Hi everyone, I just wanted to apologise for what is likely to be a month with relatively limited PTO content. I've been absolutely wiped out by flu and it's taking me an age to get over it. There s...
2024-12-05 15:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In this second part of a two-part episode Richard Seymour responds to more of the questions sent in by listeners on the US presidential election and its ramifications. We also talked briefly about ...
2024-11-27 06:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a two part episode Richard Seymour responds to some of the excellent questions sent in by listeners on the US presidential election and its ramifications. Richard answered questions ...
2024-11-19 06:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostBy popular request, Richard Seymour will be returning to answer your questions on everything related to the US election and Donald Trump's victory (including the international implications). As usu...
2024-11-11 18:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we're publishing a crossover episode with our friends at the Macrodose podcast, hosted by James Meadway. In the epi...
2024-11-10 12:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the extent to which war with China is increasingly being treated as a serious prospect in Washington and the Pentagon. We also talked about how successful, or o...
2024-11-05 06:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's episode Richard Seymour responds to more of the great questions sent in by PTO supporters. Those questions covered topics including degrowth, the extent to which Green party's can be veh...
2024-10-25 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As Israel's genocide in Gaza escalated in the autumn of last year, there was much speculation as to whether we would see mass uprisings in the Arab States of the region. Yet although there have bee...
2024-10-17 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On the 27th of September Israel dramatically escalated its war on Hezbollah, by assassinating its Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. Four days later Iran responded to the killing of its long-stand...
2024-10-05 09:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a two part listener's questions episode Richard responds to questions on Israel's murderous attack on Lebanon, the prospects for Gaza, the appointment of Michel Barnier as French pri...
2024-09-27 10:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy Gilbert joins me to discuss the news that Oasis have announced that they will be reforming to perform a series of gigs next summer. We discussed the reaction to that news, why 90s nostalgia ...
2024-09-17 05:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostRichard will be returning to PTO to answer more of your questions soon. You might like to ask Richard about the ongoing genocide and human catastrophe in Gaza, the US presidential race, the AfD's s...
2024-09-10 13:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Zionism, and the project of ethnic cleansing and colonial settlement in historic Palestine, is often rightly compared to other projects of European colonialism. But in a recent essay for 2024-09-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil Burton-Cartledge joins PTO to discuss the first few weeks of Keir Starmer's Labour government. We talked about why Phil characterises the Starmer project as a case of 'authoritarian modernisat...
2024-08-29 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On July 30th, a week of Islamophobic and racist violence broke out in England and Northern Ireland, following a mass stabbing even in the seaside town of Southport in which three children were murd...
2024-08-18 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour returns to respond to more listener's questions and to address the recent outbreak of racist and Islamophobic violence in the UK.
2024-08-08 16:22:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Bue Rübner Hansen joins PTO to talk about his recent essay The New German Chauvinism. In the first pa...
2024-08-06 05:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's episode Richard Seymour returns to answer some of the excellent questions sent in by PTO patrons. We recorded the episode prior to the announcement that Joe Biden was ending his campaign...
2024-07-27 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On January 22nd the new Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh was consecrated in a ceremony led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event kicked off Modi's election campaign that was widely expected ...
2024-07-22 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostRichard will be returning to the show next week to answer your questions. You may like to ask him something regarding the recent elections in the UK and France, the continuing Israeli war on Gaza, ...
2024-07-13 10:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to the show to discuss the recent shock result in the French legislative elections that saw the left wing New Popular Front win the highest number of seats, beating...
2024-07-12 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Today’s show is a crossover episode with our good friends over at the Macrodose podcast, which is hosted by economist James Meadway. In the episode James is joined by Richard Seymour to discuss t...
2024-07-01 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Maya Wind returns to the show to answer listener questions, including on Maya's experience of becoming an Israeli refusenik, the extent to which the imbrication of Israeli universities with the IDF...
2024-06-20 05:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy Beckett joins PTO to talk about his new book, The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies. The five rebels in question being Tony Benn, Jere...
2024-06-11 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is the recording of our recent live event. Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny were joined by an audience in Finsbury Park, London to discuss the fascism deb...
2024-06-06 10:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post
James Schneider joins the show to discuss Rishi Sunak's announcement that the UK general election will take place on July 4th, and to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win in ...
2024-05-23 10:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly, a big thank you to everyone who attended the PTO live event on Thursday with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Richard Seymour. For personal reasons I wasn't able to host the event myself but Eleano...
2024-05-17 11:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostRecent guest Sophie Lewis will be returning to answer your questions. You may like to ask Sophie...
2024-05-04 14:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy and they enjoy warm relationships with their counterparts in north America and Europe - including th...
2024-05-01 05:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's show Richard Seymour responds to some more excellent listener's questions. We talked about the protests against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza taking place at American universities and t...
2024-04-28 11:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post