Novara Media
Support Us
Catch up with Novara Live

The latest Tory campaign message appears to be ‘we’ve lost.’
Subscribe to The Cortado

Your thrice-weekly shot of politics and election analysis from Ash & co.
Pro Revolution Soccer

The Euro 2024 podcast that doesn’t leave politics at the turnstile.
Watch Downstream

Our in-depth long-form interview show, hosted by Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar.
Sign up to The Pick

Get our best articles every week, straight to your inbox.
Get Merch

Support us and get a water bottle or a T-shirt.
Explore the Long Read

Delve into the deep archive of our longer-form articles.
Red Flags

Our advice column for anti-capitalists, by Sophie K Rosa.
Opinion
A blue-lit crowd watches Nigel Farage talk at a campaign event

Nigel Farage Has Spotted a Major Gap in the Political Market

Aaron Bastani

With policies to purportedly save the high street and a promise to lift the two-child benefit cap, Nigel Farage is looking for new ways to capitalise on mass disaffection, writes Aaron Bastani.
Feature
A protester waves a flag outside the Royal Courts of Justice

How UK Universities Are Cracking Down on Pro-Palestine Occupations

Christophe Domec
From court orders and 'fire safety' regs, to academic sanctions and 'intimidation'.

Amazon Says GMB Leaflets Could Be a ‘Hazard’ Amid Union-Busting Allegations

Polly Smythe
‘It is abundantly clear that the scales of justice have been tipped in the favour of employers.’

Inside the Tory-Linked Far-Right Group Organising Against the Left

Simon Childs
Leaked WhatsApps reveal an activist offering to sell knuckle dusters.
Analysis

Labour’s Migration Plans Will Embolden the Far Right

They're weak sauce.
Zoe Gardner
Opinion

Independent Candidates Are the Left’s Opportunity to Keep Labour in Check

Boots on the ground.
Moya Lothian-McLean
Jeremy Corbyn in front of several people holding 'Vote Corbyn' placards
Feature

Andrew Feinstein Is the Left’s Anti-Keir Starmer

'I am terrified by what a Labour government will do.'
Rivkah Brown
Analysis

The French Left Can Fight the Far Right If It Stops Fighting Itself

A group of politicians stand in front of a banner that says 'Nouveau Front', or New Front in French
Win now, argue later.
Cole Stangler
Opinion

The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Keir Starmer just doesn’t care.
Juliet Jacques
Feature

Nigel Farage Is Coming for Your (Young) Man

Anti-politics meets hustle culture.
Clare Hymer & Craig Gent
Opinion

Would the Real Anti-Racists Please Stand Up?

Not you, Hope not Hate.
Rivkah Brown
An image of Nigel Farage, taken from below, with a photographer in the background
Novara FM
Tony Blair and George W. Bush at the NATO summit

Where Will Labour Invade This Time?

Eleanor Penny Meets David Wearing

From the war in Iraq to the Malaya counterinsurgency, Labour governments have been in power during some of Britain’s worst colonial blunders. What should we expect this time?
Report

Why do They Hate Suella so Much Here?

Aaron travelled down to the new constituency of Fareham & Waterlooville to ask Suella Braverman’s constituents what they really think of her.

‘We Have to Vote Labour’

Mick Lynch Talks to Ash Sarkar

Britain’s favourite union boss joins Ash Sarkar to talk about leveraging Starmer, the importance of council housing, and why he’s backing Labour.

The SNP Finally Has an Election Pitch. Is It Too Late?

Adam Ramsay
Left of Labour, but not exactly transformative.

