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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Olly Thorn’s YouTube video essays have racked up hundreds of thousands of views and along with fellow YouTubers Contrapoints and HBomberGuy, PhilosophyTube is one of the leading lights of ‘LeftTube’. We sit down with the man behind PhilosophyTube to discuss winning the online culture war.
The Tories and Labour have tanked in the European Elections. The Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats have won out. Is it time for Labour to oppose Brexit? For this emergency TyskySour special Michael is joined by Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar.
Will the Lib Dems beat Labour? Is the Brexit Party here to stay? And is Britain ready for a #PeoplesVote? Everything you need to know about the #EuropeanElections2019 with the ultimate voting guru, Sir John Curtice.
Claire Fox is billed as the Brexit Party’s “leftie” candidate. Is she giving a voice to let-down voters, or just whitewashing Farage?
Were the local election results a #remainbacklash? How should Labour respond? With Grace Blakeley and Paul Sweeney MP
Has Brexit broken the Tories? Will Change UK – The Independent Group get a graphic designer? Can Labour beat Farage? Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and James Butler chat Euro-Elections tonight on #TyskySour.
Extinction Rebellion and AOC’s Green New Deal have made global headlines. Can their aims be aligned to prevent climate catastrophe? Guest host Aaron Bastani will be joined by journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot and economist Ann Pettifor.
As May pleads with Merkel and Macron, Labour’s Remainer MPs are getting organised. Can the UK avoid a no-deal Brexit, and will all hell break loose if Corbyn strikes a deal with May? With Ash Sarkar and Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP.
Theresa May has invited Corbyn for talks about a “compromise” Brexit, but is it just a trap? Catch Sienna Rodgers and Owen Jones on a #TyskySour special.
On the 9th April, Benjamin Netanyahu will defend his premiership in Israel’s General Election. On tonight’s #TyskySour, we ask whether after 50 years of occupation, elections in Israel matter for Palestine. With Salma Karmi-Ayyoub and Yair Wallach
Bercow’s bombshell puts Brexit on hold and May’s government in meltdown. On tonight’s #TyskySour Paul Mason surveys a country in consititutional chaos.