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#NovaraFM: Only Pleasure Can Save the Planet
What is it to live a good life? Does it mean endless consumption? More air travel to farther places, fast food and faster fashion, and an endlessly expanding market? And if so, doesn’t climate change mean an end to anything like a good life? -
TyskySour: The Beginning Of The End
As Britain becomes the first Western country to approve a covid vaccine, ministers are desperate to claim credit for a German/US invention. But politics aside, does this mean the end of the pandemic is in sight? -
Can You Change The Police From Within? Ash Sarkar Meets Leroy Logan
20 years after the Macpherson Report, the Metropolitan Police is still dogged by accusations of institutional racism, while the Black Lives Matter movement has forced a reckoning with police brutality and inequalities in the criminal justice system. -
TyskySour: Whipping Boy
Keir Starmer was once a leading figure in Labour’s shift to backing a second referendum. However, now he’s in charge of the party, he looks set to whip MPs to back a Tory Brexit deal. Does this dramatic shift show Starmer has acted dishonestly over t… -
TyskySour: An Empire Rises, An Empire Falls
While COVID-19 has killed Arcadia, it has cemented Amazon as the world’s dominant retail firm. David Adler joins the show to discuss what does the rise of Bezos’s empire, and the fall of Green’s, mean for both the planet and for workers? Plus, -
#NovaraFM: Nightmarch: The Inner World of the Naxalites
In the jungles of Jharkhand and Bihar, armed Maoists continue their decades-long insurgency against the Indian state. Sparked off by a rebellion in Naxalbari in 1967, after taking to the jungles, the Naxalites encountered and recruited from Adivasi p… -
Can Britain Become an ‘Innovation Superpower’ After Brexit? Aaron Bastani Meets David Edgerton
For Brexiteers, Britain’s departure from the EU offers a shot at national renewal, with the country once more becoming a free trade and innovation superpower. But how likely is that? And are the Tories really serious about a break with the politics o… -
TyskySour: Sunak’s Spending Review
With a public sector pay freeze and cuts to foreign aid, has Rishi Sunak’s spending review shown him to be a typical Tory class warrior? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and James Meadway. -
Every Nihilist Is Really An Optimist: Ash Sarkar meets Frankie Boyle
Ash Sarkar speaks to comedian Frankie Boyle about his new book, The Future of British Politics, and his thoughts on class, humour, Scottish nationalism, and why he’s not a nihilist anymore. -
TyskySour: Covid For Christmas?
With a vaccine ready for the new year, why is Boris Johnson risking giving Britain’s grandparents covid for Christmas? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
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