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The Most Powerful Man You’ve Never Heard Of
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- The Most Powerful Man You’ve Never Heard Of
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- 1:01:24
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- We speak to Sebastian Mallaby, author of ‘The Infinity Machine’, a biography of Demis Hassabis, to discuss the Google DeepMind CEO's views and politics around AI.
With Michael Walker & James Meadway.
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- Activists Deliver Fake NHS Data to Palantir
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Activists from Pull the Plug delivered 60 cardboard boxes of ‘NHS data’ to Palantir HQ.
The government awarded US spy-tech firm Palantir an NHS contract worth £330m in 2023, despite widespread concerns about the company’s ties to Israel, ICE and the Trump administration.
Posing as DHL delivery drivers in high-vis jackets, the activists told Palantir that they’d come to deliver “60 million UK citizens’ worth of medical data” – and that staff would have to sign for the order.
“I mean, we cant just leave it on the pavement, can we? All that confidential data.”
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- Spanish Police Beat Returning Flotilla Activists
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Activists deported by Israel were beaten with batons by Spanish police officers upon arrival at Bilbao airport at the weekend.
Four members of the Global Sumud Flotilla were reportedly detained by the Basque regional police on allegations of civil disobedience.
Protests erupted in Bilbao on Sunday after footage of the activists being beaten was widely shared on social media.
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- Ex-Asda Boss Whinges About Policy to Stop Supermarkets Charging Us Too Much
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “It’s idiotic, it’s dangerous and it will never work.”
Lord Stuart Rose, former Asda chairman, is outraged that the government has asked supermarkets to cap prices to support people with the cost of living.
Economist James Meadway says supermarkets make huge profits – and some of that surplus could be used to help people on their daily shop.
The price of food reflects how people are treated in society, he says. And a “moral economy” prices food fairly.
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- The Real Reason We Need A Wealth Tax
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- "Keir Starmer famously wanted to cut winter fuel allowances for retirees. He was expecting £1.5 billion in additional revenue from that, and with just a 2% [wealth tax on] roughly a thousand families who own more than £100 million in wealth, you can get ten times more money, £15 billion."
Aaron Bastani in conversation with French economist Gabriel Zucman on this week's Downstream.
Full episode out now on YouTube.
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- We Need a Wealth Tax on Billionaires. Here's Why | Aaron Bastani Meets Gabriel Zucman
- Runtime
- 1:19:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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Introducing a wealth tax on the very richest people in our society has never been more popular amongst the electorate, with recent polls showing 90% approval. This figure is basically unheard of when polling people on any form of policy proposal.
This week's guest, Gabriel Zucman, is a French economist who's a key inspiration for the UK's leading wealth tax advocate and friend of the show, Gary Stevenson.
00:00 Introduction
03:09 An Explosion in Billionaire Wealth
05:24 Why Is Inequality Getting Worse?
10:58 Tackling Wealth NOT Income
17:14 Billionaires Pay Proportionately Less Tax than YOU
26:21 How Jeff Bezos Avoids Paying Fair Taxes
33:48 The Ultra Rich Have Escaped Society
43:15 Are There Different Kinds of Billionaire?
49:07 The Case for the 2% Wealth Tax
57:49 Learning from Mistakes of the Past
1:13:39 How to Enforce the Billiona...
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- The Scandal of The Century? Hondurasgate Explained | Richard Hames Meets David Adler
- Runtime
- 50:01
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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It’s already being called the scandal of the century.
In Honduras, a small but vitally important country in Central America, we may have just gotten a glimpse of how a global far-right power operates. It’s a story that allegedly takes in the Presidency of Donald Trump, the government of Israel, a former President of Honduras who was locked away for 45 years and then inexplicably pardoned, a host of his cronies and the US deep state.
And the story includes a whole host of more peripheral but familiar characters like Peter Thiel, drug kingpin El Chapo, and the presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.
It’s being called Hondurasgate.
It’s a pyrotechnic story that for all its contingency and allure, fits snugly into the well-worn patterns of imperialist power across Latin America.
But how would we know if the allegations – presented on a...
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- Demonising All Reform Voters Won't Stop the Far Right
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- I do think the rise of Reform and the decline of consent for the two-party system goes hand-in-hand with the demise of the public realm. People look around their country in the last 15 years and it looks like sh*t, right?"
Aaron Bastani in conversation with James Butler about what the left can do to stop Reform.
