Podcast Episodes

ACFM Trip 60: Shock!

Jem, Nadia and Keir apply their weird-left lens to the power and potential of shock. Starting with an investigation into economic shock therapy and t…

16 hours ago

Downstream: British Politics Is in Meltdown. Here’s Why. w/ James Butler

It has been a seismic week in British politics. The two-party system has collapsed. Keir Starmer is digging in at Downing Street, while Labour leader…

5 days, 13 hours ago

Do Your Own Research: Do Androids Dream of Human Rights? w/ Lisa Siraganian

Are you a person? Sounds like a simple question, but it isn’t. Until pretty recently, the idea that everyone was a human in the same way was almost u…

6 days, 12 hours ago

Downstream: The Most Influential Leftist You’ve Never Heard Of w/ Peter Mertens

British politics is in turmoil. The two party system has collapsed, the far right has won huge gains across the country. Crises of this scale can cre…

1 week, 6 days ago

ACFM Microdose: New Weird Britain

Are we living through a new era of British weirdness? Keir and Jem mark the start of spring by taking in the weird-left politics of leylines, weird w…

2 weeks ago

Do Your Own Research: What the World’s Most Famous Marxist Really Thinks of Zohran Mamdani w/ David Harvey

David Harvey is a legendary Marxist geographer. He’s taught Marx for over half a century – maybe you’ve even been one of his millions of students.

He…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Downstream: British Politics Is About to Collapse w/ James Meadway

The two-party system has defined British politics for centuries, but the status quo is under attack from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and an insurgent Gr…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling

A decade and a half ago, the British far right was a fringe concern. But since then, the ruling party – whether it be The Conservatives or Labour – h…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Downstream: The Truth About Smartphones’ Dirty Supply Chain w/ Nicholas Niarchos

The 21st century runs on batteries: from phones and laptops to electric vehicles, drones and clean energy. Embedded in these batteries are rare earth…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Do Your Own Research: You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. w/ Luke Kemp

It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, chaotic, an…

4 weeks, 1 day ago