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We are online leftists trying to make sense of the surreal times we are trapped in. Every week we have conversations with esteemed guests (people who know much more than us) on a wide range of topics, from climate change to media to football to music, all within in the context of the pandemic, late capitalism and fascism, and try to work out what might be left over after it all ends. Hosted by Aarjan, produced by Connor.
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With the UK government seeing more changes in personnel than an average season at Chelsea FC and the economy on the verge of total collapse, we bring you a little update on the cornucopia of clownery that is British politics in 2022. After the announcement of former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's neoliberal wet dream of a Growth Package sent the value…
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Since the dissolution of Estonian cultural collective ZA/UM, the minds behind 2019's hit indie video game Disco Elysium after being forced out by the money men, in a story that could very well have come from the game itself, we take a look at the quagmire that is the video games industry. Rife with abusive practices ranging from sexual assault and …
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In the wake of riots between Hindus and Muslims in Leicester that were frightfully reminiscent of some of the worst scenes of violence from the Subcontinent, we take a look at Hindutva as a global force. We are joined by legendary activist Amrit Wilson in order to discuss the way in which the Hindu far right has gone about influencing politics in t…
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In light of a three-part documentary series by Al Jazeera detailing the various ways in which the Corbyn project was sabotaged from within the Labour Party there is a great deal to discuss. We are joined by one of left Twitter's most prolific polemicists Archie Woodrow to discuss everything from the lack of Labour's democratic processes, the seemin…
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We recorded this discussion about Spike Lee's classic 1989 film Do The Right Thing 2 months ago around the time of the heat wave. A story of rising racial tensions in a multi-ethnic Brooklyn neighbourhood on the hottest day of the year which lead to tragedy and police violence, it is a film which became quickly adopted into the canon of great Ameri…
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It has been nearly 2 months now since our wonderful, talented and forever hilarious co-host Rory tragically passed away and it has been very difficult to resume the podcast since. However we are finally back, joined by our long-time collaborator and friend of the show Jack Frayne-Reid to discuss the passing of the late Queen Elizabeth II, an event …
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We are back again with a good old dunking episode, this time on one of Aarjan's personal heroes - renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson. Joined by longtime adversary of the IDW Eiynah, also known as NiceMangos, we discuss everything from Peterson's recent troubles on Twitter, his medically induced coma in Russia, his bizarre relationshi…
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Fresh off the heels of the biggest rail strike in over three decades, we are joined by RMT rep Tony Collins to discuss how we got here and what we might be in store for over the summer. We discuss everything from the media's predictably hare-brained response to the strikes, how the unmitigated disaster of railway privatisation led us to this point,…
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June is a month in which it has become increasingly apparent that we are in the midst of tectonic changes to our society, whether with landmark court cases being reversed, or with people across multiple industries saying enough is enough and organising. We take a look at some of the highlights from this month, including the cocaine-addled mind map …
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At a time when discussion around organised labour is finding newfound fervour in the face of a summer of strikes across the UK, we are joined once again by podcasting brother in arms Jack to discuss acclaimed screenwriter and long-time Martin Scorsese collaborator Paul Schrader's directorial debut, 1978's "Blue Collar". Starring Richard Pryor, Harv…
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Nostalgia is a potent emotion, as well as a ubiquitous presence in our lives, both as an advertising tool as well as an ideological principle in politics. Britain in 2022 celebrates the queen's Platinum Jubilee by spending £1 billion in the midst of the worst living standards crisis in decades, desperately nostalgic and yearning for the lost glorie…
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The long-protracted Partygate sage has, if anything, proven that the popular liberal conception of the law as being a neutral arbiter is deeply flawed, and it is easy for us as leftists to become increasingly cynical of it. However the law is still a very real thing which is being instrumentalised by right-wing governments around the world to strip…
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After the horrific shootings at both Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York, the debate around gun control in the US has found itself once again in the spotlight. We are joined by returning guest Sam Knight this week to discuss these shootings, the role of the police, the deeper underlying causes of US gun culture, and crucially, if there is any hope …
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For the second of our Patreon episodes for this month we are bringing an update to some of the topics discussed recently, considering how the news cycle seems determined to give us many addendums daily. From the continued phenomenon of sexual misconduct in Westminster to Elon Musk's continued antics in trying to buy Twitter as well as quash certain…
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This week we are joined again by frequent collaborator and friend of the pod Jack Frayne-Reid from Reel Politik to discuss the long-awaited album by Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. This episode covers the context for the album as well as Kendrick's discography and back catalogue, while the second half, available with…
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After renowned Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered at the hands of IDF forces, the whole world witnessed not only Israel's immediate disinformation campaign but even more horrifically the way in which her funeral procession was attacked. Aarjan is on the ones again this week joined by writer Hamza Ali Shah to discuss not just this …
