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92: Should we say something about women’s shrinking bodies?
December 09, 2025

NEW LIVE SHOW! Join us at Crossed Wires festival in Sheffield on 4th July 2026. Presale tickets available at 11AM on 10th December – go to crossedwires.live and use the code CW26EARLY. After watching

Downstream: The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse Forever w/ Cory Doctorow
December 08, 2025

Did you know that the standard of Google searches has actually gotten worse over recent years? Once you think about it, it makes sense. Highly effective search means fewer searches overall. And fewer

ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream
December 07, 2025

Jem, Nadia and Keir debate the meaning of mainstream something none of them could ever possibly be, of course. Is woke the new mainstream? Can there be a mainstream if we dont all have access t

Downstream: How to Create A Revolution w/ Roger Hallam
December 01, 2025

Whether you love or loathe his tactics, its hard to deny the disruptive impact that Roger Hallam has had on British politics via the activist organisations he has led, Extinction Rebellion and Just S

Downstream: Zack Polanski Is Coming for Starmer and Farage
November 24, 2025

Support for the Green party in Britain has been steadily rising for the past few decades. However, few predicted that when Zack Polanski took office as Green party leader in September, membership woul

Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic
November 17, 2025

At Novara, we focus on the trends that are remaking the world and affecting our lives: technological development and automation, multipolarity, the demise of an American-led world order and the rise o

Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden
November 11, 2025

Investigative journalist Paul Holden has spent the last four years digging into the political machinations that brought Keir Starmers Labour Party into office findings that propel his powerful 2025

Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy
November 03, 2025

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then a very young political scientist, declared that history was over. He wrote a book with the same title just a couple of years later. The Cold War had finished, the USSR

Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr
October 27, 2025

Iran has been in the news a lot in 2025. Over recent decades, it has been a variable in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine. But during the Twelve Day War with Israel in June of t

Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu
October 22, 2025

The Gaza Strip, home to 2.2 million people, is a tiny land mass about the same size as the Isle of Wight. Yet in terms of munitions by weight, Gaza has been subjected to more than all of the bombs dro