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Plus: the Assisted Dying Bill has been introduced to parliament this week; and Ash Sarkar appears on BBC Question Time.
00:00 Intro
00:57 Hamas Leader Death Fallout
25:47 New Assisted Dying Legislation
48:41 Ash Sarkar On Question Time
With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Israel Kills Hamas Leader
14:47 Ministers Panic Over Cuts
38:21 Tory Leadership Contest
With @NoJusticeMTG and Aaron Bastani.
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Meanwhile in southern Lebanon - the IDF are conducting demolitions.
With Michael Walker and David Adler
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Plus: Keir Starmer refuses to rule out National Insurance rises for employers; and Wes Streeting wants to give weight loss jabs to the unemployed.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:36 Sanctions On West Bank Settlers
00:25:17 Starmer Won't Rule Out NI Rise
00:36:30 Unemployed Weight Loss Jabs
00:50:21 Judges Say Anti-Zionist Views Protected
01:02:51+ Russell Brand's Latest Grift
With Aaron Bastani and Dalia Gebrial.
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00:00 Intro
00:27 Israel Bombs Hospitals & Schools
28:37 Downstream IRL
31:33 UK Investment Summit
49:01 SpaceX Rocket Launch
With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
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Dave Goulson is a world-renowned entomologist and ecologist whose books have communicated the majesty of insects and arthropods whilst providing grave warning to us about their demise.
He sat down with Aaron to talk about dung beetles, wolves in Sussex and the critical lack of scientific expertise in government.
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But what if neither of these arguments is right. What if believing that these are the only two options is what is actually stopping us from improving people’s quality of life.
Stephanie Kelton is an author and economist, and subject of the new film ‘Finding The Money’. Her work as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and as an advisor to Bernie Sanders has put her front and center of the debate around government debt, taxation and the potential green industrial revolution.
She sat down for a remote conversation with Ash to discuss debt, Liz Truss and whether you really need to tax the rich.
You can watch the trailer for ‘Finding The Money’ here: youtube.com/watch?v=R47h_ux-nE8
And you can learn more about the film and watch it in it’s entirety here: http://www.findingmoneyfilm.com
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Plus: A Nobel Prize winner calls out the founder of OpenAI; and Thangam Debbonaire takes aim at pro-Palestine protesters.
00:00 Intro
00:32 Israeli Attacks On Beirut and Gaza
29:23 Geoffrey Hinton vs Sam Altman
45:55 Thangam Debbonaire Attacks Palestine Protestors
52:53 Labour’s Unpopularity
With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Brett McGurk profile by Huffington Post:
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/biden-national-security-adviser-brett-mcgurk-israel-palestine_n_656936c0e4b07b937ff4287f
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Plus: Labour's new employment rights bill; and a surprisingly frank interview with Boris Johnson.
00:00 Intro
00:49 Israel Bombs UN Peacekeepers
09:29 New Employment Rights Bill
19:21 IFS Predict Tax Rises
37:21 Labour's Favourability Even Lower
55:47 Boris Johnson Tell-All Interview
With Aaron Bastani and @NoJusticeMTG.
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Plus: Israel has demanded evacuation from Northern Gaza whilst firing on those complying with the IDF's orders.
00:00 Intro
00:46 Tory Leadership Race
13:07 Lebanon, Gaza And Israel
32:33 Florida Floods
48:17 Renters Rights Bill
With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Hezbollah's Deputy Killed
07:32 Tory Leadership
21:05 Water Companies Fined
39:10 Boris Slams Keir's Freebies
49:12 Lord Walney Gone
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With Michael Walker and Kieran Andrieu.
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00:00 Intro
00:31 October 7th Anniversary
39:50 Lebanon Updates
48:59 Sue Grey resigns
To answer these questions and more, Aaron is joined by Olivia Cheung, author of “The Political Thought of Xi Jinping”. They discuss his early difficulties with the CCP, his treatment of the Uyghurs and how China is manoeuvring it’s soft power in Africa.
