The Tea with Myriam Francois

Is AI really getting smarter than us or are we falling for the biggest myth in tech? AI is transforming the way we work, think and create. As machines begin outperforming humans in more tasks, the race to AGI and even superintelligence is often treated as inevitable. But is it? Or are we buying into Silicon Valley's biggest story? This week on The Tea, we are joined by one of Britain's sharpest vo...

Capitalism isn't in crisis. It is the crisis. Rising inequalities. Endless austerity. Genocide. Permanent war. Climate collapse. AI-driven job losses. For best-selling author and economist Clara Mattei, these aren't failures of capitalism—they're the system working exactly as designed. This week on The Tea, Mattei joins us to challenge one of the most powerful assumptions of our time: that there i...

Say these three words in Britain today and you could face up to 14 years in prison. The words are: "I support Palestine Action."  Following the group's proscription under UK terrorism law, expressing support can now constitute a serious criminal offence. This week on The Tea , we're joined by Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori to examine one of the most controversial political decisions...

Has feminism gone too far? Across Western democracies, nearly 60% of Gen Z men now say men face more discrimination than women. Some call it backlash. But the data points to a generation of young men increasingly shaped by algorithm-driven content that distorts feminism, women’s rights, and the meaning of equality itself. So what’s really driving this shift? This week on The Tea, we’re joined by b...

https://www.theteanetwork.co Eight months on from the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, the headlines may have moved on — but Israel's assault has not. The siege remains. The starvation continues. The displacement continues. The destruction continues. This week on The Tea, we speak to Dr Mads Gilbert, the award-winning Norwegian doctor and long-standing advocate for Palestinian liberation. Having worke...

If free speech is the foundation of a free society, what happened this week raises a disturbing question: are we sleepwalking into fascism? Our guest this week, political commentator and founder of The Young Turks , Cenk Uygur, was barred from entering the UK, alongside Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, after criticising Israel, in a move that has sparked alarm over the future of free expression itself...

https://www.theteanetwork.co America has learned nothing from its wars. Not Iraq. Not Afghanistan. Not 9/11. And now, with Iran, the cycle is repeating itself. For 23 years, Michael Scheuer served inside the CIA. In this week’s episode of The Tea, he joins us to pull back the curtain on what he calls America’s “imperial hubris” — a foreign policy driven by arrogance, endless intervention, and poli...

https://www.theteanetwork.co What happens when one of the most dangerous political theories of our time goes mainstream? This week in San Diego, two teenagers opened fire at a mosque, killing three people, in an attack reportedly tied to a manifesto driven by “Great Replacement Theory”— the belief that immigrants, Muslims, and minorities are “replacing” white populations. But San Diego is not an e...

AI is being sold to us as an oracle, objective, neutral, inevitable. But when corporations and governments present predictions as facts, what they often demand is obedience. We’re living through a golden age of surveillance. As monitoring reaches levels once associated with totalitarian regimes, the question becomes unavoidable: how much surveillance can a democracy sustain before it ceases to be...

International law is supposed to be the final guardrail against impunity. So what happens when that system itself comes under attack? From Donald Trump openly dismissing the very idea of international legal norms to unprecedented sanctions imposed on senior ICC officials, the message is unmistakable: international law applies — until it threatens power. In this episode of The Tea, ICC Chief Prosec...

Across Western democracies, the political map has shifted. The left is losing its base. The right is gaining ground — and owning the narrative. In the US, Republicans have gained millions of voters in recent years, while Democrats have lost ground. Across Europe, radical right parties are now regularly polling above 20%, winning government roles and reshaping mainstream politics. So what’s really...

A company with intelligence ties, Palantir, writes a manifesto for a new republic - while quietly embedding itself inside the state…This isn’t a dystopia. From the rise of figures like Donald Trump to the normalisation of unelected power brokers like Jared Kushner, the concentration of wealth, media, tech, and state power has never been tighter. The mask is slipping. Power isn’t pretending anymore...

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Thousands of peaceful protesters arrested. A direct-action group branded “terrorist.” A UN official sanctioned. ICC judges attacked. We were told the rule of law would keep us safe. So why does it increasingly look like a system where power protects power? This week on The Tea, we sit down with Tayab Ali — lawyer and director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians — about the grow...

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The global fashion industry churns out over 100 billion garments a year — 10 times more clothes than there are people on the planet. But fast fashion isn’t just cheap clothing. It’s colonial supply chains, algorithmic manipulation, and a Race to the Bottom, designed to extract wealth from workers, water, and culture in the Global South — all to enrich a handful of corporations. In a world where ho...

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