Novara Live

The biggest stories and guests from the UK and international left. Livestreamed on YouTube weeknights at 6PM GMT.
Novara Live
Starmer’s Offer to Renters Explained
Labour leader Keir Starmer has vowed to end the scourge of ‘bidding wars’ in the UK rental market. We speak to Generation Rent’s Conor O’Shea about the reality of renting in Britain. Plus: the worrying links between far-right group Turning Point UK and Conservative party politicians; and a new video has emerged that further exposes […]
Full Episodes
See All

The Tory Election Campaign Is Imploding

Sunak Confronted by Callers in LBC Phone-In

Keir Starmer Snakes His Way Through LBC Phone-In

Nigel Farage Launches Reform UK’s Manifesto

Sunak Says He Is Fighting to Not Come Third As Poll Sees Reform Overtake Tories

13 June 2024

Starmer Launches Labour Manifesto Slammed As “Return to Austerity”

12 June 2024

Green Party Launch Manifesto of Bold Policies for “Real Change”

11 June 2024

Sunak Launches Manifesto of Desperate Tax Cuts Amid Dying Campaign

10 June 2024

Macron Takes Huge Gamble After Surge of European Far-Right

7 June 2024

Rishi Sunak’s Disaster Campaign Keeps Getting Worse

6 June 2024

Faiza Shaheen on Her Campaign to Beat the Tories and Labour

5 June 2024

Faiza Shaheen Announces Independent Election Campaign

4 June 2024

Nigel Farage Heads to Clacton and Is Milkshaked Again

3 June 2024

Nigel Farage Announces Election Bid With Reform UK in U-turn

31 May 2024

Diane Abbott Free to Stand for Labour, Trump Found Guilty at Hush Money Trial

30 May 2024

Starmer’s Labour in Disgraceful Purge of Left MP Candidates

Novara Media’s flagship podcast is about the ideas that shape our past, present and future. With a desire to change the world—and ourselves along the way—Novara FM interrogates the people, ideologies and movements that wield power in our lives, from politics and culture to technology and the environment.
Novara FM
Tony Blair and George W. Bush at the NATO summit

Where Will Labour Invade This Time?

From the war in Iraq to the Malaya counterinsurgency, Labour governments have been in power during some of Britain’s worst colonial blunders. What should we expect this time?

Recent Episodes

See All
13 June 2024

Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left?

Israel has swung hard to the right in the last few decades, but a left remains. They are calling not just for a ceasefire, but for an end to the apartheid regime. What power do they have?
30 May 2024

The Right Is Getting Real on Climate. Can We?

It’s time to turn our collective exhaustion into another form of climate politics, says Ajay Singh Chaudhary.
23 May 2024

The Dolls Hold All the Receipts

Jules Gill-Peterson, author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny, points to the richness of life beyond gender norms.
16 May 2024

Living Through the Chinese Miracle

Should we romanticise China? Yuan Yang fills us in on the human costs of its rise.
The home of the weird left. Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn examine the links between left-wing politics, culture, music and experiences of collective joy.
ACFM

Notes on Camp

Has camp changed culture forever? The gang revisit Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay for an aesthetic Microdose.

Recent Episodes

See All
26 May 2024

Cool

What’s cooler than being cool? The ACFM crew find out, with help from Miles Davis, the Stooges and Pierre Bourdieu.
5 May 2024

Reactionary Democracy

How do politicians and pundits end up normalising the far-right? Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon explain in a Microdose interview.
21 April 2024

Fascism

The ACFM gang investigate the use and abuse of the F-word, with help from Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci and Black Sabbath.
17 March 2024

Trust Your Gut

How did capitalism separate our minds from our bodies? Nadia, Jem and Keir investigate.

Downstream is an in-depth interview show featuring conversations with activists, authors, economists, politicians, scientists, philosophers and thinkers of all stripes.

Downstream
The Tories Are Done and They Won’t Be Coming Back

See Also

Recent Episodes
See All
The Israel Lobby Is Real. Here’s Exactly How It Works.. Ilan Pappé meets Aaron Bastani
Here’s How America Really Runs Britain. Aaron Bastani Meets Angus Hanton
Everything You’re Told About Green Capitalism Is Wrong. Brett Christophers Talks to Aaron Bastani
Is India Really a Democracy?. Alpa Shah Meets Aaron Bastani
The Truth About Incels. Ash Sarkar Meets William Costello
Individualism Is Destroying Our Freedom. Grace Blakeley Meets Aaron Bastani

UK

Analysis
John Swinney speaking at the launch of the SNP's Westminster election manifesto.
The SNP Finally Has an Election Pitch. Is It Too Late?
This Is the Unluckiest Constituency in the Country
‘I’m Not Angry, I’m Disappointed’: What Voters in Reform’s Top Town Really Think

World

Feature
Andrew Feinstein Is the Left's Anti-Keir Starmer
The French Left Can Fight the Far Right If It Stops Fighting Itself
The Israel Lobby Is Real. Here’s Exactly How It Works.

