After a mini-budget that spooked the markets and outraged the public, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have been forced into a humiliating U-turn. Are the wheels already coming off their government? Plus: Joana Ramiro reports from Sao Paulo on the Brazilian presidential election. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
On 2nd October, Brazil will be faced with a stark choice. The incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro, has overseen economic calamity and nearly 700,000 Covid deaths in his first term. His challenger, Lula Da Silva, is hoping to regain the presidency – just three years since being freed from prison. To discuss the state of Brazilian […]
Jeremy Corbyn talks to Aaron Bastani about the mainstream media, the antisemitism crisis, Alistair Campbell and King Charles III.
From Dominic Cummings’ cosy texts to Laura Kuenssberg, to Boris Johnson having the Telegraph’s editorial board on speed dial, the cohort of journalists who make up the ‘Lobby’ have got a bad rap. Is mainstream political journalism in terminal decline? Or will the rise of independent and alternative media redefine ‘political journalism’ forever? And how […]
Exclusive: Three months after the Labour party ‘weaponised’ abuse that left her in A&E, Britain’s first hijabi MP Apsana Begum returns to politics.
The queen’s state funeral had been planned for decades, with millions spent and thousands involved. Will the pomp of it all save the monarchy? Plus: Fake Royals rock up to the Queen’s funeral; the most surreal moments from the lying-in-state queue; and Scottish football fans mock the royals. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Thousands headed to central London this weekend to queue up and pay their respect to the Queen. Rivkah Brown went to get a better understanding of the kind of people drawn to pay their respect this way.
On the 8th of September this year, Queen Elizabeth II died. In a special episode of Downstream, Aaron and Ash discuss her life and the aftermath of her death.
With the queen lying in state, the level of public enthusiasm for the monarchy is being measured in a line along the Thames. Michael Walker and Owen Jones discuss what’s driving people to queue. Plus: King Charles fires his staff; A columnist for the Times thinks we should be ‘frugal’ like the Queen; and we […]
Ukrainian forces have made lightning advances, pushing back Russian forces near Kharkiv. How decisive could this prove to the course of the war? We speak to Professor Paul Rogers Plus: the killing of unarmed man Chris Kaba by the metropolitan police; and the latest royal weirdness. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
We are constantly told that we are witnessing unprecedented innovation in technology, and that our problems will be solved by new apps, electric cars or space exploration. But is this innovation truly liberating? Or does it serve to outsource labour and further consolidate power and money in the hands of the few? Ash Sarkar meets […]
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