Last month the Progressive Economics 2022 conference, a one-day festival of transformative economic thinking, took place at the University of Greenwich. In a world battered by crises, facing enviro...
2022-07-24 09:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour and I discuss the Conservative Party leadership election and the legacy of Boris Johnson. We talked about which conservative candidate has the most dangerous agenda and why it is th...
2022-07-16 15:06:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Christine Berry joins PTO to talk about the paper she recently co-wrote for a special issue of the Journal Renewal along with Laurie Macfarlane, The Conservatives’ political economy: ‘State...
2022-07-13 17:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour on the recent wave of strikes in the UK, and whether the upsurge of industrial action signals the long hoped for revival of Britain's labour movement.
2022-07-02 14:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to the show to talk about the second round of the French legislative elections. We discussed the breakthrough of Jean Luc Melenchon's NUPES coalition and the broader prospe...
2022-06-22 13:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Anna Della Subin joins PTO to talk about her book Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. The book tells the stories of men who have inadvertently been turned into living Gods -...
2022-06-13 17:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to discuss the upcoming French legislative elections and the prospects for the new left popular union coalition, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise. ...
2022-05-29 19:01:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Rogers returns to the show to discuss the likelihood of a long attritional war in Ukraine and whether Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech on May the 9th helped us to learn anything at all abou...
2022-05-18 17:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski joins PTO from Kyiv. We talked about the current situation in the city and the popular mood in Ukraine. We went on to talk about Oleksiy's article 'T...
2022-05-17 11:21:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The 2nd of May marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of New Labour's coming to power and the election of Tony Blair as prime minister. Jeremy Gilbert returned to PTO to talk about how he viewed the N...
2022-05-09 12:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour discusses his new book, The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism. We talked about why the Marxist left for a long time gave relatively little atten...
2022-05-03 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dorit Geva joins PTO to talk about the recent re-election victory of Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Dorit's article, 'Orban’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony' which is published in the ...
2022-04-21 10:44:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to talk about the first round of the French presidential election, and the prospects for the second round vote later this month. We discussed what Marine Le Pen may ...
2022-04-12 19:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostRichard Seymour responds to the excellent questions sent in by listeners - on topics ranging from the left's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to the relationship between psychological i...
2022-04-05 09:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Kojo Koram returns to PTO to talk about his new book, Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. We chatted about how the British empire and its legacy continues to structure th...
2022-03-30 09:38:41 +0000 UTC View PostOn Monday I'll be putting listener's questions (and a few of my own) to Richard Seymour. Topics will include last week's Interregnum 2022-03-25 14:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second episode of Interregnum Richard Seymour discusses his recent article 2022-03-18 13:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite India's deepening alliance with the United States, and the country's regional rivalry with China, the Indian government has refused to join condemnation of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukra...
2022-03-13 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Historian Evan Smith joined PTO to talk about the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the LM network, and the journey of its members from trotskyist revolutionary politics to the parti...
2022-03-09 10:37:14 +0000 UTC View Post
James Meadway returns to PTO to talk about his recent article on the econ...
2022-03-01 17:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post
In the first episode of Interregnum, a new fortnightly show with author Richard Seymour, we talked about the objectives of the Russian invasion, and what Vladimir Putin's broader geo-strategic goal...
2022-02-25 13:21:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Rogers joins PTO again to talk about his recent article in Open Democracy: Who wo...
2022-02-12 13:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Camila Vergara joins PTO to talk about Chile's new left wing government and the new president elect, former student leader Gabriel Boric. We talked about what to expect from the new government in t...
2022-02-09 09:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to answer the excellent questions that were sent in by listeners on the recent episode about Eric Zemmour - as well as on French politics more generally. We talked about Ze...
2022-01-30 17:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostSebastian Budegn will be returning to PTO to respond to your questions on the recent episode on Eric Zemmour. As well as questions on Zemmour, please feel free to send in questions on French politi...
2022-01-19 10:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen joins PTO to talk about the rise of Eric Zemmour - the new star of the French far right and a candidate in April's presidential election. We discussed Zemmour's career in journalis...
2022-01-17 17:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostPhil Burton-Cartledge returns to PTO to discuss the idea of Jeremy Corbyn founding a new political party to the left of labour, and in the second part of the interview we discussed the latest revel...
2022-01-12 14:53:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Lea Ypi returns to respond to listener's questions on the recent episode on her new book, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History.
2022-01-04 14:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour returns to PTO to talk about the omicron variant and why he believes Covid19 will be a crisis of a decade, rather than years. We also talked about whether the British government wil...
2021-12-21 10:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason Hickel returns to PTO for the second part of a two part interview on his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. We talked about the concept of 'green growth', and why ...
2021-12-18 12:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post