Podcast Episodes

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…

7 hours ago

Downstream: Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities w/ Roderick Beaton

As the American empire teeters, China gains dominance, and war spreads across Eastern Europe and West Asia, questions arise as to Europe’s place in t…

1 week ago

Downstream: The Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Yi-Ling Liu

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In China in the 1990s, the arrival of the internet was swiftly met with the ‘great firewall’: a…

2 weeks ago

Downstream: Is Liberalism Finally Waking Up to the Crises it has Caused? w/ Adrian Wooldridge

Liberalism, in one form or another, has been the pervading political ideology of the past 200 years. It has become so pervasive, as an ideology, that…

3 weeks ago

Downstream: The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That w/ Ash Sarkar

Aaron Bastani sat down with Novara Media’s own Ash Sarkar, to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling book, Minority Rule. ‘Minority rule’…

1 month ago

Downstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara Mattei

Rising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits…

1 month, 1 week ago

Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta

Nearly all of us on Earth live within a ‘nation-state’. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructur…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley

The notion that the Global South is affected ‘first and worst’ by global shocks they didn’t cause, namely climate change, is one of the cornerstones …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser

In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry.  Twenty five years later, the …

2 months ago

Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman

Just a week ago, the architect of Starmer’s rise to power, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over his connections to Peter Mandelson, after further proof of…

2 months, 1 week ago