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Downstream – Novara Media Podcasts — 222 episodes

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Downstream: Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities w/ Roderick Beaton

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Downstream: The Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Yi-Ling Liu

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Downstream: Is Liberalism Finally Waking Up to the Crises it has Caused? w/ Adrian Wooldridge

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Downstream: The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That w/ Ash Sarkar

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Downstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara Mattei

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Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta

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Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley

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Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser

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Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman

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Downstream: Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere w/ Oliver Bullough

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Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei

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Downstream: 2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash w/ Ann Pettifor

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Downstream: Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century w/ Tariq Ali

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Downstream: Venezuela, China and the End of the Dollar w/ Glenn Greenwald

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Downstream: Exposing the Israeli Capture of British Politics w/ Peter Oborne

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Downstream: 2025: What Actually Happened? w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani

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Downstream: ‘Gaza Is Over, It’s Gone. There’s Nothing Left’ w/ Norman Finkelstein

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Downstream: The Truth About Hamas, October 7th & Israel’s Ongoing Genocide w/ Tareq Baconi

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Downstream: The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse Forever w/ Cory Doctorow

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Downstream: How to Create A Revolution w/ Roger Hallam

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Downstream: Zack Polanski Is Coming for Starmer and Farage

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Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic

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Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden

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Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy

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Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr

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Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu

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Downstream: What Really Changed on 7th October w/ Ahmed Alnaouq, Yara Eid and Tareq Baconi

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Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill

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Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis

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Downstream: The Right Is Stirring up Anti-Muslim Hate – and It’s Getting Worse w/ Myriam François

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Downstream: How Brexit Paved The Way For Farage’s Bid for Downing Street w/ Tom McTague

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Downstream: The Political Possibilities of the Ancient World w/ Josephine Quinn

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Downstream: Are We Living Through the End of an Empire? w/ Lea Ypi

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Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel

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Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang

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Downstream: A Reckoning Is Coming For The Establishment Over Gaza w/ Owen Jones

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Downstream: The Ancient Indian History Our Schools Don’t Teach w/ William Dalrymple

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Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby

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Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams

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Downstream: Trump & Musk Could Start a Global Meltdown w/ Michael Lewis

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Downstream: Masculinity, Modern Love, and Mental Health w/ Blindboy

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Downstream: Exposing The True Costs of AI w/ Karen Hao

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Downstream: Trump’s Plan is to Make His Friends Even Richer w/ Quinn Slobodian

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Downstream: American Democracy Is Collapsing, and This Man Predicted It w/ Joseph Stiglitz

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Downstream: The IDF Killed My Entire Family, and the British Government Helped Them w/ Ahmed Alnaouq

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Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince

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Downstream: How to Be a Morally Effective Person w/ Rutger Bregman

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Downstream: Big Tech Is Making Our Children Depressed and Anxious. Here’s How w/ Jonathan Haidt

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Downstream: Why the Left Fails to Connect With People w/ Jimmy The Giant

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Novara Debates: Are Labour Doomed?

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Novara Debates: Can Reform Win A General Election?

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Downstream: Is Christianity Back? Gen Z’s Search For Meaning w/ Lamorna Ash

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Downstream: Does International Law Even Work? w/ Kenneth Roth

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Downstream: Has Israel Become A Fascist State? w/ Ilan Pappé

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Downstream: What’s The Real Point of Trump’s Tariffs? w/ Slavoj Žižek

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Downstream: On Palestine, Prisons and British Vs. American Racism w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Downstream: This Much We Agree On: Britain Is In Decline w/ Peter Hitchens

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Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard

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Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton

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Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White

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Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn

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Downstream: Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished w/ Philip Pilkington

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Downstream: This Is Why the Right Are Winning w/ Ash Sarkar

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Downstream: Elon Musk Wants to Be Napoleon w/ Will Davies

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Downstream: Why Are So Many People Lonely? w/ Shon Faye

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Downstream: Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong w/ Gary Stevenson

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Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz

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Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers

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Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke

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Downstream: Is Germany’s Economy Heading for Collapse? w/ Wolfgang Münchau

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Downstream: The Journalist Who Spent A Year With The Taliban w/ Ibrahim Nash’at

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Downstream: Humans Could Become Immortal This Century w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

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Downstream: Trains Are Better Than Cars. Here’s Why w/ Gareth Dennis

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Downstream IRL: There’s No Such Thing As Green Capitalism w/ Andreas Malm

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Downstream: What the Roman Empire Tells Us About the Collapse of the West W/ Peter Heather and John Rapley

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Downstream: Could Israel Become A Failed State? w/ Ilan Pappé

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Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith

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Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson

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Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton

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Downstream: Everything You Need to Know About China & Xi Jinping w/ Olivia Cheung

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Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple

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Downstream: The UK’s Landowning Elite Are Destroying the Countryside w/ Guy Shrubsole

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Downstream: This Is the Reality for Palestinian Christians w/ Dr. Munther Isaac

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Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum

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Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland

