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Latest Episodes

Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince
June 02, 2025

Dale Vince is a former new age traveller. In 1985 he was beaten up by police and arrested during the infamous Battle of the Beanfield at Stonehenge. And he’s also the inventor a string of transformati

ACFM Microdose: Superheroes
June 02, 2025

Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological a

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit w/ Kojo Koram
May 29, 2025

Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his Island of Strangers speech. But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism? And how did he shape the far rights existent

Novara FM: The New Party, Beyond London w/ Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam
May 27, 2025

There will be a new party. And also, there already is one. We put the strategies of Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam head to head: do we need a new party? Should it be led by Jeremy

Downstream: How to Be a Morally Effective Person w/ Rutger Bregman
May 26, 2025

This weeks guest is best known for hijacking a panel at the World Economic Forums annual meeting at Davos, where he told a room full of billionaires to stop avoiding taxes. He now claims that this f

Novara FM: What Communism Actually Is w/ Jasper Bernes
May 22, 2025

Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach. Or, we could define it differently, as the real movement that abolishes the present state of thi

Downstream: Big Tech Is Making Our Children Depressed and Anxious. Here’s How w/ Jonathan Haidt
May 19, 2025

As smart phone use has soared, Generation Zs mental health has plummeted. But just how bad is this crisis, and who should we hold responsible? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan

ACFM 51: Heroes
May 18, 2025

The ACFM crew offer a weird-left perspective on the role of the hero (and heroine) in politics and culture. Nadia, Jem and Keir assess theories of Great Men, the myth of the heros journey and the lur

Novara FM: Are India and Pakistan Gambling with Nuclear War? w/ Mohamad Junaid
May 15, 2025

Last week, a terrorist attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir sparked a rapid military escalation: planes were shot down, thousands were arbitrarily detained, the houses of suspects families were blown up

Downstream: Why the Left Fails to Connect With People w/ Jimmy The Giant
May 12, 2025

Not long ago, Kieren Owen AKA Jimmy The Giant was in the alt right pipeline. He believed in the tyranny of the welfare system, thought woke culture was dangerous for society and that Tommy Robinso