Police have arrested hundreds of Palestine protestors at a UCLA encampment. Plus: a south London immigration raid has been blocked by the community; and Labour have diluted yet another policy off...
In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pig...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/05/novara-fm-your-neighbour-kills-puppies-w-tom-harris/
Protests against the war in Gaza at US College campuses have been met with a crackdown by law enforcement and violence from a pro-Israel mob. Plus: Jamie Driscoll joins the show live ahead of the...
After Humza Yousaf’s resignation, who will be the next leader of the SNP? We speak to co-editor of Conter David Jamieson. Plus: George Galloway announces a slate of candidates for his workers p...
Ash and Moya answer a Mystery Question about what they’ll do on the left-wing commune of their dreams, before helping a listener deal with class envy in their dating life. Plus: The Tortured Po...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/11-help-my-partners-too-posh/
Humza Yousaf has resigned as first minister of Scotland after threats of a no-confidence vote against his position. Plus: the home office have launched a shock operation to detain asylum seekers ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/humza-yousaf-resigns-as-scottish-first-minister/
Teresa Thornhill is an author and former child protection lawyer. Throughout her long career, working for both local authorities and advocating on behalf of parents, she has been a first hand wit...
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has has accused China of funding wars, despite their ongoing financial support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Plus: ahead of London mayoral candidate – we spea...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/israels-biggest-backer-accuses-china-of-funding-wars/
Power-sharing in the Scottish Parliament has collapsed after First Minister Humaza Yousaf ditched the SNP’s coalition agreement with the Scottish Greens. We speak to author and political commen...
The exhortation to “read some effing Orwell!” is an old chestnut of the online left, whether ironic or sincere, or somewhere in between. But if we’re looking for a writer whose body of work...
Following the discovery of new mass graves in Gaza since the start of April, The UN Human Rights Commissioner has now called for a full investigation. Plus: Channel 4’s tell-all interview with ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/the-u-n-e-u-demand-inquiry-into-gaza-mass-graves/
In the wake of the Rwanda bill passing its final parliamentary hurdle, five people have tragically died whilst crossing the channel. Plus: Pro-Palestinian protests spread to multiple universities...
Ash and Moya ask if honesty is the best policy when it comes to our friend’s partners, before tackling two dilemmas about unwanted friendship and non-monogamous marriage. Plus: an important new...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/10-do-i-have-to-be-nice-to-my-friends-partner/
Rishi Sunak is trying to rescue his premiership by reviving his favourite dead end policy – stopping small boats. Plus: the truth is revealed about Gideon Falter’s clash with police at a pro-...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/sunaks-last-ditch-bid-to-save-his-premiership/
It’s not what you know; it’s what you can prove. For years, Forensic Architecture has exposed state crimes against civilians, nature, and humanity. This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar meets i...
A lot of people are saying that fascism is on the rise. But what are we pointing to when we call a system, or a person, fascist? On this Trip, Nadia, Keir and Jem map out a complicated ideology, ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/acfm-trip-42-fascism/
Israel has launched another aerial attack on Iran. There is no indication that Iran will retaliate, potentially signalling a significant de-escalation. Plus: We speak to Alpa Shah about the India...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/israel-launches-strike-on-iran/
The US and UK have issued new sanctions packages on Iran targeting individuals and suppliers of weapons parts. Plus: The Scottish government has dropped a 2030 emissions target for 2030; and the ...
London is a foodie metropolis: undoubtedly one of the best places to eat in the world. But eating in London is also, like everything else in the city, shaped by its history as the capital of a gl...
Netanyahu has said Israel will make it’s “own decision” after restraint was urged by British foreign secretary David Cameron. Plus: Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant has been hit by squatters; a...
Israel has given its clearest indication of intent to respond to Iran, with senior spokesperson Daniel Hagari saying that Iran will not get off ‘scot-free’. Plus: a national conservatism conf...
Ash and Moya tackle the politics of sex appeal in response to the show’s first ever Mystery Question, and respond to a listener struggling with guilt after cheating. Plus: things not say in bed...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/if-i-speak-09-should-you-ever-shag-a-tory/
The Israeli war cabinet are considering how to respond after Iran conducted a retaliatory attack on Israel with hundreds of drone missiles. We speak to Beirut-based journalist Séamus Malekafzali...
Keir Starmer has pledged to raise defence spending to 2.5% alongside a commitment to building new nuclear submarines. Plus: How China is set to dominate the electric vehicle; and U.S. intelligenc...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/starmer-pledges-extra-ten-billion-for-defence/
US President Joe Biden has warned of a “significant attack” by Iran on Israel as tensions mount between the two nations. Plus: Sunak’s pledges are again under review after new data on NHS w...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/iran-threatening-significant-attack-on-israel-says-biden/
Centuries of colonial capitalism have reordered life on the planet and inside our bodies, from industrial farming and the uneven advances of modern medicine, to night shifts, chronic stress and i...
A damning review into NHS services for trans children has been published and its findings have proven controversial. We speak to Natacha Kennedy from the Feminist Gender Equality Network and Dr A...
Foreign secretary David Cameron has said that Britain will continue to sell arms to Israel. Plus: Germany are facing allegations of enabling genocide in Gaza at the international court of justice...
Moya and Ash think about how to stay hopeful when the future looks bleak, and give advice to listener whose marriage is suffering from major communication issues. Plus: Cowboy Carter. Got a probl...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/if-i-speak-08-how-to-cultivate-optimism/
Israel has withdrawn nearly all its troops from Southern Gaza, leaving just one battalion remaining in the region. We speak to British-Israeli analyst and former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy. W...
Abby Martin is an American journalist and activist, host of the interview series The Empire Files, and a co-founder of the citizen journalism website Media Roots. She joins Ash Sarkar to discuss ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/downstream-israelis-want-genocide-w-abby-martin/
Israel have released the findings of their investigation into the killing of aid workers by drone strike. Meanwhile, US president Joe Biden has issued an ultimatum to Benjamin Netanyahu on Gaza. ...
