Michael Walker is the host of TyskySour on Novara Media, an independent media organisation dedicated to covering British politics from the Left.

After a big fat crazy week in British politics – Boris Johnson proroguing parliament, MPs defecting to other parties all over the place, general elections being proposed and voted down – Michael joined me in my London flat’s kitchen to chat about what this moment means. He explains why he moved away from anarchism and why he now identifies as a “class war social democrat”, how the Brexit and the Corbyn moments have affected each other and how he thinks Labour can win the next general election (if it’s actually called this year). We also cover the Podemos example, the anti-Semitism row that Labour has faced and the challenges a Corbyn government might face from those within its own ranks.

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ARTICLE: Hazara asylum seeker in detention uses art to ‘build bridges’ and ‘unite humanity’  

I’m on the latest episode of The Bugle

@michaeljswalker

@novaramedia

Michael’s show TyskySour on YouTube

TyskySour the podcast

Cause of the Week: Novara Media (novaramedia.com)

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Dr. Matt Winning (yes! Actual name!) is a climate policy researcher, environmental economist and stand up comedian.

I got to see Matt’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, It’s The End of the World As We Know It, and it make me laugh and also made me sad. Here we discuss the depressing reality we’re faced with when it comes to the climate crisis, what is to be done about it (as individuals and collectively), approaching tipping points, apocalyptic predictions, what that IPCC report really means and where to find some hope.

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ENOUGH is on now at the Soho Theatre until Saturday 7th September

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Watch Matt’s 2018 show Climate Strange – Part One & Part Two 

Matt’s podcast Operation Earth

ARTICLE: New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilisation Coming To An End’ Starting in 2050

What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward A New Psychology of Climate Action by Per Espen Stoknes 

Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall 

My episode with climate strikers Emma & Anthony

ARTICLE: Yes, Socialism is Infinity Pools for Everyone by Aaron Bastani

Cause of the Week: 10:10 Climate Action (1010uk.org)

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Andrew Doyle is a stand up comedian and satirist who’s written for Jonathan Pie, created the parody twitter character Titania McGrath, writes for Spiked Online and runs a “free-thinking” comedy night in London called Comedy Unleashed. But, unlike others who criticise social justice and the “woke movement”, Andrew comes at these issues from a Leftist perspective.

Here we chat about why Andrew is so concerned about “wokeness” and how he sees it affecting society, comedy and free speech. We cover the state of Brexit (and why he thinks voting to Remain isn’t a left-wing position), fascism and his attitude towards how his work is interpreted.

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ENOUGH is on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival NOW! 9pm at the Monkey Barrel, pay to reserve a ticket or Pay What You Feel on exit

Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd

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@andrewdoyle_com

@TitaniaMcGrath

Woke: A Guide To Social Justice by Titania Mcgrath

andrewdoyle.co.uk

Andrew’s writing at Spiked Online

Andrew’s show Exodus at the Edinburgh Fringe

Titania McGrath’s Mxnifesto at the Edinburgh Fringe

Alistair Williams’ twitter account @awilliamscomedy

Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism 

The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla on Amazon

Inside London’s “free speech” comedy night by Yohann Koshy for Vice

Cause of the Week: Action With Effect (actionwitheffect.org) 

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Grace Petrie is a socialist, feminist, lesbian singer-songwriter whose political songs place a fire in my heart and whose love songs break my heart. She’s brilliant and I feel very lucky to have her on this show.

In this chat I ask Grace about being labelled a “protest singer”, her agenda when it comes to her music, the importance of representation, Hannah Gadsby, trans rights, battling with TERFs and Jeremy Corbyn.

Plus at the end she bloody sings a song for us! It is great!

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Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd

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@gracepetrie

gracepetrie.com

Grace’s tour dates

ARTICLE: Protest music: steel in the hour of chaos

Grace’s Facebook post after TERFs disrupted her show

Cause of the Week: UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group (uklgig.org.uk)

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of sexual assault

Daniel Sloss is a Scottish comedian who has sold out shows around the world, appeared on Conan shitloads of times and has two specials on Netflix. I’m also lucky enough to consider him a friend.

Daniel’s latest show X deals with toxic masculinity and his personal response to an incident involving the sexual assault of a friend. It’s a funny and thoughtful response to gender politics, call-out culture, sexual violence and #MeToo. In this conversation (recorded back in March), Daniel and I have a frank and at times tricky conversation about how to navigate this kind of terrain, the ethics of writing offensive and dark comedy and how we can all try to make the most of this cultural reckoning with the widespread scourge of sexual misconduct.

We also have a few laughs.

