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Trump Says “Decaying” Europe Led By “Weak” People | #novaralive
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- Trump Says “Decaying” Europe Led By “Weak” People | #novaralive
- Runtime
- 1:12:29
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In an interview with Politico, Donald Trump has dismissed Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” and “politically correct” people.
Plus: Tony Blair has been removed from the Gaza peace plan following objections from Arab and Muslim nations.
With Aaron Bastani & Kieran Andrieu.
00:00 Intro
01:37 Donald Trump has dismissed Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” and “politically correct” people
35:35 Tony Blair has been removed from the Gaza peace plan following objections from Arab and Muslim nations
44:32 Piers Morgan’s interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes…
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- Hunger Striking Prisoners Are 'Not Guilty Of Anything'
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- 'They're taking hunger strike action in order to draw attention to the fact that they are remand prisoners. They're not guilty of anything. They haven't been convicted of anything.'
Jeremy Corbyn speaking to Novara Media after meeting with an imprisoned constituent, Amu Gib, who has been refusing food for 38 days.
Amu is one of 8 people on hunger strike at various prisons in the UK, all of whom have been detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation.
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- How Amazon Makes Literally Everything More Expensive
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Did you know that Amazon imposes "junk fees" on its website that drive up the price of goods across the board?
Technology critic Cory Doctorow talks Aaron Bastani through some of the many ways Amazon is squeezing customers - and sellers too.
Head to our YouTube channel to catch up on their full conversation from Downstream IRL.
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- The US Just Went Full White Nationalist on Europe
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "Who wrote this, Tommy Robinson?"
Last week, the US published a new national security strategy that says the quiet part out loud. They're worried that in the future, "Europe might not be white enough to be a reliable ally," Michael Walker noted on Novara Live.
He was joined by Barry Malone to discuss the "insane" new strategy.
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- Labour Ramp Up Attacks On Zack Polanski
- Runtime
- 7:16
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- Trump's Peace Plan for Ukraine Is an Absolute Gift for Putin
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Is Ukraine the biggest failure of Trump's presidency so far?
On Novara Live, Barry Malone examined the peace deal that Trump accused Zelenskyy of not reading and said the US president has been "completely outmanoeuvred" by Vladimir Putin.
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- The Deal That Could Change The Future Of Entertainment And Political Media
- Runtime
- 22:56
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow:
https://youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY
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- Zelenskyy Meets European Leaders as Trump Forces Peace Plan | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:02:59
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Zelenskyy in Downing Street as peace talks continue.
Plus: The failed coup in Benin, Paramount interferes in the potential Netflix/Warner Bros deal, and Zack Polanski’s somewhat controversial reasons for why migration is needed…
00:00 Intro
00:33 Zelenskyy Visits Downing Street
17:56 Coup Quashed In Benin
32:34 Netflix VS Hollywood
55:21 Labour VS Zack Polanski.
With Michael Walker & Barry Malone.
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- Title
- How To Smash Big Tech’s Grip on Our Lives
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Don’t kvetch about Elon Musk’s Nazi salute. He lives for the attention. Make it legal for mechanics to jailbreak Teslas and unlock all the software!”
Technology critic and author Cory Doctorow tells Aaron Bastani how excited he is about the possibility of a “post-American internet.”
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- Palestine Hunger Striker's Sister Confronts David Lammy
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Justice secretary David Lammy claimed ignorance about the Palestine Action hunger strike in UK prisons when confronted by activists and an inmate’s family member on Friday evening.
“I don’t know anything about this,” he said when Shahmina Alam, the sister of one of the hunger strikers, showed him a printout of a letter he had been sent urging him to intervene.
Alam’s brother Kamran Ahmed – one of seven people refusing food – was hospitalised on 25 November after joining the strike on 10 November. She has said she fears for his life.
The hunger strikers are calling for immediate bail, the closure of an Israeli weapons firm in the UK, and the end of the ban on Palestine Action.
Lammy’s claim that he was unaware of the strike will be unconvincing to many, especially as it comes after Labour backbencher John McDonnell tabled an Early Day Motion urging the justice secretary to ensure the inmates’ “human rights are uphel...