Rishi Sunak is facing increasing calls to ban weapons sales to Israel after three British aid workers were killed by an IDF drone strike. Plus: we speak to artificial intelligence expert Professo...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/pressure-mounting-on-sunak-to-ban-israeli-arm-sales/
Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? In a divisive new book, barrister Nick Bano places the blame squarely on price-gouging landlords, rejecting the conventional wisdom that calls for more n...
The three British citizens killed in an Israeli airstrike on a humanitarian convoy in Gaza have been named, as pressure mounts on the government to end arms sales to Israel. Plus: We speak to sur...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/three-britons-killed-by-israel-named/
Seven international aid workers, including three British citizens, have been killed in an Israeli air strike. Plus: We examine the reaction to the Iranian consulate bombing in Iran; and Labour ca...
Ash and Moya talk to Matt Kendall from The Love Cupboard podcast about how straight men perceive the women in their lives. Plus, a dilemma from a listener who’s been evicted by her friends’ p...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/07-what-do-straight-men-know-about-dating/
After a two-week long assault and occupation, Israeli forces have pulled out of Gaza’s largest medical centre. Meanwhile, Tory MP Alicia Kearns has alleged the government have received legal ad...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/04/shocking-aftermath-of-israeli-assault-on-al-shifa-hospital/
For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world’s most cited academics, Judith Butler. Their new book, ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender’ ...
British Eurovision entrant Olly Alexander has rejected calls to boycott the contest over Israel’s participation. Plus: how artificial intelligence continues to be a topic on the future of work;...
The United Nations head of human rights has said that Israel’s siege of Gaza amounts to a war crime. Plus: One of Britain’s biggest water companies is facing potential nationalisation; and we...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken out for the first time about the UN security council voting for a ceasefire in Gaza. Plus: Eylon Levy has officially been terminated as an Israeli spokesp...
Hamas have said that Israel is losing global support following the UN security council’s vote for a ceasefire in Gaza. Plus: Julian Assange wins more time to prevent his extradition to the Unit...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/israel-losing-global-support-says-hamas-donald-trump/
Ash presents her big theory about chosen families and what to do when your best friend is having a baby. Moya shares two listener dilemmas: can you live in a different city to your partner? And d...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/06-do-you-owe-your-parents-anything/
The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Following the U.S. abstention from the vote, Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled an Israeli dele...
With hindsight, the wars waged by the US and Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq look like terrible failures, both strategically and politically: the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and liv...
Russia and China have vetoed a US-written ceasefire resolution at the United Nations. Plus: the Princess of Wales is receiving cancer treatment; and politicians weigh in on the new England footba...
The US has submitted draft resolution to United Nations, but it stops short of demanding a Gaza ceasefire. Plus: Child poverty in the UK has hit a record high; and Labour race adviser Doreen Lawr...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/us-submit-draft-resolution-to-united-nations-over-gaza/
We’re living in a world of hurry and shortcuts, of intimacy on tap and just-in-time production. Immediacy, according to Anna Kornbluh, is the link between flow-states and Fleabag, between food ...
Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested a US-built aid port on the Gaza coast could be used to deport Palestinians from the region. Plus: Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has resigned...
Tory infighting is continuing to tear the party apart with rumours swirling of a plot to oust Rishi Sunak. Plus: Labour’s Rachel Reeves cites the Thatcher government as inspiration for the next...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/plot-to-oust-sunak-amid-increased-tory-infighting/
Moya is joined by a special guest, author and journalist Shon Faye, to work out the lure of political fantasies and advise a listener who’s feeling guilty about inheriting money. Plus: trust is...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/05-are-we-trapped-in-a-fantasy/
The EU’s Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell has accused Israel of using famine as a weapon of war. Plus: Vladimir Putin has been re-elected in as Russian president; and Welsh Labour have a new...
Peter Hitchens is an author and journalist whose contrarian takes on drug policy, education and foreign policy have found him occupying a singular place in the British media – with his brand of...
From fecal transplants to the yoghurt-industrial complex, we’ve never been more absorbed in the workings of our gut. But can we trust it? Nadia, Jem and Keir investigate the mysterious connecti...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/acfm-trip-41-trust-your-gut/
Rishi Sunak has ruled out a general election on 2 May. But will he wait for the autumn or call one earlier? Plus: US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has called for Netanyahu to go; and BBC Q...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/when-will-sunak-call-the-general-election/
Communities secretary Michael Gove has announced the government’s new definition of extremism and named three Muslim groups. Plus: the latest Israeli plan for Rafah would see civilians herded i...
Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle is under fire for not allowing Diane Abbott to speak at PMQs amid a growing racism row over a Tory donor. Plus: an Israeli minister celebrates the shooting of a 13-y...
Researching Black British history “often feels like a rescue effort, a race against time,” writes Jason Okundaye. In his first book, he narrates the mingled histories of seven astonishing liv...
One of Conservative party’s biggest donors has been alleged to have made a racist rant about Diane Abbott. Plus: Following unrest in the country – the prime minister of Haiti has resigned; an...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/tory-party-donor-in-alleged-racist-rant-about-dianne-abbott/
Ash and Moya tackle a Big Theory about how we punish criminals and respond to a listener who doesn’t know how to end a situationship. Plus: what the hell are ‘energy vectors’? Got a problem...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/04-can-you-teach-an-adult-to-have-empathy/
Michael Gove’s updated extremism plan has come under fire from three former Tory home secretaries. Plus: Lee Anderson has defected to the right-wing Reform UK; and we speak to the director of a...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/lee-anderson-defects-to-reform-uk-goves-extremism-plan/
Major General Charlie Herbert has stood out in recent months for his vociferous condemnation of Israel’s war on Palestinians. His media appearances have proven vital in synthesising a moral and...
Joe Biden has used his State of The Union address to announce the construction of a port on the Gaza coast to deliver more aid to Palestinians. Plus: Newspapers and government advisors are statin...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/bidens-state-of-the-union-address/
The director of the IFS has accused both Labour and the Tories of a “conspiracy of silence” over their economic plans for Britain. Plus: the government’s extremism programme has been broade...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/labour-tories-accused-of-conspiracy-of-silence/
Less than 20% of the promised levelling-up projects for England have been completed. The problem lies not only with the current government, but with the whole way the UK’s political system is s...
