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For our 100th episode we are joined by Eleanor Janega and David from Podcasting is Praxis who help us rake over the last two years in UK politics- since the beginning of Comradio in March 2020 - via four questions: What do you remember from that early lockdown? What has Covid ever done for us? How did Boris Johnson wriggle out of that one (and that one and that one and that one)? And, how did this Starmer thing turn out then?

 

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This is an emergency bonus episode for you all, as I (Jordan) managed to snag an interview with Darren Procter, the RMT National Secretary about the situation with the 800 RMT and Nautilus International workers who lost their jobs over a video call with no prior warning.  Share as widely as possible and support these workers however you can, solidarity forever.

 

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Liverpool Demonstration - Saturday 26th March 11:30

In a topical episode recorded before the Child Q story broke, we discuss the Met Police in the light of their defeat in the courts over the Sarah Everard vigil, Western journalists showing almost as little regard for the Geneva Convention as the Ukraine and Russian armies, the hypocrisy of Hillary, horrible Hitler/Putin comparisons, the proliferation of Red Scare rhetoric, Peter Oborne in defense of Corbyn, the impact of sanctions on left wing Chelsea fans, Tory failure and Labour inadequacy on Ukrainian refugees, rising energy prices, and almost everything you could want to know about political emojis.

 

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Rachel Maddow Guest Says Hitler Is Better Than Putin

 

Russia-Ukraine war: Jeremy Corbyn was right all along about Putin and his oligarchs - Peter Oborne in Middle East Eye (2022)

 

Premier League table

 

Minister says fleeing Ukrainians can apply to pick fruit in deleted tweet - Tom Davison for The Mirror (2022)

 

Priti Patel is under fire for her handling of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, but the buck stops with Boris Johnson - Paul Waugh in inews (2022)

 

NI News. Energy bills: One-off support payment due to begin - BBC News website (2022)

 

"Wear jumpers. It's fine"

 

Stuart Strike: Pay rise not pay cut!

 

Donate to the Stuart riders strike fund

We roam over London, New York, Paris, Bilbao, Preston, and the Scottish Highlands, in a discussion of what cities and landscapes tell us about workers and the wealthy, how anarchism assists urban planning, imperial landscapes in pop culture, Boris Johnson's oligarch-pleasing Garden Bridge project, the Labour Councillor who bollarded himself out of a pint, how the National Gallery tried to discourage tourists, and more.  

 

Plus, photography: Stalin vs Henri Cartier-Bresson. 

 

Tim Waterman is Associate Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. His latest book is The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design.

 

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The Landscape of Utopia by Tim Waterman (2022)

 

Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson by Douglas Murphy (2017)

 

Comradio ep 53 - Unsensible World of Soccer

 

Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward (2017)

 

The Child in the City by Colin Ward (1978). Full text

 

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Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson (2016)

 

How we built community wealth in Preston

 

Ukraine official Twitter account on Coke and Pepsi

 

People's Republic of Walmart : How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Philips, Michal Rozworski (2019)

 

Developing Socialism: The Photographic Condition of Architecture in Romania, 1958–1970 - Juliana Maxim (2011)

 

Photographer profile: Henri Cartier-Bresson

A hybrid topical episode for you this week. Twenty minutes on Ukraine (and when is a billionaire an oligarch?) then we talk technology news: Trump's new social media platform, Amazon in court for union busting, gamers get esports event moved from homophobic UAE, Disco Elysium's TV deal with Amazon, Barry Gardiner and the CEO of Airbus in sync, and more. 

Plus, the repeal of the Vagrancy Act.

 

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Ukraine invasion: Student claims he was beaten and racially abused as he fled towards Polish border - Amrit Singh Mann for Sky News (2022)

 

SNL Afghanistan skit

 

When it comes to politics, the UK suffers from a chronic disease. It’s called satire - Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian (2019)

 

Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy - BBC News website (2014)

 

Filter out 'unverified' accounts, tech giants told - BBC News website (2022)

 

Airbus CEO says hydrogen plane is ‘the ultimate solution’ but cautions a lot of work lies ahead - Anmar Frangoul for CNBC (2022)

 

Let’s think beyond electric vehicles and a few battery plants: we need hydrogen - Barry Gardiner at Labour List (2022)

 

Ep 68 - Comradio Film Club #3: Jaws feat. Jack Frayne-Reid

History has given us some odd territorial boundaries, strange exclaves, and a whole lot of border conflict, often racialised conflict. 

 

In a wide-ranging episode recorded before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we talk about the opera house in two countries that allowed families to get around Trump's travel ban, the centuries of history that led to the Irish border, the current border situation in Northern Ireland, how the US and the EU incentivize their neighbours to prevent migrants getting close to their own borders, the neglect of duty to migrants and refugees, how to talk about borders during a pandemic, and a digression on the qualities of the himbo. 

 

Plus, medical TV viewing for troubled times.  

