The British Military Is Actively Involved in Gaza. Here’s How.
Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard
Where does the increase in money for ‘defence’ actually get spent?
Downstream is an in-depth interview show featuring conversations with activists, authors, economists, politicians, scientists, philosophers and thinkers of all stripes.
We Have to Break up With the USA
Aaron Bastani meets Angus Hanton
Britain is at a crucial crossroads.
Why Don’t We Have Any Hope?
Aaron Bastani meets Jonathan White
How the right own the future.
Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong
Aaron Bastani meets Josephine Quinn
What we get wrong when talking about ‘civilisation’.
Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished
Aaron Bastani talks to Philip Pilkington
On Ukraine, China and the end of USAID.
This Is Why the Right Are Winning
Aaron Bastani talks to Ash Sarkar
Ahead of her first book, Minority Rule, Ash explains how the right hijacked identity politics.
Elon Musk Wants to Be Napoleon
Ash Sarkar meets William Davies
What does Elon Musk really want?
Why Are So Many People Lonely?
Ash Sarkar Meets Shon Faye
We have to change our understanding of love.
Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong
Aaron Bastani meets Gary Stevenson
The rise of Reform, why Elon Musk hates immigrants and how the plan is still to make you poorer.
Who Really Funds the Institute of Economic Affairs?
Aaron Bastani meets Kristian Niemietz
Devolution, trickle-down economics and Thatcherite ideology.
Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why
Aaron Bastani meets Brett Christophers
Liberal elites are lost.
2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke
Ash Sarkar, Aaron Bastani & Michael Walker on the biggest stories of 2024.
Is Starmer screwed? Are expansionist wars back? Has ‘woke’ died? Find out in our end of year Downstream special.
Germany, Russia and the Death of Europe
Aaron Bastani meets Wolfgang Munchau
Why has the ‘German Miracle’ come to such a sharp end?
This Journalist Spent a Year Embedded With the Taliban
Ash Sarkar meets Ibrahim Nash'at
This journalist embedded himself with the Taliban.
Humans Could Become Immortal This Century
Aaron Bastani meets Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
The end of death is nigh.
Trains Are Better Than Cars. Here’s Why
Aaron Bastani meets Gareth Dennis
On the false hope of electric vehicles, the Hyperloop scam and why Rachel Reeves doesn’t understand potholes.
‘Green Capitalism’ Is a Con
Ash Sarkar meets Andreas Malm
The ‘global community’s’ design solution for solving rising temperatures was flawed from the outset.
Is the West Heading for Civilisational Collapse?
Aaron Bastani meets Peter Heather and John Rapley
What historians have got wrong about the collapse of the Roman Empire sheds much light on the current state of western civilisation, according to the authors of How Empires Fall.