obsession with netflix dramas and condemning the offensiveness of rappers kind of feels like the sign of a political class who want to be newspaper columnists rather than do anything meaningful or material

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love being told how dangerous it is to live in London by people who come here once a year to watch a Lloyd Webber show

UK taxpayers aren’t just funding a genocide via arms, they’re training people who are enacting it too.

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague heidi levine.

maybe if London really was a lawless shithole the rent would be cheaper

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Why is everything awful right now? How did we get in such a mess? Wtf is going on? This, and other vital questions, answered on today's episode of the New Economics Podcast.

Kieran Andrieu is still on board the Global Sumud Flotilla - but not for much longer. Today, he says, will almost certainly be his last full day at sea, before either being intercepted tonight or reaching Gaza tomorrow morning. In the early hours of Wednesday, vessels believed

Novara Media journalist Kieran Andrieu has been illegally detained by Israel, along with nearly 500 others, for trying to deliver baby formula, food and medicine to Gaza. Demand our government uphold international law and hold Israel to account.

Crisis, blame and mobilisation on the right and on the left. Shanice 😈 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ on the latest episode of the New Economics Podcast with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith. 🎧Listen in full: neweconomics.org/2025/10/your-p…

Your Party, Zack Polanski's Greens, and the shifting left-wing electoral landscape 🎙️ Loooooved helping put together this episode of the New Economics Podcast, thanks to Shanice 😈 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ and Adam Ramsay for coming on!

People want politicians to match the scale of the crises we face. Adam Ramsay talking about Zack Polanski's shake-up of the Green Party on the New Economics Podcast. Subscribe on all good podcast apps.

An apocalyptic scene from Jabalia, northern Gaza — not a single building left standing, the entire area reduced to rubble.

Episode 3 of the New Economics Podcast is out today! This week, Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Khem Rogaly from Transition Security Project, Common Wealth, and David Wearing from University of Sussex to discuss how the UK became a global arms dealer. 🎧Listen now: neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-di…

After empire, the only way for Britain to stay globally relevant was to stick close to the USA, said David Wearing on the latest ep of the New Economics Podcast. 1/2

What underpins the UK's continued military support of Israel? Khem Rogaly, from Transition Security Project @cmmonwealth, on the latest episode of the New Economics Podcast. Listen now: neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-di…

Number of homeless children in England hit a record high yesterday.

"Militaries have to be understood...as climate threats", accounting for more emissions than shipping and aviation combined. Khem Rogaly joins Ayeisha Thomas-Smith on the latest episode of New Economics Podcast to discuss how the UK became a global arms dealer. 🎧 neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-di…

Absolutely loved this conversation between Ayeisha Thomas-Smith Frances Northrop and Keir Milburn about Abundance, real and fake, on the NEF podcast. FN makes such an important point about the current state's inability to recognise the capacity that exists in ... podbean.com/media/share/di…