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In the wake of the recent local elections we are joined by friend of the pod Sinan to touch base with the goings on in UK politics after a few weeks which have given us no shortage of things to talk about. From all the worst people in the commentariat losing their minds over the result of the Tower Hamlets election to Keir Starmer 4d checkmating hi…
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Aarjan by himself this week joined by none other than returning champion Amardeep Singh Dhillon to touch base on the motherland of all content, India. A year on from the Kisan Andolan, or Farmer Protests, that were the subject of our previous collaboration, we take a look at its historic victories, as well as the present political landscape in Indi…
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As the Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp court case heats up we take a look at its spiritual predecessor: David Fincher's 2014 adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl. Joined by recent exile from Elon Musk's new hellsite, friend of the pod Joseph joins us from all the way across the Atlantic to discuss the story of Amy and Nick Dunne, which has achi…
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This week we take a deep dive into the weird and wonderful world of wrestling, sports entertainment and combat sports, and its intersection with politics. From looking at the origins of UFC as a means for a notorious Brazilian family to show the world they can beat anyone up, to the antics of Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki, particularly when he en…
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Apologies to all our listeners for the irregular programming over the past few weeks but we are back with a banger this week, joined by fellow podcaster Jordan Hartley from Comradio. We discuss everything from the debacle with P&O Ferries sacking 800 members of its staff with no prior notice via video call, to the fact that the current "Cost of Liv…
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As we all collectively try to heal from the trauma of witnessing this generation's 9/11 - Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars - we are joined by superstar Medieval historian Eleanor Janega to discuss the far right and its misappropriation of history. The concerted effort to reframe and revise particularly struggles of power throughout hist…
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What with the timeline being as depressing as it is, this week we decided to visit a favourite film of ours - Martin Scorsese's often overlooked The Last Waltz, welcoming back three-time returning superstar guest Jack from Reel Politik. On November 25 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Fransisco a star-studded (and cocaine-fuelled) rock concert…
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And we are back! After a short hiatus during which time we sadly had to say goodbye to Rory from the podcast due to his upcoming commitments for his internship at the Tesla Epic Bacon Foundation to bring you a lowdown on the state of the UK's hospitality with none other than Oli, AKA FermentTheRich, and their years of invaluable experience in the b…
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We have unfortunately had to say goodbye to Rory from the podcast who, due to his upcoming commitments for his internship at the DJ Khaled institute for excellence, will no longer be able to co-host, and after a brief Elden Ring-inspired goblin mode break, we are back with our monthly review. February has left us all leaving increasingly nihilistic…
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Recorded just before Russia's wanton and extremely illegal invasion of Ukraine, Fiona Edwards of Stop the War Coalition joins us to discuss the hubris and reckless expansionism of NATO after Fukayama's end of history which poked a rabid Russian bear, and the endless demonisation of the British anti-war movement which mobilised a million people in t…
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We speak to the bravest man we know, Jonny, aka sensiblehuman96, a titan of British Twitter who flipped the lid on an infamous British crime syndicate that exploited the labour of the beloved Captain Tom Moore: his family. PapaSombra, better known as Shadow Daddy, or simply Pip, also joins us to discuss an absolutely crucial chapter of British hist…
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TrashFuture host Riley joins us to explain all the baffling nerd stuff behind the latest grift of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which have provided us with endless things to make fun of over the past year but absolutely nothing of artistic merit. We cover the pointless energy consumption, insufferable grindset culture, and neverending scams of the 'c…
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Somewhat predictably 2022 is off to an absolute stormer as we discuss the potentially imminent collapse of Johnson's leadership helped in no small part by the intervention of former pub landlady Sue Gray. We also talk about Elizabeth Holme's masterful command of The Voice which allowed her to gain the trust and investment of so many rich idiots on …
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To commemorate 50 years since the horror of Bloody Sunday, when the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment killed 14 unarmed civilians in Derry, we speak to writer Daniel Baker about the historical and continuing depravity of British colonialism in Ireland. Though cold facts about the massacre are now finally broadcast in the UK, its context is …
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As the Tories finally make a move to fulfill their implicit campaign promise to completely gut the BBC, we speak to sociologist Tom Mills of Media Reform UK about how the institution has served as an extremely useful tool for British political parties in power, the absurd licence fee funding model, and the possibility of change. It's still difficul…
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The Matrix returned, albeit in cynical and forced circumstances, after almost 20 years of sustained cultural significance. Culture writer Oluwatayo Adewole helps us understand the complex legacy of the series and the Wachowskis more generally. We inevitably talk white dreadlocked henchmen, dance orgies, and most importantly, the central metaphor of…
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Another DC Sentinel Sam joins us, this time Sacks, to discuss how posting broke a once great journalist with terrible politics, Glenn Greenwald. We give the man all due respect for his work on the Snowden Leaks and Vaza Jato, but try to make sense of his nonsensical blend of right wing politics, unhinged dedication to culture wars he is on the wron…
