Podcasts about Novara

How does a teenage goodie-two-shoes grow up to be a convicted criminal? On Committed, a new four-part series from Novara Media, we go behind bars to find out why dozens of young climate activists are risking prison for what they believe in – and why Britain's courts are sending more of them to jail for […]

Donald Trump has been ripping up the rule book on global trade, implementing huge tariffs and sending markets into a frenzy. But is there any method in his apparent madness? Legendary Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek regales Aaron with his thoughts on US trade policy – not to mention Franz Kafka, fully automated luxury communism and whether […]

Michael speaks to Chinese economist and LSE economics professor Keyu Jin about Trump's trade war and who has the upper hand.   Correction: In the introduction to this interview, Michael said China had blocked the export of jets to Boeing. In fact, China blocked the import of jets from Boeing. We apologise for the error. […]

Ash and Moya answer a mystery question and wonder if our quest for a life of convenience was a mistake. Plus: advice for a listener dating a much, much older man. PSA: We're going live at EartH in London on 21st May! Stay tuned for tickets next week. Music by Matt Huxley.

When you think about neoliberal states, maybe you think of the UK, or Russia in the 90s, or Chile. You probably don't think about Iran. And yet, argues Bahar Noorizadeh, the Islamic Republic has been, since before the 1979 revolution, a neoliberal state – and an imperial one as well. It has suppressed the Kurdish and […]

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There are few, true, public intellectuals anymore. But Ta-Nehisi Coates – author of ‘Between The World And Me' and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant – is unquestionably foremost amongst them. His new book, The Message, is a sweeping exploration of how stories shape our politics – from the parameters of black struggle to Israel's […]

Forensic Architecture is a research agency that investigates state violence and environmental destruction. It reconstructs events that states worldwide wants obscured, from Israel to the UK and from the Mediterranean to Ukraine. In doing so, they have invented a whole new discipline of investigation. On Novara FM, FA's Assistant Director of Research, Samaneh Moafi, tells […]

Le epiche ultime due settimane di Novara, fra quarti di finale scudetto, finale di Coppa CEV e semifinale -sempre scudetto- contro Conegliano. Per concludere l'altra semi, con Milano che domina gara 1 e la spunta al tie break al ritorno, portando la serie sul 2-0....P1 è un podcast di cronaca e analisi delle ultime novità nel mondo della pallavolo. Le nazionali da maggio a ottobre, campionati italiani e coppe europee per la stagione autunno-inverno. Un occhio al femminile e uno al maschile. I nostri social:Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/p1_podcastdivolley/Intro: Happy AI Technology by Abydos_Music via PixabaySottofondo: Music track: Forest by DamtaroSource: https://freetouse.com/musicFree To Use Music for Video

In 2024 the Conservative party suffered their worst defeat in two centuries. But while Labour struggles in office, the Tories are going nowhere fast. Meanwhile Britain shambles on without an economic model, or a wider vision for the future. How long can national decline continue? And when will things come to a head? Aaron Bastani […]

The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a mental tool and a thought corrosive. Looking back on six years of the podcast, Nadia, Keir and Jem decide if ‘acid' is still a useful way of thinking about left-wing politics. Find the books and music mentioned […]

Another week in hell, another week to talk about the compounding misery that is the Labour Party. This time we're joined by Phil McDuff to talk about his article in Novara detailing exactly that topic - how convenient! Also, we discuss some of the abhorrent cuts to disability welfare (only some because there's a lot to go into, and also only some because they decided to be even worse not even a whole day after we recorded this) You can read Phil's article here: https://novaramedia.com/2025/03/20/what-disability-benefit-cuts-reveal-about-labours-grasp-of-economics/ or here if you're so inclined: https://archive.ph/0kl6I Subscribe for two whole bonus episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/praxiscast  Watch streams: https://www.twitch.tv/praxiscast Buy shirts: https://praxiscast.teemill.com/ Follow us: https://bsky.app/profile/praxiscast.bsky.social Cast: Special Guest Phil McDuff - https://bsky.app/profile/mcduff.bsky.social Rob - https://bsky.app/profile/trufflehog.bsky.social David - https://bsky.app/profile/sanitarynaptime.bsky.social Alasdair - https://bsky.app/profile/ballistari.bsky.social

We've entered a new climate reality. The pace of the energy transition has picked up – and so have the impacts of climate change. But has there ever actually been an energy transition? Or do we just use more and more and more of everything? As climate change accelerates, feedback loops in the climate system will […]

Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain's complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive conversation about the shifting sands of global security, the author of The Racket also discusses the elimination of USAID, America's U-turn on Russia, and the rearmament of Europe. […]

After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism' as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and servants in her new book, Capital's Grave. She talks to Eleanor Penny about a vision of class […]

The ‘special relationship' is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to Washington allows London to maintain a semblance of its former prestige and power. The media and political class can't get enough of it. But what if Britain's relationship to the United States […]

On the 8th December 2024, the Assad regime in Syria fell, replaced by a group of former jihadists called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham. In the north east of the country, in a territory called Rojava, a feminist socialist revolution has been ongoing for since 2012. Then a few weeks ago, Abdullah Öcalan, a Kurdish leader who […]

The US is no longer supporting Ukraine. And, in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. The Germans are taking off their hallowed debt brake to allow it. The French want a European Army. And Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capabilities of the British Armed Forces. In a world still dominated by the […]

When we talk about politics – whether it's the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that's at stake is an idea of ‘the future'. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecological breakdown necessarily means adopting the framing of the present as being a ‘state of emergency'. This is an obvious […]

What's the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World. They discuss Dan Edelstyn […]

Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. From the plantation to the infirmary and from the leper colony to the stay at home order, contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined. In The History of the World in 6 Plagues, Edna Bonhomme investigates how fear, power, race […]

In 1996 Samuel Huntington published ‘The Clash of Civilizations'. At the time its hypothesis was counter-intuitive. Despite the supremacy of the United States after the Cold War, the ascent of globalisation would not lead to the end of history, but a return to distinctive and competing civilisations. Rather than homogeneity we would see a growing […]

Read any of the mainstream press at the moment and you'll hear the same thing: major things are happening in America. But what if this sudden shift was an illusion? David Adler is Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International, a group that brings together forces from across the progressive left. He told Richard Hames that […]

For almost six centuries Europe has been at the centre of world affairs. While the days of Empire are long gone, over the last several decades the importance and comparative wealth of Europe has declined at an extraordinary pace. Indeed for many countries, from Britain to Germany and Greece, living standards have stagnated or even […]

This part two of our discussion about a new left party. You can listen to part 1 here: https://novaramedia.com/2025/01/30/time-for-a-new-left-party/ James Schneider, Jeremy Corbyn's former Director of Comms, argues for a new party. But who would it speak to? Would it be democratic and in what ways? And what could it actually achieve in the volatile […]

“I'm literally a communist, you idiot”. For almost a decade Ash Sarkar has been one of Britain's most prominent left wing political journalists. She first met Aaron Bastani in 2010, and was later invited on to the Novara FM podcast. It wasn't long before she was calling Piers Morgan an idiot on morning TV. Now […]

Your death should be your own, as much as possible. That's one of the principles behind the Assisted Dying Bill. It lets adults with less than 6 months to live end their lives. But disability campaigners fear that people who don't want to die might be pressured to let themselves be killed. Ellen Clifford is […]