Jeremy Hunt’s budget has offered Briton’s a small drop in national insurance and not much else. Plus: Labour have again swallowed Tory austerity rhetoric in their budget response; and Tory fi...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/jeremy-hunts-budget-cant-hide-tory-failure/
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced the centre piece for his 2024 budget – a cut to national insurance contributions. We speak to senior researcher at Common Wealth Eleanor Shearer. Plus: ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/jeremy-hunt-plans-national-insurance-cut-in-2024-budget/
Is there such a thing as a sexual marketplace? Moya and Ash debate the dating trap for straight women and respond to a listener who’s too tired from work to change their life. Plus, a quick rou...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/if-i-speak-03-the-dating-trap/
Vice President Kamala Harris has called for a ceasefire in Gaza, the first high-ranking US official to do so. Plus: BBC verify weigh in on the so-called ‘flour massacre’ that killed over a hu...
Gary Stevenson went from being Citibank’s most profitable trader to one of the world’s most incisive critics of the financial system. Gary sat down with Aaron to discuss the lightbulb moment ...
George Galloway has achieved a stomping victory in the Rochdale byelection with 40% of the vote. Plus: we speak to Mehdi Hasan about his new media platform Zeteo. With Michael Walker and Aaron Ba...
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the question of what Russia is really thinking remains as crucial, and mysterious, as ever. To paint a picture of the current political climate, Richa...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/03/novara-fm-russia-after-navalny-w-tony-wood/
Over a hundred are dead after Israeli tanks reportedly opened fire on Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza city. Plus: a damning inquiry around murderer Wayne Couzens has reported how police...
Tory landlord backbenchers are reportedly looking to water down the renters reform bill. We speak to Rebecca Winson – a senior organiser with the New Economics foundation who has spent years ca...
Lee Anderson has refused to apologise for his Islamophobic rant about London mayor Sadiq Khan – and Tory ministers are struggling to call him out for it sufficiently. Plus: US state department ...
Ash and Moya respond to a listener embarking on an LDR across the Irish border, and tackle Ash’s Intrusive Thought about her cat Moussa. Plus, Moya has the best way to lance an infatuation boil...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/02-is-my-long-distance-relationship-doomed/
Rishi Sunak has denied the Tories have a problem with Islamophobia after the suspension of Conservative MP Lee Anderson over comments about London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Plus: A U.S Airman in Washingt...
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and author who served as Greek Finance Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash. Since then, he has become one of the most sought after public...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/downstream-irl-we-are-in-a-new-cold-war-w-yanis-varoufakis/
Last time on ACFM, the gang explored the impact of UFOs on politics, from deep-state conspiracies to the Posadists. But to really understand how aliens influence our thought – and what our bel...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/acfm-microdose-aliens-on-screen/
Former home secretary Suella Braverman has joined the moral panic on Palestinian protests by warning that Islamists are bullying Britain into submission. Plus: Liz Truss appears alongside Steve B...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/braverman-leads-calls-for-clampdown-on-palestine-protests/
Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle Commons has issued an apology for his decision to put forward a Labour amendment over an SNP motion. Plus: the latest updates from Gaza; and Labour’s defense over ...
The 2000s in Britain was a decade of education, regeneration, falling inequality and Dizzee Rascal. But beneath the fleeting prosperity lurked a culture of cruelty. It was palpable in politicians...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/novara-fm-the-nasty-noughties-w-owen-hatherley-ash-sarkar/
Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle is facing questions on his position after being accused of blackmail over an opposition day motion. Plus: a trident missile test firing goes wrong; and Norman Finkle...
The U.S has proposed a resolution to the United Nations Security Council opposing Israel’s planned ground invasion into Rafah. Plus: Labour are scrambling to avoid a huge rebellion over a vote ...
Bernie Sanders needs no introduction. Ash caught up with the senator to talk about his new book ‘It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism’, the speed of political change and whether what is hap...
Ash and Moya respond to a listener who’s struggling to support her mum financially and wonder why people are being weirdly hyper-sexual online. Plus: the most common misconception about Moya, a...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/01-should-i-give-my-mum-an-allowance/
Israel is back in the dock at the ICJ as the world court decides if their occupation of Palestine is illegal. We speak to Human Right’s Watch senior legal advisor Clive Baldwin. Plus: Labour’...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/israel-called-out-at-the-hague-over-occupation-of-palestine/
On If I Speak, Ash Sarkar and Moya Lothian-McLean tackle the world’s social dilemmas (and some of yours). Every other Tuesday we lay bare the weird stuff we can’t stop obsessing over, debate ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/introducing-if-i-speak/
Yousef Alhelou has spent the four or so months since October 7th covering the Israeli assault on Gaza through his Instagram account. In that time, his audience has grown by hundreds of thousands....
Leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has died in a penal colony in Siberia. Plus: Egypt is preparing a refugee camp close to the Gaza border in advance of Israel’s ground offensive ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/putin-critic-alexei-navalny-dies-in-russian-prison/
Israeli special forces have stormed one of the last functioning hospitals in Southern Gaza. Plus: The UK has officially entered a recession; and the Metropolitan Police’s controversial gang mat...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/catastrophe-as-israel-storm-nasser-hospital-in-khan-younis/
As Israel extends its bombardment of Gaza into Rafah – a supposed safe zone where 1.7 million Palestinians are seeking refuge – the limits of the “laws” of war seem horribly apparent. Fo...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/novara-fm-can-international-law-protect-gaza-w-rob-knox/
The Biden administration is reportedly not planning to punish Israel if it launches a military campaign in Rafah without ensuring civilian safety. Plus: Food couriers are go on strike across Brit...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/us-gives-green-light-to-israels-atrocities-in-rafah/
Labour have withdrawn support from two candidates following accusations of antisemitism. Starmer’s handling of the row has been described as “shambolic”. Plus: Rishi Sunak impresses no-one ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/labour-in-turmoil-over-antisemitism-again/
Israel has conducted it’s most severe night of bombing yet in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. With Michael Walker and @NoJusticeMTG .
