongst the financial elite was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian whose no nonsense savaging of the establishment brought him viral fame. His latest book ‘Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There’ argues […]
Bercow’s bombshell puts Brexit on hold and May’s government in meltdown. On tonight’s #TyskySour Paul Mason surveys a country in consititutional chaos.
From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly out. The BBC has totally lost it when it comes to news and current affairs.
Free money for everyone – sounds bonkers, right? Well maybe not. With advocates of UBI (Universal Basic Income) popping up everywhere, perhaps this is the solution to increasing populations and technological innovations.
Richard Seymour is in the house to discuss May’s Brexit catastrophe , Tom Watson’s ploy to kick out Corbyn and Corbynism after Brexit.
Rosa Luxemburg was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. She was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy scandalised people at the time both from the left and the right. We sent Eleanor Penny to Berlin on the 100th anniversary of her death […]
This is Chris Grayling’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
“Does the left have an antisemitism problem? Do the Tories get a free pass on Islamophobia? And what does it mean to be “institutionally racist”? Tonight Michael Walker is joined by Eleanor Penny and David Wearing to discuss these questions.
The capitalist press have clocked “millennial socialism”. Can they deal with an egalitarian future? Michael Walker is joined by Aaron Bastani and Callum Williams of the Economist.
At the LRB Bookshop Ash met French literary sensation Edouard Louis to discuss his latest book “Who Killed My Father”, the Gilets Jaunes, love, suffering and more.
What we are seeing isn’t the launch of a new politics, it’s the old one sailing off in a lifeboat. Floating towards an empty horizon, the Independent Group has no idea where it is going or what forces are pushing it. They will fail.