Liz Truss' decision to wage class war on behalf of the rich - with a Budget which slashes their taxes - has crashed the British economy, throwing the pound and the markets into turmoil. Why has this happened, what will this for the economy - and what will this mean for you? We're joined by Alfie Stirling, chief economist of the New Economics Foundation. Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/t...
Sep 30, 2022•54 min
So, the Tories are in polling meltdown and they've crashed the economy: the election is now Labour's to lose, and here at the annual conference, delegates know it. But is this party still a broad church? Has Keir Starmer abandoned the promises he made to become Labour leader? Has the party finally adopted a bold transformative agenda in this crisis-ridden country? And could Labour really finally be on the brink of power? Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://p...
Sep 30, 2022•23 min
Is it all over for the Labour left? Clive Lewis is one of its leading lights, and a tireless fighter for causes such as climate justice and proportional representation. He joined me live at Labour Conference to talk over the Tories' catastrophic implosion - and where Labour goes now. Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Sep 28, 2022•23 min
The Tories aren't even bothering to hide it: their so-called "mini budget" shovels vast sums of money to the booming 1% while millions are left struggling. This is class war. Just how bad is it, what will it do to the economy, how worried should you be about your own circumstances - and what's the alternative? We're joined by the economist and author Grace Blakeley to unpack it all - plus, former Corbyn advisor and author of new book 'Our Bloc: How We Win', James Schneider, on Labour's response ...
Sep 24, 2022•59 min
As royal fervour grips the media and swathes of the nation following the death of Britain's longest serving monarch - what does this all say about the state of a crisis-ridden country in 2022? Is the monarchy safe for generations to come under King Charles III - or are cracks appearing in the institution? We are joined by Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu to discuss the racist onslaught against Meghan Markle - and the related vilification of Prince Harry - and what it signifies; and Aaron Bastani on what ...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
A stunning Ukrainian counter-offensive has driven Russian forces out of Kharkov region. Has the war turned? Could Putin be on course for military defeat? Could he resort to tactical nuclear weapons? And how will this really all end? We’re joined by leading war expert Prof. Paul Rogers to tell us exactly what’s happening. Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media here: https://www.Patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast ....
Sep 12, 2022•22 min
The death of Britain’s longest reigning monarch is a cause of sadness for millions. But as a new unelected head of state assumes his role, now is exactly the time to debate the monarchy. Millions support having an elected head of state - but the media largely silences their voices - and even for many who support the monarchy, the passion is no longer there. Among younger voters, more support a republic and not. Is the monarchy running out of time? Please subscribe - and help us take on the right...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Keir Starmer’s decision to abandon the pledges he made to Labour members to get elected has not gone down well with me. Winning peoples’s confidence through deceit makes you, in my view, well - a conman. Keir Starmer responded to my critique on TV - and this is my response. (Also - I forgot to say in the video - he calls me a cheerleader for Jeremy Corbyn - and yes I did support his leadership - but he seems to have forgotten he was in his Shadow Cabinet and supposedly fought to make him prime m...
Sep 06, 2022•19 min
That did not go how the BBC expected. When comedian Joe Lycett appeared on Laura Kuenssberg's new politics show, he refused to play the game and instead used satire to roast our soon-to-be prime minister Liz Truss. By doing so, he punctured the self-important Westminster Bubble that presents itself as sophisticated political commentary but is often the inane and the superficial. That's why - unlike most of the discussions on these shows - it went viral. Please subscribe - and help us take on the...
