Jane Hayward returns to PTO to discuss the situation in China following the scaling back of the zero-covid measures and the resulting decline in public protests. We talked about the apparent scale ...
2022-12-23 17:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s MACRODOSE James Meadway takes a look at a new House of Lord’s report on economic inactivity (0:52s), the financial waste of covid contracts (7:03) and an unexpected move by Japan...
2022-12-21 07:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour discusses Britain's fraying public infrastructure and the wave of strikes that are taking place, including the first ever nationwide strike by NHS nurses. We chatted about the exten...
2022-12-16 13:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode James Meadway breaks down the public sector pay dispute (0.50s), Sunak’s move to further deregulate finance (8:27), and the interest rate hikes by central banks (14:10) 2022-12-14 06:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jane Hayward joins PTO to talk about the protests in China that have resulted in Xi Jinping's loosening of the country's zero covid strategy. We talked about the widespread grievances and sporadic ...
2022-12-08 16:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of Macrodose James Meadway breaks down the G7-backed price cap on Russian oil (1.46), the warning from the National Farmers' Union that Britain is sleepwalking into a food ...
2022-12-07 06:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO for the final part of our conversation on his new book, co-authored with Alex Williams, Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and How We Win it...
2022-12-02 09:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of Macrodose James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the strikes that are spreading across the U.K, from the railways, to teachers to nurses and oilworkers (0.49s). ...
2022-11-30 06:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post
On the first episode of Macrodose James Meadway breaks down the the OECD warning that the UK’s growth prospects are the worst of all the G7 countries (1:06); the austerity 2.0 measures of Rishi S...
2022-11-23 06:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostRichard responds to the excellent questions that were sent in by listeners on the seeming demise of Twitter, the Democrats' surprisingly strong showing in the US mid-terms, and Cop27 and where the ...
2022-11-19 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be recording the next episode of listener's questions with Richard Seymour in a couple of days and there's still time to send in your questions. Richard of course writes incredibly widely so y...
2022-11-14 12:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostNancy Fraser joins PTO to talk about her new book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It. In the book, Nancy argues...
2022-11-12 10:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! First off, thank you very much for your continued support for the show. It's always appreciated but especially now given the cost of living crisis, both in the UK and elsewhere. PTO re...
2022-11-08 15:10:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour on why Lula's margin of victory was so narrow in Brazil's presidential election and how it is that Jair Bolsonaro maintained such substantial support, despite Brazil's poor economic...
2022-11-04 12:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Narges Bajoghli returns to PTO to talk about the ongoing protests in Iran, which erupted in mid-September following the killing of the twenty-two year old Mahsa Amini, by officers of the so-called ...
2022-10-27 17:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour discusses the resignation of Liz Truss and the ongoing civil war within the Conservative party. We also talked about why Richard characterises the conservatives as a "middle class p...
2022-10-21 12:38:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In part two of our three-part interview on Jeremy's new book - co-written with Alex Williams - Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) we discuss ...
2022-10-20 11:20:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month historian David Broder joined the show to talk about Giorgia Meloni and the Brothers of Italy's election victory. Today David has kindly returned to answer some of the excellent qu...
2022-10-17 18:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO to talk about his new book - co-authored with Alex Williams - Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). 2022-10-11 13:17:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In a recent episode David Broder discussed the rise of Fratelli d'Italia and the Italian election result. David will be returning to PTO soon to answer listener questions on everything related to I...
2022-10-04 08:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's episode Richard Seymour responds to the UK government's partial u-turn on its disastrous mini-budget and discusses why Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have demonstrated such political inept...
2022-10-03 12:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Historian of Italian politics David Broder returns to PTO to discuss the victory of Giorgia Meloni, who is set to lead the most right-wing government since World War II. We talked about the history...
2022-09-30 10:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this month, the people of Chile voted to reject the new draft constitution that promised to be the most progressive constitution of any country on the planet, and which was the fruit of the...
2022-09-16 13:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour on Britain's new prime minister, Liz Truss. We talked about how she might govern, her likely response to the cost of living crisis, and how she is far from the obsessive ideologue s...
2022-09-06 15:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Arun Kudnani joins PTO to talk about his article, The Racial Constitution of Neoliberalism which appeared in the Race & Class journal. We talked about how neoliberalism has generated novel form...
2022-08-31 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
David de Jong joins PTO to talk about his extraordinary new book, Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties, which tells the story of how German tycoons made bi...
2022-08-15 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Sophie Lewis returns to PTO to discuss the US Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe vs. Wade. We talked about why millions of Americans already lived in a post-Roe situation - with abortion servi...
2022-08-15 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Government intervention is back in a big way, as countries turn back on years of free market ideology to actively support national industries in an increasingly competitive and unstable world. The ...
2022-08-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Firstly, I just want to give a huge thank you to you all for your support for the show. I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to devote so much time to PTO and to have the o...
Covid-19 accelerated the digitisation of our economy, as more and more activity has moved online. But the technologies we have threaten an uncertain future at best: unemployment, huge inequalities ...
2022-07-31 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post