Financial Times journalist Tom Hancock joins me to discuss the Covid19 situation in China. We talked about Tom's experience of reporting from Wuhan at the start of the epidemic, the econom...
2020-06-02 16:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Hanieh joins me to talk about the challenges Covid-19 and the debt crisis pose to countries in the global south, how western economic and military intervention has undermined state capac...
2020-05-26 14:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Troy Vetesse joins me to discuss the sixth mass extinction event and how Karl Marx's concepts of real and formal subsumption are relevant to the ecological crisis. We also spoke about how the...
2020-05-17 14:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
In the latest episode of #RedHacks Joana Ramiro talks to Novara Media co-founder Aaron Bastani about the importance of i...
2020-05-07 22:18:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering t...
2020-05-06 14:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Philip Mirowski, joins me to discuss why the Covid-19 pandemic is more opportunity than threat to neoliberals and whether - as in the wake of the financial crisis - neoliberal doctrines will surviv...
2020-04-25 10:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Narges Bajoghli and Arron Merat join me to discuss the coronavirus crisis in Iran, what the Covid-19 pandemic means for the stability of the Iranian regime, how US sanctions have compounded the suf...
2020-04-23 07:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Maya Goodfellow joins me to discuss how the covid-19 crisis is impacting migrants and asylum seekers in the UK and how the UK response differs from that of other European countries.
2020-04-13 10:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Tooze joins me to discuss what covid-19 means for the world economy, how the Trump administration has missed the boat on containing mass contagion in the United States, and why the row in the ...
2020-04-02 11:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
South Korean journalist Nemo Kim joins me to talk about South Korea's response to the coronavirus crisis and whether the South Korean government's handling of the situation looks as exemplary from ...
2020-04-01 11:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Will Davies joins me to discuss whether or not the coronavirus crisis heralds the break with neoliberal capitalism that many expected in the wake of the financial crisis, why the anglo-american res...
2020-03-25 19:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Mason joins me to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, the UK government's response, the failure of senior journalists to hold the govt. to account and why the crisis may lead to a profound transforma...
2020-03-17 19:55:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Milan-based jouranlist Antonella Serrecchia, and Jacobin's Europe editor David Broder join me to discuss the lockdown in Italy - imposed by the Italian government in response to the escalation of t...
2020-03-11 18:21:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Judith Butler joins me to discuss her new book, The Force of Nonviolence. We spoke about how the concept of self-defence raises the question of what the individual sovereign subject is, ho...
2020-03-10 10:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Jodi Dean and Adom Getachew join me to chat about Super Tuesday, whether the left underestimated Joe Biden and the implications of Biden's comeback for Bernie Sanders' campaign.
2020-03-05 16:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Owen Hatherley joins me to discuss his recent article on Keir Starmer and the Labour leadership contest. You can read the piece 2020-02-29 08:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Leo Panitch joins me to chat about the causes of Labour's defeat in the 2019 general election, the weaknesses of the labour movement beyond the party, and whether a Keir Starmer victory would porte...
2020-02-24 19:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Lisa Wedeen joins me to discuss her new book, Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria. We spoke about the strategies the Syrian regime has adopted in order t...
2020-02-16 11:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The New Left Review's Daniel Finn joins me to discuss Sinn Féin's electoral breakthrough in the Irish general election. We spoke about the decline of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, why Irela...
2020-02-12 15:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Len McCluskey joins me to talk about his new book, Why You Should Be A Trade Unionis...
2020-02-11 12:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Thea Riofrancos joins me to discuss the shambolic Iowa caucus, the significance of the strong showings of Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden's poor performance. We also chatted about ...
2020-02-05 21:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Lara Friedman joins me to discuss the so-called Trump peace plan and the Israel-Palestine conflict. We spoke about the extent to which the plan diverges from previous American policy, and the ideol...
2020-02-02 19:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Achin Vanaik joins me to discuss Hindu nationalism in India, the BJP's anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, the lockdown in Kashmir, and India's economic slowdown.
2020-02-01 12:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Financial Times journalist Tom Hancock joins me from the city of Wuhan - the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. We spoke about the situation in the city, the response of the Chin...
2020-01-28 10:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom Blackburn joins me to chat about the Labour leadership contest, why Keir Starmer is the front runner, the importance of open selection, and what Jess Philipps' brief campaign tells us about the...
2020-01-25 13:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason Okundaye joins me to discuss his recent article in Tribune magazine, Labour's Other Heartlands 2020-01-23 17:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Rhian Jones joins me to discuss her article in Tribune Magazine, An Enterprise Allo...
2020-01-19 14:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Maya Goodfellow joins me to discuss her new book, Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats. We talked about the historical roots of the hostile environment policy, the punitiv...
2020-01-13 19:52:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss the Conservative's electoral victory and why he believes that the 2019 election result does not simply cancel out the long term problems the Conservatives ...
2020-01-10 09:55:56 +0000 UTC View Post
International security expert Paul Rogers joins me to discuss why the United States carried out the assassination of Qassem Suleimani and whether the attack will spark a broader regional war. We al...
2020-01-07 11:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post