LEFT/OVER Podcast

Book nerds and choo-choo drivers are on strike and it's cold as hell: the 1978 Winter of Discontent is back babey. We talk to Birkbeck professor Ashok Kumar about his unreasonable demands to have some money saved for his frail elderly days, and take a look at this country's seething contempt for people who request slightly more money for performing their jobs. Never cross a picket line, solidarity always.

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We take a delicious dip into British food culture: AA Gil's Mao drip, the unhinged ego of our boy Giles, and the deeply weird relationship between food and class. But first we try to understand the enigma of Nusret Gökçe, more commonly known as Salt Bae. Is he an artist, a genius, a fraud, the oppressor or the oppressed? Yes, and much more.

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James Greig joins us to discuss the broad and radical origins of the fight for LGBT equality, its rich and unbreakable ties to anticolonial, antiracist and anticapitalist struggles, and how it has been sanitised and coopted by corporations, geopolitical interests and the United States navy. We consider what Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and James Baldwin would have made of the USNS Harvey Milk, and try to find a solution to the phenomenon of pinkwashing.

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As Liz 2 slowly comes towards the end of her extremely long reign and Barbados wisely chooses a more normal political system where you choose the head of state, postingdad and sanitarynaptime join us to discuss the inexplicable popularity of the serf life in modern Britain. The lows of Diana's suspicious death, Prince Andrew's sweat glands, Bermuda slush funds and the lack of acceptance of a royal of colour ultimately haven't dampened the Anglo's addiction to the taste of boot, but is there any future for monarchy with the undoubtedly much less beloved Charles?

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From the dark heart of the metropole of the TERF empire we talk to Patricia Johnston about her extremely brave and doomed quest to simply be a transgender member of the Labour Party. We discuss the foray of department store John Lewis into subversive cultural Marxism and Stephen Nolan's absurd Chinatown-style atmospheric podcast exposing the poisonous infiltration of Stonewall into proud and historically 100% clean British institutions like the BBC.

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Our Cousin Matt joins us to Zarbitrate the Jeremy Corbyn era, the traumatising media of this deeply unserious country and, most importantly, hope sowed with the kids inspired by allotment grandad. With further news concerning last year’s leaked report that revealed a litany of factional sabotage, racism and shed light some of the most bizarre nihilists within the party, Matt recounts his experiences with the absolute clowncar pile-up of the Labour Right.

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Annie Kelly and Aisling McCrea join us to talk antivaxxers and ivermectin, the horse dewormer that almost killed Joe Rogan and plunged the podcast universe into disarray. We start with a history of vaccination cynicism, understandable when it comes from vulnerable people, but exploited by sinister grifters like Andrew Wakefield. We finish on the Intellectual Dark Web, who would all deny being antivaxxers, but just enjoy dipping their toes into the Marketplace of Ideas and solely purchasing really right-wing conspiratorial ones.

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Hasan and the other one kick off their new show by charting Elon Musk's meteoric rise from Apartheid emerald mine inheritor to guy who built a small tunnel underneath Las Vegas and made some cars that use artificial intelligence to murder your family. Rob Rousseau weighs in from Canada, another deeply cursed product of British colonialism, to discuss whether Musk's split from kawaii goth gf Grimes spells the end of humanity (almost certainly).

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After briefly being sidetracked over the departure of our favourite Guardian columnist, we take a dive into the history of black radical politics in the UK with the celebrated writer, musician and like 10 other jobs Chardine Taylor Stone. From the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester organised by George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah, to the Windrush deportations organised by Amber Rudd, Chardine paints a warm but so often tragic tale of black political life in Britain. We also discuss whether the Queen’s Gambit actor and Arg*ntine Anya Taylor-Joy is really a POC (no lol). 

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Former Extinction Rebellion organiser Sam Knights joins us for a light discussion on Mother Nature being murdered by an economic system that can't stop producing infinite varieties of Funko Pops. Is there hope for mankind against the droughts, floods, Ronas that drop daily? Yes, but everything must change.

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