But It Might Work For Us

When right-wing parties adopt left-wing aesthetics. The economist and author Grace Blakeley joins us to debate the UK Tories' alleged Corbynista turn, and to spill the tea on coming up on the left in the Corbyn era, and after.

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We caught up with veteran YouTuber, Peter Coffin, to analyse Stonewall's advocacy of 'Aromantic Awareness Week', and the company offering artisan meats cloned from the tissue of celebrities. 

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Celebrating Irish American excellence with populism's greatest stand up comedian, Sean P. McCarthy. We play a new gameshow segment, 'Who's Been Cancelled Now?', covering the targeting of Gina Carano, Ken Loach, and Nathan Robinson, before getting Sean's views on stand up comedy's role in the culture war and the new Adam Curtis. 

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Chardine Taylor-Stone, Annie Olaloku-Teriba, Andray Domise, and T from 'Champagne Sharks' join us for a trans-Atlantic interrogation of current directions within the Black left, the class division INSIDE Black Lives Matter, the aesthetics of US and UK security services, and how we are to mourn COVID.

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We caught up with the author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age to discuss the farmers' protests in India and to contrast India's social movements with those in the West. Before that we picked up the traumification of AOC and the Democratic Party, David offered an insider's guide to the structure of the Capitol Building, and Ashok gave the DEFINITIVE account of why bringing trauma into politics is always reactionary.

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Populism, Politics and Playstations. We are joined by legendary game maker Paolo Pedercini, creator of Democratic Socialist Simulator, Nova Alea, To Build a Better Mousetrap and other anti-capitalist games, games industry activist Marijam Didzgalvtye of Left, Left, Up and Jamie Woodcock - author of Marx and the Arcade.

This week we played some party games in a special session of The Popular Show. feat. online personalities @SpeaksAngie, @intrnetdaughter, @PrettyBadLefty and others. It was a very good laugh.

Critiquing The Squad's response to economic populism, anti-imperialism, and the #CapitolRiots with Fiorella Isabel and Shant Mesrobian, discussing the UK government's embarrassing £30 food parcels, and then fun time with Dumb Bitch Media: ethical cannibalism under digital capitalism?

For a special episode, we were joined by Corbyn advisor and economist Joe Guinan, who describes to us the path to a democratised national economy OUTSIDE THE EU that the UK left should have been pursuing all along. We were also joined by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks lawyer Renata Avila to get an update on his case and the campaign to save his life.

We went to Brazil to discuss the rise of the populist Right with Bolsonaro, the possibility of a Brazilian Left and another Lula government, anti-fascism and the discipling of the Left, the pandemic in South American and Neymar's lockdown party.

Join us with Romulo Peas, former deputy minister for development in Lula and Dilma's government and with Alex Hochuli of the Auphebunga Bunga podcast and Matthew Richmond of LSE, who joined us from across Brazil.