Socialist Think Tank Podcasts

Truss is gone. How did it happen? What does it mean for us? Will anything change? Will Boris make a comeback? Do looks matter in politics and is Keir Starmer suffering from dark side degradation?

Paul talks about his experiences in the Sedgefield Labour Party selection race, and the team talks Trussonomics and Ukraine.

The Big Story is: How to survive at 40°C    Other Stories:  RMT announces further rail strike & Mo Farah trafficking survivor

We discuss Johnson's resignation as Party leader, NHS birthday woes and Labour's proposed National Care Service

We discuss the potential for a Scottish Independence Referendum, 50 years of UK Pride and those resignations

We discuss whether the rail strikes have been a success or failure, Roe vs Wade being overturned and the Tory by election defeats

As Johnson sacks his ethics adviser, we ask if there is any point in having his role for a clearly unethical political class.

We discuss Prince Charles' comments, rail strikes and raising the age of smoking to 21

We discuss the latest UK Parliamentary debacle as Tory MPs narrowly vote confidence in their disgraced leader Boris Johnson.  We also ask whether policing has become a problem and whether we should extend free school meals.

We talk to Dan Draper about his third in a trilogy of films Manifesto.  Following on from The Nature of the Beast and The Big Meeting.  Along with Alan Gibbons and Michael Hardy, activists from the film.

We discuss plans for student loans to be denied to anybody who has to re-sit English or Mathematics, the fallout of Partygate and the re-writing of the ministerial code and the human cost of the Uyghur detention camps in China

Is the UK in danger of sleep walking into fascism and what can we do about it?

We discuss the actions needed to be taken now as prices soar and wages stagnate, the abuser working for MI5 and pollution now responsible for one in six deaths worldwide.

An amazing collaboration of groups supporting each other in gaining recognition for women that history has failed to remember

We discuss the crisis in governance in Northern Ireland, the murder of a journalist in the West Bank and the UK government's plans to cut 90,000 jobs.

We talk to Chantelle Lunt about a campaign to take our permission away from policing.

We are joined by Momentum activists who will discuss current events and how they plan to address issues through the new member led policy platform.

We discuss the outcomes of the local election and what it means, overturning Roe v Wade and women's rights, support for menopausal women and the Brownies learning coding.

We talk about the French elections, Councils failing to use powers to stop shoddy housing schemes, working class women's life expectancy shock and the sunflower oil shortage.

What's a socialist to do when there's a choice between a far right candidate and and establishmentarian who tries to outflank his opponent to the right on immigration? We discuss French politics in the build up to the Presidential Election.

We discuss if it is worth having a ministerial code, the plan to give refugees a one way ticket to Rwanda, Johnson's potential replacements if he ever relinquishes power and whether "accidental Partridge" Madeley was right to call climate change activists "childish.

With "Partygate", cost of capitalism crisis, sending refugees to Rwanda and no real response from our politicians, is our system promoting the worst people possible to positions of power and what can we do about it?     We also discuss the NEU conference and education.

With news breaking of fines issued to the Prime Minister and Chancellor, we discuss the shamelessness of our political class.   We also discuss freedom of information laws being undermined, the privatisation of channel 4 and the Sunak family tax dodging.

What happens when we ask our audience to guide our show? This!

John and the team discuss foreign policy, baby deaths in the NHS, nuclear energy and conversion therapy.