I’m keen to hear any and all feedback on this episode: my email is [email protected]

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ENOUGH is on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival NOW! 9pm at the Monkey Barrel, pay to reserve a ticket or Pay What You Feel on exit

Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd

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@daniel_sloss

Daniel’s show X is at the Fringe for three nights only

danielsloss.com

Cause of the Week: Rape & Domestic Violence Australia (rape-dvservices.org.au), Rape Crisis Scotland (rapecrisisscotland.org.uk) 

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James Ball is a journalist and the current Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He worked with WikiLeaks on the Iraq War documents leak in 2010 and was part of The Guardian team that helped published the Edward Snowden sneaks about the NSA.

Last week I sat down with James in a London heatwave to reflect on Boris Johnson becoming PM, stockpiling for a no-deal Brexit, the way bullshit works in today’s politics, the anti-Semitism scandal in the British Labour Party and the plight of Julian Assange.

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ENOUGH starts at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival tomorrow night! 9pm at the Monkey Barrel for the rest of the month

Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd

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@jamesrbuk

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James’ writing at The New Statesman

James’ writing at Buzzfeed

James’ writing at The Guardian

James’ speech Bathing in Bullshit, 2017

ARTICLE: Inside the strange, Paranoid World of Julian Assange by James Ball

ARTICLE: Chelsea Manning is in jail. Our silence is shameful by James Ball

ARTICLE: Labour says it will would end the welfare freeze (BBC NEWS)

ARTICLE: The Strange Case of Julian Assange by Bernard Keane

Cause of the Week: Overgate Hospice (overgatehospice.co.uk) 

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Corey White is a comedian and writer with a pretty remarkable personal story. His memoir The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a funny, dark and brutally honest account of being raised in a violent working class home, being put through the harsh foster care system, struggling with issues of sexual identity and drug addiction and eventually becoming the comedian and man he is today.

Here Corey and I compare notes on our very different childhoods and discuss issues of class, being a member of the lumpenproletariat, the welfare state, outrage, the case for a UBI and “fusionism”.

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Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August (next week) and the Soho Theatre in September

@MrCoreyWhite

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory through Penguin

An extract from the book

Corey’s event at the Moonee Ponds Library on Monday July 29th

ARTICLE: Corey White on childhood trauma, foster care and comedy: ‘It’s a factory for the insane’ 

Corey on Q&A discussing incentivised contraception

Cause of the Week: The Pajama Foundation (thepyjamafoundation.com)

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Former Greens senator and lifelong campaigner Lee Rhiannon has been fighting on the Left since she was fifteen years old.

Almost a year on from stepping down as a Senator for NSW after losing preselection to Mehreen Faruqi, Lee talks to me about being spied on by ASIO from the age of seven, being raised by socialist parents, the state of the union movement, just how badly neoliberalism has knocked around the Left, the tensions that continue to frustrate the Australian Greens and how the party can find a better way of reaching out to working people.

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I’m doing a preview of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on Tuesday July 23rd

Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September

@LeeRhiannon

leerhiannon.org.au

ARTICLE: Outgoing Lee Rhiannon urges Greens to resist ‘careerism and bullying’

ARTICLE: Enemies within as Greens are caught in civil war

Cause of the Week: Frontline Action on Coal (frontlineaction.org)

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Playwright, commentator and activist Van Badham is back on the podcast after she joined me in July of 2015.

Since then Van has been a passionate advocate for the re-election of a Labor government and a scathing critic of The Australian Greens. I was keen to dig further into her thinking on that and ask her what she thought went wrong in the 2019 federal election (the answer might surprise you). Van mounts a vigorous defence of Labor’s policies here and explains why she sees it as the major hope for the socialist Left in Australia.

Plus also you will hear her dog barking in the background.

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I’m doing two previews of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on July 16th & 23rd

Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September

@vanbadham

Van’s Facebook page

Van’s play Banging Denmark at the Sydney Opera House

Van’s opinion pieces:

Labor’s support for tax cuts is an unfathomable betrayal of principle

Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism. Can they lead it out?

Labour has a chance if it replaces Corbyn. Look at Australia in 1983 

Time to hail Hillary Clinton – and face down the testosterone left

How I fell out of love with the Greens: a personal story about the Labor Party

The ALP National Platform 2018

ARTICLE: Van Badham’s defence of Hillary Clinton is insufferable right wing crap by Sarah Garnham

ARTICLE: Van Badham’s defence of Clinton is preposterous by Michael Brull

ARTICLE: It wasn’t Bob Brown who lost the election, it was the Labor Party by James Norman

ARTICLE: How Australia’s Labor Party Lost an Un-Loseable Election by Daniel Lopez

Cause of the Week: The Australian Labor Party (alp.org.au) 

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