Labour Party

Analysis
A woman with blonde hair looks into a dark void
Labour’s Migration Plans Will Embolden the Far Right
Independent Candidates Are the Left's Opportunity to Keep Labour in Check
The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Organised Labour

Report
The strike at Amazon Coventry in November 2023. REUTERS/Carl Recine
Amazon Says GMB Leaflets Could Be a ‘Hazard’ Amid Union-Busting Allegations
'We Have to Vote Labour'
‘Covid Rogue’ Among Labour’s Business Backers

Conservative Party

Downstream
The Tories Are Done and They Won’t Be Coming Back
Inside the Tory-Linked Far-Right Group Organising Against the Left
How the Scottish Tory Leader Built His Career on Persecuting Travellers

Politics

Feature
A protester waves a flag outside the Royal Courts of Justice
How UK Universities Are Cracking Down on Pro-Palestine Occupations
Nigel Farage Has Spotted a Major Gap in the Political Market
Why do They Hate Suella so Much Here?

Economics

Analysis
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaks at Labour Party conference in Liverpool,
Labour Will End Neoliberalism. Just Not in a Good Way
Budget 2024: Keir Starmer Just Walked Right Into the Tories' Trap
Britain’s Future Depends on Its Smaller Cities

Environment

Report
A North Sea oil platform. REUTERS/Andy Buchanan/pool
MP Pulls Out of Climate Summit Over Fossil Fuel Sponsorship
‘Jobs or the Environment’ Is a False Choice Deployed by the Right
An Oil Baron Wants to Build Over a Local Park for His 'Green' Energy Project

Policing

Report
A group of people hold banners that say 'zero tolerance for antisemites' and similar slogans
Did an Israel Lobbyist Confect an Antisemitism Story About a Palestine Demo?
Germany’s Anti-Palestine Crackdown Has Reached ‘a New Low’
Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again

Housing

Feature
A group of French police officers stand in shadow as a group of dark-skinned men look on
Paris Is Banishing Its Homeless Before the Olympics. A Group of Child Migrants Isn't Having It
The Great Housing Crisis Debate
‘Imagine It Was Your Family’: Grenfell Survivors Tell of Ongoing Agony

Society

Report
Labour Deletes ‘The NHS Is Not for Sale’ From Its Manifesto
Cool
Your Neighbour Kills Puppies

History

ACFM
Notes on Camp
Trust Your Gut
The Untold Histories of Black Gay Britain

TV & Film

Feature
Barbara Windsor stands besides Queen Elizabeth II behind a pub counter
Soaps Give Working Class Actors a Chance - And They’re Disappearing
The Dune Films Are the Most Important of the 2020s. But Not for the Reasons You Think
The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Culture

Pro Revolution Soccer
Can Football Explain the Far-Right Resurgence in Europe?
Pro Revolution Soccer Returns for Euro 2024
My Partner Is Broke. Should I Pay His Rent?

Build
 people-
  powered
   media.

Build people-powered media.

We’re up against huge power and influence. Our supporters keep us entirely free to access. We don’t have any ad partnerships or sponsored content.

Donate one hour’s wage per month—or whatever you can afford—today.
Join our supporters

We’re up against huge power and influence. Our supporters keep us entirely free to access. We don’t have any ad partnerships or sponsored content.

Donate one hour’s wage per month—or whatever you can afford—today.
Join our supporters
Build people-powered media. We’re up against obscene wealth and influence in the media. Fund independent, truthful journalism
Fund something better

We are always working to improve this website for our users. To do this we use usage data facilitated by cookies and external services. For more information read our Privacy Policy

Accept