Sep 06, 2022•5 min
Ok, resign yourself to it - Liz Truss is going to be our prime minister. Is she going to bomb at the outset? What do the public think of her? Will she get a honeymoon? What’s she planning? We are joined by Opinium pollster Chris Curtis and Byline Tomes’ Adam Bienkov. Plus - Labour’s internal election results are announced last week. Is it all over for the Labour left - or does it have a future? We are joined by newly elected NEC member Jess Barnard. Please subscribe - and help us take on the rig...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 26 min
The launch of 'Enough is Enough' revitalised the anti-Tory movement: within weeks of launching, half a million have signed up as supporters of this campaign to solve the crisis of living, and mass rallies have attracted such numbers that people have been turned away. The Communication Workers Union is one of the driving forces behind the new campaign, and their general secretary Dave Ward talked to me about the campaign's aims and strategy - and how the labour movement more generally is fighting...
Aug 30, 2022•32 min
We all know the economy is broken - but what does that mean in practice and how do we fix it? How did corporations become a threat to democracy? Where does the energy crisis and the disaster of water privatisation fit into this? And more importantly - what we do about it? I’m joined by two brilliant authors - Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence - who have written a brilliant new book called Owning The Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis. Please subscribe - and help us take on the righ...
Aug 28, 2022•37 min
The treatment of Labour MP Apsana Begum should horrify any decent person. A self-identified survivor of domestic abuse, as journalist Rivkah Brown puts it, 'her mental and physical health ravaged by what she called “a sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse and harassment” culminating in a trigger ballot process overseen by friends of her ex-husband, the MP for Poplar and Limehouse was admitted to A&E and signed off work the next day.' But when Keir Starmer and Labour general secretary Davi...
Aug 26, 2022•20 min
With the war in Ukraine at an apparent stalemate, what happens next? Is the Russian army now so overstretched and demoralised that Ukraine can mount a successful counter-offensive - or does the coming of winter and the growing energy crisis mean that a Russian breakthrough is only a matter of time? And through the fog of war - are there actually tentative signs of hope that are being ignored? We are joined by Paul Rogers - Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies and one of the world's leading expert...
Aug 21, 2022•37 min
When a caller rang in to denounce young people for not working hard enough - and not owning homes because they demanded fitted carpets - he got a piece of my mind. Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 20, 2022•10 min
It is difficult to understate the scale of the social catastrophe looming in Britain, with an estimated 45 million people - a large majority of the population - facing being driven into poverty. Just what is the reality of the disaster about to unfold, what will it mean in practice - and can it be stopped? We are joined by Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, and Lewis Ford, a public sector worker backing the Don't Pay UK campaign. Please subscribe - and help us ta...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Ever since the monkeypox outbreak began in the global north several months ago, there's been misinformation, hysteria and outright lies. Despite all the evidence that the virus is overwhelmingly being spread by sex between men, stating this fact has been widely portrayed online as stigmatising, while false claims that the whole population is at severe risk have spread like wildfire online. Gruesomely, all the wrong lessons from the AIDS pandemic are being learned. It's time to give you the facts...
Aug 09, 2022•32 min
Inflation is soaring, a massive recession is projected, and already squeezed living standards are set to plummet further. The strain placed on households - and society at large - is hard to imagine. Just how bad are things going to get? What impact will the policies of likely Tory leader Liz Truss have? Do Labour's answers square up? And what's the real solution to this calamity? We're joined by economists and writers Grace Blakeley and James Meadway. Please subscribe - and help us take on the T...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 2 min
These two statistics sum up how broken British society is: while BP are making £6.9bn worth of profits - a 14 year high - typical household energy bills are forecast to hit more than £3,600 a year. We should never have surrendered the natural monopoly of the energy industry to profiteers in the first place. We're joined by the incredible expert Mathew - Lawrence - founder and director of UK-based think tank Common Wealth - to explain why the industry is broken, why the energy company's arguments...
Aug 04, 2022•53 min
The long awaited Forde report - investigating revelations about the behaviour of Labour staffers under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership which was exposed by a leaked document - was expected to be a whitewash. It wasn't: it exposed horrendous behaviour on the part of Labour officials. What does it tell us about the behaviour of the Labour Right - and the fate which befell Corbyn's Labour party? We are joined by former Corbyn staffer and author Alex Nunns, and author and journalist Rachel Shabi. Please ...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 6 min
The race to become Tory leader has become an eccentric mess. Just how bad are the candidates - and what do their campaigns tell us about where this country is headed? We're joined by Byline Times' political editor Adam Bienkov. Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84 Faqwj8quFHYm18PxL1pj Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 18, 2022•38 min
As Boris Johnson is finally turfed out by Tory MPs, we're joined by brilliant guests to talk over the Tory leadership campaign - and what it means for all of us. Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 11, 2022•59 min
Is US democracy in a death spin? That's now an increasingly mainstream debate as a radicalised Republican Party abandon democratic norms, the Supreme Court not only strikes down Roe v. Wade but facilitates the rigging of the electoral system, while an already heavily caveated US democracy increasingly enforces minority rule. Why is the Democratic response to this crisis so dire? What can be done to prevent the slide of the US into right-wing authoritarianism - all under the watch of a Democratic...
Jul 04, 2022•58 min
It's another blockbuster interview with Peter Hitchens - this is the best one yet - and we have a lot to cover. What does Boris Johnson stand for, and is he really 'hard left'? How does he think "the traditional family" can be saved? Why would a more punitive justice system work? Why was New Labour "the most radical government" since Oliver Cromwell? Why does he support English independence? And - above all else - why does he think Russia's war on Ukraine was provoked? Please subscribe - and hel...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Yanis Varoufakis - former Greek finance minister, economist and politician - is one the great intellectual superstars of the left. We have a lot to talk about: Britain's deporting of refugees to Rwanda, how Boris Johnson's 'oven-cooked' Brexit deal is unravelling, Keir Starmer's dishonest leadership of the Labour party, the political situation in Spain, the revival of the French left, how the horror of the Ukraine war can end, the extradition of Julian Assange, and the controversy involving Brit...
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 3 min
With Britain in a cost of living crisis, the Tories have turned on their traditional scapegoats - migrants and refugees. The Conservatives’ policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda - a poor country with a bad human rights record - is just the latest stage of a racist campaign. But people are fighting back. We went to a mass demonstration outside the Home Office and spoke to MPs like Zarah Sultana and Richard Burgon, refugees and courageous campaigners - and asked whether this despicable poli...
Jun 17, 2022•6 min
After over 40% of Conservative MPs voted no confidence in the scandal-ridden Prime Minister, is Boris Johnson politically speaking a dead man walking? Is it only a matter before he's booted out of office - perhaps after the upcoming by-election defeats, or after a new investigation by the standards committee found he misled Parliament? Or will he once again escape accountability? We're joined by Aaron Bastani! Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/...
Jun 13, 2022•38 min
We should welcome some genuine honesty from the Tories. When Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries warned Tory MPs that kicking out Boris Johnson would infuriate rich Conservative donors - who she warned they depend on - she revealed just who her party exists to serve. From the very founding moment of the Tories to Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron to Johnson, the Tories have always championed the interests of those who keep them afloat - and here's the evidence. Please subscribe - and help us take o...
Jun 10, 2022•7 min
Johnny Depp won his defamation case against Amber Heard, after her 2018 Washington Post article in which she wrote: "I became a public figure representing domestic abuse." But what will the legacy of this trial - and particularly the coverage of it, including on social media - be? Will this fuel an already escalating backlash against the #MeToo movement, in which women who had suffered sustained sexual harassment and violence from men had a moment in which a consensus grew that their voices shou...
Jun 09, 2022•28 min
Woah! According to a former senior staffer for leading polling company YouGov, his former employer refused to publish polling data that was favourable to the Labour party in the 2017 election - and even manipulated methodology for the same reason - after coming under political pressure from a Tory MP who co-founded the organisation. But this scandal raises major questions about our democracy. YouGov has released a statement denying one of the allegations: https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/153450...
Jun 09, 2022•12 min
