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Novara Media115: Help! My partner has been hiding huge debts from me
* Come to see us at Crossed Wires in Sheffield on 4th July! https://crossedwires.live * Ash talks to Moya about falling birth rates and the ‘crisis of…
Novara MediaDownstream: The Woman Who Invented Intersectionality w/ Kimberlé Crenshaw
The far right holds power in the US, inflaming tension along racial lines. ICE agents terrorise the streets, while Black history is erased from school…
Novara MediaDo Your Own Research: AI Is Not A Bubble. The Reality Is Far Worse w/ Garrison Lovely
AI progress isn’t slowing down. The bubble doesn’t seem to be popping. And who in power actually cares about the environmental impacts anyway? All that is to…
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Downstream: Top Economist Exposes Inequality Death Spiral w/ Gabriel Zucman
A wealth tax on the very richest people in our society has never been more popular. Recent polling puts the plan at 90% approval, a figure almost unheard of…
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114: Why we can’t let go of the girl boss
The girl boss is back – and this time she’s working class, mixed race and fully therapised. Moya asks Ash how we should make sense of Skims entrepreneur Emma…
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Do Your Own Research: The Scandal of the Century? Hondurasgate Explained w/ David Adler
It's a dizzying set of allegations. A trove of leaked voice notes and call recordings — published by the anonymous outlet Hondurasgate.ch and Spain's Canal RED…
Novara MediaACFM Trip 60: Shock!
Jem, Nadia and Keir apply their weird-left lens to the power and potential of shock. Starting with an investigation into economic 'shock therapy' and the way…
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Do Your Own Research: Do Androids Dream of Human Rights? w/ Lisa Siraganian
Are you a person? Sounds like a simple question, but it isn't. Until pretty recently, the idea that everyone was a human in the same way was almost…
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Downstream: British Politics Is in Meltdown. Here’s Why. w/ James Butler
It has been a seismic week in British politics. The two-party system has collapsed. Keir Starmer is digging in at Downing Street, while Labour leadership…
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113: Should I go 'no contact' with my parents?
Moya and Ash answers a mystery question about why so many people are going ‘no contact’ with their parents. How do our elders understand this epidemic of…
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112: Should you chase a holiday romance?
Ash went to the Songkran water fight in Thailand and now has a few questions about health and safety culture. Where do we draw the line between personal safety…
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Downstream: The Most Influential Leftist You’ve Never Heard Of w/ Peter Mertens
British politics is in turmoil. The two party system has collapsed, the far right has won huge gains across the country. Crises of this scale can create huge…
Novara MediaACFM Microdose: New Weird Britain
Are we living through a new era of British weirdness? Keir and Jem spin mark the start of spring by taking in the weird left politics of leylines, weird walks…
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Do Your Own Research: What the World's Most Famous Marxist Really Thinks of Zohran Mamdani w/ David Harvey
David Harvey is a legendary Marxist geographer. He’s taught Marx for over half a century – maybe you’ve even been one of his millions of students. He’s the…
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111: Do we need more women mentors?
Ash and Moya are reunited and ready to answer a mystery question, inspired by Lena Dunham’s memoir, Famesick: do we need more women mentors? Plus: a homesick…
Novara MediaDownstream: British Politics Is About to Collapse w/ James Meadway
The two-party system has defined British politics for centuries, but the status quo is under attack from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and an insurgent Green party…
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Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling
A decade and a half ago, the British far right was a fringe concern. But since then, the ruling party – whether it be The Conservatives or Labour – has played…
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Do Your Own Research: You Can't Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. w/ Luke Kemp
It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, chaotic, and often…
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109: How can I tell my parents I'm a stripper? Your dilemmas solved w/ Shon Faye
Moya answers your dilemmas with former Vogue agony aunt Shon Faye. Featuring: a graduate abroad who might have a saviour complex; a gay man who doesn’t know if…
Novara MediaThe Human Cost of Britain's Dark Money Industry w/ Peter Geoghegan & Stephanie Brobbey
To accompany our podcast series, Death in Westminster, hosts Kojo Koram and Dalia Gebrial met with investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan and former private…
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Downstream: Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities w/ Roderick Beaton
As the American empire teeters, China gains dominance, and war spreads across Eastern Europe and West Asia, questions arise as to Europe’s place in this…
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The Human Cost of Britain's Dark Money Industry w/ Peter Geoghegan & Stephanie Brobbey
To accompany our new podcast series, Death in Westminster, hosts Kojo Koram and Dalia Gebrial met with investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan and former…
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108: Is it time to quit your job? w/ William Rayfet Hunter
Moya is joined by doctor-turned-novelist William Hunter to talk about what it takes to abandon your career for something new. What are the signs it’s time for…
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Downstream: China’s Internet, Sci-Fi, AI & Tech Optimism Explained w/ Yi-Ling Liu
Take part in our survey: novara.media/survey The 1990s were a decade of mass technological disruption, as the internet was rolled out across the globe, and we…
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ACFM Trip 59: Hobbies
After mulling over the problem of boredom in the last Trip episode, the ACFM gang return with a solution: hobbies. In this episode Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder…
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Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy
Fill in our audience survey: https://novara.media/survey For fifty years, Alfred McCoy has exposed covert operations. In 1972 he uncovered the CIA and French…
Novara Media77: What’s the difference between a girl and a woman?
What would it mean to be valued simply as a woman – not as a mother, wife, caregiver, girlypops or MILF? Ash and Moya talk about their animal natures and fear…
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Downstream: Is Liberalism Finally Waking Up to the Crises it has Caused? w/ Adrian Wooldridge
Liberalism, in one form or another, has been the pervading political ideology of the past 200 years. It has become so pervasive, as an ideology, that it lays…
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107: Do we love success but hate ambition?