 

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Vox documentaries on borders 

 

Melilla: Europe's dirty secret - Nick Davies in The Guardian (2010) 

 

Hundreds of child migrants crammed into warehouses in Ceuta - Ashifa Kassam in The Guardian (2021) 

 

Drugs being smuggled into Ireland ‘inside horses and donkeys’, policing meeting hears - Conor Lally for The Irish Times (2021)  

 

HSBC "Love knows no bounds" poster

 

 

WHO advice for international traffic in relation to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) 

 

Berlin 1961: The Record Corrected - Raymond L. Garthoff (1991)

A short preview of our Patreon exclusive episode.  

 

A double feature this month. Sex and relationships educator Justin Hancock joins us to talk about two similar 2011 Rom Coms, Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached. Do they tell us anything about society, gender, and relationships? Are they selling post-crash reassurance?  Why are cities romantic characters? What is at the heart of the Hollywood O? When will a boat come in handy?  Listen now to find out.  

 

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Jacques Lacan at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   

 

Sex differences in approaching FWB relationships - Justin J Lehmiller et al (2011)    

 

Alan Partridge - Toblerone flashback   

 

LEFT/OVER Episode 49. - In Troubled Times feat. Daniel Baker  

 

The Cure - End 

 

Poochie in The Simpsons

This week, Labour misdeeds in recent news:

Starmer & Savile

Starmer against STW

Starmer's hypocrisy on NATO

Neil Coyle's Sinophobia

Labour's worsening relations with its biggest unions, and

Shad Justice Sec Steve Reed's strongman measures to get "tough on crime".

Plus, the ongoing injustices of a terrible New Labour policy: 'Imprisonment for Public Protection' sentences.  

 

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Under my leadership, Labour’s commitment to Nato is unshakable - Keir Starmer in The Guardian (2022) 

 

Keir Starmer’s Start the War Coalition - Andrew Murray in Tribune (2022) 

 

A personal statement on my interaction with Neil Coyle - Henry Dyer in Business Insider (2022) 

 

Not the first time Coyle's got into trouble... 

 

Jeremy Corbyn critic says he is victim of Labour smear campaign - Andrew Sparrow in The Guardian (2017) 

 

Sharon Graham's forthright statement on Labour funding 

 

Times story about Corbyn not ever getting whip back (archived)

 

Steve Reed interview: Labour 'cared more about criminals than victims' under Corbyn - Dan Bloom for The Mirror (2022) 

 

Families’ plea over ‘barbaric’ indefinite prison sentences for minor crimes - Samantha Asumadu at Open Democracy (2022)

His wet shirt glistened in the summer haze.  "Romantic love," he offered, "Was its Western manifestation unique, a response to early industrialisation?" 

 

Images of muscled men with sweat and soot upon the brow filled her fevered mind. 

"Is it a stage in the liberation struggle of women?" she countered. "Consider chivalric romance, Goethe, Gyorgy Lukacs. What of romance as a continuation of the spirit of the French revolution, a struggle within liberalism?" 

 

Meanwhile, the blacksmith and the heiress were arguing about Jane Austen. 

 

Then the doorbell trilled ominously. You could hear their breathing. It was the postman delivering a package. 

 

He proffered A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, two inverted commas in 69 on the cover, and shards of Sappho. Plus, the gypsy maps of Damian Le Bas. 

 

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Love and Structure - Charles Lindholm (1998) 

 

The Sorrows of Young Werther by JW von Goethe (1774) 

 

Samaritans 

 

The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Georg (György) Lukács (1936) 

 

Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat - Georg Lukacs (1923) 

 

Bryter Later - Nick Drake 

 

Elizabeth crossing the field 

 

Chuck Tingle 

 

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes (1977) at Hive 

 

Poems of Sappho. Translated by Julia Dubnoff 

 

Maps - Gypsy Dada by Damian Le Bas

This week we bring you chat about stories in the news. Partygate, Nusrat Ghani, Chris Bryant hitting himself with hammers, what Lenin didn't say about criticising other countries, whether Boris Johnson will defeat the Russians singlehandedly, the resignation of Laura Pidcock from Labour's NEC, and more.  

 

Plus, the volcano-powered Bitcoin City, the coming crises, and how the banks will suffer to the benefit of the people.  

 

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Nusrat Ghani: Muslimness a reason for my sacking, says ex-minister - BBC News (2022) 

 

I encouraged Nusrat Ghani to stand as a Tory MP. I wish I hadn't - Peter Oborne in Middle East Eye (2022) 

 

Chris Bryant responding to the Sideshow Bob rakes meme 

 

Council of Europe condemns ‘virulent attacks on LGBT rights’ in the UK, Hungary and Poland - Nick Duffy for iNews (2022) 

 

Ann Henderson now confirmed replacement for Laura Pidcock on Labour's NEC - Sienna Rodgers for Labourlist (2022) 

 

Waypoint Radio episode with story on Microsoft & Activision Blizzard  

 

Ireland: Laws criminalizing sex work are facilitating the targeting and abuse of sex workers  - Amnesty International (2022) 

 

Photo of Nayib Bukele 

 

Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left 

 

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches