The Popular Show

The  Unlocked PART 4 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! Oxford epidemiologist and Great Barrington Declaration author Sunetra Gupta returns to TPS to discuss the 'immunity debt' hypothesis that the long impact of lockdown is making us sick now, the return of Strep A/Scarlet Fever as a killer in Britain, and whether US cities are right to demand a return to public masking. Sunetra speaks candidly about advising Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and about how COVID could have been different with the principles of Jeremy Corbyn's 2019 manifesto. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS   COVID CRITICAL. 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  Unlocked PART 3 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! NHS psychiatrist Robert Freudenthal returns to TPS to discuss how misconceptions about the structure of the NHS cause us to misread the dynamics both of the NHS during COVID and the NHS strikes of winter 2022. Robert gives an inside view of how medical practitioners view their work, and how it caused much of their leadership to miss the significance of the relationship between medicine and power that was so expanded during COVID. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS   COVID CRITICAL. 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 Unlocked PART 2 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! A view from the corporate offices is provided by Jennifer Sey, Brand President and prospective CEO of Levi's, until her opposition to school closures during COVID cost her her job. Jennifer discusses how Levi's 'woke capitalism' blended seamlessly with its siding with maximalist COVID measures, how the US upper class sees education, and the generational dynamic in the corporate world's attitude to social justice today. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS  COVID CRITICAL. 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 Unlocked PART 1 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! 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. 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

James jumps on to thank you for listening in 2022, and to consider making 2023 the year you put your hand in your pocket to help independent radical media, arts, organisation and ideas continue at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod  More ways to help our work: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

NOW WITH PATRONS at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. The amazing sequel to our Christmas 2021 HARMS OF LOCKDOWN miniseries. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL. TPS125 WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA DO WE WANT? | Jenin Younes 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. TPS126 CORPORATE COVIDIANS | Jennifer Sey A view from the corporate offices is provided by Jennifer Sey, Brand  President and prospective CEO of Levi's, until her opposition to school  closures during COVID cost her her job. Jennifer discusses how Levi's  'woke capitalism' blended seamlessly with its siding with maximalist  COVID measures, how the US upper class sees education, and the  generational dynamic in the corporate world's attitude to social justice  today. TPS127 NHS AFTER COVID | Robert Freudenthal NHS psychiatrist Robert Freudenthal returns to TPS to discuss how  misconceptions about the structure of the NHS cause us to misread the  dynamics both of the NHS during COVID and the NHS strikes of winter  2022. Robert gives an inside view of how medical practitioners view  their work, and how it caused much of their leadership to miss the  significance of the relationship between medicine and power that was so  expanded during COVID. TPS128 WHY ARE WE SICK? | Sunetra Gupta Oxford epidemiologist and Great Barrington Declaration author Sunetra  Gupta returns to TPS to discuss the 'immunity debt' hypothesis that the  long impact of lockdown is making us sick now, the return of Strep  A/Scarlet Fever as a killer in Britain, and whether US cities are right  to demand a return to public masking. Sunetra speaks candidly about  advising Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and about how COVID could have  been different with the principles of Jeremy Corbyn's 2019 manifesto. TPS129 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TIME? | Jay Bhattacharya Stanford Professor of Medicine and Great Barrington Declaration co-author Jay Bhattacharya joins TPS for a wide-ranging discussion of the lockdown debate, the mistakes in our vaccine policy, the false lessons being drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to avoid falling prey to the same top-down approaches in the next one. TPS130 LESSONS FROM THE TRUCKERS | Gord Magill Trucker Gord Magill returns to TPS to reflect on the most novel form of resistance thrown out by the COVID-19 pandemic: the Canada Truckers convoy against vaccine mandates. James and Gord discuss Justin Trudeau's invocation of emergency powers against the truckers, the failure of the left and the unions to respond adequately, and the alternative to 'from above' legalistic approaches to COVID overreach that have come to dominate the COVID critical position in recent months.

James and David reunite to discuss the power that elites managed to claw back during 2022, culminating in the normie endorsement of anti-populism in the 2022 mid-terms, and the political cluelessness exposed in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Are tech company employees on 100k workers deserving of the labour movement's solidarity? Do rail workers deserve sick pay? Do we want biometric neuralinks in the back of our heads? All these questions AND MORE are answered in this show! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows and a free beer mat 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

David returns with our favourite guest co-host, stand-up comedian Sophie Hayes, covering the Colorado Gay Club shooting, the FTX crypto collapse, bad t.v., and Canada's identity crisis. Check out Sophie's contribution to this great comedy compilation: https://lnk.to/diversityhire 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

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! 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 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.  Help us develop The Popular Show and get this and other 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