We haven't made the artwork or finished editing it yet, but here's a few minutes from the start of the new episode where we preview what topics we'll be discussing! Episode will be on here rather than Patreon. Ho ho ho etc

(It's not a very good trailer. There'll be a much slicker one of sorts in the episode itself.)

In what could be described as either an extended excerpt from or a truncated edit of our new 110-minute Patreon episode on the films of Paul Schrader, Jack and Yair discuss Schrader's ill-fated Nicolas Cage-starring 2014 espionage thriller the Dying of the Light, which was taken away from Schrader and reedited by its producers, bastardised to the extent that in 2017 he took matters in his own hands and made his own lo-fi director's cut, which has never been commercially released, but which we have had the pleasure of viewing online in its entirety. We discuss the cinematic techniques, performances and political analysis of Dying of the Light/Dark, with a few minutes dedicated to Schrader's earlier (and, frankly, superior) Auto Focus.

To see Schrader explain the process behind the making of Dark, comparing scenes from it to their Dying of the Light counterparts, watch this masterclass from the International Film Festival of Rotterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcM8UU07cuY

To watch Dark itself, follow the instructions in this Letterboxd review: https://letterboxd.com/jameshealey/film/dark-2017/1/

If you liked this episode, subscribe to https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik for the extended version and much, much more.

Jack interviews PhD student Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm on Twitter) about populism in its myriad, and sometimes nebulous, forms: its American origins, the respective populisms of the left, right, and centre, and the liberal discourse around populism, with its invocation of "the people" and its folk devils like Russia and Seumas Milne.

Read Anton's recent Jacobin piece, The Myth of "Populism" here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/populism-douglas-hofstadter-donald-trump-democracy

And also for Jacobin, Anton's review of Chantal Mouffe's For a Left Populism:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/for-a-left-populism-mouffe-review

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Our latest Patreon episode, unlocked for the masses! Featuring our thoughts on the Kate Osamor resignation, the Miwkiversary, the deaths of George H.W. Bush and Harry Leslie Smith, some Patreon housekeeping, and a special terrorist broadcast by Juliet Jacques of @Suite-212.

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Tonight on Reel Politik, we take the initiative into our own hands, and settle the divisive debate around Britain's exit from the European Union, once and for all. All sides are represented, putting their views across respectfully, yet forcefully; from hard Brexit, to soft Brexit, to a Brexit that's somewhat softer than a hard Brexit. This goes beyond mere ideology, having more to do with evidence and truth, so we WILL be fact-checking our panellists, who span the right wing of Britain's neo-Nazi movement to the Lexit left's Pamela Anderson, making room for every strain of centrism in between. Nobody is safe in the battle of ideas...because there are no safe spaces.

The full section of our latest Patreon episode on the disgraceful hounding by Britain's racist media of Labour MP Kate Osamor.

Listen to the full news bulletin at patreon.com/reelpolitik, featuring our thoughts on the Miwkiversary, the deaths of George H.W. Bush and Harry Leslie Smith, some Patreon housekeeping, and a terrorist broadcast by Juliet Jacques of @Suite-212.

In new RP, Jack and Tom present an exhaustive guide to who's who on the left; the movers, the shakers, the rising stars and the thinkfluencers...or rather, who was who on the left back in the dark days of 2013, when its most influential figure (spoiler)was Ed Miliband, who was surrounded by reams of shite so abject that Ed himself looked like fucking Castro in comparison. Featuring: Lords Collins, Sainsbury and Adonis, the heavy hands of Eric Joyce (sadly not actually on the list), Big Mikey Dugher and his shit curries, "Aldi Woman" and her esteemed inventor, and many, many more. Plus - the guys praise schlock-rocking dezinformatsiya-spreader Threatin for his sophisticated grasp of False News, and make lots of Mike Gapes jokes that are somehow even more disgusting than usual.

To hear more of where the clip at the start came from, subscribe to Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton's brilliant cultural commentary podcast/radio show @Suite-212.

Find part one of Iain Dale's Left Power List 2013 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10330401/Top-100-most-influential-Left-wingers-100-51.html and part two at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10331110/Top-100-most-influential-Left-wingers-50-1.html

Find the 2017 list at https://www.iaindale.com/articles/the-top-100-most-influential-people-on-the-left-2017

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In part two of our celebration of Tom F's favourite band, the Clash, we delve into Clash-affiliated musicians and filmmakers like Tymon Dogg, Ellen Foley, Don Letts and Alex Cox, go deeper into their final (proper, non-Cut The Crap) album Combat Rock, and assess the political makeup of British punk in the late '70s, as seen through the eyes of Paul Weller's manager/dad: the Clash were socialists, the Pistols were anarchists (apart from Glen Matlock, the foot-washing, Beatles-loving melt), therefore the Jam must be Tories. Jack also laughs at Tom and Yair for losing their hair, which means that if there's any justice in the world he'll go bald tomorrow.

In a special extended episode of Reel Politik (we've generally managed to keep them a bit on the shorter side of late), we're joined by Joana Ramiro, a UK-based Portuguese reporter, to talk about the recent Brazilian presidential election, in which the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, who will assume office in January, triumphed over left-of-centre runner-up Fernando Haddad, the candidate of the once-dominant Workers' Party (PT), who were thrown out of power in a 2016 coup. With Joana, we discuss the political and economic factors that have provoked this seismic shift in the Brazilian political landscape, the past successes, past failures and uncertain future of the PT, Bolsonaro's ideology, and what a government led by him will mean for Brazil, and for the "minority" groups that ultimately constitute a majority of its population.

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This full episode is available @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-75-22735019.

In this extract, Jack and Yair discuss Yair's local Libertarian candidate and attempt to prank-call the absent Tom F.

Straight outta the bipartisan marketplace of ideas, Jack is joined by RP's official American correspondent Y.S. Rice to get an informed perspective on the US midterm elections, which saw some impressive gains for a generally very sad and tragic, morally moribund, utterly purposeless crock of shit Democratic Party. It's an All-American extravaganza. Jack reads an iconic scene from timeless ode to political civility The West Wing, and impersonates friend-of-America Tony Blair's penis. Absent RP co-host Tom Foster is repeatedly anonymously prank-called (episode working title: Waiting For Tommo). Dedicated to Al Gore, the true winner of the 2000 election, who lives...in our hearts.

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