Moya has a big theory about success: we love the idea of it, but hate people going on about it. Did Timothee Chalamet’s naked ambition cost him an Oscar? Plus…
Novara MediaThe Greens WILL Beat Labour w/ Hannah Spencer and Faiza Shaheen
Last week at EartH Hackney, Dalia Gebrial sat down with Hannah Spencer, the new MP for Gorton and Denton, and Faiza Shaheen, the director of Tax Justice UK…
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ACFM Trip 58: Boredom
When was the last time you were bored? Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder if ennui is a feeling that belongs in the past – and what a boredom-free life might be…
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Do Your Own Research: Isolated, Scared, and Furious: Welcome to the Age of Hyperpolitics
In the last decade and a half, society has got vastly more politicised: Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Me Too Movement and many other movements besides…
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106: When does the mask become the face?
Moya and Ash react to Louis Theroux’s documentary on the manosphere. The antics of YouTubers like HS and Sneako seem designed to amuse teenage boys and offend…
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Do Your Own Research: Megafarms and Megafamines: Secrets of the Global Food System w/ Charles C. Mann
There’s nothing in the world more important than the food system. The twentieth century was scarred by enormous famines – and, like the one in Gaza, they are…
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Do Your Own Research: How Musk's Paranoid Empire Really Works w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
The most powerful CEO in history is barely a person anymore. But it’s not just his X-addled brain that has transformed him. He has deeply integrated himself in…
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Downstream: The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That w/ Ash Sarkar
Aaron Bastani sat down with Novara Media’s own Ash Sarkar, to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling book, Minority Rule. 'Minority rule' is the…
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105: How can I connect during sex?
Ash has a big theory about why so many aspects of modern life feel like masturbation: private, self-centred, disconnected. They discuss the objects and…
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Downstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara Mattei
Rising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the…
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Do Your Own Research: Welcome to the Slavery-Driven Slop Economy w/ Marek Poliks
Trillions of dollars of AI build-out. An economy poised on the edge of a giant crisis. Some say it’s a bubble. But what if it’s an entirely new kind of…
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Death in Westminster: 4. The Tunnel
The final episode. Back in Westminster, Kojo confronts the human cost of hidden wealth – and asks if change is still possible. Death in Westminster is a…
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Death in Westminster: 3. The City
In episode three, the dark web of offshore finance connects Britain’s imperial past with its political present. Death in Westminster is a four-part podcast…
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Death in Westminster: 2. The Island
In episode two, the trail leads offshore. From Westminster to the Cayman Islands, Kojo uncovers how tax havens are fuelling London’s housing crisis. Death in…
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Death in Westminster: 1. The Station
A homeless man dies in Westminster surrounded by vast wealth and empty homes. His death sparks a disturbing investigation into how secrecy and evasion have…
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Death in Westminster: Trailer
Coming 10th March 2026. Who's hiding behind London's empty mansions? A four-part podcast hosted by Kojo Koram with Dalia Gebrial. Produced by Planet B and…
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104: Why are young Brits flocking to Dubai?
Moya and Ash wonder what’s attracting young British ex-pats (and influencers) to cities like Dubai and Bali. When did emigration become so aspirational? Plus…
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Do Your Own Research: The Israel-ification of the US Military w/ Susannah Glickman
The US military is changing shape: it’s increasingly high-tech, intelligence led, and focused on assassinations. In short, the Israeli model. And the changing…
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Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta
Nearly all of us on Earth live within a 'nation-state'. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that…
Novara MediaACFM Microdose: The Green Party
Have the Greens got what it takes to become the main political vehicle of the radical left? Following their Trip episode on Ecology, the ACFM crew take a…
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103: Will getting back to nature heal my feelings of burnout?
Ash wants to cultivate a better relationship with nature, but Moya detects a deeper issue around burnout and the lure of the countryside for busy city…
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Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley
The notion that the Global South is affected ‘first and worst’ by global shocks they didn’t cause, namely climate change, is one of the cornerstones of leftist…
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Do Your Own Research: Seed Oils, the CIA, and the Metabolic Shitshow w/ Jason Moore
Cheap food holds capitalism together. But to get it, we’ve had to cheapen almost everything on the planet: the work of women, nature and colonies. We’ve made…
Novara Media102: I'm not ready for relationship – but I don't want him to see other people
Contains Wuthering Heights spoilers! What else would two literature lovers (and actual Brontë experts) be talking about this week but the film of the moment…
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Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser
In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book…
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ACFM Trip 57: Ecology
Are humans distinct from nature? Are there natural limits to inequality? Can you have action without effort? Do bacteria have agency? Jem, Nadia and Keir find…
Novara Media101: Her toxic ex returned and now our friendship is ruined
It’s a dilemmas special! (Because you lot have a lot of problems.) Ash and Moya answer your emails about: two student housemates who don’t really like each…
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Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman
Just a week ago, the architect of Starmer’s rise to power, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over his connections to Peter Mandelson, after further proof of…
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100: We're 100 episodes old – ask us anything!
We’re 100 episodes old! To celebrate, our audience of Special Ones ask us anything, from the personal to the political to the completely potty. What do Ash and…
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Downstream: Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere w/ Oliver Bullough
When it comes to the relationship between capitalism and crime, those on the left generally think of exploitation. People often turn to crime, so the thinking…
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99: How do you know when it’s time to quit?
Recently Moya has been breaking the habit of a lifetime by choosing to stick with her choices rather than quit. She asks Ash how to trust your gut when it…
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Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei
Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing solidarity…