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Novara FM: How Forensic Architecture Mapped the Gaza Genocide w/ Samaneh Moafi

Forensic Architecture is a research agency that investigates state violence and environmental destruction. It reconstructs events that states worldwide wants obscured, from Israel to the UK and from the Mediterranean to Ukraine. In doing so,

Downstream: This Much We Agree On: Britain Is In Decline w/ Peter Hitchens

In 2024 the Conservative party suffered their worst defeat in two centuries. But while Labour struggles in office, the Tories are going nowhere fast. Meanwhile Britain shambles on without an economic model, or a wider vision for the future.

ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid

The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a mental tool and a thought corrosive. Looking back on six years of the podcast, Nadia, Keir and Jem decide if ‘acid’ is still a useful way of thinking about…

Novara FM: Geoengineering is Coming Whether We Like it Or Not w/ Laurie Laybourn

We’ve entered a new climate reality. The pace of the energy transition has picked up – and so have the impacts of climate change. But has there ever actually been an energy transition? Or do we just use more and more and more of everything?

Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard

Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive conversation about the shifting sands of global se…

Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean

After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and…

Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton

The ‘special relationship’ is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to Washington allows London to maintain a semblance of its former prestige and power.

Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican

On the 8th December 2024, the Assad regime in Syria fell, replaced by a group of former jihadists called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. In the north east of the country, in a territory called Rojava, a feminist socialist revolution has been ongoing for since…

Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly

The US is no longer supporting Ukraine. And, in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. The Germans are taking off their hallowed debt brake to allow it. The French want a European Army. And Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capabilities of t…

Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White

When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecological breakdown necessarily means adopting the fram…