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Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin
History is not just one thing after another. Historians spend lifetimes figuring out how X event in medieval France impacted Y event in 20th century …
2 years, 10 months ago
Downstream: The British Media Is Broken w/ Moya Lothian-McLean & Michael Walker
For a Downstream family special, Ash Sarkar is joined by Moya Lothian-McLean and Michael Walker – both contributing editors at Novara Media – to disc…
2 years, 10 months ago
Downstream: How Corporations Control the Government w/ Matt Kennard
Many people would agree that corporations have undue influence over our democracies. But exactly how this influence is exerted is tricky to work out …
2 years, 10 months ago
Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think w/ Ian Hogarth
Ian Hogarth has invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence companies and is co-author of the annual State of AI report. And he’s worried. Not o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Downstream: The Truth about the GDR w/ Katja Hoyer
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the experiment of communist East Germany came to an end. Yet for a while it was a successful project, raising …
2 years, 11 months ago
Downstream: How the Media Lies About Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
Palestinians don’t often get to tell their own stories, and on the rare occasion they do it’s on highly limited terms. Ash Sarkar speaks to writer an…
2 years, 11 months ago
Downstream: Is the World Really Run by a ‘Leftist Elite?’ w/ Matthew Goodwin
Everyone rails against the elite, but who are they? The left would say it’s the billionaires, the media barons, the oil tycoons, and the 1% – those w…
3 years ago
Downstream: How We Ended Up With The Worst Media In The World w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani
In The UK, the last few decades have shown the steepest decline in trust in the media globally, second only to Egypt. How did we get here? Is it as s…
3 years ago
Downstream: The Housing Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think w/ Vicky Spratt
Vicky Spratt is a London-based journalist and campaigner who writes on housing and the rental crisis. Her book Tenants is out now with Profile Books.
3 years ago
Downstream: We Must Ban Private Schools w/ Richard Beard
Britain is unique in the way that public schools (that’s private schools to anyone outside of Britain) have a stranglehold on the establishment. Alum…
3 years, 1 month ago