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Legend of the old New Left and anti-war movement Tariq Ali joins The Popular Show to discuss Lula's election victory in Brazil, lessons from Afghanistan for Putin and Biden in Ukraine, the anti-Iraq War protest movement, the abject failure of the Western Left to take an autonomous line on the invasion, and why he won't be voting for Keir Starmer's Labour Party. To listen to this episode, become a Patreon supporter and help us build the project: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps122-extreme-74097719

Nov 23, 202201:32:54

TPS121 THE RIGHT IS CRINGE TOO🔓 UNLOCKED

After a week in which the US midterms proved that the Right is cringe too... we decided to release our Patrons-only show from October 24th where we pointed out just that. "Bumper round-up for Patrons of the UK's latest governmental collapse, Tulsi Gabbard's departure from the Democrats, Kanye's White Lives Matter stunt, ethnic minority Toryism, and why you shouldn't support Keir Starmer". Originally released exclusively on https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. Subscribe now for our recent locked episodes with Tariq Ali and Juliet Jacques, plus a free Popular Show beer mat while they last!

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Nov 14, 202201:17:55

🔐TPS123 TRANS TIPPING POINT AGAIN | Juliet Jacques

The author of a trilogy of transgender memoir, fiction and journalism - Trans: A Memoir, Variations, and Front Lines returns to TPS to discuss political fiction writing, and what the Left might be missing in the changing discourse around transgenderism today.

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Nov 11, 202200:60

🔐TPS122 EXTREME CENTRES | Tariq Ali

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Nov 03, 202200:34

TPS120 DYLAN IN EUROPE | Gary Browning, Constantine Sandis, Laura Tenschert

A TPS arts edition! Who cares about Bob Dylan? Making the case for Dylan as a crucial contemporary artist and his current shows as significant art events, James speaks to the editors of Dylan at 80, Gary Browning and Constantine Sandis, plus 'Definitely Dylan' podcast host Laura Tenschert. James would like to thank Kevin for getting him a ticket to the second Palladium show!

Scroll back to our TPS70 SINGING DYLAN, with cult musician Billy Childish, including Billy's exclusive 'landline' recording for us of 'Simple Twist of Fate'.

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Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo performed Canada's first legalized same sex marriage and, as an MPP, passed into law more LGBTQ Bills than anyone in Canadian history. Today, DiNovo is the host of the Radical Reverend Radio Show on CIUT in Toronto. Her most recent book is 'The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy's Radically Honest Tale'.

Oct 22, 202255:02

TPS119 RADICAL REVEREND | Cheri DiNovo

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Oct 17, 202239:43

🔐 TPS55 MAKE BARRINGTON GREAT AGAIN | Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan TRAILER

REVISIT pt.5 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to this series finale, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. The Great Barrington Declaration, calling for an end to lockdowns and a new regime of targeted care was published in October 2020, and immediately tarred as a byword for libertarian callousness and pseudoscience. We spoke to one of its authors, Sunetra Gupta (professor of theoretical epidemiology, University of Oxford) and a prominent signatory, Carl Heneghan (director of the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine), about their contribution to debates around non-pharmaceutical interventions, where the mainstream consensus on the pandemic has gone wrong, and the misconceptions about their personal politics and funding. Prof Gupta and Prof Heneghan also give THEIR FIRST description of the notorious summit with Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, which allegedly resulted in the UK's refusal of a 'circuit breaker' lockdown in Autumn 2020.

Oct 05, 202200:34

🔐TPS118 THE NEXT BAD THING | Thomas Fazi TRAILER

Thomas Fazi returns for a massive tour of Brazilian and Italian elections, sabotage in the Baltic Sea, the REAL story of the UK's economic meltdown, and his new COVID-19 book with Toby Green... plus what is #MAGACommunism??? Subscribe for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps118-next-bad-72859031

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Oct 04, 202204:06

TPS117 THE REAL RACISTS

Italy's far right PM Giorgia Meloni, the liberal 'great replacement', Al Jazeera's 'Labour Files' documentary, and the Netflix Jeffrey Dahmer series are all on the docket in the latest TPS.

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The Patrons-only second instalment of our conversation with media innovator Rich Jensen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72304524

Sep 30, 202201:13:04

🔐TPS116 HOW EVIL? | Rich Jensen TRAILER

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Sep 21, 202202:54

TPS115 DIGITAL DIGNITY | Rich Jensen

We checked back with Rich Jensen, whose career stretches from recording for and contributing to the business infrastructure of legendary indie labels, Sup Pop and K Records, to working on the Michael Brooks Show along with our own David Slavick, to the cutting edge of the co operative internet. Check out his current work with Resonate Co Op: https://linktr.ee/resonatecoop

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The guys discuss the anti-NATO demonstrations in Prague, how the left should respond to the rise of petit bourgeois protest against lowered living standards, COVID overreach and the attack on small business, PLUS Canadian and UK state collusion with ISIS and the Shamima Begum case. Check out the Popularity Media YouTube channel for video from this episode and a bonus discussion of Joe Lycett humiliating the BBC and Liz Truss: https://youtu.be/ONeglPdCpvE

Sep 21, 202243:51

TPS114 IN DRY

The boys react to friend of the show, Peter Hitchens' defence of Begum: https://youtu.be/Des9fuxIMbM

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Sep 10, 202249:46

TPS113 ABOLITION PSYCHOANALYSIS | Wanda Canton

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Wanda Canton is a mental Health practitioner, spoken word rapper, and PhD researcher. She joins us to discuss psychoanalysis's application to mental health services today, therapy in prison, the 'Child Q' police strip search case, and 'rap as a form of knowledge'.

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Sep 03, 202254:30

🔐TPS112 GRIZZLY MAN | Alex Lee Moyer TRAILER

Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for the full episode. Conspiracy theorist and shock jock Alex Jones is one of the most censored people on the planet, and the subject of Alex Lee Moyer's new film 'Alex's War'. Moyer joins us to talk about Alex's presentational style, what his arguments tell us about the left and right, 9/11, Sandy Hook, and lots more! Check out 'Alex's War' : https://www.alexswar.com

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Aug 18, 202200:55

🔐TPS111 MANCHESTER BOMBING AND THE DEEP STATE | Phil Miller TRAILER

To listen, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod The Manchester Bombing of 2017 was represented as the work of a lone wolf pursuing a personal jihad. What we didn't know at the time was the extent of the bomber Salman Abedi's ties to the British deep state. Phil Miller is a journalist at Declassified and co-director of the film 'Blowback: The Road to Manchester': https://watch.declassifieduk.org/a/video/blowback-the-road-to-manchester-2/

Aug 13, 202201:13

TPS110 AFTERLIVES OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL | Ann Pettifor

For TPS109 INFLATION ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, also with Ann Pettifor, subscribe to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod and https://www.youtube.com/popularitymedia. After the 2008 crash, a cadre of economists and thinkers gathered to formulate a policy response on the scale of FDR's New Deal, that would undo the strangelhold of financial markets, democratise economies, and rise to the challenge of climate change. The name of that response was the Green New Deal. Today the entire spectrum of electoral politcs claims to speak for the idea, but what are the dangers of this widespread appropriation? TPS110 is also available as video @ Sublation Media: https://youtu.be/po96aU-MHco

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Aug 07, 202237:08

TPS107 PANDEMIC OF THE CARE HOME | Ross Barkan, Mareile Pfannebecker 🔓 UNLOCKED

Originally released to subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod / Video for Sublation Media @ https://youtu.be/xuyWOumI14U Lockdowns and other COVID-19 measures were billed as protecting the most vulnerable in society. Why, then, were nursing homes treated by policy makers as acceptable sites of the most concentrated deaths? Were old people victims not only of COVID-19, but of lockdown measures themselves? James talks to Ross Barkan, biographer of Andrew Cuomo and writer on New York politics for Jacobin, and Mareile Pfannebecker (critic and translator and James's own co-author).

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But Mareile and James's Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/work-want-work-9781786997289/

Aug 04, 202247:39

🔐TPS108 HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS: BBC'S 'UNVACCINATED' | Nazarin Veronica TRAILER

Patrons only! Our discussion of the patronising and propogandised way public health is represented in media has been taken down by YouTube (way to prove us wrong...), so we've released the audio to our patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/banned-from-how-69965522

Please like and subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/c/PopularityMedia. When Nazarin Veronica was invited to participate in the BBC's show 'Unvaccinated', she was promised the chance to debate the role of vaccination in the world's pandemic response. Instead she found demonisation and propaganda.

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Aug 02, 202200:25

🔐TPS106 FREAKY DEAKY | Sophie Hayes TRAILER

Just for Patrons, David's chat with Sophie moves onto what 'gaslighting' is, parenting, Reddit AND MORE! Join our community at www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod

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Jul 27, 202201:54

TPS105 ELVES & HOBBITS | Sophie Hayes

David talks to comedian Sophie Hayes about Curtis Yarvin's bonkers Elves and Hobbits piece from his SubStack, Justin Trudeau's hair and TERF celebrity delusions.

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Jul 27, 202242:40

TPS104 POPULAR MINDSET: THE FORDE REPORT

James breaks down the Forde Report into the sabotage of Jeremy Corbyn from within the Labour Party bureaucracy, and warns of the lessons we shouldn't take from it regarding anti-racism. Video version at our YouTube channel.

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Jul 25, 202230:58

🔐TPS103 NEW RIGHTS ii

Exclusive to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Our ongoing coverage of the changing shape of the right takes in Kemi Badenoch - the "anti-woke" Nigerian-heritage Tory and surprise frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister - and Josh Hawley's Senate Hearing exchange with Prof Khiara Bridges on trans-inclusive language in the abortion debate. PLUS James sees The Strokes and the guys talk protest music.

Jul 17, 202202:18

TPS102 HOT STUFF

Video from this episode is available at our new YouTube channel: youtu.be/X02tsyP0CeY. The boys talk multiple crises as farmers in the Netherlands rise against the EU Green Deal, New York city screens citizen advice ads for a nuclear attack, Germany repurposes vaccine centres for energy shortages, and the UK gets HOT. THEN the boys talk the collapse of utopia outside Saudi Arabia's 'Neom' city project, Brandon's accidental Palestinian advocacy, John Bolton's 'coup' boast AND MORE.
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Jul 17, 202240:38

TPS101 BYE BYE BOJO | Phil Burton-Cartledge

Patriots no longer in control! Your guide to the departure of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Phil Burton-Cartledge is author of The Conservative party and the Decline of Tory Britain (Verso Books). Video version at Sublation Media. Don't miss James's first response to BoJo's departure (and why they kept bringing up Corbyn) on our new YouTube channel! (like and subscribe).

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Jul 11, 202248:05

🔐TPS100 CRISIS ON CAMPUS | Emma Camp TRAILER

Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod to listen to this and our complete archive of bonus episodes. Assistant editor of Reason magazine, Emma Camp, published 'I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead' in The New York Times to some controversy earlier this year. In this Patrons episode, we discuss whether there is a free speech crisis in universities, what place 'debate' has in their function, and the changing shape of the managerial class.

Jul 07, 202201:59

TPS99 Roe v Wade Overturn IMPACT | Emma Camp

Assistant editor of Reason Magazine, Emma Camp, joins us to talk Roe v Wade overturn, the state level response, and where libertarians and leftists go wrong on abortion. Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod for our full conversation with Emma, on free speech in universities, her New York Times controversy and more!

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Jul 07, 202230:45

🔐TPS98 SWEDEN AGAINST LOCKDOWN | Johan Anderberg TRAILER

The latest of our COVID critical interviews for Patreon subscribers. Click through to our new YouTube channel for extra footage! How did Sweden go from 'pariah state' in 2020 to relative success story of the COVID-19 pandemic? And how did it resist the irresistible and avoid locking down as the rest of the world complied? Johan Anderberg is a Swedish journalist and author of The Herd: How Sweden Chose its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 years (Scribe Books).

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Jul 05, 202202:06

TPS97 ADDRESSING THE ALLEGATIONS... & REPSONDING TO ŽIŽEK | YOUTUBE EPISODE TRAILER

Subscribe to our new YouTube channel and check out the full video! Must we condemn Putin before commenting on the situation in Ukraine? Where does Žižek's NATO op ed go wrong? Where did the 'DumDum Left' come from? What is Žižek thinking? PLUS Boris Johnson, Blairite feminist.

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Jul 01, 202201:49

TPS96 PATRIOTS IN CONTROL pt.1 | Harvey J. Kaye

Historian, author and broadcaster, Professor Harvey J. Kaye joins us to debate whether the American idea is worth saving, and whether progressive patriotism can ever work. The terms of debate swell so much in this hour, that we've decided to make it an ongoing conversation. The continuation episodes covering the myth (or reality!) of FDR and the New Deal, and what a progressive/patriotic foreign policy could look like, are dropping soon, exclusively at www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

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Following allegations that ex-Corbynite journalist Paul Mason sought to conspire with security services and disinformation agencies against anti-imperialists and the left, TPS spoke to one of the authors of the revelations, the Grayzone's Kit Klarenberg, and Tara McCormack, a foreign policy academic recently denounced in UK parliament for her heterodox views on the Ukraine war. We also gave a peek of our Patreon interview with NHS psychiatrist Robert Freudenthal, which discusses working in mental health services during COVID, and how it informed Dr Freudenthal's anti-lockdown views.
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Jun 26, 202252:16

TPS95 MÉLENCHON WOULD NEVER HAVE ENDORSED BIDEN | Marlon Ettinger & Olly Haynes YOUTUBE EPISODE TRAILER

Click through to hear the full interview! Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes join us ON OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL to discuss the 2022 French legislative elections, the over-performance of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left coalition and how his model of left populism differs from that of Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn.

We wanted to let our podcast audience know that we are launching our own new YouTube channel, and we'd love to have you as the first free subscribers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IxivPUqcYO9AEAw_GS7hQ

TPS will continue with our regular podcasts and Patreon.com/ThePopularPod interviews, as well as our weekly slot on Doug Lain's Sublation Media YouTube channel. But we want another place to post video more spontaneously, and to allow us to become more reactive to news events as they occur. This will also be a space for us to return to our roots as a livestream, on special occasions.

A new YouTube channel relies on getting to 1000 subscribers relatively quickly. So any groupchats etc you can drop the link into, would be really appreciated!

Jun 25, 202201:54

TPS93 EMPIRE BURLESQUE | Kit Klarenberg, Tara McCormack, Robert Freudenthal

Jun 20, 202201:01:02

🔐TPS92 LOCKDOWN PSYCHIATRY | Robert Freudenthal TRAILER

A Patreon 'grindset' episode, where we talk to people about their work. Robert Freudenthal is a London-based psychiatrist who writes about COVID policies for the Brownstone Institute. We discuss the effect of lockdown on mental health services and service users, attitudes towards COVID containment measures within the NHS, and the UK's near miss with vaccine mandates for health workers.

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Jun 18, 202201:25

TPS91 MOMENTUM ORGANISERS | Sasha Das Gupta, Matt Hollinshead

Momentum was founded in 2015 to defend the UK Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn from outside the Party, and to provide a hub of extra-parliamentary organising. Today, the organisation stands accused of having failed to adapt to a post-Corbyn political scene, of seeking technocratic fixes within Labour Party processes instead of taking on McCarthyism within the Party directly, and - with the flailing of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group - of not even having a meaningful Labour Left left to defend. Momentum Organisers think they have a plan to reverse Momentum's fortunes, and spoke to The Popular Show about prioritising trade union mobilisation, promoting working class and trade unionist candidates for parliament, and defending free speech and anti-Imperialism in UK politics.
You can get involved in Momentum Organisers' campaign to lead Momentum's National Coordinating Group here: www.momentumorganisers.com
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Jun 17, 202259:36

🔐TPS90 PMC TRAITORS | Leighton Woodhouse TRAILER

EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS AT Patreon.com/ThePopularPod: the continuation of our conversation with Leighton Woodhouse, covering the Dave Weigel/Felicia Sonmez meltdown at The Washington Post, and the Amazon trans 'die in' protest, and what they tell us about negotiations between elite companies and their employees.

