The Popular Show

Originally released to the public as a series of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82923314 COVID Critical 1: Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance Jenin Younes returns to TPS to discuss the merging of the State and social media companies during COVID. Jenin describes the fallout of her NCLA case against the US government for intervening in the banning of COVID critical Twitter accounts, the deposition of Anthony Fauci, and speculates about Elon Musk's skin is in the game.  TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL.

Matt Kennard of Declassified - the last bastion of critical foreign policy reporting in Britain - joins us to discuss Lula's UK visit, the fate of Julian Assange, the capture and decline of the Guardian, the privatisation of Ukraine, and his new book with Claire Provost: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy. Full video version available to our Patreon subscribers. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra 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

A taster of the full Patreon subscribers' episode! Founder and editor of Sublation Media and ex-Zer0 Books editor Doug Lain joins for a monster discussion of the recent history of Left media, its failures on COVID and state collusion in social media companies, the weird turn of the Democratic Party in Biden's challengers RFK jnr. and Marianne Williamson, and looking back on Kill All Normies. 

Brexit was necessary but insufficient, as the UK remains mired in the anti-democratic pathologies of 'member statehood'. Two of the authors of Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit - Bungacast and UCL's Phil Cunliffe and LSE's Peter Ramsay - join us to discuss their novel thesis on the history of the EU, how Leavers and Remainers alike misunderstood the meaning of Brexit, and why only leaving NATO, unifying Ireland, seceding from Britain's remaining colonial territories, and abolishing the House of Lords can finish the job! Support independent radical media, and get the complete VIDEO version of this episode PLUS our complete archive of patrons-only shows: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps152-brexit-82549198

Diane Abbott, Britain's first black woman MP, is the latest prominent figure of the radical left to be suspended from the Labour Party: this time over a letter to the Observer opining that while many groups experience prejudice, only black and brown people experience racism. The left's response? Deploy the "always apologise, always explain" strategy. Olly keeps it reasonable, and James just rants about the absolute collapse and paucity of the British public sphere since the Corbyn moment... and the decline of the "Rent-a-Gob of the left". Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra 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

The journalist of the protest Olly Haynes returns for a survey of the changing shape of protest in Europe. Do 'Robin Hood' energy workers, the rejection of the 'antifascism blackmail', and Mélenchon's children in France represent a break with the 'progressivism from above' that wrecks the UK Labour movement, the German Green Party and traditional Climate activism? Are we now going to start standing up for ourselves? Help us develop The Popular Show and get the FULL VIDEO of this episode plus extra 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

A third early TPS from the vault, now exclusive to TPS Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81889408 Originally published April 10th 2021. We netted the Spectator and Quillette editor, and founder of the 'Free Speech Union' Toby Young, for a provocative chat about how the Right sees the Left, and how the Right sees itself. Focussing on the questions of lockdown scepticism and Britain's alleged free speech crisis, Toby provides an analysis of the Conservative Party and British liberalism that may surprise left-wing listeners. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra 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

The long 2016 of Brexit and Trump elevated a cohort of political scientists who had predicted the rise of populism and promised solutions that would inoculate against it. Of this group, Matthew Goodwin's discourse is today itself a 'populist' invective against the woke liberal elite. Has he 'gone native'? And how does his analysis of elites shape up against that  of The Popular Show? This epsiode was originally exclusive to our Patreon supporters. The full video version remains subscriber-only @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps146-which-81155047 Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra 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

For Patrons: Another one from the TPS vault: originally released April 21st 2021 and the source of a Mail on Sunday report. Karie Murphy was Chief of Staff to Jeremy Corbyn from 2016-2019, and is a great British trade unionist and socialist in her own right. In a rare interview [to this date her last] Karie retreads the rise and fall of the Corbyn project in Britain, settles some scores, and gives an energising account of the likely direction of the younger left energies that remain. Help us develop The Popular Show and get this and other exclusives 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

AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky has argued that the pause on AI creation agreed by tech leaders isn't enough: we have to threaten nuclear strikes on countries that don't comply. David is back... PLUS James looks back at the critique of current tech in his books Other People's Politics and Work Want Work.