🎙️ Can a socialist magazine survive multi-millionaire ownership? Should planning a protest land you in jail?

This week, we cover two stories: The takeover of Tribune, Britain’s oldest democratic socialist magazine, by the multi-millionaire founder of Islam Channel, and the jailing of four Just Stop Oil activists before they could even glue themselves to the Airport runway. We're talking ownership, repression, agency, and how we keep each other safe in a landscape that increasingly punishes those who dissent and co-opts those who resist.

00:00 - Smaller Carrots & Bigger Sticks

00:18 - Tribune’s New Millionaire Owner

09:53 - Buy In Or Sell Out?

13:30 - The MDF, Referendum & Big Boi 'Stani

16:10 - Collaborative Media

19:32 - Manchester Airport Protesters Jailed

21:11 - White Bodies On The Runway

25:43 - "I very rarely mobilise out of this chair"

32:37 - Navigating Authoritarianism

36:00 - "Sometimes doing random shit is a good idea"

40:26 - Papier Mâché Rhino Head

Check out...

📻 Independent Media Association (IMA) – democratising news & supporting independent media

📰 Independent Community News Network (ICNN) – supporting the development of community news hubs

🖤 Green & Black Cross – providing legal support & training

🪧 Article 11 Trust – defending the right to freedom of assembly

🐽 The Network for Police Monitoring (netpol) – supporting social movements and communities to defend human rights

✊ #freetoprotest – highlighting the range of police surveillance tools to monitor and identify you if you attend a protest

📬 ProtonMail

To read...

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds – Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift

📚 Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State - Bhattacharyya, Elliott-Cooper, Balani, Nişancıoğlu, Koram, Gebrial, El-Enany & de Noronha

📄 Media Reform Coalition Report: Who Owns the UK Media?

📩 Full newsletter breakdown on Substack (thank you, Chivers!)