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- The Solar Revolution Is Here
- Runtime
- 9:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
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- Big Tech Goes To War With London
- Runtime
- 16:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Burnham Launches Byelection Campaign | Novara Live
- Runtime
- 56:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Andy Burnham’s campaign for the Makerfield byelection is officially underway.
Plus: Amazon’s UK boss says young people are not to blame for youth unemployment, Sadiq Khan goes head-to-head with Palantir, and the future of solar energy is looking a little brighter.
With Michael Walker, Banseka Kayembe & Louisa Munch.
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- Jeff Bezos: Doubling My Tax Bill Won't Make a Difference
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- As inequality deepens, billionaires are under pressure to pay more tax.
Jeff Bezos – the fourth richest man in the world – isn’t happy about it.
Sitting in his spacecraft facility yesterday, he told CNBC News: “If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate. But don't pretend that that's going to solve the problem.”
He also suggested that lower income workers like nurses shouldn’t pay any tax at all.
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- Labour Lurch To The Left
- Runtime
- 20:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Released Activists Show Marks of Torture by Israel
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Released activists from the Gaza aid flotilla were treated for injuries after being tortured in Israeli detention this week.
Israel kidnapped 438 people from 50 boats and subjected them to brutal treatment, including rape, beatings and electrocution, participants said. One activist said 40 people were left with broken ribs.
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- Who Is Bankrolling Wes Streeting?
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Wes Streeting is currently setting out his stall to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister – but who is funding the former health secretary?
Spoiler alert, the sums ain't small. Harriet Williamson takes a look.
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- He Called Out The Epstein Class & They DESTROYED Him
- Runtime
- 14:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump silences a Republican lawmaker over the Epstein files.
With NoJusticeMTG & Ash Sarkar.
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- Migration Plummets As Starmer’s Challengers Close In
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- 57:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- UK net migration has fallen by nearly half - could this be a much-needed political win for Keir Starmer?
Plus: US military drones and jets encircle Cuba, Labour attempts to appease left-wing voters, and Donald Trump silences a Republican lawmaker over the Epstein files.
00:00 Intro
02:02 UK Net Migration Halved
14:43 US Jets & Drone Encircle Cuba
21:03 Labour Under Pressure From Greens
41:29 Trump Silences Republican Lawmaker Over Epstein
With NoJusticeMTG & Ash Sarkar.
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- Burnham Voted for Iraq War – Should the Left Forgive Him?
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Progressive voters are unhappy that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war – but few remember that leftwing icon Tony Benn prepared to use troops to break a strike whilst he was a minister.
“If that kind of archive existed in the late 70s, early 80s,” says Aaron Bastani on Downstream, “I doubt [Benn] would have been the standard bearer of the Labour left. But people didn’t know about things that happened 20 years earlier in the way they now do.”
James Butler says that it’s “democratic” that politicians should be held accountable for their past choices – but it also feels like “people can’t change positions” anymore.
“The whole communicative regime has changed, and I don’t think politics has caught up with it at all,” he adds.
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- The Rot Goes To The Top
- Runtime
- 8:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Why Heckling Politicians Is a Wasted Opportunity
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “We’ve got England flags on here, Rachel! Are we going to get arrested?”
After chancellor Rachel Reeves was heckled by a driver in Leeds yesterday, Reform leader Nigel Farage posted on X: “I’d like to buy this man a pint.”
On Novara Live, Aaron Bastani says that politicians are getting “hectored” up and down the country – and it’s not “productive political conversation”.
Aaron says that if Farage was hectored in the same way, we’d hear no end to him “effectively cry bullying”.
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- Trump: 'Maybe I'll Go Be Prime Minister of Israel'
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- US president Donald Trump thinks he could be the next prime minister of Israel.
Whilst praising Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump started imagining himself in the role.
“I’m at 99% in Israel,” he claimed. “So maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel, run for prime minister.” It’s unclear which polling data Trump was citing.
Meanwhile, Trump’s approval rating among US voters has plummeted to just 35%, according to the latest Reuters poll.
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- Hannah Spencer Calls Out MPs Who Drink Before Voting
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- 0:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “MPs shouldn’t be drinking on the job.”
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Green MP Hannah Spencer asked Keir Starmer whether he thinks MPs should be entitled to cheap alcohol in Westminster.
Spencer made headlines some weeks ago when she told Politics Joe that “you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes”.
Defending her position, Spencer told the Guardian: “I don’t think it’s much to ask for an MP to be sober when they vote on decisions that affect everyone else.”
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- Reform's Robert Jenrick Is Butt of Joke in Parliament
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- 0:19
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Reform UK MP and former Tory cabinet minister Robert Jenrick was ridiculed during a Commons debate earlier this week.
“Where are we, less than two years later?” asked Jenrick, in reference to Labour’s promise to deliver change during its 2024 general election campaign.
“You’re in a different party!” quipped Lib Dem MP Max Wilkinson in response. Pointing to the Tory benches, he added: “You used to be over there.”
- Title
- We Can’t Build ANYTHING – Call China
- Runtime
- 17:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- HS2 has been delayed yet again. Why can’t the UK get anything right?
With Aaron Bastani & Michael Walker
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- Supermarkets REVOLT Over Labour Price Control Plans | Novara Live
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- 1:02:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- UK supermarket bosses are up in arms over the government’s plan to cap prices on key groceries.
Plus: Paul Holden explains what Starmer’s inner circle knew about the now-infamous Labour Together investigation, and we speak to Sebastian Mallaby, author of ‘The Infinity Machine’, a biography of Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.
00:00 Intro
05:59 Supermarket Bosses Are Revolting
34:58 Starmer’s Inner Circle Knew About Labour Together Investigation
43:43 Portrait Of A UK Tech Titan
56:27 Rachel Reeves Heckled At Petrol Station
With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani & James Meadway.
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- Israel Flaunts Brutal Treatment of Kidnapped Activists
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted footage of kidnapped Gaza aid flotilla activists being brutalised in detention.
Soldiers have detained 428 people who were attempting to deliver aid to besieged Palestinians on 50 boats.
Two organisers – Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila – were abducted near Greece around three weeks ago and subjected to torture that included beatings, being held in extreme cold and being subject to death threats.
Among those detained in the most recent round of illegal interceptions this week is Margaret Connolly, the sister of Ireland’s president, Catherine Connolly.
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- Anger as Man Dies After Guards Restrain Him for 'Shoplifting'
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A Congolese man died in Dublin on Friday after he was restrained by several security guards in an alleged shoplifting incident – prompting widespread anger and calls for justice.
Video of the incident showed several guards on top of Yves Sakila, 35, in Dublin city centre as he cried out in distress. At one point, a guard appears to kneel on his head or neck. He later appears to become unresponsive. Police are investigating.
The footage has prompted comparisons with the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Local community members held a vigil on Tuesday, chanting “justice for Yves”.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is demanding that the death be “swiftly, thoroughly and transparently investigated”.
- Title
- What is Manchesterism?
- Runtime
- 20:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- ICC Seek Arrest Warrant for Smotrich: 'We Will Respond With War'
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, says the international criminal court (ICC) is seeking an arrest warrant against him – and threatened to retaliate by waging war on Palestine.
He said he had ordered the evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar, a Palestinian village in the illegally occupied West Bank – as part of measures against the Palestinian Authority, which he sees as backing the ICC case against him.
“The Palestinian Authority has started a war, and it will get a war,” he said.
Smotrich has played a major role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which has killed 72,000 people at a conservative estimate, with many tens of thousands more feared dead from disease and other less direct causes.
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- From Terrible Singing to Alleged Money Laundering
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- At Saturday’s far-right Unite the Kingdom rally, not everyone who took to the stage had pitch-perfect messaging.
Among the worst offenders was Christian nationalist pastor Rikki Doolan, whose rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone has drawn ridicule.
Doolan is no stranger to the spotlight; he was featured in an Al Jazeera exposé on a money laundering operation in Zimbabwe.
Doolan claims the video of his singing has been doctored by AI. He has threatened to launch a defamation claim against Piers Morgan, who called the performance “the least talented singing we’ve heard on these isles”.
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- Has Burnham Pledged Downing Street Role For Ex-Labour Together Chief? | Novara Live
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- 1:12:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the Labour candidate in the Makerfield byelection, promising Josh Simons a place in Downing Street as reward for standing aside.
Plus: HS2 has been delayed yet again. Why can’t the UK get anything right?
00:00 Intro
00:03:56 Burnham Confirmed To Run In Makerfield
00:31:01 Interview With Mathew Lawrence: What Is Manchesterism?
00:53:57 HS2 Delayed Yet Again
With Aaron Bastani, Michael Walker, and Mathew Lawrence.
