Richard Seymour joins me to discuss the reasons for Labour's electoral defeat and why the left overestimated Labour's chances. We also chatted what we can expect from Boris Johnson's government and...
2020-01-03 19:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostTime is a bourgeois concept, the New Year - doubly so. Nonetheless, here are the best things Joana Ramiro (host of 2020-01-01 12:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Sivamohan Valluvan joins me to discuss his new book, The Clamour of Nationalism, Race and Nation in Twenty-first-century Britain. We spoke about why the current era is better charact...
2019-12-19 12:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post
David Wearing joins me to discuss the defence, security and international trade policies of Labour and the Conservatives, and why the election result is a matter of life and death for many people b...
2019-12-09 21:10:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Adrienne Buller joins me to discuss the climate emergency and the general election. We spoke about the policy platforms of the parties, the recent Channel 4 climate change debate and what it tells ...
2019-12-04 17:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
James Meadway joins me to discuss whether the Conservative manifesto and its limited spending promises will prevent the Tories taking Labour seats in the Midlands, the north of England and Wales. W...
2019-11-28 20:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Thea Riofrancos joins me to discuss A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal a new book co-authored by Thea. We spoke about why the New Deal is the right framing for a project to aver...
2019-11-26 12:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Will Davies joins me to discuss conservative's response to Labour's policy on free full-fibre broadband, whether Boris Johnson really is the great campaigner his admirers claim he is, and we also d...
2019-11-17 14:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Paulo Gerbaudo joins me to discuss online campaigning, the recent cyber attack on Labour's campaigning platforms, the contrasting effectiveness of the Labour and Tory digital campaigns in 2017, and...
2019-11-13 12:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake Werner joins me to discuss the ideological makeup of the Hong Kong protest movement, the material and cultural grievances that gave rise to the movement, the increasing nationalism of the Chin...
2019-11-08 16:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Momentum co-founder Emma Rees joins me to discuss Momentum's Plan to Win the General election and the inspiration for Momentum's 'distributed Organising' model.
You can read the plan here: 2019-11-06 12:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss conservative party strategy in the 2019 election. We spoke about Boris Johnson's re-heated Mayism, the likely effects of a significant Brexit Party vote on...
2019-11-03 20:04:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Eleanor Penny joins me to reflect on the coming General election campaign. We talked about whether this will be the Brexit election we were promised in 2017, why Labour is behind in the polls, and ...
2019-10-31 10:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Corey Robin joins me to discuss his recent article on the memoirs of Barack Obama's White House staffers, the legacy of the Obama administration, and what separates the Obama/Clinton wing of the de...
2019-10-28 09:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this month and to coincide with Black History Month Jeremy Corbyn called for schoolchildren to be taught about the British Empire and the history and legacy of colonialism. To discuss the t...
2019-10-23 09:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy Gilbert joins me to discuss the concepts of Acid Communism and Acid Corbynism and why transforming human subjectivity through practices of collective joy derived from the 1960s countercultur...
2019-10-16 10:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Beth Stratford joins me to discuss the crisis of UK land ownership and housing and the solutions outlined in the Land for the Many report, co-written by Beth. We also discussed the tabloid media's ...
2019-10-08 17:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour joins me to discuss Brexit and the machinations of the Johnson administration, the electoral strategy of the Labour Party, and whether the fraction of capital that supports a hard B...
2019-10-01 10:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Quinn Slobodian joins me to talk about neoliberalism as a project of institutional design, the significance of the Hapsburg Empire to the neoliberal concept of double government that came to be ins...
2019-09-28 10:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In the first #RedHacks live event Joana Ramiro chats with Owen Jones, Kimberly McIntosh, and Simon Childs at The World T...
2019-09-26 11:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Kojo Koram joins me to discuss the history of the war on drugs, the role of drug prohibition in the production of racism after the end of formal imperialism, the central role of the United States i...
2019-09-17 14:21:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex Niven joins me to talk about the erosion of support for the Labour Party in the north of England, the causes of that decline and how the Labour Party and the broader left might seek to reverse...
2019-09-07 09:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post
James Meadway, former economics advisor to John McDonnell joins me to discuss whether the Johnson government's move to prorogue parliament is really part of a strategy to achieve no deal, why the o...
2019-08-31 11:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Lida Maxwell joins me to discuss her new book, Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling. We discussed the contrasting nature of the disclosures of Chelse...
2019-08-27 11:49:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour joins me to discuss his new book, The Twittering Machine. The title is taken from Paul Klee's 1922 painting in which the the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait ...
2019-08-18 12:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Natasha Lennard joins me to discuss her book, Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life. We spoke about whether or not Donald Trump and the movement that has coalesced around him ought to...
2019-08-11 09:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In the first episode of PTO Extra I spoke to Phil Burton-Cartledge about the prospects for Boris Johnson, his Brexit strategy, and the internal crisis of the conservative party.
Our convers...
Andy Beckett joins me to explain why he believes, despite being in power on both sides of the Atlantic, conservatism is in decline and how conservative ideology is proving itself unable to adjust t...
2019-07-21 18:20:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Christopher Connery joins me to talk about the nature of the Chinese economy following the initiation of market reforms from the late 1970s, the compatibility between authoritarianism and neolibera...
2019-07-08 12:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Frances Ryan joins me to discuss her new book Crippled: Austerity and the Demonisation of Disabled People. We spoke about the impact of austerity on people living with disability, the way ...
2019-06-25 13:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post