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Producer Connor passed the probation episode and returns to discuss the thankful termination of 2021. December brought us the welcome and surprising guilty verdict of Ghislaine Maxwell as well as the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile. The Tory heartland of North Shropshire went Lib Dem followed by small time Labour inexplicably claiming a moral vic…
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The British media that stuck with Boris Johnson through borderline genocide has drawn the line at lockdown cheese and wine, and with the shell of a Labour Party pulling ahead without a single policy, a change of Prime Minister doesn't look far away. Marcus Barnett joins us to discuss his potential successors, all extremely right wing, but one uniqu…
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Marcus Daniel from Media Diversified gives us an extremely concerning glimpse at the consequences of the Nationality and Borders Bill for millions of British people with migrant backgrounds. In order to understand racism in the modern British state, we inevitably address the disgraceful Windrush Scandal and revisit this year's laughable Sewell Repo…
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One of the most respected and accomplished posters in the Southern Hemisphere, Sipho Hlongwane joins us from Joburg to discuss the tragedy, accomplishments and humour of Madiba's young nation. De Klerk is dead, Zuma is somehow avoiding serving his prison sentence, and the ANC is still very much in power, but the shoots of a young and hopeful left a…
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50 years on from the Liberation War that gave birth to Bangladesh, De Montfort University's Dr. Fatima Rajina lends us her expertise on a nation and diaspora still scarred from one of the worst genocides in history. We start at the partition, when East Bengal became East Pakistan, chart the rise and hope brought by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awa…
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Ghislaine Maxwell is in front of her accusers in court, Robert Maxwell is in a tomb on the Mount of Olives (or is he??), but what are the chances of her and her endless list of elite British and American sickos facing justice for the lives they have ruined? Alice Caldwell-Kelly from all the other podcasts joins us to discuss how Ghislaine is going …
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Our momentous first premium episode and triumphant podcasting debut of producer Connor dissects November 2021, giving it mostly low marks. COP26 reached a predictable anticlimax, that little ratboy Kyle Rittenhouse got away with the not insignificant crime of killing people, and brazen government corruption came to light but was diminutively labele…
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Book nerds and choo-choo drivers are on strike and it's cold as hell: the 1978 Winter of Discontent is back babey. We talk to Birkbeck professor Ashok Kumar about his unreasonable demands to have some money saved for his frail elderly days, and take a look at this country's seething contempt for people who request slightly more money for performing…
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We take a delicious dip into British food culture: AA Gil's Mao drip, the unhinged ego of our boy Giles, and the deeply weird relationship between food and class. But first we try to understand the enigma of Nusret Gökçe, more commonly known as Salt Bae. Is he an artist, a genius, a fraud, the oppressor or the oppressed? Yes, and much more. /// SHO…
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James Greig joins us to discuss the broad and radical origins of the fight for LGBT equality, its rich and unbreakable ties to anticolonial, antiracist and anticapitalist struggles, and how it has been sanitised and coopted by corporations, geopolitical interests and the United States navy. We consider what Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Jame…
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As Liz 2 slowly comes towards the end of her extremely long reign and Barbados wisely chooses a more normal political system where you choose the head of state, postingdad and sanitarynaptime join us to discuss the inexplicable popularity of the serf life in modern Britain. The lows of Diana's suspicious death, Prince Andrew's sweat glands, Bermuda…
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From the dark heart of the metropole of the TERF empire we talk to Patricia Johnston about her extremely brave and doomed quest to simply be a transgender member of the Labour Party. We discuss the foray of department store John Lewis into subversive cultural Marxism and Stephen Nolan's absurd Chinatown-style atmospheric podcast exposing the poison…
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Our Cousin Matt joins us to Zarbitrate the Jeremy Corbyn era, the traumatising media of this deeply unserious country and, most importantly, hope sowed with the kids inspired by allotment grandad. With further news concerning last year’s leaked report that revealed a litany of factional sabotage, racism and shed light some of the most bizarre nihil…
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Annie Kelly and Aisling McCrea join us to talk antivaxxers and ivermectin, the horse dewormer that almost killed Joe Rogan and plunged the podcast universe into disarray. We start with a history of vaccination cynicism, understandable when it comes from vulnerable people, but exploited by sinister grifters like Andrew Wakefield. We finish on the In…
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Hasan and the other one kick off their new show by charting Elon Musk's meteoric rise from Apartheid emerald mine inheritor to guy who built a small tunnel underneath Las Vegas and made some cars that use artificial intelligence to murder your family. Rob Rousseau weighs in from Canada, another deeply cursed product of British colonialism, to discu…
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After briefly being sidetracked over the departure of our favourite Guardian columnist, we take a dive into the history of black radical politics in the UK with the celebrated writer, musician and like 10 other jobs Chardine Taylor Stone. From the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester organised by George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah, to the Windrush…
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Former Extinction Rebellion organiser Sam Knights joins us for a light discussion on Mother Nature being murdered by an economic system that can't stop producing infinite varieties of Funko Pops. Is there hope for mankind against the droughts, floods, Ronas that drop daily? Yes, but everything must change. /// SHOW NOTES /// /// CREDITS /// Hosts: …
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