Jun 13, 202201:46

TPS89 JANUARY 6TH: CREATING A CONSENSUS | Leighton Woodhouse

James A. Smith is joined by documentary filmmaker and journalist Leighton Woodhouse, to discuss the January 6th Hearings, their mediatization and traumatisation, and how the new idiom of elites in evidence there played out in the week's misadventures at the Washington Post.

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Jun 13, 202251:47

TPS88 IMPERFECT VICTIMS | Natalie Shure

Health researcher and New Republic columnist Natalie Shure joins the boys to talk Depp v Heard and what it tells us (or doesn’t) about the afterlife of #MeToo and generational gender politics, and Havana Syndrome: the psychosomatic chronic illness taking down US Intelligence service workers and diplomats. Subscribers to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod also got the continuation discussion, taking on the nature, diagnostic status, and political significance of ‘Long Covid’… don’t miss it!
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Jun 05, 202256:22

🔐 TPS87 LONG COVID | Natalie Shure TRAILER

After many listener requests, we finally tackle Long Covid - the chronic illness described by the Social Sciences and Medicine journal as 'the first created through patients finding one another on Twitter'. Is Long Covid actually 'Long Lockdown', to what extent is it psychosomatic or an instance of social contagion, what are the politics of this apparently 'bottom up' development in diagnosis? Natalie Shure is a health researcher and columnist for New Republic. As well as this patrons-only episode, she joins us for TPS88, to discuss Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and 'Havana Syndrome'. To access this episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod, where you'll also have access to our complete archive of bonus episodes.

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Jun 02, 202203:07

🔐TPS40 DID NEOLIBERALISM DIE? | Paolo Gerbaudo, Elena Louisa Lange TRAILER

A POPULAR DEBATE format episode EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Paolo Gerbaudo (The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic) and Elena Louisa Lange (Value Without Fetish) get into a heated argument over whether populism and COVID-19 have opened the possibility of neoliberalism being transcended, or instead merely revived and expanded its exploitative power.

May 31, 202201:10

TPS86 SUBLATION vi: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

"This is insightful" - Briahna Joy Gray. Following the murder of nineteen children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas, James and David ask what has produced the rise of the school shooting in the 21st century, how the left should think about guns, and the question of conspiracy theories and disinformation around traumatic events.

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May 29, 202201:06:42

🔐TPS85 SLOW TRAIN COMING

The boys discuss the inflation crisis, 'Monkey Pox', the WHO Treaty debate, and the 'Hearing Voices' movement who live with the voices in their heads. To hear this episode, support our work and help us continue at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Donations also gratefully received at paypal.me/ThePopularShow

May 24, 202204:12

TPS84 SUBLATION v: UKRAINE WAR

The week when George W. Bush said 'Iraq' instead of 'Ukraine', World Health Organisation members met to debate taking pandemic policy yet further from democratic scrutiny, and the Economist Magazine predicts global famine if the war in Ukraine drags on. Why power today is 'audacious' and what 'this one-thingism' is doing to our politics. This episode also appears in video form at Doug Lain's Sublation Media YouTube channel. Support our work and help us continue at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod or paypal.me/ThePopularShow

May 24, 202201:03:57

🔐 TPS43 HITCHES | Ben Burgis, Peter Hitchens TRAILER

This is a special Patreon subscribers' episode. Support us on Patreon for less than the price of a pint: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps43-hitches-57702978

His support for the Iraq War so obliterated the reputation of Christopher Hitchens on the Left that the millennial and Gen Z socialists emerging since his death in 2011 are barely aware he existed. In a special crossover with Ben Burgis's Give Them an Argument show, we discuss Ben's attempts to change that with a new book, Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, Where He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters. To help us interrogate Hitchens's many contradictions, we welcome back to TPS his brother, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens: an author the elder Hitch once described as so reactionary, he felt he should a wear a garlic rosary while reading him.

May 23, 202202:08

🔐TPS83 COMPONENTS OF THE LEFT NATIONAL CULTURE | Anton Jäger, Cait Doherty, Oliver Eagleton TRAILER

What Oliver had to leave out of the Starmer book! the Jimmy Savile question! The antinomies of Mark Fisher and how they played out in the millennial left! Lawfare of the left and right! The New Left Review today! It's all here in our exclusive Patrons-only continuation episode. Become a patron now and get weekly exclusive shows, plus access to our archive of patrons-only interviews with Ben Burgis and Peter Hitchens, Michael Tracey, Laura Smith, Sunetra Gupta, Karie Murphy, Peter Dale Scott, Toby Young, Joe Guinan, and loads more.

May 15, 202203:18

TPS82 SUBLATION iv | Anton Jäger, Cait Doherty, Oliver Eagleton

Keir Starmer's work with the Obama Administration and UK Foreign Office comes under scrutiny this week, following the release of Oliver Eagleton's The Starmer Project. Along with the author, we welcome New Left Review assistant editor Cait Doherty, plus political historian Anton Jäger, to the discuss the international left's turn to the courts, and what the Bernie and Corbyn movements did next after the defeats of their leaders. Don't miss TWO all-original bonus podcasts with these guests this week, TPS81 INTELLIGENCE TEST and TPS83 COMPONENTS OF THE LEFT NATIONAL CULTURE.
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May 15, 202201:03:33

TPS81 INTELLIGENCE TEST | Cait Doherty, Oliver Eagleton

A podcast bonus with two editors of the New Left Review, in which we anticipate Sunday's big Sublation Media show on the left's legal turn, Sir Keir Starmer's deep state past, and the condition of the residual left 'Squads' after the defeat of Bernie and Corbyn. Here, we cover the week Starmer followed in Corbyn's footsteps by making himself the main character, how his resignation gamble over allegations he broke lockdown rules is perceived outside the Labour Right's weirdo circle, and how the left should respond to media attacks on Starmer going forward. Get the whole conversation soon, and all our bonus episodes, by supporting us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Check out Oliver's book on Starmer and Cait's latest article.

May 11, 202237:40

🔐 TPS80 HIDE A LITTLE LIE | Angie Speaks TRAILER

Our conversation about disinformation from TPS79 with Angie Speaks continues, dicussing the significance of the appointment of Nina Jankowicz to head up the Biden administration's Disinformation Governance Board, the role of 'toxic femininity' in the liberal approach to governance, AND MORE. Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod to listen to the whole episode.

May 08, 202201:57

TPS79 SUBLATION iii | Angie Speaks, Afeni

Our third public video and podcast episode for Sublation Media features YouTuber and Low Society podcast co-host Angie Speaks, and activist and organiser Afeni. We discuss the Roe v Wade overturn leak, the US's interests in Ukraine, compare the US Disinformation Governance Board and UK Online Safety Bill, posit 'Corbynism WITH Corbyn', and loads more. For the full Afeni interview, and the continuation of our talk with Angie Speaks, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

May 08, 202201:04:03

🔐TPS78 IMPERIAL CORE | Afeni TRAILER

DC-based organiser and activist Afeni rejoins us to discuss the Roe v Wade overturn leak, abortion in the US, diffidence over Ukraine in Black America and the global South, Biden's failures, and strategies for resistance. To hear the full episode, head over to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. For music used in this episode, follow the TPS Spotify playlist.

