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New Economics Podcast
Award-winning podcast about the economic and political forces shaping our world, with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and guests. Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy.
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Radical abundance: how to build an alternative to capitalism
We used to own things. The essential services we need to survive - things like water, trains and our energy system - used to be owned by us: the UK pu...
How did the UK become a global arms dealer?
Israel’s attacks on Gaza have been described by ministers as “intolerable”, “appalling” and “cruel”. Last year this government suspended around a tent...
Your Party, the Green Party, and the Future of Left-Wing Politics
Is the party over before it has even begun? Tens of thousands of people signed up to be members of Your Party, the new political project founded by Je...
Why is the UK in such a mess?
This government has taken a record-breaking plummet in popularity, our chancellor keeps telling us the Treasury has no spare cash for our crumbling sc...
Can organising save American democracy with Marshall Ganz
During the presidential campaign, the Democratic Party warned that American democracy was under attack from Trump. Since the start of Trump two-point-...
Are we falling for the myth of minority rule? With Ash Sarkar
We are living in a time of contradictions.
For the last forty years, our politics and media have been dominated by neoliberal, right-wing...
Is the Labour government delivering on its promises?
Half a year ago, the Labour Party swept into power with a huge parliamentary majority and Kier Starmer celebrated by saying that the country could “ge...
Why should the left care about central banks?
The price of your food shop rocketed because of inflation and now your mortgage is going up hundreds of pounds because the Bank of England decided to...
What's new in the fight for workers rights
Do you work from home? Then you’re probably not doing proper work, and you’re causing the UK’s economic decline! At least that’s what the former boss...
What are we getting wrong about tax
Last week hundreds of tractors drove through Parliament Square. It was the latest protest by UK farmers against changes to inheritance tax announced b...
Can BlackRock save the UK economy?
From housebuilding to sewage systems to the NHS, private companies are deeply intertwined with our essential public services. But is partnering with b...
Are oil and gas workers the coalminers of our generation?
The International Energy Agency has said that the world cannot develop any new oil and gas fields if we are to stop climate breakdown. Keir Starmer ha...
What to make of the Labour government's first budget?
The Autumn Budget was the most significant since George Osborne implemented austerity in 2010. Rachel Reeves announced one hundred billion pounds for...
100 days of Labour: great success or bit of a mess?
By the time this episode comes out, the new Labour government will have been in charge of the country for one hundred days. So what do we know about h...
Lessons for the left after the far right riots
A few weeks ago, far-right rioters gathered outside a hotel hosting asylum seekers in Rotherham and tried to set it on fire. Across the country this h...
Why the far right is winning in Europe, with Yanis Varoufakis
In the recent European elections, the far right won unprecedented gains. From the success of the AfD in Germany, to Le Pen’s National Rally in France,...
Neoliberalism: The Invisible Ideology, with George Monbiot
We live under an invisible ideology. It tells us that we are not citizens but consumers. That intervening in the free market compromises our freedom....
Do we need to fight for the right to protest?
In February, the prime minister warned that “mob rule is replacing democratic rule” in the UK. He encouraged police to take action on pro-Palestine pr...
What do the local elections mean for the UK
Three years’ ago, the Conservative Party celebrated their best local elections performance since 2008. But after last week’s local elections in Englan...
Why is the benefits system failing disabled people
Almost three million people in the UK are unemployed and unable to work because they are ill or disabled. According to the right-wing media, these peo...
Should we be going for growth?
Britain’s favourite broadcaster David Attenborough once said: “Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madm...
Spring budget reaction
We’re waiting longer than ever for hospital appointments, our kids’ schools are literally crumbling, and homelessness has sky-rocketed in the past yea...
Can capitalism save the climate
Worried about your carbon emissions? Don’t stress! You can pump out as much as you want - as long as you buy some offsets to balance it out. Scared of...
Introducing the new chief executive of NEF
It’s 2024 and in Westminster an election is at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Step back a little further and across the UK millions of us are more...
Why antiracism means anticapitalism
The Metropolitan Police’s diversity and inclusion strategy claims it is determined to “eliminate racism and discrimination”. But the force was branded...
Why asset managers own the world
This spring, swimmers in Kent were told to avoid ten beaches in the county due to sewage leaks. Public outrage at sewage pouring into our rivers and b...
A crisis of caregiving
The friend who has to cancel plans to look after their elderly mum. The colleague who leaves their phone on loud so they don’t miss a call about their...
Should we all be troublemakers at work?
As the chancellor stood up in Parliament to present his spring budget in March, half a million people went on strike to demand better from their bosse...
Have we been conned by consultants?
Nurses struggling without PPE, the frantic search for hospital ventilators, even the dreaded ping from NHS test-and-trace. To most of us, these memori...
How we can all have a home
You can’t paint your walls, you can’t have a pet, you can’t guarantee you’ll have somewhere to live in six months time. Millions of us are paying sky-...
Right to Roam
On a sunny day in January, a ghostly figure covered in green ribbons appeared on a moor in south-west England. It was a person dressed as Old Crockern...
The UK's political battlegrounds
Last year the UK had three different prime ministers, four different chancellors and five different housing ministers. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's fir...
How we win a new economy - changing the rules
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022.
Over the last five episodes we’ve looked at how the UK is being torn a...
How we win a new economy - fighting for our human rights
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022.
This summer, on a small road in south-east London, a crowd of people p...
How we win a new economy - fixing the housing crisis with social homes
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022.
The cost of living scandal could force 1.7 million households into hom...
How we win a new economy - solving the cost of living and climate crises together
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in August 2022.
2022: a year of extremes. During the 40 degree summer heat, roads melted...
How we win a new economy – a hot strike summer?
Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in August 2022.
As the first week of rail strikes came to an end in June, Google searc...
How we win a new economy - the end of neoliberalism?
In this mini-series of the New Economics Podcast, we’ll discover how our economy has been run over the past few years - and look at the key battlegrou...
How did the British Empire write the rules of today’s economy?
Outside of the frenzied headlines about woke warriors cancelling Jane Austen and stately homes, we’re living in a period of renewed consideration of B...
Who owns the internet?
What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting,...