This is not a post-apocalyptic movie, this is Gaza

As a British Iranian I’ve only ever been called a ‘coloniser’ by white nationalists, including to my face, so this makes a change.

Thank you to Emily Carver and Tom Harwood from GB News for having me on to defend private property rights against squatters.
The below features Michael Walker, Ron DeSantis, and Clodius’ destruction of Cicero’s house during his exile, in what is surely a world first combination.

You can now listen to part 2 of my conversation with the brilliant Vincent Bevins. In this half we discussed the arab spring, the fall of the Soviet Union, and whether revolutions that backfire are an argument for small-c conservatism. I really enjoyed this! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thi…

Hang on, the same people who want to shut down the pro-ceasefire marches are angry about National Conservatism being shut down in Brussels?

My response to the recent tweet, and statement, made by Mohammed El-Kurd on 15 April.

Statement in reference to tweet of 15 April.

You can now listen to part 2 of my conversation with the brilliant Vincent Bevins. In this half we discussed the arab spring, the fall of the Soviet Union, and whether revolutions that backfire are an argument for small-c conservatism. I really enjoyed this! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thi…

I feel like there’s a new strand of fake news where the news isn’t fake like, this technically happened but the story is Ed Balls has the remnants of a cough and a scratchy voice and Susanna was like “don’t worry buddy” whereas this makes it sound like he’s dying

For context, Mohammed El-Kurd's complaint is in reference to this tweet -> twitter.com/AaronBastani/s…

The claim that it 'led' to anyone's persecution, let alone conviction, strikes me as wrong as the image and tweet Aaron Bastani was quoting had already gone viral. The claim that by…

Jane McAlevey has been one of the central figures in the re-birth of the US labour movement. When Michael Walker & I interviewed her in 2017 it was immediately obvious that we were in the presence of an extraordinary force.

You have an amazing legacy Jane & it will only grow.

Back in January I spoke to Trita Parsi for a deep dive on Iran-Israel relations. You can listen here -> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cra…

Talking with George The Poet 🇺🇬 was some of the most fun I've ever had in an interview. He's truly a polymath.

Come for the radical anti-imperialist history, stay for the bit where we start singing Hit Em Up!

Iran signals - even before its operation is over or its damage has been assessed - that it considers the matter 'concluded.' But warns that if Israel strikes again, Iran will strike back harder.

This suggests that its drone attack is choreographed to save face, above all.

We need to be clear sighted about what these statements mean: its entirely fine for the West and its allies to break with the norms and conventions of war (like bombing embassies).

Principal beneficiaries of such hypocrisy are the rising powers of the global south, specifically…

Blogged: Labour needs less Keynes and more Schumpeter: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Immensely proud of my partner Oisín McKenna who has written this stunning book.

You can pre-order it here: amzn.eu/d/2m4PgfZ

This is a good point, and presumably significant to birth rates argument. How many millennials (the ones lucky enough to have home owning parents) will only discover financial security when they’re past the age that it’s easy to have kids?

I *really* enjoyed this conversation with Vincent Bevins on the politics of the protest decade. He was kind enough to engage with all the ways my politics have changed since I was a 'radical' activist in the early 2010s, and we did a big deep dive on Brazil.
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Enjoyable exchange in the comments from Wednesday's show.