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What's the Point of Your Party?
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- What's the Point of Your Party?
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- What’s the point of Your Party?
Novara Media’s Richard Hames headed to Liverpool today to ask what its members think.
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- 'Very Damaging' for People to Hurl Abuse at Your Party Events
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- As the first day of Your Party conference draws to a close, Jeremy Corbyn told Novara Media that he has always tried to be “respectful” in debate - and that young people are joining Your Party because “they don’t like living in a society that’s so unequal.”
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- 'Democracy Is Hard - Corbyn Defends Your Party’s Conference Chaos
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- 15:53
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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At Your Party Conference, Richard Hames sat down with Jeremy Corbyn to discuss the party's strategy, the controversial expulsions of some members and the difficulties of democracy.
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- Zarah Sultana: I'm Sorry for Part I Played in Your Party Disputes
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Obviously, there are lessons to learn.”
On the first day of the Your Party conference, Novara Media's Richard Hames spoke to Zarah Sultana about the fight to build truly democratic structures with membership at its heart — and the mistakes that have been made along the way.
Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.
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- Your Party Expulsions Are An 'Undemocratic Witch Hunt'
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Who is behind the controversial expulsions on the eve of Your Party’s first conference?
Novara Media’s Steven Methven asked Zarah Sultana this question as she arrived for the opening day in Liverpool. Her answer: nobody knows who is behind the “witch hunt” — and that has to be called out.
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- What The Your Party Infighting Is REALLY About | Zarah Sultana at Your Party Conference
- Runtime
- 14:06
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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At a conference already beset by infighting, Zarah Sultana told Novara Media her plan for rowing back the chaos.
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- Labour Want a Dubai-Style Underclass of Migrant Workers
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Facts are facts: Britain depends on migrants.
The obsession with bringing down net migration doesn't change that. Yet the UK government wants to shift the social contract, argues Dalia Gebrial on Novara Live, to create an underclass of migrant workers "who have no civil rights, no political rights, and who are heavily exploited."
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- 'We Need To Nationalise The Entire Economy'
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On the eve of their founding conference, Novara's Steven Methven asks Zarah Sultana about what three policies she thinks Your Party should adopt.
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- The Right Wingers Warning Young People Are FLEEING Britain
- Runtime
- 18:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Labour’s Latest U-Turn: Day One Workers Rights | #NovaraLIVE
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- 54:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Labour have been accused of breaking another manifesto pledge after watering down their workers rights bill.
Plus: The right-wing press are now panicking about emigration as well as immigration, and Rachel Reeves has been accused of misleading the public.
00:00 Intro
00:47 Labour’s Latest U-Turn
16:37 Did Reeves Mislead The Public?
36:04 The Right's Emigration Panic
With Michael Walker & Aaron Bastani.
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- Activists Project Amazon Links to Israeli Military Across Offices
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Activists in Denmark just targeted Amazon to highlight the company's links to the Israeli government.
The team from Greenpeace Denmark projected the faces of Jeff Bezos and Benjamin Netanyahu onto the building of Amazon Web Services on Black Friday as part of the Make Amazon Pay campaign resisting genocide and worker exploitation. Activists from Luxembourg delivered the same message across Amazon's European headquarters too.
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- Labour Should Rename Itself ‘The Asset Wealth Party’
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The real divide in this country is between the super rich and the rest of us.
It has nothing to do with people on benefits, despite what the government and media are trying to make you to believe after Rachel Reeves' budget, says Dalia Gebrial on Novara Live.
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- Is The UK Heading Towards Generational Warfare?
- Runtime
- 17:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Why Black Friday Is F**ked Up
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Black Friday is a hyper-capitalist death trap.
While Amazon is due to make billions this weekend, its workers are going on strike in dozens of countries. It's one of many reasons why the "worrying trend" is actually a big old scam.
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- Yvette Cooper’s Hypocrisy On Sudan Exposed
- Runtime
- 9:07
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Has Rachel Reeves Broken Her Manifesto Pledges? | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:05:01
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Rachel Reeves’ budget seems to have appeased the markets, but voters are less convinced.
Plus: Net migration has fallen to a four-year low, and we discuss the generational divide in UK politics.
00:00 Intro
34:01 Budget Fallout
20:30 Net Migration Plummets
35:21 Generational Divides
55:26 Yvette Cooper On Sudan
With @NoJusticeMTG & Dalia Gebrial.