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- Israeli Soldiers Fire Shots at Peaceful Flotilla Activists
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- 0:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Israeli soldiers fired guns at peaceful humanitarian activists while illegally intercepting boats attempting to deliver aid to Gaza on Tuesday, video footage shows.
It is not clear what type of ammunition the soldiers were using or if anyone was injured.
A spokesperson for the flotilla said a total of six vessels had been shot at. Israel has intercepted at least 48 boats, with two still sailing as of Tuesday evening.
Organisers do not currently have any information about the wellbeing of 400 participants detained so far. They are believed to have been loaded on to warships which will transport them to Israel.
Israel has repeatedly breached international law in its efforts to stop the Gaza aid mission from reaching its destination.
Earlier this month 34 people, including two Brits, were hospitalised in Greece after Israeli soldiers used violence against kidnapped participants on board a warship. They shot at the captives...
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- Booing AI at Graduation Ceremonies Is a Trend
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Students graduating from college across the US are booing speakers who praise artificial intelligence.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, real estate executive Gloria Caulfield and Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records were all met with jeers when they tried to tout the benefits of the controversial technology.
“So that is a lesson learned for us,” concluded Tiffany Hernandez, the president of Glendale Community College in Arizona, after an AI system used to read graduate names malfunctioned mid-ceremony.
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- EXPERT: China’s Leaders Are Smarter Than The West’s
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- 1:07:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Michael Walker speaks to Jostein Hauge about the rise of China as an economic superpower.
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- Title
- Mamdani Rewrites Famous Ronald Reagan Quote
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- 0:32
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Former US president Ronald Reagan said the nine scariest words in the English language are: "I’m from the government and I’m here to help."
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani says a far more terrifying nine-worder is: "I worked all day and can’t feed my family."
“We are going to use the power of government to lower prices and make it easier for New Yorkers to put food on the table,” said Mamdani, as he announced the location of a city-owned grocery store on Monday.
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- Wes Streeting Is SABOTAGING Burnham’s By-Election
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- 1:22:17
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Wes Streeting has invoked the B-word, and it’s not Burnham for once.
Plus: We talk to Ben Walker, co-founder of Britain Elects and Senior Data Journalist at The New Statesman, about his predictions for the Makerfield by-election when adjusted for ‘The Burnham Effect’.
Legal chaos continues as reporting restrictions covering the convictions of four Palestine Action activists are lifted, while contempt proceedings brought against one of their barristers are chucked out on appeal.
Finally, Richard Hames took to the streets at this week’s rally to investigate what, if anything, unites the Unite The Kingdom movement.
00:00 Intro
00:05:47 Streeting Tries To Sabotage Burnham
00:27:10 Polling Data Predicts A Burnham Bounce in Makerfield
00:41:42 More Palestine Action Convictions Quashed
01:05:02 Unite The Kingdom Ties Itself In Knots
With Michael Walker & Stephen Methven.
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- Unite The Kingdom: What ACTUALLY Happened
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “It’s all about the fucking English, mate.”
At the Tommy Robinson-organised Unite The Kingdom rally on Saturday, Richard Hames spoke to attendees to find out what brought them to the protest.
- Title
- Unite The Kingdom: What Do These People ACTUALLY Believe?
- Runtime
- 22:40
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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Richard Hames went to the Tommy Robinson-organised Unite The Kingdom rally to speak to marchers and try to make sense of this chaotic coalition.
Directed by Jack Barraclough
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- Israel Intercepts Gaza Aid Flotilla in Broad Daylight
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- 0:08
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- BREAKING: Israel is illegally intercepting vessels from a peaceful humanitarian mission attempting to deliver aid to Gaza.
“Military vessels are currently intercepting our fleet and IOF forces are boarding the first of our boats in broad daylight,” organisers from the Global Sumud Flotilla said in a statement.
“We demand safe passage for our legal, non-violent humanitarian mission. Governments must act now to stop these illegal acts or piracy meant to maintain Israel’s genocidal siege on Gaza. Normalization of the occupation’s violence is a threat to us all.”
At least one boat has already lost contact “after reportedly being attacked in the Mediterranean”, they added.
It comes after 22 boats were intercepted near Greece on 29 April, when hundreds of activists were beaten and some were sexually assaulted, before being handed to Greek authorities and deported.
Organisers Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila wer...
