The Popular Show

Joe Guinan returns! From Cleveland to Preston, Joe is one of the most rigorous theorists and practitioners of 21st century socialism as ‘community wealth building’, and the pro-Brexit wonk who shaped Corbynism’s best policies. Our Thanksgiving Special rattles through the #UKFiles revelations on the relation between the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Labour Together, and the dark money that bought Keir Starmer the Labour leadership; what Bidenomics is getting wrong, crybully centrism’s ‘delusional moment’, and the liberatory meaning of Norman Finkelstein’s appearance on Piers Morgan. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow 🎧https://open.spotify.com/show/2TkRs2vrBnheimzmbS6K5y ▶️https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod

New kinds of protest and direct action against weapons manufacturers and the Democratic Party, Israel propaganda fails, and the biggest propaganda fail of all… TikTok Zoomers getting into Osama bin Laden. All on the docket with investigative journalists Olly Haynes (Novara Media, Guardian, Dissent), and Matt Kennard (Declassified UK). Additional interviews with organisers at the BAE Systems protest in Chatham, Kent, Friday 10th November 2023 by Olly Haynes. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Following TPS179’s account of how Gaza is changing the left, Rhyd Wildermuth returns for an analysis of its developing effect on the right: from Candace Owens’s breaking ranks against Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson sharing his browsing history with his son, Vivek Ramaswarmy’s Republican debate remarks, the Jordan-Petersonification of anti-antisemitism, and when that red heifer is getting born! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Following Claire Fox's appearance on The Popular Show last year, James was invited to 'The Battle of Ideas', the Spiked-connected event for political and cultural debate promising 'free speech allowed'. The event has an aura of notoriety on the left, and back in 2010, Jenny Turner described something of its oddness and agenda in the pages of the London Review of Books. Meeting TPS-favourite, Conter.Scot's David Jamieson there, James found quite a different event in 2023, one which clarified a lot of the realignment going on the left, right and reactionary centrist parts of the political spectrum today. For the full (long!) discussion, become a subscriber now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

If COVID-19 carried forms of propogandisation and securitisation developed for foreign policy into the domestic sphere, the Ukraine war showed us what they look like when brought back to war. To continue joining the dots into a new crisis, University of Leicester's Tara McCormack returns to discuss Israel's plans for Gaza, protest and free speech in the UK, Zelensky's prospects, and the UK COVID inquiry. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Egyptian activist and writer Nihal El Aasar joins us to discuss Gaza's neighbour Egypt's place in Israel's plans, the history of Israeli-Egyptian relations, and how Egyptian and other Arab elites are reacting to popular and activist feeling towards Palestine in the region. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

*Sound fixed* The assault on Gaza has the potential to throw the western political spectrum into disarray. On cancel culture, COVID, and Ukraine, the radical left has for too long allowed the right to lead on free speech and even opposition to military intervention: but apparently no more. As most of the right reverts to type on the defence of Israel, and normies drift to pro-Palestinianism, can the left retain its newly discovered assertiveness, solidarity, militancy, and courage? Dan Evans and Rhyd Wildermuth join us to discuss! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Dissecting the Gaza crisis, Zionism, liberal exhaustion and their backstory in the Cold War's reactionary liberal intellectuals, with the great historian Sam Moyn. Prof Moyn's new book is Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

SOAS's Professor Gould joins us to discuss the Gaza crisis, the recent acceleration of the clampdown on free speech and protest in the West, the materialist approach to antisemitism, and her own brush with cancellation for her criticisms of Israel. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Previously exclusive to Patreon subscribers. The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first of the "exes" never quite goes away. Legendary socialist feminist and Marxist theorist Nancy Fraser joins TPS to discuss how this core insight can offer an overdue reassessment of the left's current canards on the family, race, the environment, and 'the political'. This is a big one!  Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow