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In the Ring With TyskySour: Green New Deal

Parliament has finally declared climate change a national emergency. However, whilst most of the Corbyn movement is on board with the idea of a Green New Deal, there are many different visions over what a truly transformative Green New Deal can look like. This live episode of #TyskySour will delve into these tensions, debating the […]

Not Liberal, Not Democrats?

The Lib Dem conference, Johnson’s renegotiation, plus Ann Pettifor’s new book on the Green New Deal. With Ann Pettifor and Tom Kibasi.

Wreck or Remain?

Are Swinson and Watson out to stop Brexit, or stop Corbyn? Plus, Johnson’s #NorthernStrategy struggles to get off the ground.

How to Save the World From Financialisation: Interview With Grace Blakeley

Grace Blakeley’s new book “Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation” offers a history of finance-led growth, and argues democratic socialism is the only way to escape it.

Pro-Rogue One

As parliament is suspended for five weeks, Michael and Aaron run through the weekends events and look ahead to the informal election campaign. Will Johnson break the law? Will resignations damage the Tories? And is McDonnell ready to expropriate your landlord? Where now for John Bercow?

Please Leave My Town

Johnson’s own brother has quit, and now he’s trapped in office without power. On this episode of #TyskySour, Aaron and Michael discuss the week Boris Johnson unravelled.

Dude, Where’s My Majority?

Johnson has a majority of minus 43 and is pushing for an election. Will labour oblige? Economist and former advisor to John McDonnell James Meadway joins us to discuss.

General Election Now…ish?

It’s the first day back after recess and it’s crunch time. Will MPs block a no-deal Brexit? And are we set for a General Election? Ash Sarkar and James Butler join us in the studio to discuss. Part two of this discussion is here: https://novara.media/nowish2

Is This a Coup?

Boris Johnson has announced parliament will be suspended in order to implement Brexit, deal or no deal. Is this a coup? Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker convene for an emergency #TyskySour to discuss.

Amazon in Flames

As the Amazon burns, its time to join the dots between right-wing populism and the climate crisis. With Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Professor in law at Birkbeck and author of “What if Latin America Ruled the World?” and Daniel Willis, from Global Justice Now.

Party Leaders, READY!

This summer Johnson, Corbyn and Swinson have been preparing for battle. But who has best positioned themselves to come out on top? Michael Walker is back and will be joined by Ash Sarkar and James Butler.

Surviving Boris Johnson – With Faiza Shaheen and Jonathan Portes

With a mandate from only 0.25% of the UK electorate, Boris Johnson has been elected Tory Party leader and Britain’s next Prime Minister. Johnson has called gay people “bumboys”, black people “picanninies” and compared muslim women to “letterboxes”. He’s now willing to take Britain to a no-deal Brexit. So, can Britain survive Boris? With Faiza […]

Red Vs Blue Britain – With Gillian Keegan MP and James Meadway

The coming years in British politics will revolve around a single question: Do we want to live in Jeremy Corbyn’s or Boris Johnson’s Britain. To debate two visions for the economy and country, Gillian Keegan, Conservative MP for Chichester, and James Meadway, ex-advisor to John McDonnell, go head-to-head.

Cocaine for the Masses, Not Just for the Ruling Classes

When black kids get high at carnival it’s a national scandal. When white kids pop pills at Glastonbury it’s just good fun. But when Boris Johnson and Michael Gove admit to snorting cocaine, that’s when it gets interesting.

Homes Under the Hammer and Sickle

Labour’s ‘Land for the Many’ report has become the bugbear of Britain’s rightwing press. Are the wealthy right to be scared? Laurie Macfarlane, one of the report’s authors, will explain all on this episode of TyskySour.

Boris’s Britain

With Boris Johnson set to become PM, the media struggles with our own “post-truth” candidate. Plus, the courts strike down Saudi arms sales, and Trump threatens war with Iran. Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP joins us in the studio.

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather […]

Banquets and Bigots: Trump in the U.K.

As Tory hopefuls suck up to the ego-in-chief, we’re joined in the studio by Sarah Jaffe (journalist and co-host of the Belabored Podcast) and Hussein Kesvani (author and co-host of the Trash Future podcast). We’ll be discussing the nature of the special relationship, whether the working class love state banquets, the latest on Trump’s potential […]

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