Join us as we dip our toes into the budget, get our teeth into a potential nurses strike, and pick a bone with the Labour Party relationship with class.  

 

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Declan Clune fund

 

Carole Cadwalladr giving Farage money to say non-incriminating words 

 

BBC news website on the budget with just the  positives!! 

 

Corbyn article on the budget 

 

Support for the Nurses 

 

Ford & Goodwin, Different Class? UKIP's Social Base and Political Impact (2015) 

 

June 2020 report by JRF 

 

Evans & Tolley, How Parties Shape Class Politics (2011) 

 

Blairism: The "Professionalisation of Labour" 

 

Sabrina Huck review of Paul Embery book 

 

Steven Beackon's paper, Labour Party Politics and the Working Class (2009) identifies Labour as starting to move away from its working class base in the 1960s

This week we're discussing more Labour Party wrangling with the Liverpool Mayoral selection race and the results of the Scottish Labour leadership election, before finishing with a shout out to our friends in The Working Group.    

 

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Labourlist report on Liverpool Mayoral selection  

 

Liverpool Labour group votes down plan to scrap Mayor position  

 

What the chances are of Liverpool getting an Independent Mayor?  

 

The story of how the Labour Party put its most loyal city at risk  

 

Liam Thorp on twitter  

 

The 6.2cm Journalist  

 

Anas Sarwar elected  

 

Angela Rayner's ill-advised and yet still undeleted tweet (which Jordan was cruelly and wrongly corrected about)  

 

The Working Group  

 

Working Group Podcast "Why Should I Care About?"

Join us and our anonymous guest, Mister E, as we respond to Starmer's big relaunch, before diving into what the ruling against Uber means for the drivers and the wider gig economy. We conclude with our five minute focus covering the mutual aid groups supporting Texans in need.  

 

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Texas Weather Crisis Assistance  

 

Ted Cruz's tweets  

 

Texas’s Energy Crisis Is America’s Future | The New Republic

 

Starmer's Speech:

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Uber ruling 

 

Unions:

United Private Hire Drivers 

App Drivers and Couriers Union 

GMB 

 

Workers vs employees 

 

Response to the Uber ruling

This week on Comradio, Matt, Chloe, and Jordan discuss the strange events of the never ending Bristol West AGM with our guest @isaac_kh, and ask is there a place for us in Labour... somewhere? Then we end the show by shifting our focus to StrikeMapUK.  

 

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This week we discuss Keir Starmer's worst week as he stumbled from one problem to another.  We look at the various reactions, and what it means for his leadership going forward.  We then move across the Atlantic to South America to focus on the Ecuadorian elections.  

 

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Politics JOE "Keir Starmer - I Wanna Be Like You" 

 

Focus on the flag 

 

Clive Lewis Response 

 

Richard Burgon Response  

 

Steve Bell's Flagshagger Cartoon  

 

Dave Brown's Flagshagger Cartoon  

 

Keir losing the commentariat  

 

Similarity between Corbyn's and Starmer's patriotism pitch  

 

“Patriotism” Is a Dead End for the Left  

 

Keir Starmer is Labour’s last hope | The Spectator (Archived to avoid giving them the traffic)  

 

Keir's lack of vision  

 

Undercover Policing Inquiry 

 

Attempt to get back on track  

 

The Ecuador election  

 

Progressive International: "We are mobilizing to Ecuador. Here’s why."  

 

Results in Ecuador BBC News - Ecuador election goes into run-off with Arauz in the lead  

 

Ecuador’s Green New Left

This week on Comradio, in an attempt to understand the Gamestop story we invited Riley Quinn of Boney Island Whitefish, and to a lesser extent Trashfuture, to ask him what is the stock market?  Why is the stock market? And most importantly who is the stock market? Then we discuss the British Gas strike in our 5 minute focus.  

 

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The Mutiny of the Mini-Capitalists  

 

Behind the British Gas Strike

We start the first episode of the New Year by discussing Labours attempts to find policy positions, trying to be the party of the family, and the Scottish Labour shenanigans.  Then we take a trip across the Atlantic to discuss insurrection in the Capitol, before shifting our focus to Jeremy Corbyn's new Project for Peace and Justice.  

 

Launch of Project for Peace and Justice  

 

Black Rose Summary of Launch

 

Our friend Adam's analysis of the Dodds speech  

 

Streeting making excuses for Kieth  

 

Low Tax Kieth  

 

Richard Leonard’s resignation

He's a beloved figure bringing gifts of joy to the world. Join us for our festive episode as we talk the man, the myth, the legend that is Nicolas Cage 🎅🎄  

 

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Cage's acting style 

 

Authenticity 

 

Cage on Wogan 

 

The Rock and Iraq 

 

Bad Lieutenant - Silver Spoon Clip 

 

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Apple's shuffle mode, Leicester City, water, the number 4, butterflies, starting a business, and Leeeeroy Jenkins! With the help of gamer, Twitch streamer, and physics knower Sinan Kose, these and more will be used to illuminate the interplay of randomness and politics. We concentrate particularly on intentional political uses of randomness (such as sortition) and why redressing bad luck isn't a good starting point for either ideology or policy.  

 

With a Five Minute Focus this week about the largest political protest ever held.  

 

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Character Generator  

 

Luck Egalitarianism  

 

What Is the Point of Equality?  

 

Activist Tactics in Hong Kong  

 

Coin flips in the Democrat Iowa Primary  

 

Protests in India  

 

Monty Python Lion Tamer Sketch  

 

You can't bias a coin

This ain't The Newsroom. This ain't no West Wing. This ain't no fooling around: We welcome our guest Mic Wright for a dissection of the practices and prejudices of British journalism, wrapping things up with "The Battle Of Wapping", a key dispute in the 1980s war on unions.  

 

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'Laura Kuenssberg Misled BBC Viewers' 

 

Noam Chomsky on Firing Line with WF Buckley 1969 

 

The Hitler Diaries 

 

When chips were served with ink