Apr 14, 2025 |🎙️ What do overflowing bins, skyrocketing water bills, and 24/7 media chaos have in common? They’re all signs it’s time to stop coping and start organising (aka reaching out to your friends).

From collective non-payment campaigns pushing back against water privatisation, to the psychological warfare of media saturation, to the lessons learned from Birmingham’s bin strikes — this episode dives deep into the mess. We’re talking privatisation, information overload, and the power of collective action — all with a carne asada at the picket line, of course.

And don't forget to check out the fantastic campaigns and orgs mentioned @takeback.water @weownit_campaign @ boycottwaterbills.com @ thecanaryuk @ imapress @ Acorn the Union @ iwgbunion @ unitedvoicesoftheworld

Keep listening and catch up with this week's newsletter (on Substack) for even more from the News Club cru!

Apr 06, 2025 |🎙️Trump promised to drain the swamp — and now it looks like he might do it by blowing the whole thing up, with the rest of us in it. Closer to home, the Hillsborough Law has been quietly gutted by a Labour government intent on breaking its promise to tackle corruption. But don’t worry — we might still have a chance to drain the swamp in our own backyard… with a bit of Blue Steel.

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Mar 31, 2025 |🎙️We’re back with a long one this week. Not sure if you noticed, but a hell of a lot of news happened while we were away.

But we weren’t just twiddling our thumbs—we were in the lab, working on the perfect product. And now? We’re back. We’re here every week. No more month-long gaps, no more cramming a ton of stories into one episode.

This week, we’re tackling:

1. Is America a fascist state? And if so, what the hell do we do about it?

2. Why Chivers hates Adolescence.

3. The cost of being a pro-Palestine protester in the UK.

Let’s get into it.

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Feb 10, 2025 | 🎙️ Deportation, immigration raids, trans rights, moral panic and Uruguay. This week we got into some pretty heavy and tough topics. Look into your local anti-raids groups (via the Anti-Raids Network) and check out @wearequeeraf_, @migrantsorganise, @whatthetrans, @theabigailthorn, Trans Writes and The Trans Agenda by Lee Hurley on Substack, to name a few of the brilliant mentions from the podcast.

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"the moral panic side...it doesn't give people a house, it doesn't make the NHS better" ~ S 00:28:45

Feb 03, 2025 | 🎙️ If taking back control means taking back our energy then why is GB energy so shit? Is David Mitchell really the defender of democracy we need? And does the media actually love Trump and if so should tell them to get a room?

Keep listening and read up on this week's newsletter for even more from the News Club cru.

"sit on the sidelines, let things happen to you, here's a pat on the head, thanks for trying, but you're too dumb to understand it so just sit it out and let the adults decide for you (C)...yeah and then they wonder why they lose (B)" ~ 00:20:59

Jan 27, 2025 | 🎙️ Overborne metaphors, non-consensual doom and clapping for growth. Keep listening and check out this week's newsletter (Grow, you bastard, grow!) for even more from the News Club cru.

"All of these AI and Bitcoin miners are stealing the graphics cards I need to play my video games and they're burning the planet in the proccess" ~ C

Jan 20, 2025 | 🎙️ Welcome to: Got News?

News Club: A place to talk about the news and how to change it.

These last few weeks have shown the catastrophic consequences of our broken news media. Corporate news outlets are emboldening the far-right. The online platforms we use to communicate with one another are controlled by egotistical billionaires. And mainstream journalists are cheering on governments’ attacks on the poor, the disadvantaged and anyone who opposes their authoritarian and neoliberal policies.

Interested? Stay up to date with our weekly podcast and read our newsletters on our Substack!

This week?

Big tech, authoritarianism, TikTok, mutualisation and more. Keep listening and check out this week's newsletter (Introducing News Club) for even more from the News Club cru.

"I want our bread, I want our roses... I want our rent lower but I'd like to have culture produced by British people that lifts us up, that moves us" ~ B