The Lockdown: Beyond Prison: Michael Balogun Part 2
On the Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann chat with Michael Balogun (whose incredible story is discussed in part 1) about what could be in place instead of a system of punishment.
Tag: mental health
The Lockdown: Prison and Beyond: Michael Balogun
Actor Michael Balogun tells his story of spending much of his young life in and out of prison to hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann. The first part of a two-parter, looking at the factors leading to imprisonment and how we could do things differently.
The Lockdown: 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.
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All
Jay Watts
Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.
The Lockdown: ‘Tools and Windows’: Books for Prisoners
Hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Luke Billingham from Haven Distribution, an organisation that provides books for prisoners. They discuss the difference books can make to prisoners’ lives, and why the left should stop being armchair abolitionists. Put down your Adorno and send your books into prisons!
The Lockdown: Prisons: Abolition or Reform?
Hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann interview Dr David Scott, who explains what prison abolition is and what the alternatives are. They discuss the failings of the current penal system, the naive utopianism of reform and the practicalities of penal abolition.
Novara FM: Radical Happiness: Lynne Segal
James Butler is joined by Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, and longstanding left feminist, to discuss radical happiness, utopia and political joy.
3 Ways We Must Rethink Mental Health in the Workplace
Luke Dukinfield
Tuesday was World Mental Health Day, and this year’s theme was ‘mental health in the workplace’. But while we've seen much chat of ‘talking about it’ and ‘breaking the taboo’, the relationship between work and mental health itself is rarely called into question.
Tory Promises to Improve Mental Healthcare Ignore the Reality of Living With Mental Illness
Erika Mastrorosa
Here's why simplistic rhetoric and a small investment are not going to fix a broken system, which is letting people down.
6 Ways Monetisation Is Destroying Universities From the Inside Out
Rebecca Corningstone
Universities run like businesses. Students treated like consumers. Here's how higher education in the UK is being changed for the worse.
Staying Alive: on Mental Health and Survivorship
On KilljoyFM Ray Filar is joined by Liv Wynter and Susuana Amoah to discuss survival, community accountability and life after violence.
9 Times Video Games Were Great for Mental Health
Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham
Video games are often blamed for social isolation or mental health issues, despite scientific evidence to the contrary. Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham explore some of the games that have helped people cope with mental health issues.
‘How do we explain depression to ourselves?’ Bifo remembers Mark Fisher
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
The Italian autonomist theorist Franco 'Bifo' Berardi remembers Mark Fisher, who passed away in January. Translated by Luca Miotto.
4 Theses on Depression and Radical Praxis
Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen
With rates of depression on the rise, it's clear that our mental health is a condition of the political situation in which we live. Here are four propositions for how to approach radical anti-capitalist praxis in an age of mass depression.
The Meaning of Home
Stefan Kielbasiewicz
The UK is in the grip of an acute housing shortage. Prices are sky high and not nearly enough new homes are being built. But even for those who do manage to get accommodation, it is often unstable and of poor quality, with the threat of eviction omnipresent.
Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy
Jessica Brown
In May the mental health for schools champion was fired for criticising government policy, suggesting the Tories are more concerned with PR than children's mental wellbeing.
Whether It’s ‘Rational’ or Not, Anxiety Has Its Own Logic
Ellen Judson
This personal account explores one source of difficulty faced by many people with anxiety: the social expectation of what constitutes 'reasonable' fears and worries.
Mental Health & Masculinity
Aaron Bastani talks mental health, masculinity and shares his own experience with depression.