Sooz Kempner is an actress, singer, and stand up comedian. Sooz became quite well known online for her parodies of Liza Minelli reading Donald Trump’s speeches and Nadine Dorries – our bizarre Culture Minister. We got into a lot of talk about the backlash against comedians like Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, and Ricky Gervais, the…
Zuby (AKA Zuby Music) is a rapper, podcaster, author, fitness influencer, and Twitter boss. He first came to fame after he broke the female deadlift world record in a viral video and has blown up due to his thoughts on the covid -19 pandemic. In this conversation we went deep into why Zuby believes the…
Oliver Bullough studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia after graduating in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, travelling widely as a reporter for Reuters news agency. His last book, Moneyland was a great, if not a touch depressing, read – a thorough examination…
Professor Gary Gerstle is the author of the brand new book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. Gary Gerstle FBA (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. In this podcast, we…
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black-tie dinners. They aren’t just colleagues – they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when…
I think I mention the work of Mark E. Thomas on this show almost as much as I reference Naomi Klein and The Shock Doctrine, so it was a pleasure to have Mark back on the show. In this episode we talked through the privatisation of the NHS, the implications of the Health and Social…
