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?…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c62c9-c93718 On working class pain and politics. We talk to Jennifer Silva about her most recent book, and working class Americans' experience of and perspectives on pain. We discuss racial, gender and class identities and sense of relative losses and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9sxga-c84129 On algorithms and politics. Can we "blame the media" today for political outcomes? Who's responsible for The Discourse in a fragmented landscape? It seems like there's increasing polarisation today, driven by social media 'filter bubbles'. Are they real? Who's…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-68vzv-c74c0e This is a sample. Go to Patreon for the full episode. On Bolivia, Macron, Randian Chile. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack - we…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…
Read More /95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4779-c57291 In our second Reading Club, we discuss Eliane Glaser's Anti-Politics (Repeater, 2018) and take readers questions and contributions. Readings: Anti-Politics: On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State, Repeater For access to this and other bonus episodes, become…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eeph3-c481cf On Argentina's elections and Chile & Ecuador's revolts. Macri's election was heralded by the right across the continent as the end to a sequence of centre-left governments in South America. Now only four years later, he is likely to…
Read More /93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdiys-c36143 A new format in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack. This week we take a sharp look at the crumbling US political establishment and its empire: impeachment and regime legitimacy;…
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