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00:56:04

67: What's up with Generation Alpha?

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2025/06/03

Moya and Ash wonder what’s up with kids these days, thinking about parenting, advertising, social media and anxiety. Plus, advice for a bereaved listener who’s furious with her stepmum.Send your dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:41:25

Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire...

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2025/06/02

Dale Vince is a former new age traveller. In 1985 he was beaten up by police and arrested during the infamous Battle of the Beanfield at Stonehenge. And he's also the inventor a string of transformative technologies: the world’s first green energy company, the electric supercar, and the Electric Highway charging network. The last of these got him into in a David-versus-Goliath legal battle with Elon Musk – a battle Vince won. Since then, he's funded Just Stop Oil, become a major donor to the

02:01:01

ACFM Microdose: Superheroes

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2025/06/01

Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem offer a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological and political desires do they fulfil? Are they inherently reactionary? From Superman to Batman, Wonder Woman to 2000AD, they offer a weird left reading of superheroes and comic book culture.Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Help us build people-powered media – pledge your

01:13:25

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British...

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2025/05/29

Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his ‘Island of Strangers’ speech. But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism? And how did he shape the far right’s existential struggle to understand Britain once it ceased to be a formal empire? Eleanor Penny spoke to Kojo Koram about how to understand his influence in a renewed moment of national decline, and how his ideas poisoned the very political waters we swim in.

01:13:25

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British...

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2025/05/29

Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his ‘Island of Strangers’ speech.But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism? And how did he shape the far right’s existential struggle to understand Britain once it ceased to be a formal empire? Eleanor Penny spoke to Kojo Koram about how to understand his influence in a renewed moment of national decline, and how his ideas poisoned the very political waters we swim in.

01:19:38

Novara FM: The New Party, Beyond London w/ Pamela...

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2025/05/27

There will be a new party. And also, there already is one.We put the strategies of Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam head to head: do we need a new party? Should it be led by Jeremy Corbyn, or someone new? Or do we just need more independent MPs? They debate Reform UK, attacks from the mainstream media, and what class politics means now. You can listen to the previous episodes in this series in this podcast feed.

00:58:43

66: I'm right, you're wrong, end of!

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2025/05/27

Moya has an intrusive thought about our need for certainty and Ash responds with a claim about how the internet has polarised our thinking. Plus, advice for a singleton with avoidant tendencies. Send your dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxle

01:23:38

Downstream: How to Be a Morally Effective Person w/...

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2025/05/26

This week’s guest is best known for hijacking a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, where he told a room full of billionaires to stop avoiding taxes. He now claims that this form of protest has been proven ineffective in the struggle for progress. The last 25 years have seen some of the biggest protests in history, yet we’ve seen wars erupt and inequality widen. With his new book, ‘Moral Ambition’, Rutger Bregman lays out a history of how societal change actually happens,

01:24:03

Novara FM: What Communism Actually Is w/ Jasper Bernes

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2025/05/22

Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach.Or, we could define it differently, as "the real movement that abolishes the present state of things". That's how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described it in The German Ideology. Jasper Bernes is the author of The Future of Revolution, a book that aims both to clarify our ideas and to reignite our determination to make a fundamentally new kind of society. He spoke to Richard Hames about the

00:54:36

65: Has your smartphone broken your brain?

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2025/05/20

Ash and Moya face up to all the ways their smartphone has warped their minds. Plus, advice for a trans woman struggling to interact with the world in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.Come and see If I Speak LIVE at EartH in London on 21st May! Final tickets are available now from Dice. Send your dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:15:42

Downstream: Big Tech Is Making Our Children Depressed...

