Hi everyone, I just wanted to apologise for what is likely to be a month with relatively limited PTO content. I've been absolutely wiped out by flu and it's taking me an age to get over it. There should be an interview with Hannah Proctor on her book 'Burn Out: The Emotional Experience of Politic...
2024-12-05 15:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In this second part of a two-part episode Richard Seymour responds to more of the questions sent in by listeners on the US presidential election and its ramifications. We also talked briefly about the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benj...
2024-11-27 06:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a two part episode Richard Seymour responds to some of the excellent questions sent in by listeners on the US presidential election and its ramifications. Richard answered questions on the role of social media in the election, the nomination of RFK Jr. to the position of secretary ...
2024-11-19 06:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostBy popular request, Richard Seymour will be returning to answer your questions on everything related to the US election and Donald Trump's victory (including the international implications). As usual please send your questions to 2024-11-11 18:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we're publishing a crossover episode with our friends at the Macrodose podcast, hosted by James Meadway. In the episode talk about the economics of Donald Trump's election victory and why James lays much of the blam...
2024-11-10 12:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the extent to which war with China is increasingly being treated as a serious prospect in Washington and the Pentagon. We also talked about how successful, or otherwise, the Biden administration has been in constructing regional alliances against China during ...
2024-11-05 06:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's episode Richard Seymour responds to more of the great questions sent in by PTO supporters. Those questions covered topics including degrowth, the extent to which Green party's can be vehicles for radical change, the left's impasse in the UK and Richard's appearance in the audience on B...
2024-10-25 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As Israel's genocide in Gaza escalated in the autumn of last year, there was much speculation as to whether we would see mass uprisings in the Arab States of the region. Yet although there have been major Palestine protests in the region, and other acts of solidarity, we have not seen the kinds o...
2024-10-17 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On the 27th of September Israel dramatically escalated its war on Hezbollah, by assassinating its Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. Four days later Iran responded to the killing of its long-standing ally by launching a missile attack on Israel - targeting military and intelligence facilities. I...
2024-10-05 09:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a two part listener's questions episode Richard responds to questions on Israel's murderous attack on Lebanon, the prospects for Gaza, the appointment of Michel Barnier as French prime minister and psychoanalytic insights into nationalism.
Thanks to everyone who sent in que...
Jeremy Gilbert joins me to discuss the news that Oasis have announced that they will be reforming to perform a series of gigs next summer. We discussed the reaction to that news, why 90s nostalgia is so prevalent, and why it was that of the various guitar groups of the time, it was Oasis who beca...
2024-09-17 05:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostRichard will be returning to PTO to answer more of your questions soon. You might like to ask Richard about the ongoing genocide and human catastrophe in Gaza, the US presidential race, the AfD's strong showing in the recent state elections in Germany, or the appointment of Michel Barnier as Fran...
2024-09-10 13:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Zionism, and the project of ethnic cleansing and colonial settlement in historic Palestine, is often rightly compared to other projects of European colonialism. But in a recent essay for Para...
2024-09-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil Burton-Cartledge joins PTO to discuss the first few weeks of Keir Starmer's Labour government. We talked about why Phil characterises the Starmer project as a case of 'authoritarian modernisation', the relationship between Labour and the unions, and why the government seems so sanguine about...
2024-08-29 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On July 30th, a week of Islamophobic and racist violence broke out in England and Northern Ireland, following a mass stabbing even in the seaside town of Southport in which three children were murdered. The subsequent racist attacks were fuelled by misinformation, spread by far-right groups, that...
2024-08-18 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour returns to respond to more listener's questions and to address the recent outbreak of racist and Islamophobic violence in the UK.
2024-08-08 16:22:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Bue Rübner Hansen joins PTO to talk about his recent essay The New German Chauvinism. In the first part of our conversation we discussed the history of the German-Israeli alliance and how its emergence...
2024-08-06 05:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's episode Richard Seymour returns to answer some of the excellent questions sent in by PTO patrons. We recorded the episode prior to the announcement that Joe Biden was ending his campaign for a second term in office, and before the suspension of seven Labour MPs by the party leadership,...
2024-07-27 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On January 22nd the new Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh was consecrated in a ceremony led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event kicked off Modi's election campaign that was widely expected to lead to a landslide for Modi and the BJP. Instead, the Hindu nationalist party lost 63 seats and ...
2024-07-22 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostRichard will be returning to the show next week to answer your questions. You may like to ask him something regarding the recent elections in the UK and France, the continuing Israeli war on Gaza, or about Joe Biden's faltering run for a second term in office. Though feel free of course to choose...
2024-07-13 10:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to the show to discuss the recent shock result in the French legislative elections that saw the left wing New Popular Front win the highest number of seats, beating both Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble and the far-right National Rally, who had been widely expected to e...
2024-07-12 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Today’s show is a crossover episode with our good friends over at the Macrodose podcast, which is hosted by economist James Meadway. In the episode James is joined by Richard Seymour to discuss the upcoming UK general election. We talked about the crisis in the Conservative Party and the prospe...
2024-07-01 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Maya Wind returns to the show to answer listener questions, including on Maya's experience of becoming an Israeli refusenik, the extent to which the imbrication of Israeli universities with the IDF is unusual as compared with other states and their militaries, and whether or not some liberal Isra...
2024-06-20 05:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy Beckett joins PTO to talk about his new book, The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies. The five rebels in question being Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell, and Ken Livingstone. We talked about the role of the global...
2024-06-11 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is the recording of our recent live event. Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny were joined by an audience in Finsbury Park, London to discuss the fascism debate, disaster nationalism, and the relationship between fascism and racial capitalism.
2024-06-06 10:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post
James Schneider joins the show to discuss Rishi Sunak's announcement that the UK general election will take place on July 4th, and to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win in which James argues for a left bloc - a federated alliance of socialist forces comprising social move...
2024-05-23 10:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly, a big thank you to everyone who attended the PTO live event on Thursday with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Richard Seymour. For personal reasons I wasn't able to host the event myself but Eleanor Penny ably stepped in and the discussion was a very interesting one by all accounts. And we'll be ...
2024-05-17 11:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostRecent guest Sophie Lewis will be returning to answer your questions. You may like to ask Sophie about our 2024-05-04 14:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy and they enjoy warm relationships with their counterparts in north America and Europe - including the University of Columbia. However, as Maya Wind explains in today's episode, contrary to the depicti...
2024-05-01 05:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's show Richard Seymour responds to some more excellent listener's questions. We talked about the protests against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza taking place at American universities and the extremely repressive response from university authorities. We went on to discuss the situation re...
2024-04-28 11:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post