All Episodes
1984 Today! — 65 episodes
Dystopian By Default: The Architecture of Surveillance
Iran’s Global Intimidation Machine: Journalism, Exile, and Keeping Dissent Alive
Survival Is Resistance: Prison, Protest, and The Price of Freedom
Lawyering Against the Machine: The Human Cost of AI and the Fight for Tech Justice
Slowly, Then Suddenly: Surveillance, Social Rupture and Citizens’ Consent
Making The Machine That Makes Us: AI, Consciousness, and Human Creativity
Democracy In An Age Of Permanent Crisis
The World Turned Upside Down: England's Puritan Dystopia
Episode 154: Michael W. Green on Why $140k Is The Real Poverty Line
Episode 153: Robert Joseph Greene on Censorship and the Hidden History of Gay Romance
Episode 152: John R. Carlos on Globalism, Technology, and Humanity's Future
Episode 151: Daniele Bolelli on How A Society Eats Itself
Episode 150: Graham Linehan on Comedy, Cancellation, and Being Gender-Critical
Episode 149: Kara Dansky on The Abolition of Sex
Episode 148: Dr Leslie Gruis on Privacy and Surveillance
Episode 147: A Tale of Two Protests
Episode 146: Michael Box and Patrick Hague on Punk Rock Dystopia
Episode 145: Joe Raiola on Satire, Censorship, and MAD Magazine
Episode 144: Frank Sanazi on Being A Comedy Dictator
Episode 143: Shady El Damaty on Reclaiming Digital Privacy
Episode 142: BeLikeWater on Forecasting and Understanding Probability
Episode 141: Matthew Feeney on Big Brother in Britain
Episode 140: Blasphemy in the UK
Episode 139: Professor Garret Merriam on Ethics and AI in Higher Education
Episode 138: Julia Boyd on Travellers in the Third Reich
Episode 137: Leni von Mayn on Voicing Sex Dolls and Sexploration
Episode 136: Dr Chris Day on His Decade-Long Legal Battle With The NHS
Episode 135: Velina Tchakarova on Cold War 2.0 and the DragonBear
Episode 134: Raja Miah MBE on Britain's Grooming Gangs
Episode 133: Helen Freeman on Britain's Farmer Protests
Episode 132: Marika Mikiashvili on Resisting Georgia's Burgeoning Authoritarianism
Episode 131: Jeremy Duffy on Working For The National Security Agency
Episode 130: Philipp Fussenegger on Creating The World's First AI Brothel
Episode 129: Richard Sanderson on Getting Cancelled
Episode 128: Dr Christopher Ferguson on Why Social Media Isn't Bad For Your Kids
Episode 127: Falak Enayat on Escaping the Taliban
Episode 126: Nikhil Suresh on the AI Lie and Humanising The Machine
Episode 125: Victor Miller on Letting AI Take Over The US Government
US Election Special: Temperature Check
Episode 124: Tim Schwab on Bill Gates, Dark Money, and Toxic Philanthropy
Episode 123: Hatun Tash on Free Speech, Two-Tier Policing, and Getting Stabbed For Jesus
Episode 122: CJ Hopkins and Friedemann Däblitz on Justice, Thought Crime, and State Power
Episode 121: Sanne Van Oosten on the Surprising Lack of Racist and Sexist Voters
Summer Special: Exotic Thoughts at Parliament Square
Episode 120: Emmanuel Goldstein on Surviving Communism, A Gnostic Cult, and A War On His Mind
Episode 119: Jerry Barnett on Moral Panic, Loss of Reason, and Baiting the Majority
Episode 118: Christina Dalcher on Writing Dystopian Fiction and Imagining the Worst
Episode 117: Kashmir Hill on Why Your Face Belongs To Them
Episode 116: The 'Real' Steve Endacott on Running As The UK's First AI Parliamentary Candidate
Episode 115: Bjørn Karmann on The Moment That Never Was
Episode 114: Dr Ashley Frawley on 'Constant Crisis' and Why You're Probably Fine
Episode 113: Carol Cohn on Life Under Communism and Escaping to the West
Episode 112: Mark Johnson on Watching Big Brother
Episode 111: Professor George Church on Genetics and DNA Technology
Episode 110: Andy Agathangelou on Fixing the Financial System
Episode 109: Emily Finley on Undemocratic Democracy and the Seeds of Modern Tyranny
Episode 108: Beatriz Busaniche on Digital Rights and Surveillance in Argentina
Episode 107: Sergei Loznitsa on Totalitarianism and Truth
This Is How We Do It: AI Found Me A Wife (Valentine's Day Special)
Episode 106: Jonathan M. Katz on Substack's 'Nazi Problem', Free Speech, and Modern Journalism
Episode 105: Tim Boucher on the Fever Dream of the AI Mind
Episode 104: Elle Griffin on Faith, Hope, and Clarity
Episode 103: CJ Hopkins on Thought Crime
Episode 102 - Ken Silva and the Fed Files
1984 Today! Episode #101 - Dorian Lynskey