Opinion: The Media is Biased Against the Left – And the Right
Aaron Bastani
While rightwing billionaires control Britain’s print press, the broadcast media is stuffed with Blairites, writes Aaron Bastani.
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Explainers: Why Postal Workers Are Going on Strike
While company management are paid in the millions, and receive bonuses for failure, postal workers at Royal Mail are being treated like mud. Today they are going on strike. Aaron Bastani explains the reasons behind the strike – and how bosses at the top are out of control.
Opinion: Private Jet Use Shows Why We Must Abolish Billionaires
Ell Folan
After an Instagram post by Kylie Jenner showing off her private jet caused a massive backlash, here's what we should do about the super-rich trashing our planet.
Opinion: Of Course Sunak Says Inflation Can’t Be Fixed. Fixing It Would Mean Taxing Billionaires Like Him
James Meadway
If everyone is paying more for things, but most of us aren’t earning more money, someone is pocketing the difference, writes James Meadway.
Ash Wednesday: You Will Never Be a Billionaire, Here’s Why.
Ash Sarkar unlocks the secrets of billionaire success that the Fortune 500 don’t want YOU to know. Hustle, grind, and mental fortitude? Nah. It’s exploitation.
Report: A Group of Renters Just Won £19,000 From Their Billionaire Landlord – And They’re Just Getting Started
Rivkah Brown
In a historic victory for renters everywhere, Somerford Grove Renters successfully sued their lawyered-up landlord and are now preparing dozens more suits. If successful, they stand to win half a million pounds. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of
Aaron Bastani
Grimes took to TikTok last week with a 'proposition for the communists': drop enforced farming, adopt AI. While she's right to claim technology could recast our world for the better, she's wrong to think it can do so on its own.
Downstream: A Super League for the Super Rich
Ash Sarkar is joined by Laurence McKenna talk about how a sport created by the poor was stolen by the rich - and just what can be done to take it back.
The Bastani Factor: Will Amazon Fresh Kill the High Street? | the Bastani Factor
Amazon already dominates online retail, but is it set to take over the high street? Last month, Jeff Bezos’ trillion-dollar company opened the UK’s first Amazon Fresh store, stocked with own brand groceries, including milk and meat, and cashiers replaced by an entirely automated process. Aaron Bastani visited the store in Ealing, West London, to […]
Novara Live: An Empire Rises, an Empire Falls
While COVID-19 has killed Arcadia, it has cemented Amazon as the world’s dominant retail firm. David Adler joins the show to discuss what does the rise of Bezos’s empire, and the fall of Green’s, mean for both the planet and for workers? With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial
Report: The Tenants Taking on Their Billionaire Landlord
Sophie K Rosa
A group of tenants in east London is locked in a battle with a billionaire landlord who wants to evict them for organising during the pandemic. Sophie K Rosa reports.
The Bastani Factor: Billionaires Can’t Sit Out the Coronavirus
BIllionaire David Geffen recently posted a picture about his ‘self-isolation’ on board his $590 million boat. But whatever they might think, the ultra rich can’t detach themselves from the Coronavirus pandemic – nor its political consequences.
The Bastani Factor: Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔
The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?
Novara Live: Are Bankers Scared of Corbyn? We Asked Them.
If Labour get into power…. 📉THE POUND WILL CRASH! 💸THE BANKERS WILL FLEE! But is this true? Michael Walker went to the City of London to see if bankers are really scared of Corbyn.
Opinion: To Be Impartial the BBC Must Change Its Relationship to Britain’s Billionaire-owned Newspapers
Aaron Bastani
As someone born in Britain the BBC is one of the institutions I am most proud of, writes Aaron Bastani, but it could be so much better, offering a genuine counterweight to a billionaire class intent on rigging the country’s democratic process. It won’t do that, and live up to its own charter, until it re-thinks its relationship to the rightwing press.
The Bastani Factor: Billionaires Control the Media
Billionaires control the media, and it’s undermining our democracy. The broadcast media amplify the right-wing print media meaning the political agenda is always set by, you guessed it, billionaires.
Ash Wednesday: Why Is It so Expensive to Be Poor?
Utilities, tax, rent and work – charging people for poverty is an industry worth billions.
GE2019: Why on Earth Shouldn’t People Be Able to Be Billionaires?
Grace Blakeley
BBC radio host Emma Barnett reacted with scornful disbelief on Thursday, when Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle argued that nobody in the UK should be a billionaire. Economist Grace Blakeley explains why Barnett is wrong to peddle the myth that the mega rich contribute to this country.