Episodios

  • Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic

    Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic
    Nov 17 2025
    At Novara, we focus on the trends that are remaking the world and affecting our lives: technological development and automation, multipolarity, the demise of an American-led world order and the rise of China. On Downstream this week is a man whose work draws together all of these themes: former World Bank macroeconomist and leading expert […]
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    1 h y 27 m
  • Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden

    Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden
    Nov 11 2025
    Investigative journalist Paul Holden has spent the last four years digging into the political machinations that brought Keir Starmer’s Labour Party into office – findings that propel his powerful 2025 book, The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together and the Crisis of British Democracy. He tells Ash Sarkar about the cache of leaked emails that revealed the […]
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    1 h y 28 m
  • Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy

    Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy
    Nov 3 2025
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then a very young political scientist, declared that history was over. He wrote a book with the same title just a couple of years later. The Cold War had finished, the USSR had collapsed, liberal democracy and market capitalism reigned supreme, and it wasn’t going to change. And yet in the […]
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    1 h y 38 m
  • Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr

    Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr
    Oct 27 2025
    Iran has been in the news a lot in 2025. Over recent decades, it has been a variable in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine. But during the Twelve Day War with Israel in June of this year, Iran very much took centre stage. People started asking questions, chief among them being: What does […]
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    1 h y 31 m
  • Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu

    Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu
    Oct 22 2025
    The Gaza Strip, home to 2.2 million people, is a tiny land mass about the same size as the Isle of Wight. Yet in terms of munitions by weight, Gaza has been subjected to more than all of the bombs dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined, over the whole of World War II. Another […]
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    45 m
  • Downstream: What Really Changed on 7th October w/ Ahmed Alnaouq, Yara Eid and Tareq Baconi

    Downstream: What Really Changed on 7th October w/ Ahmed Alnaouq, Yara Eid and Tareq Baconi
    Oct 20 2025
    Just over two years after the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, and just days after the announcement of a ceasefire, Aaron Bastani spoke to three Palestinian writers in front of a live audience at EartH in Hackney. Ahmed Alnaouq is the host of Palestine Deep Dive and the co-founder of ‘We Are Not Numbers’, […]
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    1 h y 1 m
  • ACFM Trip 55: Parties

    ACFM Trip 55: Parties
    Oct 19 2025
    Amid the bumpy launch of a new left-wing party and the rise of the Greens and Reform, the ACFM crew turn their attention to parties. Do we still need them? Do parties work by drawing people together, or by excluding the uninvited? And should a political party have anything in common with a dance party? […]
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    1 h y 51 m
  • Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill

    Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill
    Oct 13 2025
    Artificial intelligence is set to be one of the most disruptive technologies this century. For some, a machine capable of augmenting its own intelligence is a matter of time — and could even arrive within a decade. This week’s guest is philosopher and author William MacAskill. One of the leading thinkers in the Effective Altruism […]
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    1 h y 36 m