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/israelis-hit-rafah-with-most-intense-bombing-yet/
Rafah is the last area of the Gaza strip to have been subjected to a ground invasion – but Benjamin Netanyahu has now ordered its evacuation. Plus: Piers Morgan is leaving TalkTV; and Labour is...
Labour have officially dropped their 28 billion pound green investment pledge, prompting criticism from both wings of the party. Plus: Sunak is still refusing to apologise for his transphobic jok...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/keir-starmer-officially-dumps-big-green-policy-commitment/
Certain historians and politicians like to claim that the British Empire was “on balance” a good thing. Slavery was evil, they admit, but abolition was good. Racism was wrong, but free market...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/novara-fm-how-to-be-honest-about-empire-w-sathnam-sanghera/
Hamas has responded to Israel’s proposals for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, and the group setting out their own red lines. Plus: Rishi Sunak makes a vile joke about Trans people while the moth...
Prominent right-wing Tory MP’s have met in London to launch a new group – Popular Conservatism. Plus: experts have warned that the Pension age needs to be increased to 71; and McDonalds have ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/tories-launch-yet-another-right-wing-splinter-group/
We speak to former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness who believes the UK and US should be subject to an independent investigation over their withdrawing of funds to the aid agency. Plus: elections...
Should there be a cap on how much wealth one person can have? If we’re serious about tackling poverty, the answer can only be yes, says Ingrid Robeyns, author of Limitarianism: The Case Against...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/02/downstream-were-living-on-stolen-money-w-ingrid-robeyns/
Should the left care about the existence of aliens? The ACFM gang explore the impact of UFOs on political thought in this Trip. Keir, Jem and Nadia discuss the connections between UFO conspiracie...
Support for right-wing party Reform UK has hit a new high in the Red Wall with 14% of the vote, posing a further threat to the Conservative party’s chances at the next general election. Plus: t...
Ceasefire negotiations are currently taking place in Cairo that could see a new deal agreed between Hamas and Israel. We speak to Daniel Levy – a former Israeli peace negotiator who is now pres...
Hamas are reportedly considering a new ceasefire proposal. but Israeli prime minister has vowed only ‘total victory’ will end the war in Gaza. Plus: Migration is back in the headlines after n...
Foreign secretary David Cameron has said the UK is considering recognising a Palestinian state. Plus: Israel’s assassination of three Palestinian men inside a hospital in the city of Jenin; and...
Western nations have pulled funding from the UN Refugee agency in Gaza after Israeli accusations that 12 of the 13,000 workforce have links to Hamas. Plus: Labour have suspended another left-wing...
Twenty years ago, it was taken for granted that on average, people globally were shrugging off the shackles of organised religion. The world was destined for secularism. But with demographics tre...
The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim ruling on the genocide case brought against Israel by South Africa. We speak to Human Rights Watch’s Israel Palestine director Omar ...
Britain’s biggest steel employer has announced plans to cut nearly three thousand jobs at its main steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales. Plus: Labour leader Keir Starmer refuses to say a war crime ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/sunak-greenlights-the-end-of-british-steel/
This episode was first released in November 2021. In the bestselling book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, archaeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber ...
Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire – his second electoral victory of the race to become the party’s presidential nominee. Plus: shocking and tragic foot...
Britain and the U.S have jointly bombed multiple sites in Yemen’s Capital. We examine Rishi Sunak’s bizarre justification for the attack. Plus: Israel has suffered its highest number of milit...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/britain-bombs-yemen-again/
25,000 Palestinians have now been killed during Israel’s war on Gaza. Plus: families of Israeli hostages have stormed Israeli parliament; and the shadow foreign secretary David Lammy is confron...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/gaza-death-toll-hits-25000-israeli-parents-storm-knesset/
We are in a drastically different world from the one most of us grew up in. This has been proven by the rapid escalation in the events in the Middle East over the last six weeks. No longer are we...
Music has the uncanny power to stir up big feelings, which makes it an obvious vehicle for political statements of hope, anger, despair, or how to cast your vote. In this Microdose episode to acc...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/acfm-microdose-plugged-in-protest-w-jeremy-gilbert/
After Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Israel should rule “from the river to the sea”, will western leaders finally wake-up to his intentions? Plus: barrister Hashi Moh...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/netanyahu-says-israel-must-rule-from-the-river-to-the-sea/
What role does literature play in revolution? If the question seems bizarre to you and the answer obvious, you’re not alone. Yet some of the most important revolutionaries in history have turne...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/novara-fm-the-novels-that-inspired-class-war-w-mark-steven/
Rishi Sunak has urged the House of Commons to pass his Rwanda Bill, warning them not to “frustrate the will of the people”. Plus: Israeli President Isaac Herzog has said an “empire of evil�...
As Israel’s brutal bombardment of Gaza continues, we speak to British-Palestinian journalist Yousaf Alhelou. Plus: Tories are continuing to tear their party into pieces over their Rwanda legisl...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/un-warns-of-famine-in-gaza/
The first electoral contest of the US Republican primary has taken place in Iowa with Donald Trump coming out on top. Plus: Tory MPs fight over the government’s Rwanda Bill. With Aaron Bastani ...
With tensions escalating in the Red Sea, defence secretary Grant Shapps has defended Britain’s role in fighting the Houthis. Plus: a look at elections that have just taken place in Taiwan and w...
Discussion of climate change mainly focuses on mitigating rising temperatures, de-carbonising and getting to ‘net zero’. Author and broadcaster Gaia Vince argues that we also need to focus on...
British and US forces have bombed Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping. Plus: Israel have given their defence against accusations of genocide at the international court of j...