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- Protest Crashes Council Meeting With Fake Blood-Drenched Cash
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- "Blood on your hands!"
Protestors covered a local council meeting with fake money streaked with blood-like red paint on Wednesday night. They were calling out the failure of counsellors to deliver on a commitment made 16 months ago to review investments in genocide-complicit companies.
The activists from Waltham Forest for a Free Palestine and Shake the CIV were seated in the public gallery for the Pension Committee Meeting, while a protest continued outside.
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- Labour’s Extreme Plan To Abolish Juries For Most Trials
- Runtime
- 13:34
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The End of Juries? Direct Action Under Attack Again
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- First they banned Palestine Action. Now the government is planning to eradicate juries in all but the most serious cases — a move, says Novara Media's Steven Methven, designed to crack down even further on protest.
Fresh from reporting on a judicial review of the Palestine Action ban, Methven joined Novara Live last night to discuss what this move means for the future of direct action.
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- Rachel Reeves Hits Out At Zack Polanski
- Runtime
- 10:33
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Title
- This Influencer Got Rich Firing Racist AI Slop at Pensioners
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- More engagement means more money – for social media platforms, and for the influencers farming for it.
On Novara Live, Aaron Bastani and @nojusticemtg reacted to the story of one man in Sri Lanka who has made hundreds of thousands of pounds using AI to create racist content targeting British pensioners because "they're the ones who don't like immigrants".
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- More Arrests Outside Royal Courts of Justice As Palestine Action Case Stitched Up By The Government
- Runtime
- 13:16
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Steven Methven reports from the Royal Courts of Justice on the first day of the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action.
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- Rachel Reeves Raises UK Taxes To All-Time Highs | #NovaraLIVE
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- 1:03:44
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Rachel Reeves’ Budget unveils all-time high tax rises
Plus: The government is preparing to scrap jury trials for most criminal cases in England and Wales, and the ‘deeply alarming’ Palestine Action case gets new judges.
00:00 Intro
00:51 UK Budget
21:03 Reeves Vs. Polanski
31:27 Plans To Limit Jury Trials
44:52 Palestine Action Gets New Judges
With: Michael Walker, James Meadway & Steven Methven.
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- UK Has Driven Unpaid Carers to 'Psychological Breaking Point'
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Unpaid carers contribute around £162 billion to the economy in England and Wales every year.
That's equivalent to the NHS' entire budget in both nations. But on Novara Live, Aaron Bastani reported on the independent review that found how "entrenched failures" from Tory ministers and welfare officials have led to their financial and psychological ruin.
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- Rockstar Games’ MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers
- Runtime
- 14:51
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Why Right Wing Slop Has Taken Over Social Media
- Runtime
- 13:12
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Carer’s Allowance Crisis Leaves Hundreds Of Thousands In Debt | #NovaraLIVE
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- 1:23:28
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- A new report into the Department for Work and Pensions blames repeated Tory failures for pushing hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt and distress.
Plus: We speak to PMG’s Chris Bratt about the layoff of unionised workers by Rockstar Games.
With Aaron Bastani, @NoJusticeMTG, Dale Vince & Chris Bratt from @PeopleMakeGames .
00:00 Intro
02:37 A New Scandal Has Engulfed The DWP
21:38 Budget Roundup
43:26 Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems
55:19 The right-wing influencers making a tidy profit from stoking hatred against migrants
01:08:19 Rockstar Games’ MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers
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- Another Water CEO Has Been Detained Under Citizen's Arrest
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- “Your company is producing a series of environmental disasters.”
Activists attempted a citizen’s arrest of Southern Water CEO Lawrence Gosden in central London on Tuesday morning.
The Citizen’s Arrest Network said the company has pumped “sewage into our rivers and seas for over 1,126,838 hours between 2020 and 2024”.
The for-profit company has previously been fined for deliberately dumping raw sewage into the sea. Earlier this month, it apologised after what it called a mechanical failure at a sewage works caused a catastrophic spill of plastic bio-beads that polluted the Sussex coastline.
“Lawrence Gosden pays himself millions of pounds to poison our water and raise our bills,” said Isabel Rock, who took part in Tuesday’s action. “Fines are not enough anymore. Privatisation hasn’t worked.”
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- This Is Why the Green Party Is Different to Labour and Reform
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- “Farage, give him one thing. He tells a powerful story, but his story is hate and division, and they're currently rocketing through the polls. And I believe it is time for the Green Party and a politics of hope, community and solidarity, it's time for that to rocket through the polls, too.”
Ash Sarkar in conversation with Zack Polanski.
Watch the full episode of Downstream IRL on Novara’s YouTube channel.
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- Even Netanyahu Isn’t Safe From the ‘Antisemitism’ Smear
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Benjamin Netanyahu shared an article from Jacobin — then got accused of legitimising antisemitism.
Ash Sarkar tells Michael Walker it won’t be long until someone in Israel says: "Netanyahu is Hamas". Watch the full Novara Live on YouTube.
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- Mamdani Must Be Ready for All Out ‘War’ With Fox News
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Zohran Mamdani needs to be prepared for the inevitable onslaught from Fox News attempting to make New York City look like a "violent, crime-infested hellhole".
And the way Donald Trump reacts to such coverage could be critical to whether or not he pushes for more authoritarian intervention in the city, argues Ash Sarkar on Novara Live.
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- It’s Not ‘Mansplaining’ to Scrutinise the Chancellor
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- "That's not mansplaining. That's called being in politics."
On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker discuss the entitlement required for Rachel Reeves to complain of "mansplaining" in order to dodge criticism ahead of tomorrow's budget. Watch the full show on our YouTube channel.
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- Zack Polanski And Bank Chief Trade Blows On BBC
- Runtime
- 33:44
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The Weirdest Day In Politics
- Runtime
- 13:43
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Labour To Scrap Two Child Benefit Cap In Budget | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:05:21
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- A revised peace plan between the US and Ukraine has been announced
Plus: Looking at Wednesday’s budget - tax rises might be inevitable, Zack Polanski and Andy Haldane trade blows on the BBC, and Trump’s alliance with Mamdani is the only surprise from the weekend…
00:00 Intro
04:46 Labour To Scrap Two Child Benefit Cap
22:47 Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks
31:12 Zack Polanski On The Economy
51:07 Donald Trump Meets Zohran Mamdani
With: Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar & Daniela Gabor
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- Zack Polanksi SLAMS Keir Starmer's Government
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- “It makes absolutely no economic sense to just pander to some of the worst racist, toxic, vile narratives in this country. And I think the reason why the Labour Party is doing it is because Keir Starmer does not have any morality or integrity in any of his policies.”
Ash Sarkar in conversation with Zack Polanski. Watch the full episode of Downstream IRL on Novara’s YouTube channel.
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- 'Careful, You'll Make Me Sound Like a Hypnotist'
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Green Party membership has surged from 70,000 to 150,000 in the last few months.
On Downstream IRL this week, Ash Sarkar sat down with the new leader Zack Polanski, to discuss the threat of Reform, and why you should join the Greens.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on Novara’s YouTube channel.
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- Zack Polanski Is Coming for Starmer AND Farage | Ash Sarkar Meets Zack Polanski
- Runtime
- 42:57
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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Support for the Green party in Britain has been steadily rising for the past few decades. However, few predicted that when Zack Polanski took office as Green party leader in September, membership would surge from 70,000 to 150,000 members in a matter of months. According to the latest polling, the party’s share of the vote has soared too: growing from 10 to 17 per cent.
In front of a live audience at EartH Hackney, Zack tells the story of his first few months in office, and how the party’s plans from two months ago are already outdated. What are the core values, red lines and top priorities for the Greens in this new era? How broad a church will the Green party be? Is it a socialist party, or a party with socialists in it? And what exactly is their strategy to take on the floundering Labour party, as well as the looming threat of Reform?
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- Which Is the Largest Economy in the World: the US or China?
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Former World Bank economist Branko Milanovic talks to Aaron Bastani about the different ways to measure an economy. According to Branko's preferred metric, China is in fact the biggest.
“But I've noticed that in the China Daily, for example, which is de facto the official publication, and elsewhere, even in the political documents, there is always this mention of the ‘second largest,’ in a positive way. Like, ‘We are strong, we are big, but we are second.’ ”
Watch the full episode of Downstream on Novara’s YouTube channel.
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- Police Continue Arresting Pensioners at Palestine Action Protests
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Dozens of protestors in London’s Tavistock Square today broke the law en-masse, peacefully raising signs reading ’I oppose genocide, I support Palestine action’. Within minutes, police, who were heavily present at the scene, began making arrests under the Terrorism Act.
