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This week I'm joined by Will Davies to discuss the Windrush scandal, neoliberal governmentality, and the politics of the British Home Office.

#5 Will Davies on Windrush and the politics of the Home Office

This week I’m joined by Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power to discuss the Labour Party after the local elections, the balance of power within the PLP, and the prospects for a new centrist party.

#7 Alex Nunns on the Labour Party

Ed Rooksby joins me to discuss socialist strategy, Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas' theory of the state and the Corbyn moment in Britain. Ed's recent article in the journal Critique formed the basis of our discussion, you can read the article here:

https://edrooksby.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/structural-reform-the-problem-of-socialist-strategy-today/

#11 Ed Rooksby on reform, revolution, and socialist strategy

Jo Littler joins me to discuss the history of meritocratic discourse, how the term meritocracy is deployed in the post-Black Lives Matter and MeToo era, and the explanation for the enduring unpopularity of Charles Windsor.

#12 Jo Littler on meritocracy and the neoliberal era

Adam Tooze joins me to discuss his book 'The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy'. We discussed the entwinement of Nazi ideology and economics, the explanation for the apparent irrationality of German military strategy, the comparative backwardness of the German economy in the pre-war period, and the question of 1930s parallels in the post-financial crash era.

#14 Adam Tooze on Nazi ideology and the German war economy

Phil Burton-Cartledge joins me to discuss the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson, Brexit and the European Union, and the long-term decline of the Conservative Party.

#16 Phil Burton-Cartledge on the Tories in crisis

Grace Blakeley joins me to discuss the neoliberal financialisation of the UK and world economies, the coming reckoning with the UK's current account deficit, and how we can wrest control away from the City and fund a real industrial strategy. 

You can read Grace's report, On Borrowed Time: Finance and the UK's current account deficit here:

https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/on-borrowed-time

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#17 Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy

Jacob Mukherjee joins me to discuss the UK housing crisis, the challenges in organising private renters, the exploitation of recent migrants by landlords, and the political class's response to the housing crisis.

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#18 Jacob Mukherjee on Britain's rent crisis and how to fight it

Richard Seymour joins me to discuss the ongoing anti-semitism controversy in the Labour Party. We discussed the scale and nature of modern anti-semitism, the Labour Party's new code of conduct on anti-semitism, and the media campaign against the Corbynite left.

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#19 Richard Seymour on the Labour Party's anti-semitism row

Tom Mills joins me to discuss the problems of the UK media, the Labour Party leadership's proposals for media reform, and the media class's aversion to workplace democracy.

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#22 Tom Mills on reforming the UK media

Adam Tooze joins me for part two of our discussion on his new book, 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World'. We spoke about the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron's EU reform agenda, the prospects for a radical Labour government, and why it is that Marxists keep claiming Adam (a self-described liberal) for one of their own. 

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Part one of the interview:

https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/20-adam-tooze-on-crashed-how-a-decade-of-financial-crises-changed-the-world

#23 Adam Tooze on 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World' (Part 2)

Will Davies joins me to discuss his new book, 'Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World'. We spoke about the declining public trust in experts, the blurring of the distinctions between war and peace, the increasing irrelevance of macroeconomic indicators, and the rise of populism.

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