The International Court of Justice has heard the first day of South Africa’s legal case against Israel. Plus: we speak to consultant surgeon Nick Maynard who has just returned from Gaza; and mo...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/south-africas-case-against-israels-genocide-begins/
January is historically the busiest month of the year for holiday bookings. But if you’ve ever felt uncomfortable with the idea of being a tourist, you’re not the first. Back in 1976, anthrop...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/novara-fm-escaping-the-tourism-trap-w-dean-maccannell/
As MPs vote through the anti-BDS bill, we speak to the founder of BDS Omar Barghouti. Plus: a deep dive into what has led South Africa to take Israel to the international court of justice; and wh...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/mps-vote-to-protect-israel-we-speak-to-bds-founder/
While Israel’s war on Gaza continues, US secretary of state Anthony Blinken has traveled to the region to meet prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Plus: the absurd situation with student loans a...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/blinken-meets-with-netanyahu-cameron-questioned-by-mps/
As Israel faces the International Court of Justice later this week, more evidence is emerging of genocide being committed in Gaza. Plus: the scandal that has been described as the largest miscarr...
Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has outlined a plan to control security matters in Gaza after a defeat of Hamas. Plus: the chairman of NatWest says it’s not to difficult to get on the hou...
Rishi Sunak has confirmed the next general election will take place in the second half of the year. Plus: Keir Starmer gives his first speech of 2024; and the latest on how Israel’s war on Gaza...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/sunak-says-no-election-for-six-months-starmers-2024-speech/
Israel have assassinated a Hamas leader in Beirut, risking the spread of the conflict in Gaza spreading to the wider region. Plus: South Africa have brought a case to the international court of j...
From his radical youth in 1970s Italy to his research as one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli is as comfortable talking politics as he is explaining quantum theory. ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2024/01/downstream-white-holes-and-radical-politics-w-carlo-rovelli/
Is football the place for political struggle? Is there a limit to the success of fan-owned clubs? How disappointed can we be when pundits and players turn out not to be comrades? Cultural critic ...
For this end-of-year edition of Downstream, the Novara Media team look back on the biggest stories of the year. Ash Sarkar is joined by Moya Lothian-McLean, Michael Walker and Owen Jones to talk ...
The ACFM gang get together for the last time this year to deliver a Festive 50. Keir, Jem and Nadia select the best bits of culture and politics from 2023, from music, films, books to games, str...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/acfm-microdose-a-festive-50-for-2023/
With Israeli’s war in Gaza continuing, we speak to 18-year-old Tal Mitnick who is refusing to serve in the IDF. Plus: The two teenagers responsible for the murder of Brianna Ghey have been conv...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/interview-with-israeli-refusing-to-serve-in-idf/
Released in 1946, Frank Capra’s fable of Christmas despair in small town America has become – rather improbably – a staple of festive television. Starring Jimmy Stewart as virtuous everym...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/novara-fm-its-a-wonderful-life-w-james-butler/
A new humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is being negotiated with Israel offering a one-week pause in their attack on Gaza in exchange for the release of more hostages. Plus: Donald Trump has been ba...
The U.S. have launched a taskforce to defend shipping from Houthi militias protesting the Gaza War. Plus: the UK government have released new guidance that affects how transgender children will b...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/houthi-attacks-on-shipping-risk-spread-of-gaza-war/
Former defence secretary has criticised Israel’s actions in the war on Gaza, saying that Netanyahu’s strategy is being driven by a “killing rage”. Plus: the PPE scandal around Michelle Mo...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/tory-ben-wallace-says-israels-killing-rage-has-gone-too-far/
Asset management companies like Blackrock, Vanguard and Macquarie have avoided real scrutiny for decades, but their secretive activities are starting to attract attention from political researche...
Millions have protested against the bombing of Gaza by taking part in marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other demonstrations. But what difference does it make, either to the world or to ourselves? T...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/acfm-trip-39-protest/
Piers Morgan has denied that he knew of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror whilst he was editor after a judge ruled that he did. Plus: the Palestinian ambassador responds after the Israeli ambassa...
Science fiction isn’t a mode usually associated with Palestinian literature, perhaps because dreams of the future seem like a luxury when you can barely hold onto your past, or even present. In...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/novara-fm-palestine-2048-w-basma-ghalayini/
Foreign secretary David Cameron has announced “extremist settlers” from Israel will be banned from entering Britain. Plus: the Tory government has yet again spat in the face of disabled peopl...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/david-cameron-bans-extremist-israeli-settlers-from-uk/
Joe Biden has warned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is losing global support and he should change his government. Plus: Outrage after Israeli solider upload disgusting videos t...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/biden-tells-netanyahu-youre-losing-support/
Conservative MPs are divided over the government’s Rwanda bill, with right-wing factions likely to cause a headache for Rishi Sunak over the issue. Plus: At least two dozen have been killed by ...
Labour MP Zarah Sultana has launched a private members bill to ban weapons exports to countries breaking international law such as Israel. Plus: European geopolitics plays out at the inauguration...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/zarah-sultana-launches-israeli-arms-ban-bill/
Daniel Levy has had a front row seat at some of the most consequential peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine in the last two decades, as president of the U.S./Middle East Peace Project ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/downstream-this-damage-cannot-be-reversed-w-daniel-levy/
Footage of the IDF detaining Palestinian men has gone viral online. We speak to Omar Baddar about the latest developments in Gaza. Plus: Israel have killed a renowned Palestinian poet and academi...
