BBC reporter attacked by striking miners after interviewing working miners (ie who had refused to strike) during the year-long strike by coal miners from 1984 to 1985.

BBC Reporter Attacked By Striking Miners In 1984

Is there a link between anti-depressant use and deprivation? Why does Blackpool have the most anti-depressant use in the UK? What is the matter with us? Is it Big Pharma or something else?

Blackpool

My solo cover of Norwegian Wood by The Beatles. A nice song to play in 12/8 time.

Swansongs Solo

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Motherhood was once at the centre of the feminist movement's demands, from campaigns for reproductive rights and Wages For Housework, to the mobilisation of anti-nuclear mums at Greenham Common. But in the 21st century, the politicisation of mothering seems to have shrunk in its ambition. 

In her new book <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443791/mother-state-by-charman-helen/9780241512821"><em>Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood</em></a>, literary scholar and historian Helen Charman tells the story of motherhood in the UK and Ireland from the 1970s to the 2010s. From Margaret Thatcher's weaponisation of femininity to Stella Creasy's support for the capping child benefit, she explains how the relationship between mothers and the state is never anything but awkward – and often violent.

Charman joins Rivkah Brown to talk about both the repressive uses of mothering and its liberatory potential.

Novara Media

Novara FM: Motherhood In and Against the State w/ Helen Charman

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The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a solution to all of our economic woes. Who's behind it?

This week, Kristian Niemietz, a director at the IEA and a long-time Novara Media hater, sits down with Aaron for a debate about trickle-down economics, why he's a neoliberal, and who really funds his employer.

And who funds Novara Media? That's easier to answer: you. Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support

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

Margaret Thatcher Memorial Set at the World Trade Center - 9/11/2001

This track is a humorous memory for Hugh Reed and the fellow band members of signing on in the eighties and nineties in Glasgow 

Happy Thursday, Giro Day

Very occasionally a tragedy turns into a triumph. This wonderful, searing book is such a moment. Rush to read it & be thankful.

Blame Not the Wind: A tragedy at sea. A cover-up. One mother’s search for justice., By Shirley Cooklin, Read by Phyllida Nash

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Beatrice is joined by Sam Kelly of the Red Medicine to discuss how the politics of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) evolved under the neoliberal turn and what the recently released NHS 10 year plan tells us about the future of health struggle not just in Britain but internationally, promising as it does to make the NHS “the most AI enabled care system in the world” and to transform it “into an engine for economic growth, rather than a beneficiary of it.”

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After many, many requests we're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Show links:

Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

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Teaser - The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine (11/10/25)

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Hi, I’m Alan T from North Yorkshire, UK. I enjoy creating music with ukuleles (four, five, eight and ten string'ers), some keyboard and singing. I make music solo and with Fiona as part of our duo ‘Al~Fi’. She brings her talent on fiddle to our recordings and also mandolin from time to time. I produce music using GarageBand. I also play and sing with the band 'StreetLife' (check out our SoundCloud below). I hope you enjoy these songs and thanks very much for listening!

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Psychic Investigations:
exploring the weird British Isles

Singer in the band 'Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants'

New tracks tagged #thatcher