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Latest Episodes

Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
October 06, 2025

Economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis joins Aaron to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis fam

Downstream: The Right Is Stirring up Anti-Muslim Hate – and It’s Getting Worse w/ Myriam François
September 29, 2025

In the summer of 2024, hotels sheltering Muslim asylum seekers across Britain were attacked by violent mobs. A year later, as the summer of 2025 drew to a close, a far-right demonstration of 100,000 p

ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi
September 28, 2025

After last weeks ACFM Trip to the Future, Jem and Keir reconvene to talk about science fiction. Is sci-fi a reaction to the time-space compression of the present? Is it inherently progressive? How

Downstream: How Brexit Paved The Way For Farage’s Bid for Downing Street w/ Tom McTague
September 22, 2025

Its almost 10 years since Britain voted to leave the EU, and were still dealing with the consequences. In his new book, Between The Waves, Politicos chief UK political correspondent Tom McTague arg

ACFM Trip 54: The Future
September 21, 2025

What if we stopped treating the future like a speculative asset and started trying to actually build and prepare? The ACFM gang look to the horizon in this Trip episode. Did young people always worry

Downstream: The Political Possibilities of the Ancient World w/ Josephine Quinn
September 15, 2025

What were the ancient alternatives to democracy? Did people in the Bronze Age forget how to write or deliberately stop? And whats the use in studying ancient languages? In a Downstream IRL recorded

Downstream: Are We Living Through the End of an Empire? w/ Lea Ypi
September 08, 2025

What can the collapse of the Ottoman Empire teach us about the danger of the current discourse around migration? Re-migration is not a new concept conjured up by the far-right, but rather something

Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel
September 01, 2025

Our politicians dont agree on much, but one thing most of them agree on is that growth is universally good. Grow the pie, they assure us, and there will be more to go around. Our guest on Downstream

ACFM Microdose: Gardening
August 31, 2025

Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening, from the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain. Find the books, mus

Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang
August 25, 2025

Dan Wang is a technology analyst and author whose life experience, spent partly in North America, partly in China, sets him up as an authoritative observerof the differences and similarities between