Rishi Sunak’s premiership is in question amid infighting in his party of his new Rwanda migration bill. Plus: Boris Johnson faces a second day of grilling at the Covid inquiry. With Moya Lothia...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/sunaks-premiership-in-question-amid-tory-war-over-migration/
On Novara Live this week, Michael Walker spoke to renowned political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein about Israel’s assault on Gaza and the collapse of the ceasefire. In this extended...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/novara-live-extra-israels-illegal-war-w-norman-finkelstein/
Former prime minister Boris Johnson has appeared before the Covid inquiry to give evidence on his government’s handling of the pandemic. Plus: the latest on Israel’s war on Gaza; and a look a...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/boris-johnson-appears-before-the-covid-inquiry/
Israel has expanded its bombing campaign against Gaza by moving further south into the territory. Plus: the Conservative government announces new migration policies; and a record amount of fossil...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/qatari-emir-accuses-israel-of-genocide-2/
Blindboy Boatclub is the Irish broadcaster, author and musician behind The Blindboy Podcast, a massively popular podcast mixing short fiction, comedy and interviews. His new short story collectio...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/downstream-we-dont-understand-history-w-blindboy/
We speak to political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein about the bombardment of Gaza, US complicity in Israel’s war and the nature of Hamas. Plus, the Israeli ambassador to the UK has ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/deadly-weekend-in-gaza-norman-finkelstein-interview/
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza has resumed after a seven day ceasefire. We speak to UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese about the latest developments...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/bombardments-restart-in-gaza-interview-with-un-rapporteur/
In recent years we’ve spent a lot of time arguing about fascism – what it means, what it looks like, and how we would know if it had returned. That typically brings us back to the European f...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/12/novara-fm-fascism-is-not-the-exception-w-alberto-toscano/
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100. We discuss his legacy, and the reactions of those attempting to whitewash it. Plus: Casualties after a Hamas attack in Jer...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/henry-kissinger-dead-at-100-years-old/
Clashes have broken out in Jenin as Israeli forces launch a significant incursion into the West Bank city. Plus: Leaked documents reveal UAE plans to push for new oil and gas deals at COP28; and ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/israel-launches-major-incursion-into-west-bank/
The pause in Gaza is extended by two days, more Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees are released. Plus: Elon Musk visits Israel and takes on the country of Sweden’s labour laws. With Moy...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/pause-extended-in-gaza-elon-musk-visits-israel/
The Gaza ceasefire has been extended for two days amid growing international pressure, while hundreds of Palestinian detainees and Israeli hostages have been released. Plus: A CNN correspondent�...
To really understand what’s going in Israel, you need to get your history straight. Rashid Khalidi is one of the foremost historians of the Middle East and the author of several books on the re...
Violent far-right protests have erupted in Dublin following a stabbing in the city centre. Plus: the hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel begins; and Norman Finkelstein runs rings around Pie...
The director of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza has been arrested by an Israeli security agency. Plus: the Dutch far right have claimed a surprising election victory; and Gary Lineker is once again...
Business is booming for architects and property investors right now, with masterplans being unveiled for dozens of new cities around the world. The hi-tech promise of NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s propo...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/novara-fm-new-cities-old-scams-w-quinn-slobodian/
Israel has agreed to pause the bombing of Gaza for four days to allow a hostage exchange to take place. Plus, We speak to Grace Blakely about Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement. With Moya Lothian-M...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/ceasefire-in-gaza-hunts-autumn-statement/
The leader of Hamas says the militant group is ‘close’ to securing a limited ceasefire deal with Israel. Plus: a former Israeli Prime Minister makes a stunning admission on CNN; and a toy oct...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/hamas-say-truce-deal-with-israel-is-close/
More than 5500 children have now been killed in Gaza, Israel’s latest targets include a refugee camp and a United Nations run school. Plus Argentina’s new ‘anarcho-capitalist’ president. ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/un-chief-blasts-israel-for-thousands-of-child-casualties/
Zarah Sultana is one of the youngest MPs in Parliament and has faced intense hostility from the right of the Labour Party since Keir Starmer’s ascent to leader. The MP for Coventry South sat do...
Israel is continuing to bomb refugee camps in Gaza and the West bank. We speak to Trita Parsi about the international community’s response. Plus, Owen Jones goes head to head with Piers Morgan,...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/more-deadly-attacks-on-refugee-camps-by-israel/
After raiding the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city, Israel have released footage alleging they have found a Hamas command centre. Plus: we speak to international criminal lawyer Ahmed Abofoul about...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/israel-release-footage-from-gaza-hospital-after-raid/
Dolly Parton was right, as usual, when she revealed that “it costs a lot of money to look this cheap”. But who decided rhinestones were tacky in the first place? Style is a matter of taste, y...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/novara-fm-why-posh-people-have-bad-taste-w-nathalie-olah/
A commons vote showdown has seen a slew of resignations from the Labour’s frontbench over Keir Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Plus: the government’s Rwanda deportation p...
After being sacked as home secretary, Suella Braverman has hit back at Rishi Sunak in her resignation letter. With Ash Sarkar and Dalia Gebrial.
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/suella-braverman-slams-rishi-sunak-in-resignation-letter/
A cabinet reshuffle by Rishi Sunak has seen Suella Braverman fired after a weekend of pro-Palestine protests she railed against. Plus: former prime minister David Cameron has returned to Westmins...
We’re heading towards a cashless society. With the dominion of Visa and Mastercard showing no sign of shrinking, it’s becoming increasingly necessary to scrutinise what this shift towards vir...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/downstream-the-future-of-money-w-brett-scott/
The WHO have said that Gaza’s largest hospital has been hit by bombardment. Plus: Israel’s information war continues; and unsurprising yet still shocking statements have emerged from Republic...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/gazas-largest-hospital-bombarded-who-says/
For 500 years, societies have been shaped by the authority and permanence of the printed word. What do we have to lose – or gain – when the internet renders print culture obsolete? Jeff Jarv...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/novara-fm-engine-of-immortality-w-jeff-jarvis/
Sunak is under pressure to sack Suella Braverman after criticised the Metropolitan police for allowing this weekend’s pro-palestine march. Plus: we speak to march organiser and Stop The War Coa...
Kings Charles has given his first King’s Speech outlining the legislative agenda for Sunak’s government. 00:00 – Intro 00:54 – King’s First Speech To Parliament 12:50 – Government Fre...
The death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has exceed 10,000 in less than four weeks, according the Gaza health ministry. Plus: Suella Braverman launches a war on rough sleepers using tents; and ...
Slavoj Žižek is perhaps the most famous living Marxist philosopher. This year he will publish three books on topics ranging from the nature of freedom to his deeply pessimistic view of the futu...
Ever feel like there’s too much change these days? Don’t worry, you’re not (necessarily) becoming more conservative. On this Trip, Nadia, Jem and Keir think about the ebb and flow of politi...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/acfm-trip-38-movement-and-stillness/
Dozens have been killed by an Israeli airstrike targeting a convoy of ambulances. Plus: Sunak has come out against proposed pro-Palestine demonstrations planned for remembrance Sunday weekend. Wi...
