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Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly
The US is no longer supporting Ukraine. And, in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. The Germans are taking off their hallowed debt brake to allow it. The French want a European Army. And Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capabilities of the British Armed Forces. In a world still dominated by the […]
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Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White
When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecological breakdown necessarily means adopting the framing of the present as being a ‘state of emergency’. This is an obvious […]
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ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield
What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World. They discuss Dan Edelstyn […]
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Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?
Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. From the plantation to the infirmary and from the leper colony to the stay at home order, contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined. In The History of the World in 6 Plagues, Edna Bonhomme investigates how fear, power, race […]
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Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn
In 1996 Samuel Huntington published ‘The Clash of Civilizations’. At the time its hypothesis was counter-intuitive. Despite the supremacy of the United States after the Cold War, the ascent of globalisation would not lead to the end of history, but a return to distinctive and competing civilisations. Rather than homogeneity we would see a growing […]
Novara Media is an independent media organisation addressing the issues—from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change—that are set to define the 21st century.
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