May 07, 202201:37

🔐TPS77 TRACEY ON TOUR | Michael Tracey TRAILER

The patrons-only continuation of our TPS76/Sublation Media chat with renegade journalist Michael Tracey! We discuss the mediatization of President Zelensky and its role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, plus Michael's European tour culminating in his collision with NATO-enthusiast Paul Mason, and the Corbynite case for war! Become a patron now and get weekly exclusive shows, plus access to our archive of patrons-only interviews with Ben Burgis and Peter Hitchens, Laura Smith, Sunetra Gupta, Karie Murphy, Peter Dale Scott, Toby Young, Joe Guinan, and loads more. Join the popular gang and help us grow.

May 01, 202202:00

TPS76 SUBLATION ii | Michael Tracey, Jenin Younes

On our cool second magazine show for Sublation Media , TPS welcomes civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes and independent journalist (and friend of the show) Michael Tracey, to discuss Elon Musk's Twitter take-over, the blurring of government and social media platforms over COVID-19, and the ongoing aftermath of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Don't miss the full interview with Jenin and the continuation of our conversation with Michael on TPS75 and TPS77, both exclusive to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

May 01, 202201:02:51

🔐TPS75 DEVIL'S ADVOCATE | Jenin Younes TRAILER

To hear the full episode, head over to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Jenin Younes is an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, currently bringing a suit against the US Surgeon General over suppression of free speech around COVID-19. Jenin explains the civil liberties case against vaccine and mask mandates, the role of courts in resisting state overreach during the pandemic period, and her own developing position on the politics of the pandemic.

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Apr 26, 202201:02

TPS74 BAD T.V. ROUND UP | Sophie Hayes

David teamed up with stand up comedian and 'Dumb Bitch Media' co-host Sophie Hayes to discuss the best bad dating shows: Netflix's 'Dating Around' and 'Ultimatum'... plus what dating show format did David once pitch to MTV?

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Apr 26, 202247:15

🔐TPS73 DON'T SAY GAY | River Page TRAILER

In the patrons-only continuation of TPS72's discussion with River Page, the guys tackle the continuities and discontinuities of trans rights with previous frontiers of civil rights, Florida's Don't Say Gay bill, and the dangers of Disney's 'liberation from above' in opposing it. Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for the full discussion, an exclusive TPS beer mat, and loads more subscriber-only episodes.

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Apr 18, 202201:56

TPS72 SUBLATION i | River Page, Carl Shoben

This public episode is the first part of a new collaboration with Sublation/Diet Soap Media, a new platform founded by Doug Lain, former editor of Zer0 Books. Published both on our own podcast feed and as a video version on the Sublation/Diet Soap Media YouTube channel, this will be our main weekly show, incorporating segments from the bigger interviews reserved just for Patrons. This episode takes the second defeat of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the French Presidential election as an opportunity to reflect on the end of the 'left populist' electoral experiments of the past decade with Survation's Carl Shoben, before turning to the US Republican Party's wave of anti-LGBT legislation with River Page - a writer with American Affairs, Twink Revolution, and Compact Magazine.
The patrons-only full interview with Carl is TPS71, and the discussion with River continues as TPS73. Please consider supporting us at this exciting time by joining our Patreon community.

Apr 18, 202201:03:13

🔐 TPS71 ADIEU LEFT POPULISM | Carl Shoben TRAILER

Become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod to hear the full interview and loads more exclusive episodes. Carl Shoben advised both Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn as a pollster and is now leader of strategic communications for the polling firm Survation. We take the second defeat of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the French Presidential election as an opportunity to reflect on the end of the 'left populist' electoral experiments of the past decade, what the international Left continues to misunderstand about its defeat, and the prospects for rediscovering our anti-systemic overlaps with the deplorables.

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Apr 16, 202203:27

TPS70 SINGING DYLAN | Billy Childish

In the thick of lockdown in March 2021, we spoke to the Greatest Living Englishman, Billy Childish, down the landline phone from his living room in Chatham, Kent. Billy is a punk and blues musician, painter, poet and much else, and has been named as an influence by Kurt Cobain, Kylie Minogue, Jack White and many others. We talked about Billy's then-latest project, an album of Bob Dylan covers, the role of confession in art and culture today, and Billy played a beautiful impromptu version of Dylan's 'Simple Twist of Fate' over the phone. To mark the publication of the second volume of Billy's Dylan project this month, we present a new podcast edit of our interview. Support us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod and help us grow. For the music we used in this episode and loads more, follow the TPS Spotify playlist.

Mar 31, 202235:46

TPS69 GRINDSET | Symeon Brown, Moya Lothian-McLean

We're talking about the work of young people entering the online 'influencer' economy and journalism today. Symeon Brown was shortlisted for an Orwell Prize in 2019 and shortlisted at the 2018 British Journalism Awards and is author of a new book on online influencers, Get Rich or Lie Trying. Moya Lothian-McLean is politic editor for Gal-Dem and a freelance journalist. The episode covers the pathologies of this deeply itinerant work, 'black-fishing', Jussie Smollett, emerging online media, and the effect all this is happening on the politics of the so-called 'Generation Left'. Support us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod and help us grow. For the music we used in this episode and loads more, follow the TPS Spotify playlist.

Mar 31, 202201:12:27

TPS68 LA RÉPUBLIQUE, C'EST MOI | Marlon Ettinger, Olly Haynes

Anticipating the upcoming French election, political commentators Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes join us to discuss Macron's record, the nature of the left populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and far right Éric Zemmour, the Yellow Vests, and the long shadow of Charles de Gaulle. Support us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod and help us grow. For the music we used in this episode and loads more, follow the TPS Spotify playlist. Consider supporting Marlon's reporting here.

Mar 18, 202254:44

TPS66 POPULAR MINDSET | Leighton Woodhouse🔓 UNLOCKED

If you dig this unlocked Patrons-first episode, please consider supporting us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Leighton Woodhouse is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include 'Trumpland: Kill All Normies', based on Angela Nagle's book. We got together to talk protest movements, COVID restrictions, Joe Rogan, and the afterlife of key figures in the alt right and Intellectual Dark Web.

Mar 05, 202258:23

TPS65 TORY TROTSKYISM | Claire Fox🔓 UNLOCKED

If you dig this unlocked Patrons-first episode, please consider supporting us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Claire Fox’s journey to being Baroness Fox of Buckley runs through the Troskyist Revolutionary Communist Party, to Living Marxism magazine, Spiked Online, the Academy of Ideas, the Brexit Party, and now the House of Lords. In this interview, we discuss whether Baroness Fox’s perspective on her habitual topics of free speech and Brexit have been changed by COVID and her own elevation to the top of the establishment, and whether there are connections between Britain’s peculiar strain of libertarian Marxism and the political of project of Boris Johnson.

Mar 05, 202201:09:24

TPS59 BAD INTERNET | Katherine Dee🔓 UNLOCKED

If you dig this unlocked Patrons-FIRST episode, consider helping us grow by subscribing at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. From the comedy of West Elm Caleb to the tragedy of an online antisemitism hunter: we reconvened with the Internet's finest anthropologist, Katherine Dee/Default Friend, to discuss how the dynamics of digital media code our personal lives and politics today. Our case studies are the mass TikTok call out of an undistinguished New York fuckboy, and the suicide of a well-liked Humanities lecturer whose online life had become a vigilante mission against Jeremy Corbyn's Left. PLUS how the Left and Right are responding to the problem of digital media ownership.

