Lifting the Lockdown (with Owen Jones)
Owen Jones joins Michael Walker to talk about the Tories mixed up lockdown messaging, VE Day and Keir Starmer getting smeared. Plus, Allyson Pollock on why we need an independent SAGE.
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Lockdown Is Revealing the Need for Land Reform in the UK
Yali Banton-Heath
After the Lockdown (w/ Bill Hanage)
Dr Bill Hanage, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard University, joins Michael Walker to discuss global responses to Covid-19, and when and how we can exit coronavirus lockdowns.
#ACFM Microdose: Acid Lockdown
The #ACFM crew discuss life in lockdown including cheese care packs, the moral economy, and the crisis of liberalism.
The Lockdown: Arresting the Virus
Oonagh Ryder and Carl Cattermole speak to Kevin Blowe about the new police powers that the Coronavirus Act 2020 has brought in. They are also joined by Becka Hudson to discuss the government’s focus on criminalisation over public health.
The Burner Episode #207: Logistics and Production During the Crisis, Italian Lockdown
Craig Gent delves deeper into logistics and production during the crisis – as the market scramble reveals the failures in preparedness and resilience in the NHS. Will ‘just in time’ logistics leave us empty-handed in the face of a pandemic? Plus, Rosa Gilbert brings us more from Italy – including how to keep it together during […]
Eighteen Books to Read on Lockdown
the Novara Media Team
The Lockdown: Gangs and Violence: What’s Going On?
Hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Patrick Williams, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, about the media and government focus on ‘gangs’, how this relates to the reality of violence and the impact this has on black and minority ethnic communities in Britain.
The Lockdown: the End of Policing
Sam Swann and guest host Connor Woodman discuss the book, The End Of Policing with its author Alex S. Vitale. They discuss the ways that the police exacerbate social problems and what the alternatives might be.
The Lockdown: Justice in Films
Hosts Oonagh Ryder @Oonskie and Sam Swann @SamGSwann chat about how justice is portrayed in films with filmmaker and writer Joel Blackledge @TheGreatDamfino. They discuss the role of the prison in films and TV, which characters are deserving of our sympathy and how punishment is the backdrop to so much of our entertainment.
The Lockdown: the Myth of Rehabilitation
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss the myth of rehabilitation in prison and how the language of rehabilitation disguises the true nature of the criminal justice system.
The Lockdown: Containing Gender
The Lockdown hosts interview Chryssy Hunter, an activist with Bent Bars and researcher currently completing her PhD on neoliberal legislation and the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people.
After the May Elections Meltdown, Will Keir Starmer Finally Be Replaced?
Steven Methven
Dead prime minister walking.
Trump Threatens to ‘Blow Up’ the World’s Largest Gasfield
Sophia Sheera
After Israel bombed it first.
No 10’s Toxic Covid Culture Didn’t Just Vanish With the Tories
Ash Sarkar
Same structural weaknesses.
Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists Has Been a Runaway Success. Why Is the Government so Nervous About Expanding It?
Ellen McVeigh
It’s boosted the Irish economy by £88m.
Palestine Action Prisoners’ Hunger Strike to Become Biggest Since Irish Republicans
Harriet Williamson
Bobby Sands would be proud.
China Is Building While the West Crumbles
Aaron Bastani Meets Dan Wang
Modern China explained by a technology analyst.