The Burner

The High Court has ruled that Michael Gove acted unlawfully when he gave a £570,000 contract to associates of Dominic Cummings. We speak to Jolyon Maugham from the Good Law Project who brought the case. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.

Gove Acted Unlawfully Over Covid-19 Contract, High Court Rules

The #GlazersOut protest was the first time ever that a Premier League match has been postponed because of fans’ actions. Can the movement create a revolution in club ownership?

With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

Manchester United Fans Shut Down Match Over Glazers

After ten weeks of lockdown, James Butler asks: what have we learned?

Plus, a little announcement on the future of this show.

Ash Sarkar goes to the Black Lives Matter protest in London, and talks to the protestors on the new front line of antiracist struggle in the UK.

As the UK death toll passes 50,000 and Black Lives Matter protests continue in the US, James Butler asks: who gets to matter in politics?

James Butler asks what the government ease-off in regulations is really about – should we expect a second wave?

Plus, as teachers are pressed back to work, we hear from one teacher and trade unionist – Nik from the Requires Improvement podcast – about what’s really going on in schools.

Cummings survives: but what’s the wreckage?

Lockdown eases, but R is high: so why?

Plus, James Butler wonders about political hope in difficult times.

James Butler on Dominic Cummings: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/28/dominic-cummings-democracy-laws-truth-consequences

Huw Lemmey on hecklers: https://huw.substack.com/p/what-have-you-got-to-say-to-that

Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

As we enter day six of The Dominic Cummings Scandal, Ash Sarkar examines the evidence and breaks down Boris Johnson’s first appearance at the Commons liaison committee. Plus the dangers of false negatives.

Cummings splashes round the squid ink: will it be enough to escape the consequences?

Gary McQuiggin takes a deep dive into the impact of the virus in the prison system – from solitary confinement to family visits – in conversation with Oonagh Ryder, host of The Lockdown, Novara Media’s prison and criminal justice podcast.

Cummings bets that he can cling on – and Johnson backs him. Has he miscalculated? Will it matter?

What does the Cummings crisis reveal about our politics – and the Tory attitude to law?

James Butler on Cummings and the dark world of advisers: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/23/dominic-cummings-reign-shadowy-world-spads