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Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/ Carla Denyer

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Downstream: Arab Jews, The Hidden History w/ Avi Shlaim

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Downstream: Party Politics is Broken w/ Jeremy Corbyn

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Downstream: Here’s How America Really Runs Britain w/ Angus Hanton

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Downstream: This Is How Propaganda Actually Works w/ Matt Kennard

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Downstream: The Israel Lobby Is Real. Here’s Exactly How It Works w/ Illan Pappé

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Downstream: ‘We Have to Vote Labour’ w/ Mick Lynch

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Downstream: The Tories Are Done and They Won’t Be Coming Back w/ Peter Oborne

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Downstream: Everything You’re Told About Green Capitalism is Wrong w/ Brett Christophers

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Downstream: Is India Really a Democracy? w/ Alpa Shah

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Downstream: The Truth About Incels w/ William Costello

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Downstream: Individualism is Destroying Our Freedom w/ Grace Blakeley

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Downstream: George Galloway’s Plan to Destroy the Labour Party

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Downstream: How Austerity Harms Britain’s Most Vulnerable Children w/ Teresa Thornhill

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Downstream: This Is How Israel Controls Palestinians w/ Eyal Weizman

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Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin

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Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler

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Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll

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Downstream: On Gaza, Grammar Schools and British War Crimes w/ Peter Hitchens

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Downstream: Retired Major-General on Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan w/ Charlie Herbert

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Downstream: Britain’s Economy Will Only Get Worse Forever w/ Gary Stevenson

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Downstream IRL: We Are in a New Cold War w/ Yanis Varoufakis

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The US Must Stop Funding Israel | Bernie Sanders meets Ash Sarkar

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Downstream: Israel Will Never Be Safe While Occupying Palestine w/ Yousef Alhelou

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Downstream: Why No One Should Have More Than £10 Million w/ Ingrid Robeyns

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Downstream: Would the World Be Better Without Religion? w/ Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar

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Downstream: Everything You Know About The Global Economy is Wrong w/ Philip Pilkington

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Downstream: We Are in the Post-Climate Change World w/ Gaia Vince

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Downstream: White Holes and Radical Politics w/ Carlo Rovelli

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Downstream: 2023 Year in Review

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Downstream: The Plan To Privatise Everything w/ Brett Christophers

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Downstream: This Damage Cannot Be Reversed w/ Daniel Levy

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Downstream: We Don’t Understand History w/ Blindboy

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Downstream: The History of Israel’s War on Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi

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Downstream: Does the Labour Party Care About Palestine? w/ Zarah Sultana

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Downstream: The Future of Money w/ Brett Scott

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Downstream: We Must Get Ready For An Emergency w/ Slavoj Žižek

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Downstream: How Protest Movements Fall Apart w/ Vincent Bevins

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Downstream: Philosophy’s Biggest Pessimist w/ John Gray

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Downstream: The Left Is Traumatised w/ Gary Younge

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Downstream: Europe Is Over w/ Yanis Varoufakis

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Downstream: Into The Mirror World w/ Naomi Klein

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Downstream: Big Pharma’s Secrets w/ Nick Dearden

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Downstream: Empire, Austerity and Why Corbyn Was Right About Iraq w/ Rory Stewart

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Downstream: Here’s How Power Really Works w/ Grace Blakeley

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Downstream: Oligarchs Are Ruining This Country w/ Sam Bright

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Downstream: A History of Sex Scandals w/ Steven Methven

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Downstream: Social Mobility Is A Lie w/ Dan Evans

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Downstream: Going Undercover With Extremists w/ Julia Ebner

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Downstream: What Have We Got Wrong About Antiracism? w/ Arun Kundnani

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Downstream: Is It Time for a Universal Basic Income? w/ Will Stronge

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Downstream: Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community w/ Izzy Posen

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Downstream: Can The Green Party Transform British Politics? w/ Zack Polanski

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Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin

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Downstream: The British Media Is Broken w/ Moya Lothian-McLean & Michael Walker

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Downstream: How Corporations Control the Government w/ Matt Kennard

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Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think w/ Ian Hogarth

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Downstream: The Truth about the GDR w/ Katja Hoyer

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Downstream: How the Media Lies About Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd

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Downstream: Is the World Really Run by a ‘Leftist Elite?’ w/ Matthew Goodwin

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Downstream: How We Ended Up With The Worst Media In The World w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani

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Downstream: The Housing Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think w/ Vicky Spratt

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Downstream: We Must Ban Private Schools w/ Richard Beard

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Downstream: Billions Will Die If They Don’t Listen To Us w/ Roger Hallam

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Downstream: We Are on a Path Towards Authoritarianism w/ Mehdi Hasan

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Downstream: The Truth About Snowflakes w/ Ash Sarkar, Aaron Bastani and Dalia Gebrial

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Downstream: The Big Con w/ Mariana Mazzucato

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Downstream: Britain Is Being Scammed by Landlords w/ Michael Walker