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- Big Tech Companies Are Like 'Rats Eating Our Faces'
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Have you noticed that the internet is getting worse? It’s not just you: time online is filled with less of what we search for, and a lot more advertising and AI slop. Technology critic and author Cory Doctorow talks to Aaron Bastani about the forces driving what he calls ‘ensh*ttification.’
“Why do these companies abuse us, right now? It's… because they can, because we don't stop them!”
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
- Runtime
- 1:20:25
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Did you know that the standard of Google searches has actually gotten worse over recent years? Once you think about it, it makes sense. Highly effective search means fewer searches overall. And fewer searches mean less ad revenue. The financial basis of Alphabet, which is Google’s parent company, is, of course, digital advertising. Which means that undermining the quality of the company’s cornerstone product actually makes money. That’s how crazy the modern internet has become. There are, as the saying goes, many such cases.
Cory Doctorow, this week’s Downstream guest, has a word for this phenomenon: ‘Ensh*tification’. He’s written a book about it, too. In front of a live audience at EartH Hackney, Aaron Bastani sat down with him to discuss it, and the implications of an internet that just gets worse.
Ensh*tification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It explains the destruction of the internet by monopolistic, multi-trilli...
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- The Middle Class Has Taken Over the Left. How Do We Fix It?
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Don’t be so patronising about what ordinary people can do!”
Ash Sarkar in conversation with co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- DEBATE: Marxism VS Social Democracy
- Runtime
- 29:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- This Tech Boss Wants To Profit From Your Opinions
- Runtime
- 23:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Nigel Farage Now Accused of Racism By TWENTY EIGHT Former School Mates | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:14:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Twenty-eight of Nigel Farage’s former classmates and teachers have said that they witnessed racist or anti-Semitic behaviour by Nigel Farage during the 1970s and 1980s.
Plus: The tech boss who wants to profit from your opinions.
00:00 Intro
01:44 Nigel Farage Accused Of Racism
20:41 CEO Says "Financialize Everything"
44:14 Zarah Sultana Says "Nationalise Everything"
With Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker.
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- Nigel Farage's Problem With Migration Is Just Pure Racism
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Turns out that Nigel Farage loves migration for rich people.
On Novara Live, Dalia Gebrial dissects how Nigel Farage's hypocrisy on migration reveals his vision of a society that controls and excludes certain kinds of people.
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- 'You're Not Decent!' Reform Booed on Question Time
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- 0:37
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Zia Yusuf was accused of being "rude" on Question Time's immigration special last night after he chastised an audience member for not understanding Reform's policy on ending indefinite leave to remain.
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- Piers Morgan STUNNED By “Bigoted” Valentina Gomez
- Runtime
- 11:27
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Zack Polanski: Migrants Didn't Break Britain. Austerity Did.
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “You're a government of cowards.”
Zack Polanski didn’t hold back on Question Time’s immigration special last night. The Green party leader accused Labour, Reform and the Tories of cosying up with billionaires and relying on false narratives about migration.
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- Pete Hegseth Accused Of Drone Striking Venezuelan Boat Survivors
- Runtime
- 16:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Labour’s Compromise With The Employment Rights Bill | #novaralive
- Runtime
- 1:03:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Plus: Reform Party receives £9m donation, Pete Hegseth accused of a war crime, and Valentina Gomez stuns Piers Morgan with her extreme views.
With: Helena(NoJusticeMTG), Dalia Gebrial & Meg De Meo
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- Title
- Will Zack Polanski Transform British Politics?
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "Unless the people come first... you're not going to defeat fascism."
Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, in conversation with Ash Sarkar.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- Climate Activists Crash Award Ceremony for Oil and Gas Industry
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Climate activists from Fossil Free London crashed an awards ceremony for oil and gas executives at the Hilton hotel in Mayfair on Wednesday evening.
The World Energy Council Assembly was hosting a dinner to recognise the “achievements” of top fossil fuel bosses when the campaigners stormed in shouting: “No awards for climate criminals".
Attendees in tuxedos sipped champagne as the activists were dragged out of the ceremony.
“The image could not be any clearer – they don’t care,” Fossil Free London said in a statement.
“As long as they are making money they will continue… they knew burning their product would kill an untold amount of people.”
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- The Case For Decolonizing Economics
- Runtime
- 34:39
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Surbhi Kesar, co-author of the book ‘Decolonising Economics’,
which critiques Eurocentrism in the economics profession, joins Michael Walker.
