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Opinion: Elon Musk Is the Perfect Mascot for Trump 2.0

Kojo Koram

If Trump’s first campaign wooed nostalgists for a once-great America, his second resonated with a younger demographic hunting for treasure in the ruined temples of the future, writes Kojo Koram.

Rioters during an anti-migration protest in Rotherham on 4 August. REUTERS

Novara FM: Welcome to the Age of ‘Disaster Nationalism’

How far-right movements place the blame for real catastrophes on invented enemies.

ACFM: Microdose: Reactionary Democracy

How do politicians and pundits end up normalising the far-right? Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon explain in a Microdose interview.

ACFM: Trip 42: Fascism

The ACFM gang investigate the use and abuse of the F-word, with help from Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci and Black Sabbath.

Pro Revolution Soccer: Should You Support Your National Team?

Keir and Tom are joined by David Goldblatt, author of The Ball Is Round, to talk about football as a national culture.

Activists of Hindu nationalist group Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) shout slogans during a protest against the killing of seven Hindu pilgrims in a gunbattle that erupted in Kashmir on Monday, in New Delhi, India, July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Analysis: Brace Yourselves for a ‘Hinduphobia’ Moral Panic

Ash Sarkar

British Indians aren’t switching to the Conservatives because of Hinduphobia – but that won’t stop the nationalist right using the phantom threat to divide minorities.

Downstream: Veterans: Rightwing or Radical?

They are claimed from all sides and by all parties. But who are Britain’s ex-service personnel? What do they want? And what do their politics – whether conservative, liberal or socialist – tell us about Britain as a post-imperial country? Aaron Bastani speaks to Joe Glenton, journalist and author of ‘Veteranhood’.

Labour leader Keir Starmer having a pint of Guinness with Hartlepool by-election candidate Paul Williams

Opinion: Labour’s ‘Buy British’ Policy Could Be the Start of a Bold, New Economic Approach

Nick Dearden

Labour's 'Buy British' policy could be a reactionary gimmick; it could also contain the first glimpse of a new economic approach, which sees communities empowered to build wealth from the bottom-up, writes Nick Dearden.

Opinion: England’s Footballers Are Changing the Conversation. It’s Time the Left Caught Up

Chardine Taylor-Stone

The left can't let its anxieties about nationalism stop it from joining, and shaping, the conversation around football, writes Chardine Taylor-Stone.

Opinion: England’s Football Team is Changing Because England is Changing

David Wearing

This year's England squad are defiantly anti-racist and pro-LGBT. The left should be encouraged, writes David Wearing: it's a sign that slowly, step by step, struggles to expand the collective 'we' are being won from the ground up.

Harry Kane takes a knee

Opinion: This Year’s England Squad Actually Gives a Shit

Jessy Parker Humphreys

There's a lot to celebrate about the England team, but their Englishness has nothing to do with it, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys. These are the most politically engaged players the country has ever seen.

Mark Rutte waves

Analysis: The Dutch Left Was Savaged at the Polls – but Its Policies Remain Unscathed

Merijn Oudenampsen

Wednesday's historic defeat is especially confounding given the popularity of leftwing policies among the electorate, writes Dutch political scientist Merijn Oudenampsen.

Interview: Is a Radical England Possible?

For author Alex Niven the “break up of Britain must also be the break up of England” – but what does that mean? And if progressive Englishness is not possible, then what is the alternative? What should be the foundational left politics as Britain fragments in the years and decades ahead? Aaron Bastani interviews the […]

Opinion: ‘Progressive Patriotism’ Is Not the Way to Repair Labour’s Image

Ruth Kinna

Shortly before declaring her candidature for the Labour leadership, Rebecca Long-Bailey called for a revival of what she called "progressive patriotism" to restore the party’s fortunes in working class communities. Ruth Kinna explores the implications of the term and whether patriotism can ever truly be deemed progressive.

Novara FM: The Next Referendum?

In light of Labour's evolving Brexit stance, James Butler is joined by Richard Seymour to take a broad look at Brexit politics.

India Elections: How Modi Has Promoted Anti-Muslim Hatred and Is Using It to Secure Re-Election

Zara Patel

India is home to the world’s third biggest Muslim population, but under Modi’s leadership hate speech by high-profile politicians has increased almost 500%, with marginalising rhetoric and targeted campaigns used to stoke communal tension for political gain. With polls indicating the BJP will secure another five year term it looks like the party's divisive tactics may have worked, but at what expense to minority communities?

Novara FM: England’s Brexit? Nationalism, Sovereignty, Constitutionalism

James Butler is joined by Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy and author of 'The Lure of Greatness', to discuss the national politics driving Brexit.

Novara FM: 2019: What’s Next?

For the first #NovaraFM of 2019, James Butler is joined by Aaron Bastani to look ahead at what 2019 holds in store.

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