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Analysis: The SNP Have Joined Forces With The Tories To Create ‘Green’ Scottish Tax Havens

by Jonathon Shafi

The establishment of two new deregulated ‘freeports’ in Scotland is a rare example of agreement between Holyrood and Westminster – at the expense of workers’ rights.

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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.

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Analysis: Italy’s Far Right Is About to Win Big As Unelected Government Falls

by Matteo Tiratelli

We should celebrate the fall of Mario Draghi’s unelected government, writes Matteo Tiratelli. Yet what looks likely to replace it could be even worse.

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 […]

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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.

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.

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.

Analysis: The Latin American Left is Ready for 2022

by Pablo Navarrete

As Chile races towards an electoral showdown, Pablo Navarrete surveys the struggles of Latin America's resurgent left.

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: If Neoliberalism Is Over, What Next?

If neoliberalism really is over then what comes after? And could this new political and economic moment, where a larger state is embraced, see a turn right rather than left? Aaron Bastani speaks to sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, ‘The Great Recoil’, examining how ideas of protection, control and state intervention are replacing […]

Prime minister Boris Johnson in a hard hat and red jumpsuit in a factory setting

Analysis: The Big State Is Back, Baby

by Paolo Gerbaudo

In the neoliberal era, bureaucrats were public enemy number one. Now, Boris Johnson is heralding the “activist state”. The left must skewer the right’s faux interventionism or risk irrelevance, writes Paolo Gerbaudo.

Opinion: Back on the Hard Road: How Stuart Hall Can Help Us Navigate Our Moment

by David Wearing

The British left is still reeling and disoriented from the election defeat of December 2019. But by comparing our current moment to Stuart Hall’s analysis of the long 1980s, we can learn some important lessons, writes David Wearing.

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Analysis: Neoliberalism is Dead – and Something Even Worse is Taking Its Place

by James Meadway

The Tories may have ditched austerity, but that doesn’t mean we’ve anything to celebrate, writes James Meadway.

Novara FM: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.

Opinion: The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns

by Joe Duffy

A new report by a rightwing thinktank on "unleashing investment" in the north of England provides a grim insight into how the government may convert its Brexit majority into an even more sinister political settlement under the guise of concern for regional equality, writes Joe Duffy.

Downstream: Maybe Don’t Defund the BBC? Interview With Nish Kumar

This week on Downstream Ash Sarkar met with Nish Kumar - comedian and host of The Mash Report - to talk about how he became the accidental face of the Defund the BBC movement, and why rightwing comics are the real snowflakes.

Downstream: Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato

What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.

The Bastani Factor: Britain Is Now Fyre Festival

During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]