Was the UK government too late to introduce the rule of six? How have Extinction Rebellion got people talking about UK media ownership? And do we have a free press in this country? What effects will breaking international law have on the UK’s reputation? Calum Watt, Callum Roper, Bradley Allsop and Oli Walwyn discuss all of this and more!

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

In the week that millions of school kids have returned to school Calum Watt, Callum Roper, Bradley Allsop and Oli Walwyn discuss the attempts to use this as leverage to force people back into the workplace - despite the continued risk of a second wave. We also talk about the survival of Universities and Students Unions in the new term and the results of the recent Liberal Democrat Leadership election.

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

In this week which saw the confirmation of the two main candidates for United States President formally declared Calum Watt, Callum Roper, Bradley Allsop and Oli Walwyn cover the prospects of a Biden or continued Trump Presidency, the possibility of necessary action on climate change, the ongoing (and entirely invented) refugee "crisis" in the UK and the need for proper rent controls, social housing and co-operatives to solve endemic homelessness.

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

In this 1201 Podcast episode Calum Watt, Callum Roper, Bradley Allsop and Oli Walwyn discuss the fallout from the government latest omnishambles approach to A-Level results, plus the re-heated bigotry on display in the mainstream media and the political class against refugees seeking safety in Britain in recent weeks - and how the left must act quickly to counter it.

Recorded: 16th August 2020

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

Calum Watt, Callum Roper, Bradley Allsop and Oli Walwyn the recent wave of protests against the government's plans to deny NHS workers - who were and still are at the cutting edge of a global pandemic - a fair pay rise. As well as Tory attempts to subvert local government in Lincolnshire.

Recorded: 8th August 2020

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

Calum Watt, Callum Roper, Bradley Allsop and Oli Walwyn discussing the government's attempts to return the UK to "normality" during a pandemic.

Recorded: 19th July 2020

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

In this episode Callum Roper, Calum Watt, Bradley Allsop and new co-editor Oli Walwyn discuss the fallout from payouts to former Labour Party staffers who allegedly failed to deal with anti semitism in the Party, relations between students and local residents in University towns like Lincoln, the attempted foreign interference in British politics and the shady world of online political advertising.

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

In this episode, Calum Watt, Callum Roper and Bradley Allsop discuss the re-opening of pubs, the bizarre simultaneous local lockdown in Leicester, the very real threat of mass homelessness and unemployment once the furlough and no-evictions policies end and, as ever, how the left should respond and channel public dissatisfaction towards a more progressive future.

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

In this episode Calum Watt, Callum Roper and Bradley Allsop discuss the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey from the Labour Party Shadow cabinet, the effect of antisemitic conspiracy theories in propping up capitalism, how to get the public to empathise with foreign nationals and the growing apparent acceptability of corruption in our politics.

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner

As the far-right are left to disgrace themselves as little more than thugs and vandals, literally pissing on the monuments they claimed to be gathering to protect. Calum Watt, Callum Roper and Bradley Allsop discuss the effectiveness of Black Lives Matter's decision to the withdraw from direct confrontation.

We also talk about the attempts by the media and some in the political class to stoke up renewed culture wars as a distraction from government incompetence during the COVID pandemic, and the effect of the pandemic on High Education and the survival of our universities.

Opening music: New Beginning - Gunnar Olsen

Closing music: March to Victory - Silent Partner