- Title
- The Cost of Living is About to Get Worse
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “The idea that people are going to the shops and feeling somehow better because… the prices aren't growing in quite so runaway fashion, is simply ludicrous.”
Aaron Bastani talks to political analyst James Butler about the ever-spiralling cost of living crisis – and why it’s so “baffling” that the Labour party has lost sight of it.
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- British Politics Is in MELTDOWN… Here’s Why | Aaron Bastani Meets James Butler
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- 1:46:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- It has been a seismic week in British politics. The two-party system has collapsed. Keir Starmer is digging in at Downing Street, while Labour leadership contenders line up outside, and Reform clouds gather overhead. Now: the most important by-election in more than a century looms. How did we get here? And what happens next?
On this week’s Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by James Butler, contributing editor at the London Review of Books and co-founder of Novara Media, to make sense of the paradigm shift underway in British politics.
How has first past the post, long promoted as a source of political stability, become the background for systemic chaos? Why is there such a democratic deficit in Britain, and what can be done about it? Have two lost decades on the economy simply killed both historic parties? And where should progressives position themselves, as we now begin the slow march towards the final general election of the 2020s?
00:00 ...
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- Corporations Are People Now...Why Not AI? | Richard Hames Meets Lisa Siraganian
- Runtime
- 1:37:43
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Title
- Who Is The REAL Andy Burnham?
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- 14:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- How Burnham’s By-Election Will TRANSFORM UK Politics | Novara Live
- Runtime
- 1:02:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- With the Makerfield by-election starting pistol resonating through Westminster, is Andy Burnham going to be quick out of the blocks? After being barred from standing by his own party mere months ago, to being heralded as the man to keep Reform at bay, we chart the career of the man of the moment.
Plus: We turn to a Development Economics expert to ask: what lessons can the West learn from China’s economic miracle, and could it only happen under authoritarian rule?
00:00 Intro
02:49 Makerfield Byelection Could Change Everything
29:13 Has China Got Economics Right?
46:17 Who Is The Real Andy Burnham?
With Michael Walker, Banseka Kayembe & Jostein Hauge.
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- Nadine Dorries Is So Back
- Runtime
- 13:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Title
- Britain Needs Wealth Taxes, Not Royal Speeches
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “Change is possible, if only this government... would tax extreme wealth fairly.”
Green MP Hannah Spencer said Labour’s policy plans outlined in Wednesday’s king’s speech aren’t going to achieve the “meaningful change” the public needs.
“People out there are so angry about the gap between the super, super-rich and the rest of us getting even bigger,” she said. “And they want something equally big doing about it.”
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- Luke Akehurst BEGS To Save Starmer’s Skin
- Runtime
- 12:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- BREAKING: Labour Together MP Quits Seat For Andy Burnham
- Runtime
- 1:23:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Following disastrous local election results for Labour, Wes Streeting has resigned, releasing a statement on why he has lost confidence in the Prime Minister.
Plus: Luke Akehurst pleads with MPs to leave Sir Keir alone, and Nadine Dorries is back on the airwaves and more chaotic than ever.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:54 Wes Streeting Resigns
00:23:34 Luke Akehurst Says Give Starmer A Break
01:09:06 Nadine Dorries Is Back
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- Police Attack Anti-Genocide Protesters at Maersk HQ
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Police in Copenhagen beat peaceful anti-genocide protesters with batons on Wednesday as they blocked the entrance the headquarters of shipping company Maersk.
The Danish firm is accused of complicity in the mass killing in Gaza by transporting weapons and other supplies to Israel’s military.
Twenty activists from Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse – or the Green Youth Movement – were arrested and charged with trespassing, according to industry website Shipping Watch.
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- Can the Rot Ever Be Removed From the Labour Party?
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Is the Labour party even worth saving?
If it is, the first thing that would need to happen is a massive independent audit, followed by numerous expulsions, says journalist Paul Holden.
He tells Novara Live’s Aaron Bastani that the investigation should focus on the role of the rightwing think tank Labour Together, which led a smear campaign against Holden and other journalists.
Auditors should also look into “the historic shenanigans that have happened in the Labour party, and you need to just absolutely clear house,” he says.
“I do honestly think that if you were to do an outside external forensic audit of Labour party finances, quite a few people would have to leave the party as a result,” he adds.
As well as an audit, there needs to be a "radical democratic transformation” at the party’s grassroots to make sure MPs are invested in their communities and not career politicians, he adds.
