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50: The return of the slur

Feb 02 2025 63 mins  
After hearing the R-word on a comedy podcast, Moya offers an intrusive thought about the limits of language policing. Plus: what to do about a horrible housemate. Send in your questions for If I Speak’s birthday AMA episode on 18th February! [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

ACFM Microdose: Making Sense of Sovereign Debt w/ Heidi Chow

Jan 30 2025 69 mins  
Following last week's ACFM on the meaning and morality of personal debt, Keir and Nadia return to investigate the macroeconomics of debt. Joining them to make sense of concepts like sovereign debt, structural adjustment and international ratings agencies is Heidi Chow, executive director of Debt Justice. She explains how and why countries borrow money, why Global South countries e

Novara FM: Time for a New Left Party? w/ Oliver Eagleton, Rachel Godfrey Wood and Joe Todd

Jan 29 2025 96 mins  
It’s been five long years since the decisive defeat of Corbynism at the ballot box. How, if at all, should the left reconstitute itself? Should everyone join the Greens? Or do we just need Mick Lynch to start a new party? In this episode, Richard Hames is joined by Rachel Godfrey Wood, Joe Todd, and Oliver Eagleton to thrash it all out and arrive at the One True Answer. We’r

49: We need more wrinkles on screen!

Jan 26 2025 60 mins  
Ash and Moya discuss women’s changing faces on screen and the intensifying obsession with ageing. Plus: tough love for a Special One who’s getting in their own way. Email your dilemmas to [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

Downstream: Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong w/ Gary Stevenson

Jan 26 2025 96 mins  
Fourteen years ago Gary Stevenson was one of Citibank’s best performing traders. The bet that brought him success was one few foresaw: that despite record low interest rates, Britain’s economy would stay in the doldrums. He wrote about that, and his time at Citi, in his bestselling memoir ‘The Trading Game’. In this, his third Downstream with Aaron, Gary talks about the ri

ACFM Trip 49: Debt

Jan 23 2025 119 mins  
The concept of debt is as slippery as it is powerful. In this Trip episode, Keir, Nadia and Jem explain why debt is more like a belief than a calculation, and wonder how to imagine a society without it. From credit cards to dowries, they discuss the reality and fantasy of debt, with ideas from David Graeber and Deleuze and music from Crass and Gwen Guthrie. Find the books and mu

Novara FM: What Will 'Technoking' Elon Musk Do in the White House? w/ Quinn Slobodian

Jan 22 2025 74 mins  
Elon Musk is the most symptomatic capitalist of our era: obsessed with publicity, by many accounts a fanatical workaholic, and increasingly in bed with the far right. But how did he go from Obama-era liberal darling to giving a Nazi salute at Trump's second inauguration? Historian of ideas Quinn Slobodian has traced the relationship between big tech and the far right for years. H

25: I hate the way that you walk, I hate the way that you talk

Jan 21 2025 74 mins  
Prompted by Kendrick’s anthemic Drake diss, Ash claims it's the summer of the hater. But what does it mean to hate so hard? Plus: a listener who feels rejected by her English in-laws. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to [email protected] Got your tickets for If I Speak IRL yet? We're at the London Podcast Festival on 15 September. Tickets available from kingspl

Downstream: Why Woke Capitalism Has Collapsed w/ Brett Christophers

Jan 20 2025 89 mins  
Donald Trump is the next president. Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s have forsaken their diversity policies. Elon Musk has demanded that Keir Starmer be removed as PM. Why is this all happening at the same time? And why do progressives have so little to offer when it comes to the economy and people’s material conditions? Brett Christophers is a geographer, author and former manage

Downstream: Who's Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz

Jan 20 2025 83 mins  
The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a solution to all of our economic woes. Who's behind it? This week, Kristian Niemietz, a director at the IEA and a long-time Novara Media hater, sits down with Aaron for a debate about trickle-down economics, why he's a neoliberal, and w