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The Burner episodes

  • THE BURNER 238: Emergency Brakes
    Eight weeks in, James Butler asks what the crisis has revealed.
    Does sudden global stoppage let us see what real change might look like?
    Plus, a special announcement on the future of The Burner.
    22 min
  • THE BURNER 236: Tick, Tick, Tick – and Technocracy
    Sunak softens his economic instincts: so what does that say about what’s coming? Is organised labour really in a position of strength?
    Plus – what does the pandemic mean for the future of technocracy?
    Charlotte Bence on trade unions, organising and workplace safety — https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/05/if-your-boss-is-putting-your-life-at-risk-read-this
    22 min
  • THE BURNER 235: Your Fault
    Boris Johnson changes the lockdown rules – but is he also trying to shift the blame?
    TUC Join a Union page: https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-union
    20 min
  • THE BURNER 234: On Victory
    James Butler considers the 75th anniversary of VE Day: what are the politics of memory?
    Plus, Georgia Anderson catches us up on the story of the Nightingale hospitals.
    24 min
  • THE BURNER 233: The Totem and The Cipher
    🔥 Ash Sarkar asks whether the long shadow of Corbyn stops us seeing Keir Starmer clearly.
    🔥 Plus, the government fears we’ve become “addicted” to income support. James Meadway breaks it down.
    22 min
  • THE BURNER 232: Get Free?
    Papers are awash with stories of the ‘bonking boffin’: but with the highest death toll in Europe, is that what matters?
    Plus, James Butler asks: what does the pandemic reveal about the nature of the state. And what might it really mean to be free?
    21 min
  • THE BURNER 231: Lessons in Winning: Right-Wing Leninism?
    As the left wonders how to make a better world out of the crisis, Aaron Bastani asks: are there lessons we can learn from how the right does politics?
    Plus, James Butler on the politics of freedom.
    Edelman trust barometer: https://www.edelman.com/research/trust-2020-spring-update
    24 min
  • THE BURNER 230: Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
    How will the lockdown end?
    James Butler asks: why is the US so intent on blaming China? Do states need ‘official enemies’?
    Constantin Cavafy, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/waiting-for-the-barbarians
    Bruce Schneier, ’On COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps’:https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/me_on_covad-19_.html
    21 min

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Produced by Novara Media, The Burner is a daily briefing on the news that matters to the left during the current Covid-19 crisis.