Previous interview with Anton Howes: https://youtu.be/hD0h0ymhP5A?si=oG30Syr9aX8sujbL
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- Police at Hillsborough Put My Dad in a Body Bag While He Was Still Alive
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Charlotte Hennessy’s father was unconscious but still alive when police officers put him in a body bag during the Hillsborough disaster.
Later, two other officers unzipped the bag and found he was hot and had vomited – then zipped it up again and didn’t tell anyone. Neither of them had to give evidence at the inquest.
After a final report found police were responsible for the 1989 tragedy but will not face any accountability, Hennessy spoke to Novara Live on Wednesday night.
Watch the full interview on Novara Media's YouTube channel.
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- Hillary Clinton: Genocide on TikTok Only 'Misinformation'
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Hillary Clinton thinks young people learning about the genocide in Palestine on TikTok is a "serious problem for democracy".
But the biggest disseminators of fake news about 7 October have been the mainstream media, argues Michael Walker on Novara Live.
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- Hillary Blames Anti-Zionism On TikTok
- Runtime
- 10:32
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Title
- Watch This POWERFUL Interview With Hillsborough Victim’s Daughter
- Runtime
- 20:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Charlotte Hennessy recounts the emotional story behind her father’s unlawful death in the Hillsborough Disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8Z7WS6DOQ
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- Nigel Farage Laughs Off Any Idea Of A Reform & Tory Pact | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:03:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Could Reform and the Tories create a pact?
Plus: The final Hillsborough report allows those responsible for the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans to face no consequences, the case for decolonising economics, and Hillary Clinton blames TikTok for young people’s views on Israel/Palestine.
00:00 Intro
02:01 Nigel Farage
15:28 Hillsborough Disaster
36:29 Hillary Clinton's Take On Pro-Palestine Movement
46:52 Decolonizing Economics
With: Michael Walker, Tadhg Hickey, Charlotte Hennessy & Surbhi Kesar.
Watch Charlotte Hennessy's full interview here: https://youtu.be/j_DXYqNgNek?si=55vNoCeRKG9STN3Q
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- Title
- Just Stop Oil: Was Sending Activists to Prison a Good Idea?
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "The big plus point [...] about going to prison is you basically create an army of revolutionaries."
Ash Sarkar in conversation with co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- Just Stop Oil: Was Sending Activists to Prison a Good Idea?
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "The big plus point [...] about going to prison, is you basically create an army of revolutionaries."
Ash Sarkar in conversation with co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
- Title
- Abolishing Most Juries Will Create Two-Tier Justice System
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Rory Stewart Has No Right to Lecture Anyone on Economics
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Rory Stewart said he was "horrified" at Zack Polanski's economics after interviewing the Green party leader with Alastair Campbell on their podcast, The Rest Is Politics: Leading.
On Novara Live, Aaron Bastani and Kieran Andrieu dissected Stewart's own economic legacy as part of a "catastrophically economically illiterate" Tory government which made a "bodge job of the economy".
- Title
- Rory Stewart Freaks Out Over Zack Polanski
- Runtime
- 25:14
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- David Lammy Pledges To Slash Jury Trials | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:08:24
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- David Lammy is expected to announce reforms that would see jury trials ended for sentences of three years or less.
Plus: Rachel Reeves is under pressure over budget “lies”, Pete Hegseth stands accused of ordering a war crime and we discuss Zack Polanski’s economic influences.
00:00 Intro
03:31 Lammy To Scrap Some Jury Trials
24:26 Rachel Reeves Under Pressure
42:43 Rory Stewart VS Zack Polanski
With Aaron Bastani and Kieran Andrieu.
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- Title
- Venezuela Airspace Closed By Trump Amid US Military Buildup
- Runtime
- 0:13
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- US president Donald Trump has forced the closure of Venezuelan airspace, raising fears of a military invasion under the pretext of a so-called war on drugs.
Many observers, including Colombian president Gustavo Petro, say the US aggression is part of a plan to seize control of the country’s vast oil reserves.
Trump has previously spoken of his desire to steal the country’s oil. "When I left, Venezuela was about to collapse,” he said in 2023, referring to the end of his first presidential term. “We would have taken over it, we would have kept all that oil."
