Capitalism’s central plank is that competition is king creating a level playing field that champions only the best products, the most efficient services and the most effective people.

Yet a cursory glance around the business world shows us that corporates don’t like competition – they aggressively protect their monopiles which stifles products, shrinks services and prevents personal accountability. So what if this so-called competition is actually killing us…

Joining Ross Ashcroft is author and lawyer Michelle Meagher to discuss.

Most of us are trapped in the cult of busy. Packed schedules, immediate gratification, wall to wall Zoom calls and the incessant ding of your so-called smart device.

It’s not making us happy and all the associated consumption is trashing the planet for those who aren’t here yet...So how do we free ourselves from this tyranny and become Time Rebels…

Author and philosopher Roman Krznaric joins host Ross Ashcorft to discuss.

We all can see we live in a world of misallocated capital. But we also live in a society of misallocated labour.

We disproportionately praise and pay those who work with their heads yet when it comes to people who work with their hearts or with their hands they end up with crumbs in comparison – so how did the cult of the knowledge worker become so pervasive?

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by journalist and author David Goodhart to discuss.

However you look at it, 2020 was a train wreck. So as we look forward to 2021, we wanted to get political and economic insight from two friends of the show.

Chris Williamson and Michael Hudson share their views on what we can look out for in the new year.

The only person who won 2020 was the lead adviser to the Conservative Party, Rafe Hubris, BA Oxon.

Rafe, by his own admission, is the most promising 24 year old in the country and definitely the most classic.

The retrospective in a year that has been quite quiet and straight forward.

In this programme we look back and bring together the best of some of our guests so you can re-live 2020 in glorious technicolour...

Journalist, publisher, activist, son, partner, father and human being...Regardless of what you think of Julian Assange – should anyone be tortured in a British prison?

Journalist Taylor Hudak joins host Ross Ashcroft to discuss one of the biggest moments in the history of free speech.

George Orwell said it was a book that everyone should read...

Published in 1914 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists detailed crushing poverty, squalor and inequality in the UK. Cut to 2020 Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have re-written, illustrated and re- released the book because sadly today it is as relevant as it was in the early 1900’s.

The author and illustrator join host Ross Ashcroft to explore how the classic book remains so relevant.

Stephen Vizinczey says all a great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in doing the impossible...

Like bankruptcy, societies and complex systems collapse slowly then all at once. The cycles that civilisations go through are well documented and whilst in hindsight it’s glaringly obvious to understand what drove the breakdown, in real time we are often too close and too invested trying to be relevant, to recognise our own demise.

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by journalist Indi Samarajiva to discuss how this collapse has come about.

The green new deal is painted as an unaffordable far left pipe dream. It has been politically maligned to preserve the status quo at a time when we know that establishment economists have got all climate breakdown projections completely wrong...

So surely the question we should be asking is simple: how much is it going to cost us not to do this?

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by author and economist Ann Pettifor to discuss.