The Popular Show

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 More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

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'.  Check out Dylan at 80: http://books.imprint.co.uk/book/?gcoi=71157100599460 And the Definitely Dylan podcast: https://www.definitelydylan.com/ 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

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'. 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

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.

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 More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

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. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at 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 Patrons-only second instalment of our conversation with media innovator Rich Jensen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72304524 Check out a video segment from this interview on the Popularity Media YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/zW7z4LLrwug

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 Check out a video segment from this interview on the Popularity Media YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/zW7z4LLrwug Help us develop The Popular Show and get THREE premium episodes with Rich at at 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 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   The boys react to friend of the show, Peter Hitchens' defence of Begum: https://youtu.be/Des9fuxIMbM  Help us develop The Popular Show and get more content at at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Hear more from Wanda by subscribing to the Popularity Media YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64YRHSYudp4 and on her website: https://www.wandacanton.co.uk 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'. James appears on Wanda's podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5QrX6fyIYX2cmGg0kKUGSJ Help us develop The Popular Show and get more content at at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow  https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow