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To listen to this episode, please become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Leighton Woodhouse is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include 'Trumpland: Kill All Normies', based on Angela Nagle's book. We got together to talk protest movements, COVID restrictions, Joe Rogan, and the afterlife of key figures in the alt right and Intellectual Dark Web.

To discuss the Ukraine/Russia border crisis, anti-imperialism and anti-interventionism in Britain, the development of foreign policy under Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership, and the roots of Keir Starmer’s pro-NATO anti-Left posturing, we welcome Andrew Murray and Steve Howell. Andrew is one of Britain’s most prominent anti-imperialist voices and former chair of the Stop the War Coalition. He and Steve both served as advisors to Jeremy Corbyn during his leadership of the Labour Party. Please consider helping us grow the project by liking and subscribing, giving us a 5* review, sharing our stuff on social media, and subscribing at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

UNLOCKED in light of Gord's Twitter ban! Gord Magill has been driving long haul for twenty five years. He spoke to us about the 'Freedom Convoy' protest at the US/Canadian border, its political ambitions and class composition, and answers some of the main accusations that have been against the protesters. If you dig this episode, you could have heard it earlier at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod, along with loads of subscriber-only bonus episodes. If you're new to The Popular Show, make sure you scroll back to last Christmas, and check out our whole series with COVID critical voices. 

Portugal, the junior partner of 2015's new Left electoral experiments, offers the example with the most longevity. The supply and demand relationship the centre-left Socialist Party (PS) embarked on with the anti-austerity Communist Party and Left Bloc reached fruition in this January's general election, in which PS won a historic absolute majority. To guide us through the fate of Portugal's far Left parties, their prospects against a centre Left they they re-legitimised and the rise of a new Portuguese national populism, we welcome Joana Ramiro, contributing editor at Setenta e Quatro, and writer for Novara Media, the Guardian and elsewhere.

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Curt Mills is a contributing editor at The American Conservative. He was a speaker on the foreign policy realignment of the post-Trump New Right at last autumn’s National Conservatism conference: an event that moved David Brooks to despair that “what passes for the worldview of the right is a set of resentful animosities, a partisan attachment to Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson, a sort of mental brutalism”. We get the inside word on the up and comers of the post-Trump Right, compare its dynamics to those of the Corbyn project AND MORE. If you enjoy this episode, help us out and get bonus shows at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

Canada's long special relationship with Ukraine gives it a peculiar position in the West's current drums-for-war with Russia over the Ukrainian border. Canadian journalist Jeremy Appel joins us to outline the complex influence of the Ukrainian Right on the self-consciously progressive administration of Justin Trudeau, and the ironies of its coincidence with the new visibility of a homegrown far right in the Freedom Convoy. 

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Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for this and our entire archive of SUBSCRIBER episodes. From the comedy of West Elm Caleb to the tragedy of an online antisemitism hunter: we reconvened with the Internet's finest anthropologist, Katherine Dee/Default Friend, to discuss how the dynamics of digital media code our personal lives and politics today. Our case studies are the mass TikTok call out of an undistinguished New York fuckboy, and the suicide of a well-liked Humanities lecturer whose online life had become a vigilante mission against Jeremy Corbyn's Left. PLUS how the Left and Right are responding to the problem of digital media ownership.