


Drugs Have Shaped the Last 500 Years. Ash Sarkar Meets Michael Pollan
The author of The Botany of Desire, How To Change Your Mind and The Omnivore’s Dilemma talks to Ash Sarkar about caffeine, capitalism and how to avoid a bad trip.

‘Working Class’ Is Not an Identity. Ash Sarkar Meets China Miéville

Animal Agriculture Is the New Crude Oil. Aaron Bastani Meets George Monbiot

21st Century Child Homelessness in New York City. Ash Sarkar Meets Andrea Elliot

What Does It Mean to Be Free? Aaron Bastani Meets Lea Ypi

An Era-Defining Political Comeback—Aaron Bastani Meets Lutfur Rahman
In the 2022 local elections, something unprecedented happened in Tower Hamlets, a borough in East London. Not only did the constituents elect a mayor previously banned from taking part in politics, but that candiate’s party, Aspire, took the council from Labour. Aaron Bastani speaks to Lutfur Rahman, the new mayor of Tower Hamlets.

What Does Keir Starmer Actually Believe? Aaron Bastani Meets Oliver Eagleton

Something Sinister Is Happening in the Labour Party. Aaron Bastani Meets Len McCluskey

Liberalism Is in Trouble. Aaron Bastani Meets Francis Fukuyama

Did Empire Really End? Ash Sarkar Meets Kojo Koram
Throughout the 20th century, as countries gained independence from the British Empire, there was a rightful sense of renewed agency. And yet, in the world of finance and global capital, many corporate structures of empire continue to exist. Ash Sarkar speaks to Kojo Koram, author of ‘Uncommon Wealth: Britain and The Aftermath of Empire’.

Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown

Were Trans People “Born This Way”?

How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.

Why Are All the Baddies Disabled?
From ancient myths through to the Batman trilogy, pop culture is littered with disabled people and those with facial differences being cast as villains. Why does disability feature so heavily in literary and cinematic traditions, and how has this hypervisiblity had the ironic effect of erasing the experiences of disabled people? Ash Sarkar is joined […]

The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Veterans: Rightwing or Radical?
They are claimed from all sides and by all parties. But who are Britain’s ex-service personnel? What do they want? And what do their politics – whether conservative, liberal or socialist – tell us about Britain as a post-imperial country? Aaron Bastani speaks to Joe Glenton, journalist and author of ‘Veteranhood’.

Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm
From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]