So that’s it 
That’s all you can give ? 
It’s like you don’t exist 
When you’re so passive

You think you can’t help it
That I’m aggressive 
You think I’ll suck you thin 
Let the Wrong One In. 

I want you down to the core 
I want you bones and all 
It just makes me sick 
I’m like an unfed pig.

Sometimes you treat me like an apple:
You only want me when I’m fresh
You take the bites that you can handle 
And you throw away the rest.

I always took you as a whole 
-I never ever needed less 
I would have kissed you till you rotted 
And then cleaned up all the mess. 

But I’m just offal 
I’m just awful 
Did it have to be so unlawful

I wish I could raise you from the dead 
And there was nothing left unsaid 

I want all of you
I miss your voice and your spine 
I loved you body and mind 
I want everything we had 
I don’t care if it was bad 
I wanna take away the sad 
I wanna hold your hand. 

I loved you as a whole 
Even when it was cold 

I never went cold 
on you.

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Burial's soundtrack for Andrea Arnold's 2024 movie 'Bird'. 

Burial - Bird (Unreleased)

It’s been five long years since the decisive defeat of Corbynism at the ballot box.

How, if at all, should the left reconstitute itself? Should everyone join the Greens? Or do we just need Mick Lynch to start a new party?

In this episode, Richard Hames is joined by Rachel Godfrey Wood, Joe Todd, and Oliver Eagleton to thrash it all out and arrive at the One True Answer.

We’re keen to hear from you on this topic! Lets us know your comments, criticisms and key strategic insights at fm@novaramedia.com

Novara FM: Time for a New Left Party? w/ Oliver Eagleton, Rachel Godfrey Wood and Joe Todd

Folk Of The Roundtable’s Sessions recorded for us all to share!
Recordings of various locations and sessions 

For more information about the Session go on our instagram (@folk_of_the_roundtable)

Recorded by The Recording Guild (Jowan Collier)

Folk Of The Roundtable Session 15/12/2024

Ash and Moya face up to all the ways their smartphone has warped their minds. Plus, advice for a trans woman struggling to interact with the world in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.

Come and see If I Speak LIVE at EartH in London on 21st May! Final tickets are available now from Dice.

Send your dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com

Music by Matt Huxley.

65: Has your smartphone broken your brain?

Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach.

Or, we could define it differently, as "the real movement that abolishes the present state of things". That's how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described it in The German Ideology.

Jasper Bernes is the author of The Future of Revolution, a book that aims both to clarify our ideas and to reignite our determination to make a fundamentally new kind of society.

He spoke to Richard Hames about the red thread of history, from the Paris Commune to Black Lives Matter, and on into the communist future.

Novara FM: What Communism Actually Is w/ Jasper Bernes

This week’s guest is best known for hijacking a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, where he told a room full of billionaires to stop avoiding taxes. He now claims that this form of protest has been proven ineffective in the struggle for progress. The last 25 years have seen some of the biggest protests in history, yet we’ve seen wars erupt and inequality widen.

With his new book, ‘Moral Ambition’, Rutger Bregman lays out a history of how societal change actually happens, and how we can learn from the agentic groups of thoughtful individuals who improved our civilisation.

In conversation with Aaron Bastani he discusses the true origins of abolitionism, what the left gets wrong about Elon Musk and why we might actually see the end of history.

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

Tell Me When (Skype remix)

Flesh Mix

As Manchester’s streets and skyline are warped by the ever-accelerating process of urban renewal, the city’s edgelands and green spaces are at risk of being swallowed by waves of property development. Not only does this raise questions about the ecology of the city, as carbon sinks are flattened and wildlife is displaced, but it speaks to broader trends pushing urban residents away from shared space, community and local identity.  

This project shines a light on these spaces and the activists, academics, and local people who have taken up the daunting fight against corporate interests in the city in the name of biodiversity, urban ecology and community wellbeing. As we are faced with crises of both environment and mental health, the role of public green spaces has become ever more crucial in the eyes of those who enjoy, nurture, and maintain them.  

As the tide of urban growth edges closer to the open boundaries of our shared spaces, the trees, wildlife and insects continue their gentle movement, unaware that these spaces are likely reaching the end of their rich lineage. If nothing else, this project documents these final days. 

This work weaves together recorded conversations, composed music and field recordings from a handful of Manchester’s urban wildlife havens. Interviewees include community activists Julie Ryan and Tara Parry from ‘Friends of Ryebank Fields’, award-winning alternative tour guide Hayley Flynn (Skyliner) and Dr Jenna C. Ashton (artist, curator and lecturer at The University of Manchester).

Commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2020.

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Eidolon