Mar 05, 202201:04:10

TPS67 DID WE STUTTER? | Michael Tracey

All eyes are on Ukraine as Russia invades. The run up to this crisis has seen unprecedented agreement on the dissident Left and dissident Right in scepticism of American intelligence and ‘realist’ critique of NATO - much of it on this show. Was this - as one friend of TPS put it - 'Iraq in reverse' with the sceptics humiliated and the West's war machine vindicated? We joined anti-interventionist journalist Michael Tracey to discuss America's hand in the crisis's fruition, #RussiaGate, the Bidens in Ukraine, and why there's never been a more important time to reaffirm the anti-Imperialist analysis. Help us out and get amazing exclusive episodes at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

Feb 26, 202201:05:46

TPS64 START THE WAR | Steve Howell, Andrew Murray

To discuss the Ukraine/Russia border crisis, anti-imperialism and anti-interventionism in Britain, the development of foreign policy under Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership, and the roots of Keir Starmer’s pro-NATO anti-Left posturing, we welcome Andrew Murray and Steve Howell. Andrew is one of Britain’s most prominent anti-imperialist voices and former chair of the Stop the War Coalition. He and Steve both served as advisors to Jeremy Corbyn during his leadership of the Labour Party. Please consider helping us grow the project by liking and subscribing, giving us a 5* review, sharing our stuff on social media, and subscribing at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

Feb 18, 202201:00:11

TPS63 HONK HONK | Gord Magill 🔓 UNLOCKED

UNLOCKED in light of Gord's Twitter ban! Gord Magill has been driving long haul for twenty five years. He spoke to us about the 'Freedom Convoy' protest at the US/Canadian border, its political ambitions and class composition, and answers some of the main accusations that have been against the protesters. If you dig this episode, you could have heard it earlier at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod, along with loads of subscriber-only bonus episodes. If you're new to The Popular Show, make sure you scroll back to last Christmas, and check out our whole series with COVID critical voices.

Feb 13, 202250:17

TPS62 LEFT IN PORTUGAL | Joana Ramiro

Portugal, the junior partner of 2015's new Left electoral experiments, offers the example with the most longevity. The supply and demand relationship the centre-left Socialist Party (PS) embarked on with the anti-austerity Communist Party and Left Bloc reached fruition in this January's general election, in which PS won a historic absolute majority. To guide us through the fate of Portugal's far Left parties, their prospects against a centre Left they they re-legitimised and the rise of a new Portuguese national populism, we welcome Joana Ramiro, contributing editor at Setenta e Quatro, and writer for Novara Media, the Guardian and elsewhere.

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Feb 11, 202257:41

TPS61 NEW RIGHTS | Curt Mills

Curt Mills is a contributing editor at The American Conservative. He was a speaker on the foreign policy realignment of the post-Trump New Right at last autumn’s National Conservatism conference: an event that moved David Brooks to despair that “what passes for the worldview of the right is a set of resentful animosities, a partisan attachment to Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson, a sort of mental brutalism”. We get the inside word on the up and comers of the post-Trump Right, compare its dynamics to those of the Corbyn project AND MORE. If you enjoy this episode, help us out and get bonus shows at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

Feb 08, 202201:00:14

TPS60 UKRAINIAN LOBBY | Jeremy Appel

Canada's long special relationship with Ukraine gives it a peculiar position in the West's current drums-for-war with Russia over the Ukrainian border. Canadian journalist Jeremy Appel joins us to outline the complex influence of the Ukrainian Right on the self-consciously progressive administration of Justin Trudeau, and the ironies of its coincidence with the new visibility of a homegrown far right in the Freedom Convoy.

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Feb 05, 202244:14

TPS58 META MEDIA | Dan Hind 🔓 UNLOCKED

More than any other British politician, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the creation of the media, and it appears that media is now resolved to take him down. Media scholar Dan Hind joins us for a wide-ranging assessment of the dynamics behind the Prime Minister's rapid collapse in the polls, the function of the BBC, the media's role in the 2019 General Election, and his plan for a new and democratised model of public broadcasting.
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Jan 27, 202257:46

TRAILER TPS57 WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL 🔐

TPS supporters at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod have access to TWO simultaneously released new episodes, with James and David, and with media scholar Dan Hind. Seriously what are you waiting for!
TPS57 WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL
The boys finally get together for some materialist critique of two big winter movies - The Matrix Resurrections and Don't Look Up- before returning to the COVID WAROOM to analyse how Trump and Boris Johnson's fortunes continue to shift with the pandemic, the real reason people hate Boris for his parties, Trump the vaccine moderate, and how lockdown maximalism became the new preferred dialect of America's elite schools.
TPS58 META MEDIA | Dan Hind
More than any other British politician, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the creation of the media, and it appears that media is now resolved to take him down. Media scholar Dan Hind joins us for a wide-ranging assessment of the dynamics behind the Prime Minister's rapid collapse in the polls, the function of the BBC, the media's role in the 2019 General Election, and his plan for a new and democratised model of public broadcasting.

Jan 22, 202201:41

TPS56 SCARFACE OF KNOXVILLE | J. Arthur Bloom

Donald Ray Reynolds, Jr. - a young black Knoxvillian with no prior trouble with the law, who owned four small businesses and possessed a Tennessee open-carry permit - has now spent a decade of a remarkable life + 75 year sentence in a controversial Bureau of Prisons Communication Management Unit in Knoxville, Tennessee: institutions set up in the George W. Bush years to house accused terrorists. New Right journalist and friend of The Popular Show, J. Arthur Bloom has been researching Reynolds' case, and sets out for us the spine-tingling evidence that Donny is in fact being detained for turning down the offer to act as an informant on Mexican cartels, in a case remarkably similar to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal of the Obama years. Support us, get extra content, and help us build the project, at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

Jan 11, 202241:25

TPS54 NO LOCKDOWN | Daniel Briggs

pt.4 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Daniel Briggs teaches at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and is co-author of Lockdown: Social Harm in the COVID-19 Era. In this new instalment of our 'COVID critical' miniseries, Daniel and James discuss the under-publicised harms of lockdown policies, the two models of neoliberalism defended by pro and anti lockdown parties, and Daniel's forthcoming study of Europe's anti-vaccine movement.

Dec 22, 202141:01

TPS53 LOCKDOWN STATISM | Tara McCormack

pt.3 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.Tara McCormack teaches International Relations at the University of Leicester and is an expert in the theory of the state. In 2018, she was attacked on the front page of the Times for her critique Britain's role in Syria. In this interview, Tara argues that the COVID-19 response reflects a 'coming home' of dynamics formerly only associated with foreign policy, as well as a decline and an attempt to renew the power of state.

This is part of mini-series speaking to COVID critical academics. Please consider supporting our work at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for subscribers-only bonus episodes.

Dec 21, 202150:22

TPS52 CORONA GENERATION | Jennie Bristow, Ellen Townsend

pt.2 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Vaccine mandates and the threat of new lockdowns come to the UK, to the backdrop of new and increasingly authoritarian measures across Europe and in parts of the US. The Popular Show is spending the run-up to Christmas speaking to academics about under-publicised negative effects of previous and existing measures, starting with the effect of lockdowns on the young. Dr Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies) and Professor Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham, Self-Harm Research Group) join us to speak about the prospects of the 'Corona Generation'. SUPPORT OUR WORK at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Patrons get early access to our hottest episodes as well as regular Patrons-only bonus episodes like this and this!

Dec 18, 202101:11:35

TPS51 pt.1 PARTY CANCELLED | Twink Revolution, River Page

Marxism with Twink characteristics is the theme of our Christmas party (Omicron permitting), as we're reunited with Sam & Gian from the cult TWINK REVOLUTION podcast, plus writer and honorary twink River Page. Itinerary for pt.1: COVD culture in Wisconsin and the South * from Coke Zero to Zero COVID * elites go woke * reviewing progressive baby books... don't miss our Patreon pt.2 AFTERPARTY! on The New Left and the CIA * Do universities reproduce elites? * Biden’s imperialism * the Compatible Left vs Assange, Corbyn and Glenn!

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Dec 10, 202153:20

TPS50 28 LOCKDOWNS LATER | Thomas Fazi, Toby Green

pt.1 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. As lockdowns for the unvaccinated spread across Europe, we sat with Thomas Fazi ('Reclaiming the State') and Toby Green ('The COVID Consensus') for a dissenting look at COVID containment measures over the past 20 months, and to discuss what a prospectus for a COVID critical Left could look like.

