A podcast about the politics of health, medicine, and the body

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Joined September 2021
i've just shared an update on podcast plans from the end of summer... TLDR; after the next two episodes i am taking an extended break from recoding new episodes, but coming back in 2027!
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i'm about 1/3 of the way thru this now and there is so much to say. the depiction of motherhood and loss, the use of a very specific english cultural vernacular, and the simmering question of what it means to write about the violence of colonialism from within the metropole...
spooky season is upon us
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Trying to understand why a prominent Tory party member organising contract killings isn’t being given wall to wall coverage. The BBC hasn’t even mentioned it on their site.
🚨🇬🇧 Turning Point UK's CEO was filmed offering an undercover reporter a menu of beatings, stabbings and killings through a Glasgow contact who says he arms the UVF Al Jazeera’s undercover operation started in 2021 when a reporter joined the British offshoot of the American student group. Its CEO Jack Ross, a Conservative candidate in 2023, introduced the reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and self-described UVF member, agreed on camera to pay him to stage a fake pro-Zimbabwe rally, and priced out what Nesbitt’s friends could do to a person, from cutting faces to MURDER. The UVF is the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant loyalist paramilitary from Northern Ireland’s Troubles that killed over 500 people between 1966 and 1999, including 33 in one day in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and is still banned as a terror group. Since the peace deal it has run mostly as a drug gang that kept the name and the guns. Nesbitt reportedly met the reporter in a London hotel, offered to have a fictional business rival “finished,” claimed he’d personally stabbed a man to death, showed a shotgun and pistol on a video call and said the fee would buy weapons smuggled from Scotland into Northern Ireland. Ross says it was a joke. The joke came with a price list, a weapons demo and a smuggling route, and the police now have a name and a video... and wasn't particularly funny. Somebody in Turning Point UK’s donor base should be asking when the fundraising dinners turned into this. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel
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The Prometheus International Press Squad reports from Portugal, where growing protests in and around the Portuguese State have led militants to raise the demand for a Communist Party at a European level. prometheus-mag.com/2026/10/2…
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The Prometheus International Press Squad (P.I.P.S.) reports from the 17th October protests in Paris, situating them within a wider political crisis of the French state and growing working-class youth militancy. prometheus-mag.com/2026/10/1…
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Truly couldn't be more thrilled about this
Open House in Oakland Saturday with readings by Ussama Makdisi, Ramsey McGlazer, Noor Asif, Brittany Newell, Francisco González, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Perwana Nazif, Samiha Khalil, Brianna Suslovic, Jyoti Rao, David Buuck, Amy Wong, Dacia Harrold, &Matthew Shutzer. Join us!
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needless to say, the same applies in Britain. between workers in the NHS and social care systems (as well as the people who rely on them to live) the base for a mass working class health politics is massive
more than 1 in 4 US adults is disabled. add to that everyone whose life is shaped by illness, care & the capitalist healthcare system. that's an enormous potential base for working-class politics, ample ground to build a powerful left. we should probably do something with that
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spooky season is upon us
enjoying having a bit more time to read fiction whilst podcast reading has slowed down a bit. finished this today and loved it. hoping to read the new China Miéville soon.
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New PRS on football’s spending rules with special guest @DrDaveWebber up tomorrow morning, subscribe to our Patreon to get it as soon as it drops. There you can also find our chat with @Red_Medicine__ host and City fan Sam Kelly. patreon.com/ProRevolutionSoc…
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For my s*bstack, I've written an essay about loss, embarrassment, Prince, Joshua Clover, Asad Haider, Mark Fisher, and Dolly Parton. If you are so inclined to read it, i'd love to hear what you think (as long as its nice)
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For my s*bstack, I've written an essay about loss, embarrassment, Prince, Joshua Clover, Asad Haider, Mark Fisher, and Dolly Parton. If you are so inclined to read it, i'd love to hear what you think (as long as its nice)
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this will be essential reading
My new book, "I Rise in Fire: Jamil Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, and the Long Revolution," published by Doubleday, will arrive on March 23, 2027. More details and pre-order: kundnani.org/i-rise-in-fire-…
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one of the most frustrating aspects of our current moment is that many of the people (incl on the left) who exceed in the current online ecosystem are not interested in doing the kind of serious and reflective work we need more of...
With the recent deaths of so many of the great Marxist thinkers of recent decades –– Jameson, Mike Davis etc, and now Chris Wickham –– i do worry about who will replace them, considering the conditions that allowed them to thrive and produce such generative work no longer exist
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...it benefits people who take intellectual short-cuts and succumb to audience capture. that being said, I can still think of dozens and dozens of people who are serious and do still find a way to do well in the current context
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enjoying having a bit more time to read fiction whilst podcast reading has slowed down a bit. finished this today and loved it. hoping to read the new China Miéville soon.
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has lost the Holborn and St Pancras by-election to the Labour candidate. The Green surge and the excitement surrounding Polanski’s leadership of the party faces its first major setback. revsoc21.uk/2026/10/10/polan…
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I had such a good time chatting w Tom about football. Please be gentle with me as I go outside my usual remit. Pro Revo Soccer is such a great podcast and it should definitely be on your radar if it isn't already!
Sam Kelly- host of the @Red_Medicine__ podcast and socialist City fan- joins to try to make sense of the news and formulate a response through a left lens. patreon.com/ProRevolutionSoc…
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