Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDownstream: Everything You’re Told About Green Capitalism is Wrong w/ Brett Christophers
Renewable energy technology is only getting cheaper. And yet it hasn’t increased its share of the energy mix for two decades.
So what explains this p…
1 year, 11 months ago
Novara FM: The Right Is Getting Real On Climate. Can We? w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary
The right have ditched climate denial and found something worse. They’re doubling down on the exhaustion of people and planet alike, making us run ev…
1 year, 11 months ago
Downstream: Is India Really a Democracy? w/ Alpa Shah
The Indian election will be one of the largest the world has ever seen, with almost 1 billion people eligible to vote. It’s often said that India is …
1 year, 11 months ago
ACFM Trip 43: Cool
What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it obviously wouldn’t be cool. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool can ever…
1 year, 11 months ago
Novara FM: How Trans Misogyny Works w/ Jules Gill-Peterson
The difference between sex and gender is fundamental to how we talk about trans people. But what if it obscures the richness of life outside of gende…
2 years ago
Novara Live: Rishi Sunak Announces July General Election
In the pouring rain and 20 points behind in the polls, Rishi Sunak has announced that a UK general election will take place on 4 July. Michael Walker…
2 years ago
Downstream: The Truth About Incels w/ William Costello
The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that i…
2 years ago
Novara FM: Living Through the Chinese Miracle w/ Yuan Yang
No country has ever changed so fast as China. From the west, we see only the dazzling headline figures – 15% growth in some years. But it’s on the gr…
2 years ago
Downstream: Individualism is Destroying Our Freedom w/ Grace Blakeley
Common sense tells us that free-market economies maximise freedom and that planned economies, typically found under socialist governments, curtail it…
2 years ago
Novara FM: Know Your Enemies w/ Matthew Sitman & Sam Adler-Bell
George Bernard Shaw once joked that the US and the UK are “two countries divided by a common language.” Can the same be said of their conservatives? …
2 years ago