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an all-star panel - including inseparable friend of the show & repeat RP guest Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2), plus both hosts of the legendary ALL THE BEST podcast (hosted @novaramedia); fellow serial RP offender, gambling reform activist and former Jeremy Corbyn aide Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb), and veritable guru of Bennite thought Max Shanly (@maxshanly) - discuss the aftermath of Sir Keir Starmer's disastrous first electoral test, culminating in the binding of Matt's good friend Shippers.

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Episode 204 - ...And Love To The Family (ft. Jude Wanga, Max Shanly & Matt Zarb-Cousin)

In the wake of the Labour Party's disastrous performance in the 2021 U.K. local elections, we're taking a look back at a key moment in recent British history. The made-for-TV movie COALITION (2015) documents the wheelings and dealings that led to Nick Clegg's Liberal-Democrats joining forces with David Cameron's Conservatives after. the 2010 election left no party with a parliamentary majority. We share some larfs over a perfectly mediocre movie, and. discuss the true meaning of "Cleggmania" and its aftermath. PLUS: Why can't Keir Starmer sell centrism like Tony Blair could? And reflections on Toronto's alt-media landscape, from NOW Magazine to Eye Weekly to The Grid.

"The Grid R.I.P." - http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-grid-rip.html

"Keir Starmer’s Televised Meltdown Was Decades in the Making" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-bbc-meltdown-labour-election-hartlepool

Michael and Us

#234 - Cleggmania Revisited

Ben and I lost our minds after watching the tiger doc so we had a jewish gun-owning podcaster talk about it with us.

///intro/// Richard Stepp - Caught Up In A Whirlwind (1979);
///outro/// the Alessi Bros. - You Can Have It Back (1976);

SD 3: Tiger Kings feat. brace belden

Journalist Sergio Olmos (https://twitter.com/mrolmos), Journalist and podcast host Tuck Woodstock (https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock) (https://twitter.com/Gendereveal), and "Portland Mercury"(https://twitter.com/portlandmercury) news editor Alex Zielinski (https://twitter.com/alex_zee)  share their impressions from covering Portland's protests. Journalist Arun Gupta talks about the racist origins or Portland and why it's being used as a testing ground. 
Thumbnail from video courtesy of Zane Sparling (https://twitter.com/PDXzane) of the "Portland Tribune" (https://twitter.com/theportlandtrib).

Portland's Racist Roots & Current Protests w/ Sergio Olmos, Alex Zielinski, Tuck Woodstock

Writer William Shoki on evictions, police violence and neoliberal hegemony in South Africa, and his recent articles "The existing order of things" and "The class character of police violence" for Africa Is A Country. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hauls sixteen tons.

https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/the-existing-order-of-things

https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/the-class-character-of-police-violence

1215: Beneath South Africa's ruling class / William Shoki

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his article "Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis" for Dissent, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks "what color is your smoke?"

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/climate-apartheid-is-the-coming-police-violence-crisis

1226: Policing the coming crisis / Olufemi O. Taiwo

Labour members aren't the problem.

https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/labour-members-arent-problem/

BONUS RP - Solidarity with New Socialist

Kate Clark on her report "War in Afghanistan in 2020: Just as much violence, but no one wants to talk about it" for Afghanistan Analysts Network

https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/war-in-afghanistan-in-2020-just-as-much-violence-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it/

1231: Peace and death in Afghanistan / Kate Clark

Historian Fabian Scheidler on his book "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" via Zero Books.

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-megamachine-brief-history-failing-civilization#synopsis

1236: System Crash / Fabian Scheidler

Writer Fabian Scheidler examines the collapse of a 500-year system at (or already beyond) its social and ecological limits, and calls for an urgent un-coupling of both political power from corporate hands, and our way of life from capitalism's constant demands for expansion and growth.

Fabian is author of "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" from Zero Books.

https://www.megamaschine.org/en/

Death and choice at the megamachine's end.

As stalwart supporters of Keir Starmer since the creation of Adam & Eve 6000 years ago, it gives us no pleasure to have to do this, but our hand was forced into getting together with our friends Nikita (@jeremywhorebyn) and Aarjan (@aarjanistan) of the LeftOver podcast to call for the resignation of "Sir "Keir" in the strongest terms, as his troubled leadership hits its lowest ebb yet. The fabled twenty-point lead has not materialised, and so the time has come to ask "should Starmer go?" and to answer "yes", which we do here.

1226: Policing the coming crisis / Olufemi O. Taiwo

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