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Trump Gets Corona

Failed State Debate

Locked In

David Graeber: A Celebration of His Life

Where’s the Support, Sunak?

Starmer’s Address to the Nation

Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow

Trump Gets Corona

Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss the bombshell news that Trump has coronavirus. Plus, pressure mounts on Margaret Perrier after breaking covid rules, the Julian Assange extradition hearing closes, the elites driving migrant prison ship plans.

Failed State Debate

Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar are joined by New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz to analyse a dire presidential debate, and an ongoing American nightmare. Plus, the day’s Downing St press briefing and home secretary Patel’s plan to ship asylum seekers to the South Atlantic.

Locked In

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the wave of lockdowns at British universities. Plus, anticapitalism banned in English schools, Paul Dacre and Charles Moore tipped for top BBC jobs, lawfare in Ecuador (w/ Guillaume Long) and Labour seeks to woo back rich donors.

David Graeber: A Celebration of His Life

To celebrate the life and work of David Graeber: a live stream with academics, activists, and politicians who have been influenced by, and who were an influence on, his intellectual endeavours and activist pursuits.

Where’s the Support, Sunak?

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss Sunak’s lacklustre Job Support Scheme. Plus COVID chaos on UK campuses, why casual sex is still banned, Whittome sacked for opposing Torture.

Starmer’s Address to the Nation

Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial Respond to Keir Starmer’s Address to the Nation on Covid-19. Plus, top scientists say Johnson’s new restrictions aren’t good enough, China commits to carbon neutrality by 2060 and RLB’s replacement gets Labour in trouble.

The Bastani Factor

Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow

What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one […]

Johnson’s Address to the Nation

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani react to Johnson’s address to the nation.

Second Wave Incoming

Coronavirus cases are doubling every week. Hospital admissions are rising. And – if Britain doesn’t change course – more deaths are on the way. That was the message from the UK’s Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor in a live public broadcast this morning. Is it time to panic?? Plus, Labour’s online conference, the […]

Six Months of Starmer

Keir Starmer pitched left during his leadership campaign with promises to maintain the radicalism of the Corbyn years. However, since taking over as leader he has set a rather different tone. How should progressives in Britain relate to the Labour Party under Starmer’s leadership? And what leverage do we have when Starmer allies are doing […]

Lockdown Reloaded

10 million people in the UK now live under local restrictions, and a nationwide lockdown looks to be incoming. Will the government come to regret bullying us into our offices, and giving us all discounts in pubs? Plus: why no-one understands government testing figures (including Matt Hancock); Priti Patel’s War on Cocaine; Joe Biden’s Beef […]

Under Threat: the Sengwer Minority

Kenyan authorities and the EU are now negotiating the resumption of a controversial forest conservation project suspended in 2018 due to serious human rights concerns. The Sengwer, one of Kenya’s marginalised minorities, face eviction from their ancestral land. Despite a moratorium on evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and huge pressure from human rights groups, […]

Incompetence in Overdrive

The government promised that by the time schools re-opened the UK would have a world beating test-and-trace system. However, just as our economy is re-opening, Britain’s testing system has collapsed. Does Britain’s testing chaos make a second wave inevitable?

The Bastani Factor

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn

After the 2017 general election Labour under Jeremy Corbyn seemingly stood on the brink of power. From nowhere they had enjoyed the biggest increase in vote share of any party since 1945, depriving the Tories of their majority. But from there it was a story of Glastonbury to catastrophe and, last December, Labour gained their […]

Born Again Brexiteer

Since becoming Labour leader Keir Starmer has avoided taking concrete positions on matters of policy. However, on one issue he’s been crystal clear: It’s time to get brexit done. It is in direct contrast to the position he took as Brexit secretary under Jeremy Corbyn. How did Starmer go from being Labour’s remainer-in-chief, to a born […]

Apocalyptic Skies

The US West Coast is suffering from record breaking forest fires. Will the disaster jolt the country into climate action? Plus, Alan Sugar wants you back in the office, Labour Friends of Israel celebrates an influx of MPs, and thousands complain after ITV airs homage to Black Lives Matter. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

The Bastani Factor

‘Cultural Marxism’ Is a Far Right Conspiracy Theory

Cultural Marxism, increasingly mentioned by right-wing politicians, pundits and terrorists, is a conspiracy theory. But where does it come from, what does it mean and what is its political function for those who deploy it? Aaron Bastani traces the roots of the term from 1930s Germany through the fantasist ravings of Lyndon Larouche to its […]

The Rule of Six

From Sunday it will be illegal to meet up with a group of more than 6 people, unless your boss has told you so. Does the need for a tightening of lockdown rules show the government has lost control of covid 19? Is it sustainable to tell people they’re morally obliged to traipse into packed […]

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