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Downstream: The Truth About Conspiracies w/ Nicky Woolf

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Downstream: Why Britain Needs To Ditch the Monarchy w/ Graham Smith

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Downstream: Science Isn’t Truth w/ Adam Rutherford

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Downstream: The Sexual Marketplace w/ Annie Lord

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Downstream: Tories Don’t Think w/ Peter Hitchens

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Downstream: Novara’s 2022 Roundtable Review

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Downstream: Our Own Cynicism Is the Left’s Biggest Enemy w/ Billy Bragg

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Downstream: Twitter’s Toxic Downfall w/ Richard Seymour

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Downstream: Everything We Think We Know About Human History Is Wrong w/ David Wengrow

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Downstream: How to Hide a Billion Pounds w/ Oliver Bullough

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Downstream: Labour are as Bad as the Tories on Immigration w/ Maya Goodfellow

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Downstream: It’s Now or Never w/ Chris Packham

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Downstream: Food Culture Is Making Us Anxious w/ Ruby Tandoh

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Downstream: The Plan is to Make You Permanently Poorer w/ Gary Stevenson

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Downstream: Can Lula Take Brazil Back From Bolsonaro? w/ Sabrina Fernandes

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Downstream: People Used Anything to Attack Me w/ Jeremy Corbyn

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Downstream: Labour Weaponised My Domestic Abuse to Get Rid of Me w/ Apsana Begum

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Downstream: The Truth About the Monarchy w/ Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar

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Downstream: Silicon Valley Fraudsters Are Lying to Us w/ Paris Marx

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Downstream: The World’s Biggest Political Streamer w/ Hasan Piker

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Downstream: An Era-Defining Political Comeback w/ Lutfur Rahman

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Downstream: Working Class is Not an Identity w/ China Miéville

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Downstream: Animal Agriculture is the New Oil w/ George Monbiot

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Downstream: What Does It Mean to Be Free? W/ Lea Ypi

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Downstream: What Does Keir Starmer Actually Believe? w/ Oliver Eagleton

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Downstream: Something Sinister is Happening in the Labour Party w/ Len McLuskey

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Downstream: Liberalism is in Trouble w/ Francis Fukuyama

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Downstream: Vegan Propaganda w/ Earthling Ed

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Downstream: Did Empire Really End? with Kojo Koram

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Downstream: Why the Trojan Horse Affair is a Very British Scandal

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Downstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism w/ Symeon Brown

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Downstream: Were Trans People “Born This Way”? w/ Julia Serano

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Downstream: Why Are All The Baddies Disabled?

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Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People w/ Ellen Clifford

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Downstream: Are Veterans Right-Wing or Radical? w/ Joe Glenton

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Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage w/ Andreas Malm

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Downstream: If Neoliberalism Is Over, What Next? w/ Paolo Gerbaudo

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Downstream: Could Donald Trump Win in 2024? w/ Nina Turner

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Downstream-on-Sea: Ash Sarkar meets Zarah Sultana

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Downstream: How Violence Shapes Our Sex Lives w/ Rachel Thompson

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Downstream: Love In This Club w/ Jeremy Gilbert

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Downstream: The Stories of Transgender Britain w/ Juliet Jacques

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Downstream: The Fight for Unite w/ Steve Turner

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Downstream: The Daniel Morgan Murder Inquiry

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Downstream: How Britain’s Police Spied On The Left w/ Tom Fowler

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Downstream: What White People Can Do Next w/ Emma Dabiri

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Downstream: How Britain Supports Israel’s War on Palestine

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Downstream: How Labour Wins Back The Red Wall

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Downstream: Is Line Of Duty ‘Copaganda’?

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Downstream: How Radical is President Joe Biden? w/ Adam Tooze

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Downstream: Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse

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Downstream: A Super League for the Super Rich w/ Laurence McKenna

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Downstream: ‘Dodgy Dave’? The Facts on the Greensill Saga

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Downstream: Why The Tories Keep Winning w/ Sam Earle

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Downstream: When Will China Be The World’s Most Powerful Country?

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Downstream: Independence for the North of England w/ Philip Proudfoot

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Downstream: Why All Drugs Should Be Decriminalised w/ David Nutt

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Downstream: Abolish The Monarchy

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Should We All Be Vegan? w/ Peter Singer

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Downstream: Conservatives Don’t Care About Free Speech w/ Ronan Burtenshaw

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Downstream: Maybe Don’t Defund the BBC? w/ Nish Kumar

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Downstream: Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? w/ Mariana Mazzucato

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Downstream: Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? w/ Richard Horton

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Downstream: The Influencer Industrial Complex w/ Moya Lothian-McLean

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Downstream: A Red Flag and a Silver Dress? Ash Sarkar meets Divina De Campo

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Downstream: Can The Left Trust Keir Starmer? Interview w/ Richard Burgon

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Downstream: Does the US Want Julian Assange Dead?

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Downstream: The Year In Review

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Downstream: Can Lab Grown Meat Save The World?