Dec 03, 202155:49

TPS49 pt.1 BAD BOYS OF BREXIT | John Redwood MP, David Jamieson, Joe Guinan

This is part 1 of a special episode bringing together voices from across the political spectrum who share a positive vision for Britain outside the European Union. Part 2. MAD LADS OF LEXIT, continues the discussion with David Jamieson and Joe Guinan, and is available to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Subscribers already got the unedited interview with John Redwood when it was recorded in October. The BAD BOYS are: Sir John Redwood, MP, head of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit, and a longstanding Eurosceptic of the Tory Right. David Jamieson, a Scottish Marxist, co-host of Contercast, and a rare supporter both of Brexit and Scottish Independence. And Joe Guinan, Vice President of the Democracy Collaborative Think Tank and a key contributor to the economic policies of Jeremy Corbyn.

Nov 26, 202101:32:45

TPS48 SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK

As the Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty verdict was announced, David and James sat down to discuss the FOUR FALLACIES of the panicked left-liberal response to the case: 1. that it is the court's function to adjudicate between political ideologies, 2. that courtroom decisions determine the moral character of perpetrators or victims, 3. that 'imagine a black man did this' is a progressive argument, and 4. that a not guilty verdict is a license to future fascist violence. Help us keep having the toughest conversations on the left. SUBSCRIBE at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for regular bonus episodes.

Nov 20, 202101:05:40

TPS47 BETTER THAN HILLBILLY ELEGY | Rax King

Welcome back to RAX KING, author of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer and co-host of the Low Culture Boil podcast. David and Rax get into the pleasures of Jewish holidays, cheap perfume, the ethical code of Jersey Shore, the relative merits of being in the mall and being online, and the meaning of LET’S GO BRANDON. Our supporters at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod got this episode first, as well as a whole archive of subscriber-only episodes. Why not start helping us grow the platform for less than the cost of a beer per month?

Nov 13, 202140:52

TPS46 pt.1 THE OTHER PANDEMICS | David Bell

David Bell is a leading global health expert, who has worked at the top of the World Health Organisation and for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He believes that the use of lockdowns and universal vaccination in the response to COVID-19 has been a grievous error, and a betrayal of the founding principles of the global healthcare sector. In pt.1 of a wide-ranging interview, David describes first-hand the takeover of global health by corporate interests, and how the successive pandemics and near-pandemics of the 21st century have led the WHO in an increasingly authoritarian direction. In our subscribers-only pt.2, THE COVID ERROR, David continues the story, to explain why he thinks a twenty-year drift in the WHO away from its founding constitution has resulted in the disastrous error of lockdowns and vaccine mandates today.

Nov 05, 202151:02

TPS45 pt.1 HORROR ROUND UP! | Mary Wild

This is pt.1 of a 2-part episode. To listen to pt.2, 'The Wisest Woman in Europe' - on Freud vs. Jung, T.S. Eliot, the meaning of birthdays, and the scary fate of the director of ‘Human Centipede' - subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. In pt.1, we team up with psychoanalytic film scholar, Mary Wild, to review the biggest horror releases of the summer: Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele's 'Candyman' and James Wan's 'Malignant'. For extra Halloween spookiness, Mary gets her tarot cards out to predict David and James's futures!

Oct 29, 202146:06

TPS44 pt.1 LAURA2LAURA | Laura Pidcock, Laura Smith

This is PART 1 of a two-part episode. PART 2, 'Too Laura to Laura', continues the discussion with Laura Smith, and is available exclusively to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. The rise and fall of Corbynism is marked by the 2017 victories and 2019 defeats of Laura Pidcock and Laura Smith as radical left Members of Parliament for North West Durham and Crewe and Nantwich. In this unique discussion, the Lauras talk Laura to Laura about the subsequent direction of the Labour Party, the problem with the Labour Right, the Keir Starmer they knew, building left power outside parliament, and what the hell went on in there.

Oct 26, 202159:33

TPS42 THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE | Afeni

Help us continue making great shows and get bonus episodes and early-access interviews at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Afeni joined us from Freedom Fighters DC to talk about keeping politics local in the national core, why the Squad keeps folding, policing in the US and UK, Dave Chappelle and Nicki Minaj breaking rank with their class, the rise of the generation that reached political maturity in the Trump years… PLUS why she’s a “fuck-around-and-find-out free speech absolutist”.

Oct 16, 202158:15

TPS41 TUMBLRISTAS | Katherine Dee

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Subcultural spaces associated with the far right - from GamerGate to 4Chan - have attracted endless analysis. But what about their radical liberal cousin? The guys kicked back with Katherine Dee to revisit Tumblr: Obama-era clickbait journalism's favourite source of anthropological adventures, as well as the laboratory for many mores around sex, identity, and politics today.

Oct 04, 202148:34

TPS38 HOW THE WEST LOCKED DOWN AFRICA | Toby Green 🔓UNLOCKED

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Support for maximal lockdown measures has been an article of faith for liberals and the left since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But where did this unprecedented approach to pandemic containment come from? And was it suitable to all the global contexts it was deployed in? Africanist Toby Green is a dissenting voice you NEED to hear. His book Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality is an outstanding analysis of the regressive effects of lockdown policies, and the neocolonial dimension of their imposition on the Global South.

Sep 17, 202152:05

TPS39 MAGHANISTAN

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How is the Afghanistan withdrawal being received on the dissident right? MAGA depends on keeping clear water between its 'anti-imperialism of the right' and the bipartisan forever wars of the neocon establishment: a narrative thrown by warmonger Biden's abrupt cutting ties with wars of humanitarian intervention and state building. The fellas look at Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon's scramble to respond to Biden's surprising continuities with Trump, reshaping their stances on the deep state, the military, and culture wars as they do so. We also scoop up Joe Rogan's iv*rm*ct*n controversy, and predict new fractures on the left and within the professional class if anti-COVID measures ramp up once more in the coming months.

Sep 12, 202158:58

TPS35 pt.2 ENGLISH IRONIES | Marc Wadsworth 🔓UNLOCKED

TOO IMPORTANT TO STAY LOCKED. One of the most notorious instances of the weaponisation of antisemitism, with ramifications across the international Left. In pt. 2 of our interview with Marc Wadsworth, we discuss Marc's suspension from the UK Labour Party in 2016 after allegations of antisemitism, how the antiracism he spent his career fighting for has been turned against the Left, and - most candidly - where Jeremy Corbyn himself went wrong in his management of the affair. If you missed pt. 1 RACIST ENDEAVOURS, about Marc's past as a campaigner at the heart of the Stephen Lawrence case, scroll back now.

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Aug 30, 202101:02:06

TPS37 TFW NO HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

The fellas discuss Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and the resulting political class meltdown, the arrival of incel terrorism in the UK with the Plymouth shooting, and answer YOUR emails about the prospect of left-wing political violence in the face of climate change. It's a three-fingers of bourbon kind of show, and keep the bottle on hand!

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Aug 20, 202101:10:19

TPS36 BIRTHDAY BOYS

David and James discuss the summer plans of the narcissists and perverts that pass for a ruling class: the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, Obama's birthday party, the IPCC Climate Change Report, the lawsuit against Prince Andrew, and Tucker Carlson's visit to Hungary. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere!

Aug 12, 202159:42

TPS35 pt.1 RACIST ENDEAVOURS | Marc Wadsworth🔓UNLOCKED

This is the UNLOCKED pt.1 of a 2-part interview. For ENGLISH IRONIES - our discussion of Marc's expulsion from the Labour Party and where the Left went wrong in the Labour antisemitism affair - subscribe now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

A trade unionist and leading Black rights activist through the 1980s and 90s, Marc Wadsworth was part of a cadre of campaigners who gathered around the family of Stephen Lawrence after the racist murder of the London teenager - and subsequent bungled police investigation - in 1993. In this interview, Marc tells the remarkable story of fighting for justice with the Lawrences, recruiting Nelson Mandela to the campaign, and finally how Britain's elites used the case to launder their own reputations.