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2025/05/19

As smart phone use has soared, Generation Z’s mental health has plummeted. But just how bad is this crisis, and who should we hold responsible? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt sets out his comprehensive diagnosis of the problems caused by the mass integration of smartphones into every aspect of most children’s lives. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, Haidt takes square aim at Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok, the three companies he believes are wrecking childhood. They

01:55:22

ACFM 51: Heroes

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2025/05/18

The ACFM crew offer their weird-left perspective on the role of the hero (and heroine) in politics and culture. Nadia, Jem and Keir assess theories of Great Men, the myth of the hero's journey and the lure of the anti-hero with ideas from Weber and Hegel and music from Tina Turner and Sonic Youth. Find the books and music mentioned in the show: https://novara.media/acfm Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Follow our ever-expanding playlist on Spotify by searching

01:31:35

Novara FM: Are India and Pakistan Gambling with...

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2025/05/15

Last week, a terrorist attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir sparked a rapid military escalation: planes were shot down, thousands were arbitrarily detained, the houses of suspect's families were blown up.How did we get to a situation in which the safety of the whole world is threatened by the occupation of Kashmir? Richard Hames spoke to Kashmiri scholar Mohamad Junaid about the brinkmanship of India and Pakistan, what daily life is like under endless occupation, and, of course, The British

00:57:29

64: What is the female gaze?

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2025/05/13

What do straight women find attractive? Too many men think the answer is ‘big muscles’, argues Ash in a big theory about sensuality. Plus: what to do when your boss is a bigot.Come and see If I Speak LIVE in London on 21st May! Join Ash, Moya and special guest Monica Heisey – comedian and author of Really, Good Actually – at EartH in East London, followed by a social. Tickets are available from Dice. Send your dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley. Send your dilemmas to

01:40:53

Downstream: Why the Left Fails to Connect With People...

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2025/05/12

Not long ago, Kieren Owen AKA Jimmy The Giant was in the ‘alt right pipeline’. He believed in the tyranny of the welfare system, thought ‘woke culture’ was dangerous for society and that Tommy Robinson’s imprisonment was a result of draconian government censorship. So how did he become one the most incisive commentators of the online left? In conversation with Ash Sarkar, Jimmy The Giant discusses how he escaped the alt-right pipeline, why the establishment are so afraid of Gary Stevenson and why

01:28:38

Novara FM: A New Era For The World's Billion...

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2025/05/08

A new Pope has been chosen by the conclave.But how much can one man, even one appointed by the Holy Spirit, do to transform one of the most powerful institutions in the world? Richard Hames spoke to Matthew Sitman of the Know Your Enemy podcast about what role the church can play in our crisis-ridden age, and the contradictions of being a gay – and socialist – convert to Catholicism.

01:02:14

63: Do people just want to be told what to do?

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2025/05/06

Moya has a big theory and we're not going to like it: most people would rather be told how to live their lives by someone else than work it out for themselves. Plus: advice for a broken-hearted student.Seats for our live show in London are going fast! Join Ash, Moya and special guest Monica Heisey – comedian and author of Really, Good Actually – at EartH in East London on 21st May. Tickets are available now on Dice. Send your dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:11:12

Downstream: Is Christianity Back? Gen Z’s Search For...

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2025/05/05

What do Christianity and communism have in common? Are Nuns missing out on their lives, or living their best one? And can attending church once a week provide a more healing alternative to modern wellness culture, not least because you're forced to turn off your phone for an hour? Seeking answers to all these questions, Ash Sarkar sits down for a conversation with Lamorna Ash, journalist and author of ‘Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever’. They explore whether it’s true that the younger generation

00:48:56

Was Prison Worth It?

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2025/05/02

Just Stop Oil has ended its campaign of direct action, yet many activists still face years in prison. In the final episode, Rivkah and Clare find out whether their commitment to their cause has wavered. They also speak to veteran climate campaigner Roger Hallam, currently serving a four-year sentence, about his role in sending young activists to prison.CN: This episode contains mention of suicide. For support with your mental health, contact samaritans.org. Read Clare's story about right-wing

00:43:54

Committed: 3. How Does It Feel When They Choose...

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2025/04/29

In episode three of Committed, Clare and Rivkah find out what it’s like to see your loved ones locked up. How do the Just Stop Oil prisoners’ families make sense of their crimes? When your partner is in prison, how can your relationship survive? And what’s it like to know your fiancée would choose activism over you?Final episode coming on 2 May. Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support

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