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Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow

AI is set to take all of our jobs. It will irrevocably transform our relationships – and it might even kill us all. These are some of the big claims made about artificial

Downstream: Multiculturalism Will Save the Working Class w/ Jonas Patrick Marvin

We live in a moment when the working class is fractured along a great many lines. Gone are the days of solidarity built around a shared experience of factory work that fo

Downstream: Elites Have No Plan for Climate Change w/ Bill McGuire

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2026 is roughly the same as when, in the very, very distant past, the Earth was between 6 and 8 degrees warmer. If the E

Downstream: The Journalist Who Terrifies Corporate America w/ Amy Goodman

The genocide of Palestinians, carried out by the Israeli army with backing from the US and the British state, has lead to an almighty breakdown in public trust in the Wes

ACFM Microdose: How Britain’s Coastal Communities are Reclaiming Power w/ Hazel Sheffield

Nadia visits reporter and author Hazel Sheffield in her Hastings beach hut to talk about the coastal communities that are reimagining their economies in the face of gover

Downstream: Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: “We Face Collapse” w/ Kevin Anderson

The summer of 2026 will go down in history books as the hottest, driest and most deadly set of heatwaves Britain has ever experienced. This weather isn’t normal – but it

ACFM 62: The Beach

Nadia, Keir and Jem wonder why humans are drawn to the beach in a weird-left conversation that spans geological deep-time, the birth of surf culture, the politics of fade

Downstream: The West is Over. Here’s Why w/ Pankaj Mishra

In the years since October 7th, the world has been bitterly polarised over how to make sense of the violence. While polling shows that a majority of people do believe Isr

Do Your Own Research: Is This Podcast the Problem? w/ Joshua Citarella

Joshua Citarella built his reputation by mapping synthetic e-deologies of terminally online politics, expressed in memes, micro-disputes and merch drops. Now the artist,

Downstream: Who Profits From Genocide? w/ Andrew Feinstein

A new consensus has emerged in Westminster, seemingly overnight: we need more defence spending, and we need it now. But the Ministry of Defence has a record for waste tha

Do Your Own Research: What JD Vance and Tucker Carlson Actually Believe w/ James Pogue

The American empire is in crisis – and there is a new generation of more vocal critics coming from the right. So what do JD Vance and Tucker Carlson actually believe abo

Downstream: You Will Rent Forever. Here’s Why. w/ Peter Apps

We live in times of crisis. But perhaps none of the crises affect so many people in the here and now, as the housing crisis. Solving it could provide the skeleton key to

Downstream: The Middle Class Will Collapse Unless We Tax the Rich w/ Gary Stevenson

The idea of a wealth tax has never been more popular in Britain, and while many have campaigned for it, none have done more to boost the demand than one man: Gary Stevens

ACFM Microdose: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations

The Meditations of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius are perhaps the best-selling self-help book of all time. Rooted in the rational philosophy of the Stoics, the 12 books of

Do Your Own Research: The True Cost of AI Girlfriends w/ James Muldoon

AI boyfriends and girlfriends are all the rage – for some. For others, they just inspire rage. So what’s the truth about these seductive machines? Do they open up our er

Downstream: Who Really Won the War on Drugs? w/ Kojo Koram

Last year, Zack Polanski’s Green Party suggested changes could be made to Britain’s prohibitionist approach to drugs – and felt the full force of the mainstream media’s i

Do Your Own Research: How China Wins the Resource War w/ Thea Riofrancos

We need critical minerals for the green transition, the military and the AI boom. In barely a year, lithium and the rare earths have become some of the most fought-over o

Downstream: Governments Do Capitalism Wrong. Here’s How We Fix It. w/ Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato is a towering figure in contemporary economics, best known for her work on the entrepreneurial state and mission-oriented economics. Her congregation is

ACFM Trip 61: Resilience

A weird-left look at the magical properties of resilience, from the colonial legacy of the stiff upper lip to contemporary narratives of trauma and victimhood. Nadia, Ke

Downstream: What the US-Iran Peace Negotiations are Really About w/ Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy is a British-Israeli analyst, commentator, and former Israeli government negotiator whose biography reads like a map of the peace process’s rise and fall. As