Podcast Episodes

The plot against Harold Wilson - 1967

In the late 1960s the British secret state, bankers, right wing newspaper and TV proprietors and other elite figures sought to remove Prime Minister …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Carter, Reagan, Bush and China

From the late 1970s onwards China and the USSR were on two very different historical paths and three US presidents, Carter, Reagan and Bush sought to…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Maoism and Anti Imperialism

Mao's ideas presented a clear challenge to western imperialism throughout the 20th Century and became a rallying cry to national liberation movements…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Britain's Broken Media

In the past two decades successive scandals have revealed that Britain has some of the worst media institutions in the developed world. The ability o…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Gaza Update

Britain, France, Canada and other western governments have today issued a statement decrying the blockade of Gaza after nearly two years of offering …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

China after Deng (Part One)

Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are often overlooked but pivotal figures in recent Chinese history whose role in steering China through its extraordinary e…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Discussing Mark Twain's 'Jim'

The character of Jim in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was written as a condemnation of the Jim Crow regimes that were springing up…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Melting Point: Russian Jews and the journey to Texas

In the decade before the First World War over ten thousand Russian Jews travelled across the Atlantic but instead of alighting in New York, where a l…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

The Contradictions of Thatcherism

Margaret Thatcher sought to revive Britain's fortunes during the 1980s, she was a social conservative and a free market fundamentalist; a contradicto…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump's tariff capitulation

In a hundred years time will China offshore its manufacturing to poorer countries? Not if it has any sense. Today Trump's great retreat from the tari…

11 months, 4 weeks ago