TRASHFUTURE

We can’t get enough of IPPR reports (and insane conservative meltdowns in response to them) and this week, Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Hussein ( @HKesvani ) join IPPR researcher Matthew Lawrence ( @DantonsHead ) to discuss his recent report entitled ‘The Digital Commonwealth: From private enclosure to collective benefit,’ which you can read here . Also, remember that your fa...

It wouldn’t be Britain if our elected leaders weren’t discussing new ways to cut the state even further, and this week, Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) join New Statesman political editor George Eaton ( @georgeeaton ) to examine the principles behind austerity. Learn about faith-based supply-side economics, Sajid Javid’s annual reading of ‘Atlas Shrugged...

It’s a busy start to September, and now that we’ve all renewed our dhimmi permits, we can enter the no-go zone of Whitechapel to record and episode. This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) joined journalist and writer Oscar Rickett ( @oscarrickettnow) to discuss his work reporting on ayahuasca entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and, more importantly, on...

In a continuation of last week’s episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) join guests Andrew Law ( @IllyBocean ) and Lucy Valentine ( @LucyXIV ) from Boonta Vista Socialist Club ( @BoontaVista ) for a roundup of terrible right-wing columnists in the land of our terrible Commonwealth forebears. We absolutely, positively saved the best (worst) for last. You shoul...

For this week’s episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) join guests Andrew Law ( @IllyBocean ) and Lucy Valentine ( @LucyXIV ) from the extremely good Australian podcast Boonta Vista Socialist Club ( @BoontaVista ) for a discussion of a topic close to all of our hearts: the worst right-wing columnists in the Anglosphere, their greatest hits, their origin stori...

For this week’s episode, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) discuss the absurdly high valuation of tech companies, the idea that tech impacts our lives as capital-subsidised precarity, and the fact that 40 percent of the US economy is effectively a shell game. Later, Riley and Milo speak with Molly Smith (@pastachips), co-author of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight...

Fringe is ongoing and in this episode Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) meet with comedian Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones ( @AJ_Taco ) and discuss tech platforms’ recent decisions to ban insane right-wing conspiracy mongers. Is this a good thing? You decide. They also discuss the extremely well adjusted recent articles from Boris Johnson, Rod Liddle, and Brendan O’Neill. You...

In this first episode of Trashfuture’s second year, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), speak to DSA Los Angeles activist Josh Androsky ( @ShutUpAndrosky ) about public banking, liberalism’s inability to provide answers in a rapidly worsening world, Tommy Robinson's total madness, and right-wing freakouts online. And on that note, this podcast is effectively a pie...

On this special 1-year anniversary of the Trashfuture podcast, Riley ( @raaleh ), Olga ( @rocknrolga ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and comedian Gareth Reynolds ( @reynoldsgareth ) -- host of the podcast ‘the Dollop’ -- about the infamous Juicero, and what its high-tech concept (and spectacularly low-tech demise) says about the capital class of Silicon Valley. The terrible Juicero advertisement that a...

It’s another month, the moon has turned, a butterfly rustles its wings in the Amazon, and it’s time for yet another episode of Riley’s Commie Book Club! This month we’re reading 'Violent Borders' by Reece Jones, published by Verso Books. We talk about the roots of borders in exploitation, and the important role they play in allowing capital to externalise its own contradictions. Riley gets frequen...

This week, Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and speak with leftist tech writer (and tech industry veteran) Wendy Liu ( @dellsystem ) about Silicon Valley’s labour force, what it means to unionise tech workers, and how she escaped the thrall of tech-libertarianism. During the interview, Wendy mentions an article by Alex Press ( @alexnpress ) about organising the tec...

Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and special guest Fraser Watt ( @fraserwat ) speak with Canadian journalist and writer Luke Savage ( @LukewSavage ) about Ontario’s recently-elected Premier Doug Ford, the right-wing politician that Canadian liberals can only compare to Trump because they’ve forgotten about his moron brother Rob. Additionally, the team takes turns d...

Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and recently returned Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) speak with migrant advocate Zoe Gardner ( @ZoeJardiniere ) about refugees, migrants, right-wing opposition to all forms of immigration, endless liberal equivocation on the topic, and whether or not Riley is an economic migrant (he is). This episode was recorded prior to England’s advancing in the World Cup, thou...

Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) hosted documentary filmmaker Nelufar Hedayat ( @nelufar ) to discuss superfoods, Silicon Valley’s attempts at engineering future meals, Nelufar’s recent series ‘Food Exposed’, and the life and times of a food legend known as David Avocado Wolfe. We also get a Russia update from Milo, and a stern lecture on Charles Dickens. You ca...

In a special edition of Trashfuture recorded in early May, Riley ( @raaleh ) and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) hung out in Moscow with Russian comedian Yevgeniy Chebatkov and discussed the Russian comedy scene, why you can’t make jokes about Putin on TV, Tsarist-nostalgia restaurants, and Milo’s controversial opinion that maybe Stalinism was a bit much. Hussein ( @HKesvani ) was unable to make the trip t...

This week, Trashfuture discusses some of our favourite topics: Elon Musk’s non-working cars, by-elections in Lewisham, and MAGA-supporting tech villains trying to augment Trump’s ICE atrocities with new gadgets -- because what is more American than victimising immigrants whilst never leaving your gaming chair? This was recorded about ten days ago, which you can mark by all of our completely inaccu...

Trashfuture decided to take on the concept of Juche this week. Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), and Olga ( @rocknrolga ) host VICE and BBC journalist Jake Warren ( @TheJakeWarren ), who gives his take on Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s recent get-together in Singapore, why it offended so many American liberals to see the American flag next to the North Korean one, and what North Korea is...

This week, a slightly-not-quite classic Trashfuture crew of Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) got together in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets to speak with Felix Biederman ( @ByYourLogic ) about how America and Britian see and use one another. In addition to exploring the political purpose horror stories of Britain serve for America, we also talk culture, Brexit...

This week, the original TF crew of Riley ( @raaleh ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), and Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ) speaks to the Guardian's Jonathan Shainin ( @jonathanshainin ) on the topic of Niall Ferguson's Bond villain antics, the Evening Standard's recent sale of itself to the app lords, and a robust debate on whether or not free speech is an absolute and abstract thing. Nate ( @inthesedeserts ) smuggl...

This week, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Milo (@milo_edwards) are back in the studio in the Caliphate of Tower Hamlets recapping centrist and extremist idiots' absolute dumbest takes on the Irish referendum results. They cover Christian ISIS, Classical Athenian democracy, and a lot of busting jokes. The gang also discusses Tommy Robinson’s recent legal issues, what sort of business lit...

It's that time again. Riley (@raaleh) grabbed a book, grabbed a mic, and opened up People of the Abyss, a 1903 book by American travel writer Jack London, about his experiences living in East London in that time. His observations on poverty, housing, inequality, capitalism, and imperialism are basically all analagous today. Enjoy! Also follow us on @trashfuturepod.

This week, Riley (@raaleh) and Milo (@milo_edwards) host journalist and music enthusiast Dan Hancox (@danhancox) to discuss his new book ‘Inner City Pressure: the Story of Grime.’ After a loving review of Elon Musk’s one-for-the-history-books Meltdown May, the team converses on the history (and rebirth) of grime, pirate radio, gentrification, ASBOs, Form 696, Matt Hancock, and the classic Tory osc...

This is a slightly more condensed episode in which the TF crew discusses an idiotic Sunday Times piece about 'hipster fascists,' but more importantly it's an episode centred on the campaign in Ireland to repeal the 8th Amendment. Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Hussein (@HKesvani) speak with journalist Sirin Kale (@thedalstonyears) about Irish abortion laws, the impending referendum, an...

The Trashfuture crew welcomes back Milo (@milo_edwards), who managed to escape his FSB handlers and return to London unscathed. He and Riley (@raaleh) are joined by think-tank researcher Grace Blakely (@graceblakeley) to discuss the Sunday Times's 2018 Rich List and the implications of its members' rent-seeking behaviour for austerity Britain. They also got more than a little sloshed on wine, so y...

This week, the full TF crew of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Milo (@milo_edwards) speak with satirist and urbanist Karl Sharro (@karlremarks) about the backwards Western proclivity for conspiracy theories, their fondness for strongman rule, and why he sees a vibrant future for Occidentalist thinkpieces that cite one sole apocryphal London cab driver. Karl's presence in the room raised...