Israeli forces have repeatedly bombed refugee camps in Gaza, resulting in hundreds of casualties. Plus: Palestinians in the West Bank are facing increasingly armed settlers. We speak to Palestini...
In the second half of the 20th century, revolutionaries across Africa were striving towards a decolonised future that never fully materialised. Folding together Marxism and Black radicalism, the ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/11/novara-fm-in-search-of-red-africa-w-kevin-okoth/
As Israel again hits the Jabalia refugee camp with an airstrike, we speak to the UK director of Human Rights Watch. Plus: leftwing jews who protested against israeli bombing have been smeared as ...
An Israeli airstrike has hit the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, killing dozens. Plus: Keir Starmer has give a speech outlining why he is still refusing to back a ceasefire in Gaza; and Dominic Cum...
Israel has entered what it describes as the second stage of its assault on Gaza. Plus: Labour have suspended Andy McDonald after speech calling for peace in Palestine. With Michael Walker and Aar...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/israeli-ground-forces-advance-on-gaza-city/
The 2010s were a time of mass protest, from the Arab Spring uprisings to Occupy Wall Street, Euromaidan and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Many of these movements shared a ‘horizontalist’ o...
We speak to Ahmed Alnaouq – director of We Are Not Numbers who has lost twenty family members in this latest round of Israel’s war. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Israel has carried out a ground raid as “preparation for the next stages of combat”. But how likely is an imminent full-scale ground invasion? Plus: how the media in Gaza are under threat; an...
Israel are demanding the UN Secretary General resign over comments he has made over the Gaza War. Plus: we speak to Ben Jamal – director of the Palestine solidarity campaign. With Michael Walke...
Just Stop Oil is a group focused on climate change. So what were they doing blocking the path of a coachload of migrants last week? It all has to do with the effects of a warming world and predic...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/novara-fm-emergency-brake-on-the-road-with-just-stop-oil/
Hamas has released two Israeli women who were being held as hostages. Plus: Keir Starmer’s visit to a South Wales Mosque has come under scrutiny; and we feature the perspective of an Israeli ma...
After tens of thousands came out to show solidarity with Palestinians in London, right-wingers have begun a moral panic. Plus: Updates on the latest situation in Gaza and the West Bank; and the I...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/the-right-wing-backlash-to-massive-pro-palestine-protests/
John Gray’s writing on political philosophy is not easily pigeonholed. Over the last half century he has explored ideas that span the whole political spectrum, and pissed off just about everybo...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/downstream-philosophys-biggest-pessimist-w-john-gray/
The UN Secretary General has visited the Rafah Crossing to pressure Israel to allow life-saving supplies in Gaza. Plus: Labour has stormed to victory in two byelections, but for many the win will...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/pressure-mounts-on-israel-to-stop-starving-gaza/
With all eyes on Gaza, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank say settler violence is increasing. Also on the show, Sunak visits Israel and UK government counter-terrorism advisor blames ‘multi...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/protests-clamped-down-in-west-bank/
After 9/11, the writer and essayist Pankaj Mishra found himself losing faith in journalism’s ability to convey the complexity and nuance of the situation. Much of what he knew of the world, he...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/novara-fm-truth-that-only-fiction-reveals-w-pankaj-mishra/
Gaza’s health ministry has said that 471 Palestinians have been killed in an explosion at a hospital after a rocket strike. With Michael Walker and Barnaby Raine.
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/hundreds-killed-in-gaza-hospital-blast/
The U.S. makes a show of force in the Middle East by sending a rapid response force of 2,000 marines and sailors to Israel. Plus, a historic result from the Polish parliamentary elections and t...
The death toll in Gaza has now reached over 2,800 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry. We speak to Rohan Talbot from Medical Aid for Palestine. Plus: Tory MP Crispin Blunt is thre...
From his early career following Nelson Mandela on the campaign trail to his stint as US correspondent for the Guardian, Gary Younge has long been one of the most thoughtful and compassionate voic...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/downstream-the-left-is-traumatised-w-gary-younge/
Israel has ordered one point one million Palestinians to leave northern Gaza. Plus: The latest on the UK government’s position on events in Israel-Palestine; and a former Labour staffer has m...
As the Gaza siege continues, reports are emerging of medics being targeted by Israeli forces. Plus, we speak to Uri Weltmann of Standing Together about what a negotiated resolution to the conflic...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/palestinians-speak-out-from-inside-the-gaza-siege/
Born and raised on an ‘overspill’ estate in Birmingham, the writer Lynsey Hanley has experienced what a politician would call social mobility. In her books on housing estates and the British ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/novara-fm-crossing-the-class-divide-w-lynsey-hanley/
Israel’s siege of the Gaza strip has now entered its third day – and bombs continue to fall on the blockaded territory. Plus: misinformation is swirling around the Israel-Palestine conflict; ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/bombed-and-under-siege-gaza-in-crisis/
Keir Starmer’s speech to Labour party conference has been interrupted by a glitter protest. Plus: the EU rollback on halting payments to Palestine; and Kay Burley is the centre of a bizarre sto...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/keir-starmer-hit-with-glitter-protest-at-conference-speech/
Israel has announced a siege of Gaza, cutting off food, water, gas and electricity to the region following Hamas’s deadliest attack ever carried out on Israeli territory. With Michael Walker an...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/israel-declares-war-on-gaza-after-hamas-incursion/
In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are expanding their control over the planet. His analysis ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/downstream-europe-is-over-w-yanis-varoufakis/
Things get weird on this Trip into Surrealism, a subject of great interest to ACFM and all historians of the weird left. Nadia, Jem and Keir follow a thread of off-kilter expression from Dadaism ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/acfm-trip-27-surrealism/
Labour have stormed to victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection. Plus: Labour are censoring Palestinian solidarity at their party conference; and more nonsense from Sunak on his nor...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/labours-stomping-byelection-win/
Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, while the UN have released a report calling for a half on all fossil fuel exploration after 2030. Plus: the home office have said politic...
