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Long Read: The Four Neat Tricks Corporations Used to Take Over the World

by Claire Provost & Matt Kennard

As the old empires have crumbled, corporations have staged a silent coup against democracy, one whose tentacles reach every corner of the globe, write Claire Provost and Matt Kennard.

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Opinion: $5m in Reparations for Every Black Adult? I’m Listening

by Maurice Mcleod

San Francisco made headlines last week after a committee made major proposals for how the city can compensate its Black citizens. They’re totally unrealistic, and that’s the point, writes Maurice Mcleod.

ACFM: Trip 29: Sleep

Nadia, Jeremy and Keir report on the last line of defence against 24/7 capitalism.

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Long Read: The Tory Crisis Didn’t Start With Liz Truss and It Won’t End With Her

by Jonas Marvin

Dominic Cummings warned a Truss premiership would be a ‘guaranteed fiasco’. But if the disaster lettuce has gone, the political decay that created her has not, writes Jonas Marvin.

Downstream: The Plan Is to Make You Permanently Poorer | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson

In 2011, while working as a City trader, Gary Stevenson joined the ultra rich with a single bonus cheque. Not long after he was named one of Citibank’s highest performing traders worldwide. Stevenson made millions for his employer by betting on one thing: that the British and American economies would fail to recover from the […]

09/02/2021. London, United Kingdom. Health Secretary Matt Hancock before Parliament announcement. Department of Health. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Analysis: Why Do Tories Love Crypto?

by Peter Howson

Rishi Sunak has ordered the Treasury to mint NFTs. Matt Hancock is a "crypto expert", apparently. How to explain the overlap between Tory boys and crypto bros? Pete Howson offers an answer.

The Bastani Factor: How Britain Starved Ireland

Today the island of Ireland has a smaller population than it did 200 years ago. How did that happen, and what has it got to do with free market capitalism? Aaron Bastani explains how London politicians and Irish landlords exploited a crisis in the name of an ideology – in the process wrecking the lives […]

A photograph of Kim Kardashian pointing to herself with long wavy brown hair and a green turtleneck

Opinion: Self-Help Culture Is a Lie – But Its Opposite Is Just As Bogus

by Daisy Schofield

Kim Kardashian says get off your ass and work. Fail, says Elizabeth Day – but only if failure fuels further success. Daisy Schofield looks at our maddening inability to think beyond self-improvement.

Opinion: NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit

by Rachel Connolly

Rich people have always bought ugly stuff, writes Rachel Connolly - it's what you do when you have more money than sense. The fact that normal people do too is the real mystery.

Opinion: It’s Time to Abolish the Family

by Judy Thorne

Let's end the monopoly that romantic and biological relationships have over care, writes anthropologist Judy Thorne.

Downstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown

How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the new clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.

Anti-government demonstrators hold a poster representing a coffin of a victim of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the message "30,000 deaths, so what?", during a protest named "Amazonas for Democracy" in Manaus, Brazil

Analysis: Ending Vaccine Apartheid Won’t End the Pandemic

by James Meadway

It is vital that rich countries in the global north share the vaccines we have hoarded if we are to effectively manage the pandemic, writes James Meadway. But vaccination is only one part of the solution.

Influencer Molly-Mae Hague at a PrettyLittleThing event in New York

Opinion: Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

by Anna Cafolla

For Gen Z, it’s easier to believe the myth of meritocracy pedalled by influencers - we can all make it to the top because we have ‘the same hours in a day as Beyonce' - than to accept the truth of a system stacked against us, writes Anna Cafolla.

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Opinion: Nobody Cares What Your New Year Resolutions Are, So You Might As Well Do Something You Enjoy

by Rachel Connolly

So often, new year resolutions are an attempt at self-improvement. They’re also an attempt to forget that so much of human life is meaningless, writes Rachel Connolly.

The Bastani Factor: Was Jesus Christ a Socialist Revolutionary?

For conservatives he is viewed as a source of inspiration, with some even claiming he was an advocate of the free market. But what did Jesus really preach two thousand years ago? Despite the rise of the religious right in recent decades, Aaron Bastani asks whether the central figure in the Christian faith was in […]

Downstream: How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial

Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.

Downstream: Why Are All the Baddies Disabled?

From ancient myths through to the Batman trilogy, pop culture is littered with disabled people and those with facial differences being cast as villains. Why does disability feature so heavily in literary and cinematic traditions, and how has this hypervisiblity had the ironic effect of erasing the experiences of disabled people? Ash Sarkar is joined […]

Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.