Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening, from the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain.

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Israel is claiming discrimination against after the UK disinvited its delegation from an arms fair.

Plus: A Labour MSP has been accused of planting a camera in a bathroom of the Scottish Parliament.

With NoJusticeMTG and Aaron Bastani.

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv have sparked an international incident after British Council and EU buildings were damaged in the attack.

Plus: The IPC confirms that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are now starving.

With NoJusticeMTG, Dalia Gebrial and UNICEF’s Tess Ingram.

Labour have hit their lowest approval rating of this parliament – is the party heading for collapse?

Plus: An explainer on the war in Sahel, West Africa, and why the British right is now cheering on criminal damage.

With Michael Walker and Barry Malone.

Nigel Farage has pledged to deport six hundred thousand people from Britain within five years if Reform becomes the party of government.

Plus: Israel has devastated Gaza’s Nasser Hospital with a double airstrike, killing dozens of civilians.

With Aaron Bastani and Kieran Andrieu.

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What would it mean to be valued simply as a woman – not as a mother, wife, caregiver, girlypops or MILF? Ash and Moya talk about their animal natures and fear of motherhood in a chat spurred by last week’s interview with feminist critic Sophie Gilbert. Plus: how to go deeper with your friends.

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Music by Matt Huxley.

The U.S. Department of Justice has just released a six-hour interview with Ghislaine Maxwell where she gushes over Trump. Her reward? She’s now been moved to an elite low-security prison. To talk about the Maxwell tapes, Trump’s relationship with Epstein, and whether we’ve learnt anything new about the elite paedophile trafficker, Michael Walker spoke to Liz Franczak and Brace Belden from the TrueAnon podcast.

Dan Wang is a technology analyst and author whose life experience, spent partly in North America, partly in China, sets him up as an authoritative observer of the differences and similarities between the American and Chinese empires. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, Wang shares his thesis that elite overproduction of engineers in China, and lawyers in America, can explain the traits of each empire as they face down the 21st century, from high speed rail and housing, to lockdown policy and manufacturing strategy.

Why has China been able to roll out high speed rail while America hasn’t? Why does so much of the anglophone world appear to be living in the ruins of industrial society? How did the one child policy come into being and has there been any reparation for the atrocities committed in its name? And is China today fundamentally left or right wing?

A UN-backed body has recognised the man-made famine in Gaza City and the surrounding area.

Plus: Amnesty International weighs in on the proscription of Palestine action, and the row raging over inheritance tax.

With Michael Walker, NoJusticeMTG, Dan Stewart & Kerry Moscogiuri

A record number of asylum seekers is compounding pressure on Labour.

Plus: Elbit Systems is close to receiving a £2bn contract to train British soldiers, and Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid shakes the establishment.

With NoJusticeMTG and Kieran Andrieu.