Last month it was revealed that 98% of Europeans are breathing toxic air. We’re slowly realising that the modern world is covered in the dust of environmental devastation, from particle air pol...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/novara-fm-trillions-of-tiny-flying-particles-w-jay-owens/
Rishi Sunak’s Tory conference speech has seen him officially announce the scrapping the HS2 leg to Manchester. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Suella Braverman has used her Tory conference speech to ramp up fears about immigration. Plus: Nigel Farage’s changing relationship with the Tory party; and all the wild things that the Tories ...
Rishi Sunak is reportedly due to scrap the Manchester leg of HS2 – and Jeremy Hunt has used his conference speech to toughen benefit sanctions. Plus: Tories are falling over themselves to give ...
When we were in lockdown, conspiracy theorists went on the march. The emergence of anti-vaccine scaremongering coupled with virulent antisemitism was disconcerting for all of us. But it was even ...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/10/downstream-into-the-mirror-world-w-naomi-klein/
Rishi Sunak’s first conference speech as Tory Party leader will reportedly be a big pitch to motorists. Plus: GB News descends into civil war; and Suella Braverman has been caught out telling r...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/rishi-sunaks-bizarre-car-culture-war-gb-news-in-civil-war/
Following the misogynistic rant by Laurence Fox on his GB News show, Dan Wootton has been sacked as a MailOnline columnist. Plus: Labour make yet another U-turn; and police forces have been found...
For the second episode of our series on class, writer and broadcaster Kenan Malik takes us through three centuries of thought to explain the origins of identity politics. It all starts with Haiti...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/novara-fm-the-other-enlightenment-w-kenan-malik/
Dan Wootton has been suspended by GB News following a segment that featured a misogynistic rant by Laurence Fox. Plus: Tens of thousand of Armenian refugees have been displaced following a milita...
Suella Braverman has called illegal migration an “existential threat” in a speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank. Plus, Labour set out plans to blitz independent schools and Avanti West Coas...
Nearly 300 firearms officers have handed in their gun permits following the murder charge brought against the met police officer who killed Chris Kaba. Plus: whole swathes of HS2 look set to be c...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/armed-police-hand-in-weapons-braverman-backs-the-cops/
Nick Dearden has been an economic justice campaigner for over 20 years, and his attention was on the pharmaceutical industry when Covid-19 hit. But as the world began to sing the praises of pharm...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/downstream-big-pharmas-secrets-w-nick-dearden/
Tories have reacted in horror over Keir Starmer pledging to rewrite the UK’s Brexit deal. Plus: Why did the west lose the war in Afghanistan? We speak to Nagieb Khaja and Martin Tamm Andersen �...
The politics of ‘deep adaptation’ is as intriguing as it is controversial. Jem Bendell, a former professor of sustainability leadership, launched the Deep Adaptation movement in 2018 by claim...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/novara-fm-is-it-time-for-post-doom-politics-w-jem-bendell/
Billionaire Media-baron Rupert Murdoch has resigned from Fox and NewsCorp. How will this affect the British media? Plus: the Bank of England decide to hold interest rates; and good news coming ou...
Rishi Sunak has used a speech from Downing Street to announce he is dropping a number of climate change commitments. Plus: an update on the killing of Chris Kaba; and Diane Abbott accuses the Lab...
YouTube have suspended Russell Brand from receiving advertising revenue on the platform following serious allegations of sexual abuse and rape. Plus: A damning report has landed about shocking ev...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/russell-brand-suspended-from-youtube-ad-revenue/
Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse by four women between 2006 and 2013. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Rory Stewart has led a colourful life: diplomat in Indonesia, governor in post-invasion Iraq, founder of an NGO and a Member of Parliament. He’s also run for London Mayor and leader of the Cons...
Rishi Sunak has announced a ban on the American Bully XL dog breed following a spate of attacks and the death of a 52-year-old man. Plus: Michael Gove’s renters reform bill looks to be shelved;...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/sunak-bans-american-bully-xl-dogs-after-man-dies/
We’re going back to basics on Novara FM this autumn with a series about the big one: class. What does it mean to look at the world through the lens of class in the 2020s, an era of precarious w...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/novara-fm-what-does-class-mean-now/
Labour leader Keir Starmer has unveiled his plans to tackle the small boats crisis. Plus: Protests have occurred in Peckham, London, following a viral video showing an altercation between a shop ...
Centrists have denounced Rory Stewart’s comments about Jeremy Corbyn following his interview with Ash Sarkar. Plus: The mirror have begun a name & shame campaign for what they describe as an �...
Shadow Labour leader Angela Rayner has used her speech at the TUC conference in Liverpool to make bold commitments on employment rights. Plus: wages are now rising faster than an inflation; and t...
Former Tory MP Rory Stewart has told Novara Media that Keir Starmer’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn has been “disgusting”. Plus: the Chilean coup 50 years on; and the American bully XL dog bre...
Most people know that the game is rigged. Those who set the rules – win the game. Grace Blakeley has made a career of studying the rules, exposing the exploitative ways in which powerful instit...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/downstream-heres-how-power-really-works-w-grace-blakeley/
Police have confirmed a sighting of Daniel Khalife – the terror suspect who escaped from Wandsworth prison on Wednesday. Plus: The government have received no bids in the latest auction for off...
Rishi Sunak is facing more byelection pain in Tamworth, Staffordshire, after Chris Pincher resigned from parliament this morning. Plus: Rachel Reeves gets challenged during an LBC phone in; and t...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/another-byelection-incoming-means-more-pain-for-sunak/
In the first PMQs since the summer break, Starmer and Sunak traded blows over the crumbling schools crisis. Plus: The Tories are trying to make mentally ill people to work from home; and Kwasi Kw...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/starmer-attacks-cowboy-sunak-over-pathetic-excuses/
Rishi Sunak has u-turned on his Tory leadership pledge on windfarms and relaxed the rules on onshore projects. Plus: Birmingham city council have declared they are effectively bankrupt; and Royal...
https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2023/09/rishi-sunaks-energy-u-turn-birmingham-council-goes-bankrupt/
Keir Starmer has reshuffled his shadow cabinet and many key promotions have been given to Blairite MPs. Plus: Labour make a pledge not to raise the basic rate of income tax; and a bad-faith attem...