The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a mental tool and a thought corrosive. Looking back on six years of the podcast, Nadia, Keir and Jem decide

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Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britains complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive

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In the wake of Assads regime collapse and the call for the Kurdish Workers Party to disband, Elif Sarican talks to Richard Hames about how to make sense of this new world, and whether or not the Kur

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