The Race: Is Jeremy Corbyn Electable?
Aaron Bastani and Sophie Nazemi take a look at this weeks big stories and Michael Walker hosts Zoe Williams and James Meadway as they debate the viability of the Corbyn project.
Tom Watson’s Tin Hat Conspiracy Theories
The deputy leader’s latest swipes at the Corbyn movement show a lack of understanding of the direction in which politics in the UK has gone.
High Court Rules All members Can Vote in the Leadership Election
Dramatic scenes this morning, as a high court rules that all new members will be able to vote in the forthcoming leadership election.
UK Black Lives Matter Activists #Shutdown the M4
This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racism of borders. Ash Sarkar reports.
Failures, flunkies and phonies, rewarded in David Cameron’s honours list
Aaron Bastani on what Cameron’s honours proposals tell us about our politics.
Owen Smith’s Sexism Problem
Has Owen Smith’s misogynist behaviour been deliberately ignored by those trying to smear the Corbyn movement?
Has the centre-left collapsed?
Whatever you think of Blair, Owen Smith and Corbyn it’s undeniable that Europe is facing a crisis of social democracy? Aaron Bastani looks at recent history and asks has the centre-left collapsed?
Chilcot, Corbyn and Britain’s constitutional crisis – Alex Salmond in conversation
Liam O’Hare sits down with former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond to chat media bias on Iraq, Theresa May’s start as PM and sentiment around immigration in the UK, amongst much much else.
Who is the real Owen Smith?
Jeremy Corbyn today launched his leadership campaign, but who is he up against? Top lobbyist at Pfizer, advocate of privatisation and welfare cuts, Aaron Bastani discovers.
‘They kill us because they see that we were never alive anyway’ – Black Lives Matter in the UK
Wail Qasim on why the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in North America, has a lot to add to ongoing struggles on the other side of the Atlantic.
Theresa May becomes Britain’s 2nd female PM – This is NOT a feminist victory
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
Brexit, Labour, Immigration & Trident – Paul Mason in conversation
Aaron Bastani talks to journalist and filmmaker Paul Mason on immigration caps, keeping trident and why he ditched mainstream TV journalism to rally behind Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.
A Good Day For Democracy
Corbyn was kept on the ballot for the upcoming Labour leadership election, but with very restrictive voting regulations on new members.
Corbyn Makes the Ballot!
As Jeremy Corbyn makes the ballot for the leadership election, following a tense meeting by the Labour Party’s NEC (National Executive Committee) Aaron Bastani speaks to James Schneider of Momentum about where the Labour left goes next.
God’s Own Country For Tories
As Cameron steps aside, where better to examine his legacy than in his own constituency in Oxfordshire where county council cuts have destroyed vital public services, putting hundreds of people at risk.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Brexit
Two weeks on from the referendum Ash Sarkar visits Barking, which voted 62% leave, and looks at the way class and race shape inequality and political disenfranchisement.
‘This is a very British coup’ – John McDonnell
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell sits down with Aaron Bastani to talk #CorbynCoup, freedom of movement and transforming the Labour Party into an anti-austerity party.
I voted remain, but ignoring the outcome would be terrible for democracy
‘One of the major fault lines of this referendum was a hatred of elites’
James Butler on legal bids to overturn Brexit, and why this is toxic for democracy.