Aug 07, 202157:20

TPS34 pt.1 RACE REDUCTIONISM | Touré Reed 🔓UNLOCKED

This is the UNLOCKED pt.1 of our interview with Touré Reed. pt. 2 DIANGELO AGONISTES - on liberals' ever-shifting bullshit on race, and why the Left falls for it - is available ONLY to our Patreon supporters. Please consider dropping us £3 a month in exchange for first access to our biggest interviews, as well as regular Patreon-only episodes that never get unlocked. Help us continue. Follow us everywhere and spread the word.

In Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, Touré Reed argues that liberals and self-identified antiracists increasingly think in terms of races embodying inherent qualities: in a mirror image of the more conventional racism they oppose in their antagonists on the right. Reed calls this 'race reductionism'. In part 1 of a wide-ranging interview, we discuss socialist universalism's failure to make inroads with Black voters in 2020, the Black vote for Biden and Trump, the antinomies of BLM, and the danger of underplaying the class basis of mass incarceration and police killings.

Aug 03, 202148:54

TPS33 HAVANA CLUB | Keith Bolender

Find and Follow us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow. Help us continue and get exclusive episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. As protests in Cuba prompt the Biden administration to reiterate the extremism towards Cuba of the Trump years, we call on Cuba-expert Keith Bolender to tell the story of America's long and violent history of trying to control the island. We get Keith's account of recent changes in Cuba's governance, the generational changes in how Cubans view the revolution, and what the US and UK left get wrong about anti-Imperialism.

Jul 26, 202101:03:24

TPS32 DEEP WOKE | Vida Starr

Vida Starr is a Trauma-Informed Care Educator and co-host of the Champagne Sharks and Afrogyn Revolt shows. We asked her to give us the balance sheet on Black politics since the George Floyd murder, what woke academia and media gets wrong about Black men and Black women, and the significance of a series of Olympics bans for Black women athletes. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere!

Jul 11, 202159:12

TPS30 NORTHERN TORYISM | Jake Berry, MP

This is our latest interview with the political figures grappling with what happens when a right-wing party succeeds with an economically populist offer. Jake Berry is Conservative Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen, and leads the Northern Research Group - the collection of Tory MPs representing constituencies in the traditionally Labour-dominated north of England. The NRG seeks to petition its party to make good on the higher spending 'side-of-the-bus' populism of Brexit. We ask whether Boris Johnson's Conservative Party really differs from previous incarnations, how the Jeremy Corbyn moment looked from the other side, and get Jake's view of new left experimentation in local government in the north, such as the 'Preston Model'. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere!

Jun 30, 202145:36

TPS29 TO ACCUSE A PRESIDENT | Tara Reade🔓UNLOCKED

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In the run-up to the 2020 US Presidential Election, Tara Reade accused the eventual winner, Joe Biden, of a sexual assault, which she alleged took place in 1992, when Reade was working for his Biden's Senate Office. What happened next was a chilling series of events, exposing the interrelations between the Biden administration and the NGO complex, Hollywood and the Democratic Party, and the dark side of #MeToo. We were privileged to speak to Tara Reade about what happens to a person after they make an accusation like this.

Jun 25, 202155:41

TPS27 pt.1 DEEP STATE | Peter Dale Scott 🔓 UNLOCKED

This is the unlocked pt.1 of a 2-part interview. In our Patreon subscribers-only pt.2, we discuss the 2021 Capitol Uprising and 2020 election as 'deep events', plus Peter Dale Scott's current thinking on the Kennedy Assassination and 9/11, and what he left out of his previous writings on them. Scott also speaks about his collaboration with the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, and the long view of human history he takes as a poet and literary scholar.

Unlocked pt.1: In a rare interview, Peter Dale Scott spoke to us about his half century-long project investigating the anti-democratic 'deep events' structuring the American Order: from the Kennedy Assassination to 9/11. We get his response to the right-wing appropriation of his work - from Alex Jones to Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - his candid appraisal of Noam Chomsky, and his intuitions about the direction the 'deep state' is taking today.

Jun 10, 202141:29

TPS28 pt.1 VEILED PROFITS | J. Arthur Bloom

We're joined by the digital editor of The American Conservative, J. Arthur Bloom, for a wide-ranging discussion of the lab leak hypothesis, media 'fact checkers', and the Non-Profits cultivating progressive causes for elite ends. Get on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for part 2, on the cancellation of Ellie Kemper, and the question of where the dissident Right and dissident Left can find common cause. Follow us everywhere and spread the word! linktr.ee/ThePopularShow !

Jun 06, 202159:40

TRAILER TPS27 pt.2 DEEP EVENT | Peter Dale Scott🔐

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In the subscribers-only second part of our Peter Dale Scott interview, we discuss the 2020 election and 2021 Capitol uprising as 'deep events', plus Peter's current thinking on the Kennedy Assassination and 9/11, and what he left out of his previous writings on them. Scott also speaks about his 1960s collaboration with the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, and concludes with a spellbinding improvised lecture on the long view of human history he takes as a poet and literary scholar.

May 29, 202103:30

TPS24 pt.1 TRANS PSYCHOANALYSIS | Patricia Gherovici🔓 UNLOCKED

This episode previously appeared as a premium patrons-only episode. Part 2 - 'Enjoy Your Castration' - remains exclusive to subscribers on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

Freudian psychoanalysis has a reputation as both an elite indulgence and as sexually normative and prescriptive. So what could it have to offer either trans people today or the poor immigrant residents of America's barrios? Argentine psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici specialises in working with trans patients, as well bringing the perspective of South American "psychoanalysis for the people", which holds the exploration of the unconscious as a radically democratic act. In the first part of a two-part interview, David and James discuss how psychoanalysis can break us out of liberal platitudes in today's debates on trans.

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May 28, 202149:22

PREVIEW TPS26 THE END OF #METOO? | Katie Roiphe 🔐

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In the first of a series of discussions of philanthropists and non-profits, we teamed up with author and journalist Katie Roiphe to discuss the role of #MeToo discourse in the reportage of the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates. On the way Katie discussed her own brush with the dynamics of #MeToo and her prescient critique of it in Harper's, and looked back on her tv debate from 1994 with Christopher Hitchens and Naomi Wolf.

May 23, 202123:32

TPS25 BANNED FROM THE HOUSE | Joe Guinan, Matthew Brown

A UK Labour Party update with economist, Joe Guinan, and the Last Good Man in Labour, leader of Preston City Council, Matthew Brown. We discuss what happens when a Left party goes Right, responding to Biden and Boris's spending splurges and the demands of the new Northern Right, PLUS how economic democracy and community wealth building might qualify demands to 'Defund the Police'.

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May 14, 202158:35

TRAILER TPS24 pt.2 ENJOY YOUR CASTRATION | Patricia Gherovici🔐

In Part 2 of our interview with Lacanian analyst Patricia Gherovici, we discuss the Black Mountain Institute director Joshua Wolf Shenk's exposure of himself while on a Zoom meeting in the bath, and Joe Biden as castrated father. This episode is a premium patrons-only episode, exclusive to subscribers on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Pt. 1, 'Trans Psychoanalysis', is now unlocked on your podcast app.

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May 08, 202101:59

TPS23 LOVE IN THE AGE OF VAPOUR | Roisin Kiberd

In Alfie's farewell episode, columnist of the subcultures Roisin Kiberd, author of The Disconnect (2021) joins to talk about Facebook and the culture of the normie, birds taking over the world, Monster Energy and falling in love online. Enjoy the vapourwave.

