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#18 Jacob Mukherjee on Britain's rent crisis and how to fight it
Jacob Mukherjee joins me to discuss the UK housing crisis, the challenges in organising private renters, the exploitation of recent migrants by landl…
7 years, 10 months ago
#17 Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy
Grace Blakeley joins me to discuss the neoliberal financialisation of the UK and world economies, the coming reckoning with the UK's current account …
7 years, 11 months ago
#16 Phil Burton-Cartledge on the Tories in crisis
Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson, Brexit and the European Union, and the long-term decline…
7 years, 11 months ago
#15 Kate Pickett on the mental health effects of inequality
Kate Pickett joins me to discuss her new book - co-authored with Richard Wilkinson - The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore…
7 years, 11 months ago
#14 Adam Tooze on Nazi ideology and the German war economy
Adam Tooze joins me to discuss his book 'The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy'. We discussed the entwinement of Nazi…
8 years ago
#13 Catarina Príncipe on Portugal - the Eurozone's good example?
Catarina Príncipe joins me to discuss the state of Portuguese social democracy, the myth of Portuguese anti-austerity policy, and the broader crisis …
8 years ago
#12 Jo Littler on meritocracy and the neoliberal era
Jo Littler joins me to discuss the history of meritocratic discourse, how the term meritocracy is deployed in the post-Black Lives Matter and MeToo e…
8 years ago
#11 Ed Rooksby on reform, revolution, and socialist strategy
Ed Rooksby joins me to discuss socialist strategy, Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas' theory of the state and the Corbyn moment in Britain. Ed's recent articl…
8 years ago
#10 Jeremy Gilbert on Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics
This week I’m joined by Professor Jeremy Gilbert to discuss Maurizio Lazzarato's 'Experimental Politics'. We talked about Lazzarato's intellectual ba…
8 years ago
#9 Wendy Liu on Silicon Valley and the democratisation of technology
Wendy Liu joins me to discuss startup culture, the platform economy and the Labour Party's approach to big tech.
8 years ago