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New data from South Africa has dampened any hope that Omicron is milder than Delta. Meanwhile Dominic Cummings has launched a stinging attack on Johnson’s government failing to prepare for new variants. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Novara’s latest focus series is about the disability politics the left usually ignores. Over the last two weeks we’ve published articles on subjects like mental health, toxic work culture, sex worker rights, sign language, the philosopher Peter Singer and why autism is not a disease. This podcast contains eight of these articles in audio form, […]

Students are facing disruption this week as lecturers challenge plans to cut their pensions and undermine working conditions. On tonight’s #TyskySour we speak to UCU General Secretary Jo Grady about the strike.

What should political organisation in the 21st century look like? Wiggly? Lumpy? Diagonal? Something rather like that, suggests political theorist and author Rodrigo Nunes, who joins Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert on this additional revolutionary Microdose. Focusing on the last few decades of radical left politics, the trio reflect on on their own experiences in […]

Omicron is here. Is Britain ready? Plus, we speak to Fatima Hassan in South Africa about how vaccine apartheid left us vulnerable to new variants. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

A war of words between Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron has turned a humanitarian crisis into a diplomatic spat. Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the undignified politics of the UK/French border.

From ancient myths to the Batman trilogy, our storytelling culture is littered with villains embodied by disabled people and those with facial differences. Why does disability feature so heavily in our literary and cinematic traditions, and how has this hypervisibility had the ironic effect of erasing the experiences of disabled people? Ash Sarkar is joined […]

Labour, the Tories, the BBC, and the right wing press all agree Britain is in the midst of a “migrant crisis”. Why have desperate people in boats put our political class in a collective meltdown? With Michael Walker and Barnaby Raine.

No vision of climate justice is complete without a roadmap towards reparations, argues Esther Stanford-Xosei in the final bonus episode from Planet B: Everything Must Change. Speaking to Harpreet Kaur Paul, the Indigenous reparationist, activist and advocate explains how histories of colonial injustice and racial discrimination have resulted in the twin crimes of genocide and […]

MPs will vote tomorrow on Sajid Javid’s Health and Care Bill. Does it threaten to privatise the NHS by the back door? We speak to Dr Bob Gill. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.