While under arrest, an elderly woman struggling to walk said “We enjoy the freedom in this country to peacefully protest against laws which are manifestly stupid. That’s what I’m doing.”
Matt, another protestor, had a message for the Home Secretary about the ban. “Stop gaslighting the British public,” he said, continuing, “Everybody knows it’s a lie, everybody knew it was a lie when it happened, and yet the vast majority of UK MPs voted in favour of it.”
On the third day of nationwide actions in what organisers Defend Our Juries are calling the most widespread mass campaign of civil disobedience in British history, ordinary people from all walks of life risk...
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- Epstein Was a Money Launderer for the World’s Elites
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Jeffrey Epstein was an "influential money launderer", which made him "very useful to people who would like to conduct cloak-and-dagger political operations and military operations off the books", journalist Murtaza Hussain told Novara Live.
Epstein was close to the centre of various episodes in US political history over the last few decades – and his talent for masking the origins of funds meant he was a valuable asset to people in power, Hussain added.
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- Former Reform Wales Leader Handed 10 Year Sentence
- Runtime
- 15:12
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Will The Bond Markets Topple Rachel Reeves? | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:01:21
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Rachel Reeves’ long-awaited budget is looming, as some speculate that bond markets could force her to revise it.
Plus: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting Russian bribes.
00:00 Intro
01:37 Rachel Reeves
26:32 Jayati Ghosh
39:06 Reform Wales Leader Jailed
54:47 Russia War On Ukraine
With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani, Jayati Ghosh & Carole Cadwalladr.
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- Forget Billionaires + Landlords, We Need to Target Water
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Instead of just targeting "pantomime villains" like landlords and billionaires, journalist Aditya Chakrabortty told Novara Live that the left should be talking about the systemic change that could alter the everyday reality of people who don't have "enough income to get them through to the end of the month".
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- The REAL Cause of World War One
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Globalisation was the underlying cause of the First World War.
Former World Bank economist Branko Milanovic joins Aaron Bastani to discuss the theory that increased competition between nations led to the catastrophic outbreak of violence at the start of the 20th century.
“Trade follows the flag, and then different flags basically fight it out.”
Watch the full episode of Downstream on Novara’s YouTube channel.
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- Fire Tears Through UN Climate Summit
- Runtime
- 0:17
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- A little on the nose?
The night before COP30 drew to a close, a fire broke out in the blue zone of the UN climate summit. Organisers in one of the affected spaces said it was a reminder of how wildfires and extreme heat are all too familiar for millions living on the front lines of the climate crisis.
"It was truly terrifying. I could feel the heat on my skin," said Frances Fox, founder of Climate Live. "It is a sad reality that tragedies like this are caused by the climate crisis every day."
And yet the most recent draft proposal to emerge from the negotiations at the summit doesn't mention fossil fuels once.
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- The Left Needs To Think Think Bigger Than a Wealth Tax
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- "Now is the time to really start thinking big."
Journalist Aditya Chakrabortty is no fan of a wealth tax. On Thursday, he published a piece for the Guardian arguing against it — and on Novara Live, made the case for why the policy is only a "small step" when there's a political window for far more ambitious ideas. Watch the interview with @nojusticemtg in full on YouTube.
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- Ex-Labour MP Joins Greens: 'Billionaires Shouldn't Exist'
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- From threatening to seize asylum seekers' jewellery to attacking pro-Palestine protestors, the Labour government has done "disgusting and disgraceful things" and become "intolerant of different views and ideas".
That's according to former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who on Thursday defected to the Green party. He spoke to Novara Live about his motivations for joining Zack Polanski and why we shouldn't have billionaires.
- Title
- Is A Wealth Tax Enough To Tackle Inequality In Britain?
- Runtime
- 28:33
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Title
- Andy Burnham Isn’t Ruling out Challenging Keir Starmer | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:03:52
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Pressure continues to mount for Keir Starmer as Andy Burnham won’t rule out a leadership challenge.
00:00 Intro
02:01 Andy Burnham VS Keir Starmer
17:41 Lloyd Russell-Moyle Defects To The Greens
23;58 The Real ‘Two-Tier Policing’
46:11 Is A Wealth Tax Enough?
Plus: New exclusive data shows how climate protesters, not the far-right, are being silenced, and Aditya Chakrabortty on whether a wealth tax will make much of a difference in dealing with inequality in Britain.
With: @NoJusticeMTG, Steven Methven, Ayeshah Nashua & Aditya Chakrabortty
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