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British politics is in turmoil. The two party system has collapsed, the far right has won huge gains across the country. Crises of this scal...
Are we living through a new era of British weirdness? Keir and Jem mark the start of spring by taking in the weird-left politics of leylines...

David Harvey is a legendary Marxist geographer. He’s taught Marx for over half a century – maybe you’ve even been one of his millions of stu...
The two-party system has defined British politics for centuries, but the status quo is under attack from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and an ins...

A decade and a half ago, the British far right was a fringe concern. But since then, the ruling party – whether it be The Conservatives or L...
The 21st century runs on batteries: from phones and laptops to electric vehicles, drones and clean energy. Embedded in these batteries are r...

It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, ch...
As the American empire teeters, China gains dominance, and war spreads across Eastern Europe and West Asia, questions arise as to Europe’s p...

To accompany our podcast series, Death in Westminster, hosts Kojo Koram and Dalia Gebrial met with investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan...
Take part in our audience survey: novara.media/survey In China in the 1990s, the arrival of the internet was swiftly met with the ‘great fir...
After mulling over the problem of boredom in the last Trip episode, the ACFM gang return with a solution: hobbies. In this episode Nadia, Je...

Fill in our audience survey: https://novara.media/survey For fifty years, Alfred McCoy has exposed covert operations. In 1972 he uncovered t...

Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants in an expletive-laden Truth Social Post, and the U.S. account of its rescue of two a...
Liberalism, in one form or another, has been the pervading political ideology of the past 200 years. It has become so pervasive, as an ideol...

To mark the launch of our new podcast series, Death in Westminster, host Dalia Gebrial sat down with Hannah Spencer, the new MP for Gorton a...
When was the last time you were bored? Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder if ennui is a feeling that belongs in the past – and what a boredom-free l...

In the last decade and a half, society has got vastly more politicised: Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Me Too Movement and many other movem...
Aaron Bastani sat down with Novara Media’s own Ash Sarkar, to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling book, Minority Rule. ‘...

The most powerful CEO in history is barely a person anymore. But it’s not just his X-addled brain that has transformed him. He has deeply in...
Rising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the descrip...

Trillions of dollars of AI build-out. An economy poised on the edge of a giant crisis. Some say it’s a bubble. But what if it’s an entirely...
The final episode. Back in Westminster, Kojo confronts the human cost of hidden wealth – and asks if change is still possible. Join Kojo Kor...
In episode three, the dark web of offshore finance connects Britain’s imperial past with its political present. Join Kojo Koram on 19th Marc...
In episode two, the trail leads offshore. From Westminster to the Cayman Islands, Kojo uncovers how tax havens are fuelling London’s housing...
New four-part podcast. A homeless man dies in Westminster surrounded by vast wealth and empty homes. His death sparks a disturbing investiga...

Nearly all of us on Earth live within a ‘nation-state’. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part...

[Audio error updated! Please refresh or re-download if correct episode isn’t playing.] Have the Greens got what it takes to become the...

The US military is changing shape: it’s increasingly high-tech, intelligence led, and focused on assassinations. In short, the Israeli model...
The notion that the Global South is affected ‘first and worst’ by global shocks they didn’t cause, namely climate change, is one of the corn...

Cheap food holds capitalism together. But to get it, we’ve had to cheapen almost everything on the planet: the work of women, nature and col...
In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years lat...
Are humans distinct from nature? Are there natural limits to inequality? Can you have action without effort? Do bacteria have agency? Jem, N...

There’s nothing in the world more important than the food system. The twentieth century was scarred by enormous famines – and, like the one...
Just a week ago, the architect of Starmer’s rise to power, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over his connections to Peter Mandelson, after further...
When it comes to the relationship between capitalism and crime, those on the left generally think of exploitation. People often turn to crim...
Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expres...
This week, Donald Trump continued his streak of threatening tariffs against any country that opposes him, increasing the odds of an escalati...
Our guest this week was born in 1943, in what was then British India – modern day Pakistan. Unlike most, who have learned history through bo...
It has been a bellicose start to 2026, with the US army kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and threatening to annex Greenland, p...
After ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ on October 7th, a specific narrative quickly emerged and pervaded the entire Western mainstream media. Namel...
Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani joined each other on 17th December for a special end-of-year Downstream, wrapping up the year in politics.
Norman Finkelstein is one of the west’s leading anti-Zionist scholars. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has spent his life studying and cr...
After a Trip episode about the meaning of mainstream, this time the gang go deeper into ‘Mainstream’ – that is, the new soft-left faction in...
Since Hamas launched its assault on October 7th, 2023, the group has become synonymous with evil in large parts of the Western media. Condem...
Did you know that the standard of Google searches has actually gotten worse over recent years? Once you think about it, it makes sense. High...
Jem, Nadia and Keir debate the meaning of ‘mainstream’ – something none of them could ever possibly be, of course. Is ‘wok...
Whether you love or loathe his tactics, it’s hard to deny the disruptive impact that Roger Hallam has had on British politics via the activi...
Support for the Green party in Britain has been steadily rising for the past few decades. However, few predicted that when Zack Polanski too...
At Novara, we focus on the trends that are remaking the world and affecting our lives: technological development and automation, multipolari...
Investigative journalist Paul Holden has spent the last four years digging into the political machinations that brought Keir Starmer’s...