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May 06, 202152:01

TPS22 OSCAR BAIT | Rax King, Courtney Rawlings, Amber Rollo

David and James party with the queens behind the Low Culture Boil podcast - chatting over why no one watched the Oscars, the aesthetics of COVID masks, and whether the Internet is camp, kitsch, or cringe. If you’re having fun with The Popular Show, don’t forget to throw in some beer money at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod

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Apr 30, 202152:34

TRAILER RED SCARE BOOTLEG SERIES | Anna Khachiyan, Dasha Nekrasova🔐

The Popular Show/Red Scare Bootleg series is available only to subscribers of https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. Between the start of lockdown and early 2021, we interviewed the hosts of Red Scare - the greatest podcast in history - four times. We present now to our patrons, four new episode edits of those conversations, comprising the Red Scare Bootleg Series. Bootleg 1 is Dasha on Jeffrey Epstein, Bootleg 2 is Anna on Michel Houellebecq, Bootleg 3 is both ladies in conversation with The Nation's JoAnn Wypijewski on election night 2020 (as the surprisingly strong results for Donald Trump began to come in), and Bootleg 4 is Dasha on Lana Del Rey. These are never getting unlocked, so you know what to do.

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Apr 28, 202102:12

TPS18: BATMANSPLAINING | Brandon Sutton

We marked the release of the #SnyderCut of the Justice League movie by teaming up with the hilarious Brandon Sutton for a deep dive into the aesthetics and politics of superheroes. A second episode with Brandon ('The Coolio Cut') is available exclusively to our patrons at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod.

Mar 26, 202153:02

TPS17: MASK OFF | Juliet Jacques

Author of 'Trans: A Memoir' and Suite 212 host Juliet Jacques takes us on a long march through Britain's reactionary institutions: the police, the media, and corporate comedy... plus the team reminisce about early 2000s Blairite Manchester. This is PART 1 of a two part interview, but you need to sign up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod) to get PART 2, where Juliet spills the tea on interviewing Jeremy Corbyn and lays out her design for a post-COVID hedonistic left!

Mar 19, 202156:16

TPS15: DEPTHLESS REALIGNMENT (Grace Blakeley)

When right-wing parties adopt left-wing aesthetics. The economist and author Grace Blakeley joins us to debate the UK Tories' alleged Corbynista turn, and to spill the tea on coming up on the left in the Corbyn era, and after.

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Mar 05, 202153:09

EPISODE 14: BATHWATER CHRIST (Peter Coffin)

We caught up with veteran YouTuber, Peter Coffin, to analyse Stonewall's advocacy of 'Aromantic Awareness Week', and the company offering artisan meats cloned from the tissue of celebrities.

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Feb 25, 202153:51

EPISODE 13: MCCARTHYISM (Sean P. McCarthy)

Celebrating Irish American excellence with populism's greatest stand up comedian, Sean P. McCarthy. We play a new gameshow segment, 'Who's Been Cancelled Now?', covering the targeting of Gina Carano, Ken Loach, and Nathan Robinson, before getting Sean's views on stand up comedy's role in the culture war and the new Adam Curtis.

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Feb 19, 202157:02

EPISODE 12: POPULAR INTERNATIONAL II (Andray Domise, Trevor Beaulieu, Chardine Taylor-Stone, Annie Olaloku-Teriba)

Chardine Taylor-Stone, Annie Olaloku-Teriba, Andray Domise, and T from 'Champagne Sharks' join us for a trans-Atlantic interrogation of current directions within the Black left, the class division INSIDE Black Lives Matter, the aesthetics of US and UK security services, and how we are to mourn COVID.

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Feb 16, 202101:04:57

EPISODE 11: INDIAN CARNAGE (Ashok Kumar)

We caught up with the author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age to discuss the farmers' protests in India and to contrast India's social movements with those in the West. Before that we picked up the traumification of AOC and the Democratic Party, David offered an insider's guide to the structure of the Capitol Building, and Ashok gave the DEFINITIVE account of why bringing trauma into politics is always reactionary.

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Feb 13, 202101:04:06

EPISODE 10: READY WORKER ONE (Paolo Pedercini, Marijam Didzgalvtye, Jamie Woodcock)

Populism, Politics and Playstations. We are joined by legendary game maker Paolo Pedercini, creator of Democratic Socialist Simulator, Nova Alea, To Build a Better Mousetrap and other anti-capitalist games, games industry activist Marijam Didzgalvtye of Left, Left, Up and Jamie Woodcock - author of Marx and the Arcade.

Feb 09, 202101:53:27

EPISODE 9: INAUGURATION HOUSE PARTY! (Angie Speaks, Brandon Sutton, IntrnetDaughter)

This week we played some party games in a special session of The Popular Show. feat. online personalities @SpeaksAngie, @intrnetdaughter, @PrettyBadLefty and others. It was a very good laugh.

Feb 01, 202102:08:29

EPISODE 8: SQUAD GOALS (Fiorella Isabel, Shant Mesrobian, Dumb Bitch Media)

Critiquing The Squad's response to economic populism, anti-imperialism, and the #CapitolRiots with Fiorella Isabel and Shant Mesrobian, discussing the UK government's embarrassing £30 food parcels, and then fun time with Dumb Bitch Media: ethical cannibalism under digital capitalism?

Jan 19, 202101:26:56

EPISODE 7: BREXIT AQUARIUS + #FreeAssange (Joe Guinan, Renata Avila)

For a special episode, we were joined by Corbyn advisor and economist Joe Guinan, who describes to us the path to a democratised national economy OUTSIDE THE EU that the UK left should have been pursuing all along. We were also joined by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks lawyer Renata Avila to get an update on his case and the campaign to save his life.

Jan 12, 202157:29

EPISODE 6: BRAZILIAN CARNAGE (Alex Hochuli, Matthew Richmond, Romulo Peas)

We went to Brazil to discuss the rise of the populist Right with Bolsonaro, the possibility of a Brazilian Left and another Lula government, anti-fascism and the discipling of the Left, the pandemic in South American and Neymar's lockdown party.

Join us with Romulo Peas, former deputy minister for development in Lula and Dilma's government and with Alex Hochuli of the Auphebunga Bunga podcast and Matthew Richmond of LSE, who joined us from across Brazil.

Jan 12, 202101:43:56

EPISODE 4: POPULAR INTERNATIONAL (Thomas Frank, Ian Lavery MP, Jon Trickett MP, Laura Smith)

The team were joined by Labour MPs Jon Trickett and Ian Lavery, and ex-MP Laura Smith - to talk about the Left in Britain and the need for a populist politics within the major political parties. We then talked with legendary American journalist Thomas Frank about the failures of liberalism on the other side of the pond.

We also played POPULAR QUESTIONS with a live jingle performed by one of the team!

Dec 21, 202001:47:47

EPISODE 3: NU-POPULISM (Krystal Ball, Annie Olaloku-Teriba, Rivkah Brown)

The team are joined by Krystal Ball to talk about populism and the conversations that might be possible with the Right that we cant have with the liberals. Before that, they welcome Rivkah Brown and Annie Olaloku-Teriba to discuss how the establishment chronically fails to deal with racism.

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Dec 13, 202001:30:17

EPISODE 2: LOCKDOWNS AND THE LEFT (Peter Hitchens)

This week we were joined by the Mail on Sunday's fascinating Peter Hitchens to discuss how the right sees the left (and itself), and the movement AGAINST lockdown. Then we talked to barrister Paul Clarke from the Global Legal Action Network discussing one of the most historic and important cases for the future of the climate which is spearheading currently. Oh, and we had a chat about Maradona.

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Dec 05, 202001:26:41

EPISODE 1: ETHEREAL BISEXUAL OF THE SPOTLESS PREZ (Margaret Kimberley)

Welcome to THE POPULAR SHOW. In the first episode, the team talk about the events of the week as Jordan Peterson makes publishers at Penguin cry. Then they welcome Margaret Kimberley to talk about black activism in America now, why not to feel frabjous joy at Biden's presidency and the hollowness of the Obama years. Finally, they deconstruct Netflix's The Crown and the British monarchy today. Enjoy.

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Nov 28, 202001:38:10

EPISODE MINUS 1: FOUR MORE YEARS (Glenn Greenwald, Twink Revolution)

Glenn Greenwald was on The Popular Show last week telling how the Left has been destroying itself, why its more important to see connections between Corbyn and Trump than Trump and Boris and what he learned from Michael Brooks.

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