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An audiobook taster of James's new book So You've Been Ideologically Discredited PLUS an invitation for all our listeners, to the book launch at the Stapleton Tavern, Finsbury Park, Monday April 15th/7pm.
The preeminent researcher of the American 'deep state' and its hand in the great domestic crimes - from JFK to 9/11 - returns with the story of the other side of his career, as a Berkley poet and translator, and friend and collaborator of the m
Todd Michael Schultz is a musician and author, and the partner of Bret Easton Ellis, one of the world's most famous novelists and screenwriters. In an emotional and candid discussion, Todd lays out his vision of creativtiy, the dangers of navig
Newsweek editor and Daily Mail foreign correspondent David Gardner is author of 9/11: The Conpiracy Theories and COVID-19: The Conspiracy Theories.Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra ex
Exclusive to subscribers, the SECOND HALF of James's debate with Doug Lain on the contempt with which some on the left have shown towards pro-Palestinian activism. Click through to Sublation Media's YouTube channel for the first part of James'
For Patreon subscribers. Was the October 7th Hamas attack 'blowback' or is there more to the story? Ex-International Relations Prof turned deep state researcher Piers Robinson joins us for a history of 'propoganda of deed' and the deep structur
Ex-Syriza man and SOAS prof Costas Lapavitsas joins us to raise hell about the EU, Bidenomics, the economic effects of COVID lockdowns, new multipolar uprisings, and who screwed up worse: the Greek or the UK left? PLUS his new book with EReNSEP
Joshua DĂĄvila of The Blockchain Socialist Podcast talks to David about Blockchain Radicals: HOW CAPITALISM RUINED CRYPTO AND HOW TO FIX IT (Repeater). We talk about how the left has ceded the future of technology and lessons they can learn from
Counter-Populism is the political project of our moment: measures introduced as Counter-Terrorism have been turned against dissenting members of domestic populations on the left and right. Journalist Matt Taibbi takes us on a barnstormer journe
PART 1! of our monster breakdown of the latest release from Bob Dylan: âThe Complete Budokan, 1978â. Jack Frayne-Reid joins us from the Reel Politik podcast to⌠decline to discuss the afterlife of populism and the ordeal of Corbynism, but inste
Joe Guinan returns! From Cleveland to Preston, Joe is one of the most rigorous theorists and practitioners of 21st century socialism as âcommunity wealth buildingâ, and the pro-Brexit wonk who shaped Corbynismâs best policies. Our Thanksgiving
New kinds of protest and direct action against weapons manufacturers and the Democratic Party, Israel propaganda fails, and the biggest propaganda fail of all⌠TikTok Zoomers getting into Osama bin Laden. All on the docket with investigative jo
Following TPS179âs account of how Gaza is changing the left,Rhyd Wildermuth returns for an analysis of its developing effect on the right: from Candace Owensâs breaking ranks against Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson sharing his browsing hist
Following Claire Fox's appearance on The Popular Show last year, James was invited to 'The Battle of Ideas', the Spiked-connected event for political and cultural debate promising 'free speech allowed'. The event has an aura of notoriety on the
If COVID-19 carried forms of propogandisation and securitisation developed for foreign policy into the domestic sphere, the Ukraine war showed us what they look like when brought back to war. To continue joining the dots into a new crisis, Univ
Egyptian activist and writer Nihal El Aasar joins us to discuss Gaza's neighbour Egypt's place in Israel's plans, the history of Israeli-Egyptian relations, and how Egyptian and other Arab elites are reacting to popular and activist feeling tow
*Sound fixed* The assault on Gaza has the potential to throw the western political spectrum into disarray. On cancel culture, COVID, and Ukraine, the radical left has for too long allowed the right to lead on free speech and even opposition to
Dissecting the Gaza crisis, Zionism, liberal exhaustion and their backstory in the Cold War's reactionary liberal intellectuals, with the great historian Sam Moyn. Prof Moyn's new book is Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and th
SOAS's Professor Gould joins us to discuss the Gaza crisis, the recent acceleration of the clampdown on free speech and protest in the West, the materialist approach to antisemitism, and her own brush with cancellation for her criticisms of Isr
Previously exclusive to Patreon subscribers. The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first o
David and James jump on to discuss MAGA's unprecedented defenestration of the House of Representatives, Kamala's role in the power struggle within the Democrats, the Tory Party's extremely online conference AND the latest hit job on Roger Water
For Patreon subscribers. How come the mass protest movements of the 2010s almost always got the reverse of what they demanded? The Jakarta Method author Vincent Bevins is back with a new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing
With the UK left cut out of the Labour Party more than any time in its history, a coalition of left organisations is calling for a new Party of the left to contest the 2024 General Election. Jackson Caines of 'Transform Politics' joins TPS to a
The revival of a mass, discontented and angry feminism with the Women's March and #MeToo seemed to betoken a break from ameliorating liberalism. Seven years on, we must conclude that it has... although not in the way that 'socialist feminists'
A Compliance-Industrial Complex now swamps every crisis with new layers of governance products, surveillance, regulation, 'experts', and opportunities for financialization... all in the moralised name of fighting problems 'no one can be for'. N
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