Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDownstream: People Used Anything to Attack Me w/ Jeremy Corbyn
Two years after resigning as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn catches up with Aaron Bastani to dissect Corbynism and its aftermath. On the table: the Isl…
3 years, 7 months ago
Downstream: Labour Weaponised My Domestic Abuse to Get Rid of Me w/ Apsana Begum
Three months after being signed off sick following a “sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse” from both her ex-husband and her local Labour party, …
3 years, 7 months ago
Downstream: The Truth About the Monarchy w/ Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar
On the eve of the Queen’s funeral, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar look around at a nation in mourning to analyse the emotional and political impact of …
3 years, 7 months ago
Downstream: Silicon Valley Fraudsters Are Lying to Us w/ Paris Marx
It’s one of the few things that the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber and tech billionaire Peter Thiel agreed on: the sci-fi future we were…
3 years, 7 months ago
Downstream: The Moral Crisis of Corporate Britain w/ Dave Ward
In the middle of a grave cost of living crisis, bosses at Royal Mail, BT and across corporate Britain are imposing pay rises for workers way below in…
3 years, 7 months ago
Downstream: The World’s Biggest Political Streamer w/ Hasan Piker
Since Bernie Sanders’ failed attempt to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, there has been a reinvigoration of the left in the USA. T…
3 years, 8 months ago
Downstream: An Era-Defining Political Comeback w/ Lutfur Rahman
In the 2022 Tower Hamlets local elections, something unprecedented happened. The borough elected a mayor previously banned from taking part in politi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Downstream: Drugs Have Shaped the Last 500 Years w/ Michael Pollan
Over the last few centuries, the global spread of a vast array of different drugs has reshaped how we work, experience pleasure, fight wars, and expl…
3 years, 9 months ago
Downstream: Working Class is Not an Identity w/ China Miéville
Each generation must encounter the Communist Manifesto anew, deciphering Marx and Engels’ text for their own era. So what gives this short book its e…
3 years, 10 months ago
Downstream: Animal Agriculture is the New Oil w/ George Monbiot
Since the 1990s, decarbonisation has been the primary goal for many environmentalists. But there is another threat to life on Earth, one that could b…
3 years, 10 months ago