His administration now claims, without evidence, that it is targeting “narcoterrorists” from Venezuela. The US has killed at least 83 people in airstrikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea, drawing condemnation from human rights groups.
In recent months there has been a large build-up of US warships, jets and troops off the coast of Venezuela. The US government’s ow...
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- Political Change Only Happens By 'Moving People's Souls'
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Roger Hallam, Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion co-founder, told Ash Sarkar that he's discovered the two things that make the world go around: sociability and proximity.
“I've learnt the hard way, in inverted commas, that these things are important: this feminised idea of what the human is.”
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- Yvette Cooper's 'Foul' Sudan Remarks Deflect UK Complicity
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Sudan and Palestine are deeply interconnected.
Dalia Gebrial explains on Novara Live that British complicity is the common denominator – and why it's "disgusting" that foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has used the genocide in Sudan to deflect from the UK's role in both atrocities.
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- Your Party: How Zarah Sultana Outplayed Corbyn's Allies
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "Your Party is now shaped in her vision."
On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker discuss how Zarah Sultana emerged victorious at Your Party conference by being more in touch with the mood of the membership.
- Title
- Zarah Sultana’s Vision For Your Party Defeats Team Corbyn | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 59:53
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Your Party members are in favour of collective leadership.
With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Steven Methven.
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- Title
- WTF Actually Happened at Your Party Conference?
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- It was predicted to be the final showdown: Zarah Sultana vs Jeremy Corbyn. But what emerged was a more nuanced drama: confusion, anger, but ultimately hope.
Watch Richard Hames and Jonah Braverman's full report on novaramedia.com
- Title
- The Left's Political Class Needs to 'Shut Up and Listen'
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “We actually are social beings, so when people are systematically atomised and alienated, then they get mentally ill, they get aggressive, and they start doing bad things. [...] What's the solution to that? The solution is to shut up. Come to the assembly and you talk, we listen.”
Ash Sarkar in conversation with the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- Your Party Conference: Total Chaos or the Future of Democracy?
- Runtime
- 27:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Richard Hames reporting from the founding conference of Your Party in Liverpool.
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- Title
- 85-Year-Old Arrested Under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act
- Runtime
- 0:19
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Pat, age 85, was arrested under section 13 of the Terrorism Act after holding - and refusing to put away - a sign that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in Manchester’s St Peter’s Square on Saturday 29 November.
Pat was one of approximately 30 people taking part in a protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. Before she was carried away, Pat told Greater Manchester Police officers they should be arresting Keir Starmer instead.
@harriepw reports.
- Title
- Your Party WILL Win Elections
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Your Party members have voted to structure the party in the way Zarah Sultana argued for. Arriving at the conference ahead of what some are seeing as a victory speech, Richard Hames asked her about the merits of her boycott.
- Title
- 'They Put Me in F***ing Prison, So What?'
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "We're humans. We're not things right. It's not like you chip away a block. Humans aren't like that. They regenerate themselves. They're paradoxical, bad things happen and you grow through it."
Ash Sarkar in conversation with co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
- Title
- The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam
- Runtime
- 1:20:07
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Sign up for the new Downstream Newsletter here: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/
This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar is joined by one of the most controversial political figures on the Left: Roger Hallam. Whether you like or loathe his tactics, it’s hard to deny the disruptive impact he has had through the activist organisations he has led; Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.
He joins us fresh from his latest stint in a prison cell, where he wrote a treatise for Your Party called ‘Grasping the Enormity of the Moment’. It’s a blueprint for a radical change, in which he sets out his vision for an emancipated future, and strategies for how to get there. Does Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s party still have potential? What is the point of sending activists to prison? And what role will Zoom calls play in the coming revolution?
00:00 Intro
02:40 Your Party’s Moment
05:18 The Revolutionary...
- Title
- Would Your Party Ban Landlords?
- Runtime
- 0:27
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- At Your Party conference Richard Hames asks independent Shockat Adam if he would ban landlords.
- Title
- Your Party Members Vote for 'Collective Leadership' Model
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- BREAKING: Your Party members have voted for a "collective leadership" model with a small majority of 51.6%.
Richard Hames breaks down what this means.
