It was the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde who said “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” Today much of the ugliness remains but the timespan has shrunk from six months to just a few weeks… Fast fashion has boomed but at the expense of garment makers, consumers and the environment.

Ross Ashcroft is joined by Dana Thomas & Dr. Patsy Perry to discuss the true cost of fast fashion.

Over the last few years the subject of money has come into sharp focus. Increasingly we want to know: who creates it, who issues it, who controls it, and importantly, who decides who gets it first… The simple paradox is why, with so much money now created, do we still have so much inequality and poverty?

Ross Ashcroft is joined by author and financial activist Brett Scott to discuss how much we really know about the dynamics of money.

Over the last few years the subject of money has come into sharp focus. Increasingly we want to know: who creates it, who issues it, who controls it, and importantly, who decides who gets it first…   

The simple paradox is why, with so much money now created, do we still have so much inequality and poverty?   

Ross Ashcroft is joined by author and financial activist Brett Scott to discuss how much we really know about the dynamics of money.

In ‘Poverty Safari’ – his first award-winning book – writer and rapper Darren McGarvey paints an honest picture of Britain’s class divide. In his forthcoming book, ‘The Social Distance Between Us’, he takes his argument further. He claims the pandemic has laid bare the contours of class inequality, but it has also shown us that, if the will is there, political and economic mechanisms do exist to solve poverty and inequality.

Darren McGarvey joins host Ross Ashcroft to discuss what lessons we can learn from the pandemic and how to move forward from here.

You would think that the sixth largest economy in the world would be able to organise itself to provide decent school meals for its children, but alas… the UK has faltered. It’s astonishing that the Manchester United number 10 has done more for hungry schoolchildren than the occupant of Number 10. The former knows all about childhood hunger; the latter thinks the so-called free market can deliver everything. Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by the founder of School Food Matters, Stephanie Slater, and Johnbosco Nwogbo from ‘We Own It’ to discuss whether we should be relying on the free market to solve childhood hunger.

There’s nothing like the idea of unionised workers to make the predatory capitalist convulse – for them, precarious employment is profitable.

But what if this subjugation and short-termism had its time, particularly as younger generations of workers increasingly see the benefits of trade unions?

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by labor law specialist Carolyn Jones and Carolyn Steinhoff of Amazon Labour Union to ask if the tide has turned on those companies who have long exploited workers to swell their bottom line

It is claimed that the silver market is one of the most manipulated markets in the world. It is also claimed that there is a drastic shortfall between how much of the precious metal is above the ground versus how much has been sold in paper contracts. So, is this the year that sends the silver price to the Moon? Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by silver guru David Morgan and Ivan Bayoukhi to find out if the so-called silver stackers are about to have their long-awaited moment in the Sun.

Less than 100 days into his presidency, Joe Biden is already angling for war with Russia…

The excuse? Ukrainian sovereignty.

But Russia has 200 years of experience when it comes to Western forces piling up troops against its borders – and it’s led to a series of devastating wars. And again today, we are seeing the highest number of NATO and US troops stationed close to the Russian border.

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by analyst Alex Krainer and author Dmitry Orlov to discuss why the real reason behind this growing tension is something quite different.

Gentrification and spiralling house prices are pushing generations all over the world into both debt and out of cities.  We are seeing housing, which should be a human right and a social good, slowly being financialised into an asset class by banks played with on stock markets.  Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by the filmmakers of the documentary ‘Push’ - Lailani Farha and Fredrik Gertten to understand what is going to make our homes become more expensive and out of reach and what we can do about it.   RT UK is a channel based in London covering British news and politics, protests and interviews with people who make a difference.

The much-quoted linguist Noam Chomsky said, “We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”

Yet in the age of individualism, we have often confused good ideas with a search for a hero. This ego festival has created saviour complexes that have become so pernicious they have derailed the most well-intentioned plans.

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by journalist and author Jordan Flaherty and Degan Ali, the director of Adeso, to look beyond the saviour models that have been killing us for too long.