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Plus: we spoke to Areeba Hamid, co-director of Greenpeace, about carbon capture and storage; and to Richard Sanders, the director of a new documentary on Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
00:00 Intro
00:48 Iran Defends Palestine And Lebanon
16:59 Carbon Capture
31:02 Gaza Documentary
42:35 Emma Barnett Interviews Israeli and Lebanese Ambassadors
With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Plus: Britain has given up its last African colony - the Chagos Islands - but retained its military base.
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Joe Biden / Lebanon
24:56 - Chagos Islands
38:05 - Kuenssberg Bails on Boris
With Michael Walker and Helena aka No Justice MTG. Written by Michael Walker and Harriet Williamson.
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In this investigative episode of Novara FM, series producer Richard Hames is joined by Simon Childs, commissioning editor at Novara Media, to expose the authoritarian turn inside the British state that is driving the crackdown on Palestine solidarity.
From Suella Braverman’s demonisation of “hate marchers” to Michael Gove’s attempts to redefine extremism, from Britain’s collusion with Israeli arms manufacturers to its special treatment for accused war criminals, this is a story about how the supposedly neutral institutions of the state have been used to silence a movement.
Featuring Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Kevin Blowe from police monitoring organisation Netpol, and Tim Crosland from the Defend Our Juries campaign.
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Plus: Starmer reiterates his support for Israel following Iran's retaliatory strikes; and the Tory leadership race descends further into absurdity.
00:00 Intro
00:18 Israel And Lebanon
22:46 Starmer's Israel Speech
30:41 Tory Conference
38:07 US Spokesperson Contradicts Himself In Excruciating Press Conference
With Michael Walker and Eleanor Penny.
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Plus: The far right win Austria's general election for the first time since the Second World War.
00:00 Intro
00:36 Israeli Invasion into Lebanon
30:16 Austria's Far Right
38:50 Collapsing Business Confidence
48:37 Tory Backlash at Jenrick SAS Claim
1:00:00 Tory MP Pager Attacks
With Aaron Bastani and Mike Bankole.
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Plus: the last UK coal-fired power plant has shut down; and Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch has spared controversy with comments about maternity pay.
With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
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In his new book, The Golden Road, William Dalrymple busts that myth. He sat down with Ash to talk about the origins of algebra, Indian gems in Anglo-Saxon Britain and why Genghis Khan was scared of India.
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Plus: A debate with the co-author of a new right-wing economic manifesto; and Keir Starmer's latest exercise in performative cruelty.
00:00 Intro
00:34 Israeli Strikes In Lebanon
19:54 Investment Report
42:30 Starmer Says Long-Term Sick Should Look For Work
01:00:11 Just Stop Oil Activists Jailed For Two Years
With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
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He talks to NM’s head of audio Chal Ravens about the strange forms of resistance that emerge when even your boss has no idea how the system actually works. Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work is available now through Verso Books (versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2958-cyberboss) .
This episode was originally published on 27 September 2024.
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Plus: The Home Office have released a damning report about the Windrush Scandal.
00:00 Intro
00:40 Israel's Airstrikes On Lebanon
20:42 Windrush Report
30:58 Gift-gate
With Aaron Bastani and @NoJusticeMTG.
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Plus: The Labour leadership have lost a vote on winter fuel payments; and business leaders want their money back following a Labour conference event.
00:00 Intro
00:32 IDF Prepares For Lebanon Invasion
19:47 Labour Lose Winter Fuel Vote
30:46 Starmer Won't Apologise To Pensioners
48:16 Bosses Complain About Labour Conference
With Michael Walker and @NoJusticeMTG.
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Plus: Israeli strikes kill over five hundred people in Lebanon; and Labour try to sweep gift-gate under the rug.
00:00 Intro
01:06 Starmer Speaks At Labour Conference
20:16 Death Toll Rises In Lebanon
30:24 Public Against Labour On Gift-Gate
49:00 How Singapore Handles Corruption
With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
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