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On violence and on violence against women w/ Jacqueline Rose
Jacqueline Rose joins PTO to talk about her new book, On Violence and on Violence against Women. We discussed how psychoanalysis can help us grasp th…
5 years, 1 month ago
How China escaped shock therapy w/ Isabella Weber
At the end of the 1980s, China's leaders came close to implementing the kind of economic shock therapy reforms that a few years later caused a social…
5 years, 1 month ago
New Pandemics, Old Politics w/ Alex De Waal
Alex De Waal joins PTO to talk about his new book, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease. We discussed the history of pand…
5 years, 2 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! Daniel Finn on Northern Ireland and the DUP's dilemma
Earlier this month rioting broke out in loyalist communities in several towns and cities in Northern Ireland - the worst such violence for years. PTO…
5 years, 2 months ago
Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam
Robbie Shilliam joins PTO to talk about his article, 'Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician' which appeared in the New Political Econom…
5 years, 2 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! "Global Britain" and the UK defence review w/ Paul Rogers
Earlier this month the UK government published the latest defence review, titled 'Global Britain in a Competitive Age'. PTO spoke to international se…
5 years, 2 months ago
HyperCurtisisation w/ Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano
Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano join PTO to talk about Adam Curtis's new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head. We chatted abou…
5 years, 3 months ago
The entwinement of police and male violence w/ Melissa Gira Grant & Chardine Taylor Stone
Melissa Gira Grant and Chardine Taylor Stone join PTO to discuss police and male violence and the murder of Sarah Everard. We talked about the import…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? w/ Emma Dowling
Emma Dowling joins PTO to talk about her new book 'The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It'. We chatted about the scale of the care cri…
5 years, 3 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! Shamima Begum and normalising citizenship revocation w/ Nisha Kapoor
On Friday the UK's supreme court ruled against allowing Shamima Begum, the young British woman who in 2015 travelled to Syria to join ISIS, to return…
5 years, 4 months ago