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Moya and Ash tackle a topic that turns up in the If I Speak mailbox every week: how can we get better at flirting IRL – and coping with rejection? Plus, how to process a failed friendship. Warning: Contains musical theatre.

Send us your dilemmas: [email protected]

Music by Matt Huxley.

Anas Al-Sharif is among five Al-Jazeera journalists killed by Israel.

Plus: Palestine Action protests lead to over 500 arrests, the right’s call for a British revolution, and Richard Madeley grills Labour over branding Palestine Action as terrorists.

With: Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Marji Mansfield.

Ash Sarkar sat down at EartH Hackney with acclaimed historian and author William Dalrymple.

Picking up where they left off last time they spoke on Downstream, Sarkar and Dalrymple had a wide-ranging conversation at the crossroads of empire, resistance, and the long shadows of colonialism.

From the rich histories traced in The Golden Road to the urgent realities of Gaza and the deeper fault lines of South Asia’s past, this was a discussion that cut across centuries—and continents.

Dalrymple brought his signature insight into how East shaped West, asking us to reimagine our sense of where power lay in the ancient world.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to occupy the whole of Gaza has sparked global condemnation, with Germany halting military exports that could be used against Palestinians.

Plus: An interview with Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls on his time on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and violent detention by the IDF.

With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Labour MP faces calls to resign in the wake of eviction claims.

Plus: European Commission Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera said Israel’s actions in Gaza “look very much like genocide’ and Novara Media investigates far-right protests on the rise.

With NoJusticeMTG and Kieran Andrieu.

Novara FM was Novara Media’s first show – it’s now coming to an end.

On the final episode, Richard Hames sat down with Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar to talk about 15 years of Novara Media.

What have we learned from a decade and a half fighting a media landscape that insists nothing can ever change?

A new product will launch next month. Animated by the same complexity and depth as Novara FM, it will be available both on this podcast feed and YouTube.

The plan to occupy all of Gaza is gaining momentum

Plus: Rachel Reeves is on track to miss her fiscal target this year by £41billion according to a new report, and how the UK government lost £200 billion.

With: Michael Walker, Helena (NoJusticeMTG), Matt Kennard and Aydin Dikerdem

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Multiple Israeli media sources have reported that Netanyahu has decided to fully reoccupy Gaza.

Plus: What nearly half of Britons get wrong about migration, and how a member of the House of Lords urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the request of a military tech firm.

With Aaron Bastani, Karl Hansen and Maryam Eslamdoust.

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Ash has noticed that neither she nor Moya is white and urgently needs to talk about it. Has her sense of her racial identity changed over time? And where does it come from – their shade, their community, or the way they’re treated? Plus: which ethnicity is best at rice?!

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Music by Matt Huxley.

Farage blames migrants for Britain’s descent into violence.

Plus: Hamas releases video of one of the surviving hostages, Rachel Reeves weighs in on Corbyn and Sultana’s new party, and Trump praises Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad.

With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.