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#ElectionSpecials

Eleanor Penny joins me to reflect on the coming General election campaign. We talked about whether this will be the Brexit election we were promised in 2017, why Labour is behind in the polls, and what to expect from the Liberal Democrats.

Election Special: Can Labour win? w/ Eleanor Penny

Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss conservative party strategy in the 2019 election. We spoke about Boris Johnson's re-heated Mayism, the likely effects of a significant Brexit Party vote on Tory prospects, and the division of labour between the Conservatives and the Tory-supporting press.

Election Special: Tory party strategy w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge

Momentum co-founder Emma Rees joins me to discuss Momentum's Plan to Win the General election and the inspiration for Momentum's 'distributed Organising' model. 

You can read the plan here:

plantowin.peoplesmomentum.com/

Election Special: Momentum's plan to win the general election w/ Emma Rees

Paulo Gerbaudo joins me to discuss online campaigning, the recent cyber attack on Labour's campaigning platforms, the contrasting effectiveness of the Labour and Tory digital campaigns in 2017, and we also chatted about whether social media platforms have an inherent right-wing bias.

Election Special: The digital war w/ Paolo Gerbaudo

Will Davies joins me to discuss conservative's response to Labour's policy on free full-fibre broadband, whether Boris Johnson really is the great campaigner his admirers claim he is, and we also discussed Labour's messaging around taking on billionaires.

Election Special: Boris Johnson - the great campaigner? w/ Will Davies

Financial Times journalist Tom Hancock joins me from the city of Wuhan -  the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. We spoke about the situation in the city, the response of the Chinese government to the crisis and how it compares to the SARS outbreak of 2002. We also discussed the broader political significance of the outbreak and the public mood in Wuhan and China more broadly.

#73 Inside Wuhan w/ Tom Hancock

Milan-based journalist Antonella Serrecchia, and Jacobin's Europe editor David Broder join me to discuss the lockdown in Italy - imposed by the Italian government in response to the escalation of the coronavirus outbreak. We discussed the pressure on the Italian health system, the economic consequences of the crisis, and how the far-right Lega have instrumentalised the situation for their anti-migrant politics.

#79 Italy under lockdown w/ Antonella Serrecchia & David Broder

Paul Mason joins me to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, the UK government's response, the failure of senior journalists to hold the government to account and why the crisis may lead to a profound transformation of the global economy.  We also discussed an article he published today -Day One of the UK's suppression strategy:

https://paulmason.substack.com/p/day-one-of-uks-suppression-strategy?fbclid=IwAR2IZCzgpr9-gw23yDNugVaJd6tN2E2xJ_B06S_ossyCrlHCwe4SZFSBRrUc

#81 COVID-19 - neoliberalism's grave digger? w/ Paul Mason

Will Davies joins me to discuss whether or not the coronavirus crisis heralds the break with neoliberal capitalism that many expected in the wake of the financial crisis, why the Anglo-American response to the covid-19 pandemic seems to differ from the response seen in mainland Europe and East Asia, and we also talked about how the media has covered the government's approach to the crisis. You can read Will's recent article in the London Review of Books, which we discussed in the interview here:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n07/william-davies/society-as-a-broadband-network

#82 Coronavirus and the networked society w/ Will Davies

Adam Tooze joins me to discuss what covid-19 means for the world economy, how the Trump administration has missed the boat on containing mass contagion in the United States, and why the row in the Eurozone over so-called coronabonds reveals an existential threat to the survival of the European Union.

#83 A crisis like no other w/ Adam Tooze

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