For this week's bonus, we discuss the UK ending all COVID testing, the NYT/Serial 'Trojan Horse Affair' podcast making British columnists lose their minds, an update on Roku's hilarious financial p...
2022-02-23 21:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, Nate and Hussein speak with Brian Reed and Hamza Syed of the Trojan Horse Affair podcast, an investigation into a hoax letter in Birmingham in 2...
2022-02-21 12:43:10 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
Nate and Milo watched the early-2000s UK TV show 'Road Wars' and talked about British cops, but the episode got derailed with various tales of pe...
2022-02-17 17:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe speak with Q Anon Anonymous U.K. correspondent Annie Kelly about how, far from being fringe whackos, the lumpen petit bourgeois wingnuts that meet on telegram and gather outside Parliament are c...
2022-02-17 16:22:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis) of Rail Natter returns to our hallowed halls to talk...
2022-02-14 22:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostIn this special extra segment, Nate interviews Sam Asumadu from Media Diversified (@WritersOfColour) about the phenomenon...
2022-02-13 18:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate and Milo are joined by Paul Ewart (@paulewart23) of the University of Sussex to discuss Margaret Thatcher and...
2022-02-11 19:37:48 +0000 UTC View PostWe speak with technology critic Evgeny Morozov about the history of ideas like “Web 2,” “Web 3,” and who these ideas serve and how - and what a better web may look like.
Check out Evg...
2022-02-10 19:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostDear friends,
We're having a live show in London on Wednesday, March 2. Tickets are available 2022-02-08 15:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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We speak with Phil Burton-Cartledge (@philbc) about his book, Falling Down, about the s...
2022-02-07 21:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis was released on the free feed as well
Riley sits down for a discussion of the implications of the upcoming Health and Care Act for the NHS with Dr Allyson Pollock and Pe...
2022-02-07 19:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe review the further state of institutional rot in the U.K., where a lot of our most prominent dunces are feigning surprise that the met police, EHRC, etc., may simply have been rotten all along. ...
2022-02-03 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We look at the shape of the (contracting) frontiers of politics and (expanding) frontiers cooked up in the minds of our most addled billionaires. Let Mark ...
2022-01-31 23:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostWe recorded this a few days before the new year, but it got put on the back burner thanks to the declassification of documents related to The Dome (we are not joking). However, Nate got in a bike a...
2022-01-31 20:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostOur politics and economy has once again found itself hitting the bottom of a large hole - and their solution is to dig up! We revisit some troubling developments at our old friends Netflix, Peloton...
2022-01-27 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We’ve brought on Jonathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) of 2022-01-24 22:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We retvrn to tradition (we unwound by watching a recent-era Guy Ritchie movie). Geezer Hugh Grant, Eddie Marsan gets romantic with a pig, and everyone is really upset about… dealing weed? Journey...
2022-01-20 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
We are joined by Alex Press (@alexnpress), of Jacobin and the Primer podcast, to do some more Am...
2022-01-17 22:38:51 +0000 UTC View PostMilo subjects Nate to yet another property-themed British TV show, except this one is about people buying derelict homes at auction and renovating them in order to (in most cases) rent them out at ...
2022-01-14 21:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post(This was going to be the first free episode of 2022, but we decided to go with the Dome story instead. So, apologies for it being slightly out of date, but we hope you like it). In which the full ...
2022-01-13 00:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Jathan and Ed from TMK return to help us figure out exactly what “Web 3” is, and what people actually mean when they say “Web 3.” What we find when...
2022-01-10 23:05:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe remaining stock of our Vonk Binman shirts and Warrior's Heart sweaters are now back on sale - there aren't many left so snap them up while you can!
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In which we get into the specific zones of the Millennium Dome, their various corporate sponsors, and what they said about Britain c. 2000 and how New Labour saw its subjects' lives. We completely ...
2022-01-04 00:25:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we have the full cast of TF together to review the history of the Millennium Dome, a New Labour attempt to create a modern exposition of Britain...
2022-01-04 00:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
For the holiday week, Nate and Alice speak to author Jane Pek about her debut novel THE VERIFIERS, a detective story involving online dating, the ever-pres...
2021-12-27 22:09:36 +0000 UTC View PostNow unlocked to the $5 tier!
We decided to review a different kind of Christmas movie: David Cronenberg's 2007 film EASTERN PROMISES, which is both a film about Britain, a fi...
2021-12-27 21:59:47 +0000 UTC View PostYou had questions, we had answers. This is normally on the $10 tier but we ran out of bonus content after Milo and Riley were felled by The Plague. Hope you enjoy!
2021-12-24 00:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg now works for Facebook to the tune of eight figures. He has some opinions about Facebook’s policy decisions. As you can ...
2021-12-20 22:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, in the midst of Riley and Milo being struck with covid, we recorded an all-remote episode to discuss some recent Britain news, with a special emphasis on recent leaked texts from Daniel ...
2021-12-17 23:07:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
This week, we speak with writer and friend of the show Trevor Strunk (@hegelbon) about...
2021-12-13 19:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post