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ACFM Trip 49: Debt
The concept of debt is as slippery as it is powerful. In this Trip episode, Keir, Nadia and Jem explain why debt is more like a belief than a calcula…
1 year, 1 month ago
Novara FM: What Will ‘Technoking’ Elon Musk Do in the White House? w/ Quinn Slobodian
Elon Musk is the most symptomatic capitalist of our era: obsessed with publicity, by many accounts a fanatical workaholic, and increasingly in bed wi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz
The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a s…
1 year, 1 month ago
Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers
Donald Trump is the next president. Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s have forsaken their diversity policies. Elon Musk is demanding that Keir Starmer be …
1 year, 1 month ago
ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto
The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of one of the most influential political tracts ever written. Download a version online and follow along…
1 year, 2 months ago
Novara FM: Why The Left Needs To Care About Crypto w/ Sam Hart
Having long promised to decentralise power, Bitcoin is looking more and more like it will end up as a tool of American power under Trump. But blockch…
1 year, 2 months ago
Novara FM: Love Actually w/ Nathalie Olah
In Richard Curtis’ Love Actually, a selection of mainly white and middle-class Londoners seem to be living in a parallel universe – one in which the …
1 year, 2 months ago
Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke
On 10 December, Ash Sarkar, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discussed an epoch-defining year and its implications for the future. Is Starmer screwed…
1 year, 2 months ago
Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler
Die Hard is a perennial of festive TV, but is it really a Christmas movie? James Butler and Eleanor Penny explore what the 1988 action comedy reveals…
1 year, 2 months ago
Downstream: Is Germany’s Economy Heading for Collapse? w/ Wolfgang Münchau
Just two months before a general election, Germany finds itself in a precarious position. The European project is fragile, the country’s manufacturin…
1 year, 2 months ago