Mandatory Redistribution Party

Can a multinational corporation be socialist if the CEO really, really wants it to be? (No.) — Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Have you ever actually seen a cow? Have you touched its hot flank with your weak city hands? When you mind-conjure the countryside are you remembering a pastoral painting of a wide sheep, or do you imagine a hedgepunk dystopia of privatised slurry vats and forbidden slaughter fields? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution...

The NHS is poorly. We place an ice-cold stethoscope against the chest of the health service and what do we hear? Exhausted staff fuelled by red bull and bitterness. Money tumbles through its body like a Blackpool coin pusher, landing in the gaping maw of a private equity-owned foot scrape clinic. A man with a pitchfork through his head being told to lose weight. Diagnosis: It’s wrecked.   --- Supp...

At the heart of the UK, is a gaping psychosocial hole that is booze-brimmed to burst. How did alcohol become Britain’s one hobby?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean, this episode contains an excerpt of John Blo...

Was, listen, was feudalism a laugh? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans.

Consumers! Do you love to select? Or do you clink the bars of your multiple choice decision prison? Picture this: you need a cone of chips to feed your dog, eight nearby are a scam and one sells poison. The only person who can help you? The kind of person willing to review a chippy online. Is this any way to live? How would you rate it out of 5? Thank you for your answers. Your feedback is very im...

Earth’s cities are a car accident. Where we live, eat, sleep and even dream is criss-crossed with tarmaced arteries for high speed air-conditioned impact oblongs. The 15 minute city, an attempt to design spaces safe for soft bodied pedestrians has been met with the revving of a big engine. We ask: what’s wrong with a little horse? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatory...

Keir Starmer is the most boring man I hate. We burrow into the grotty history of Labour leader Sir Keir Rodney “Keith” Starmer KCB KB and the many purported uses of blu tack. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean w...

Star Trek: The Next Generation is the worst thing we love. Telly’s chonkiest sci-fi depicts a utopian future of diverse philosopher kings discussing inalienable rights in the vacuum of space. So why then please does my space communist comfort zone attract fascists and cops?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is...

What you got there? Is it an idea? Hope you’ve got muscular solicitors, because all of Earth’s ideas now belong to five guys (not the burger chain). We dredge the ongoing class struggle over the means of artistic production: the human imagination. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sea...

An audio wikihow for stealth solidarity and pro strats for boss battles. An episode on Unions, organising your workplace and overthrowing The Workplace Liege.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional...

Peter Kay’s ex-best mate became a millionaire from the worst stand-up tour in UK history.  We run a full diagnostic on divorcee and unwilling autism advocate Paddy McGuinness. --- David Callaghan, @DavidCallaghan on twitter, is bringing his multimedia comedy club Progranimate to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival on 22nd March. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/manda...

To celebrate their 100th episode, Sean and Jack load up a game of Duke Nukem 3D and are instead sent 100 years into the past and future, respectively.    --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music...

Three years of churning turmoil later, how does the 2019 general election stand-up? Is it fun? Or has it permanently damaged our capacity to hope?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Ja...

The Edinburgh Fringe is the largest arts festival in the entire global Earth, its size and scale boggle our soft minds. But its powerful pumping guts run on exploited labour, extortionate rents, and the unrealised aspirations of young artists. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean M...

Essential workers. Homelessness. The right honourable Jess Phillips raging at Pizza Hut.  The grassroots organising and solidarity of the UK’s first covid-19 lockdown gave us a cheeky peep of an unwrecked future.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. O...

Why do reactionaries only get angrier when they win? How does social media profit from outrage? Why can’t I skywrite death threats to my employer? Lock and load, it's time for the culture war. [starship troopers voice] I’m doing my part. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley...

Who is this fucking guy? Earth’s richest guy is a stupid, vindictive nerd and allows us to see the poisonous nexus of state, capital and geek culture. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by...

If an apocalypse happens slowly, how can we tell when it has arrived? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Is The Goblin Good? Or is goblinity just a way of being tired? Sean and Jack discuss burnout, “self care” and being a weird little cackling guy.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jac...

Should we worry about what people think of us? Or should we reject all embarrassment, chug down the cringepill and dethrone the shame king. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new live comedy show Hostile Takeover to London, Manchester and Sheffield. Join knockabout radicals and gangly...

Iron Man (2008) kicks off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a film about a war profiteer who learns to become a human gun. Sean Morley was the last man on earth who hadn’t seen it. Until now. Because Jack made him watch it for the podcast.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty ---   **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new li...

Why make the case for socialism when you can just put LSD in the water supply? Local Narcs Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans discuss psychedelic utopianism, Nixon’s war on drugs and Hitler’s meth army.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty   --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title t...

What are the limits of technology for humanity under an economic model where everything is designed to break? Sean and Jack explore the possibilities and perils of cyberpunk body-modding, the limits of capitalism for preserving our history and also: pipes. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking a...

Did you know vending machines have people inside who are paid to stay very quiet and drop the right crisps when you put money in? That’s not true, but that is how the internet works. This episode is about the invisible labour of Online. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new live comedy sh...