https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ykyc-d31239 On pandemics, panics, and China. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is yet another new epidemic to appear on the scene this century. What accounts for their increasing frequency, and who decides if an epidemic is classed as a pandemic? More…
Read More /108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zf4ti-d2a84d On Ireland's elections. With Sinn Fein riding high in the polls, are we looking at an upset? Is this a populist upsurge in Ireland, finally, more than a decade after the start of the crisis? We discuss what Ireland's 'end…
Read More /107/ Ireland’s Return to History ft. Colin Coulter
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-25psx-d23aca On film in 2019/20. This is a sample only. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/BungaCast We saw yet more sequilitis the past year, the endlessness and onwardness of contemporary cinema. So what were the worst films…
Read More Excerpt: /106/ The Endless Scrolling of Cinema ft. Maren Thom
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cur3n-d161aa This is a sample. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/BungaCast On ecofascism. Both the shooters in the Christchurch and El Paso massacres were declared 'ecofascists'. Now, a new governing coalition in Austria brings together Greens and the hard…
Read More Excerpt: /105/ The Lorax & the AK-47 ft. Leigh Phillips
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9bpj-d0594d On The Economist and the contradictions of global liberalism. Alexander Zevin joins us to discuss his work on the 176 year history of the magazine that has accompanied liberalism's global expansion. Has it just reflected the world or has it…
Read More /104/ The Aristocracy of Finance ft. Alexander Zevin
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vneh7-cf6394 This episode is for Patrons only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On forecasts for the next decade. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack -…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vixyn-b90dd2 On drugs and mental health. In part two, we chat about recreational drugs and mental states in a Hollywood bar with friends of the podcast, Amber A'Lee Frost and Alex Gendler. But mostly, we delve deeper into capitalism and…
Read More /77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2 [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4g52r-cb8a14 On how Labour lost. Was it Brexit that did for Labour? In what sense? What now for the British Left - and for democracy? Running order: 02:40 Opening chat 05:15 The electoral map, the generational divide 21:46 Class 33:52…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
Read More /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8wk4f-c9cc44 UK general election preview. Is is really the Brexit election, if Labour doesn't want it to be? We survey the parties' positions, and promises, and ask some big what ifs. Could there be a major realignment in the offing?…
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