This isn't even subtle.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What a nauseating spectacle.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has Joe Biden's decision to support Israel's genocidal war against Gaza handed the White House to Donald Trump?So much to talk about with left-wing Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New reports by the UN that Palestinian women have been sexually abused and raped by Israeli women are hideous enough. But even before these reports, the utter horrors suffered by Palestinian women were being ignored. Not by intersectional feminists - who've played a prominent role in opposing Israel's genocidal onslaught - but mainstream media outlets and a brand of mainstream feminism.I discuss this with Maryam Aldossari, an academic who wrote 'For feminists, silence on Gaza is no longer an option': https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/4/for-feminists-silence-on-gaza-is-no-longer-an-optionSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eylon Levy isn't even trying to hide it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can this possibly be defended?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are running out of time to stop this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is no coming back from the Tories after this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you commit a crime so great that you will never recover from it yourself.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is frankly nauseating that I have to do this thought experiment - because that's how much Palestinian life has been cheapened.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Israel's impunity finally under threat? Yesterday, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued a statement which dangled the possibility of war crimes charges. But both he and the ICC have long been accused of double standards - so is justice really plausible?I'm joined by Triestino Mariniello, Professor of Law at Liverpool John Moores University, and member of the Legal Team representing Gaza Victims before the ICC.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do you even say?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will the mainstream media ever recover? With honourable exceptions, there has been an abject failure to cover Israel's onslaught against Gaza. Double standards, minimising horror, refusing to attribute responsibility for crimes, a failure to frame reality as it is, deferring to Israeli and US claims - we could go on.I'm joined by Middle East scholar and author Assal Rad, who has been going viral with her exposés of media bias.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It may be difficult to understand this kind of evil. But we are going to try.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't let them get away with it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is worse than you think - and does not bode well. At all.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why do so few politicians speak out against the oppression of the Palestinian people? And why do so many find it so difficult to speak out against straightforward violations of international law - let alone war crimes - when the Israeli state is responsible?My brilliant guest Chris Doyle knows more than most: he's Director of the Council for Arab British Understanding, and his job involves taking politicians of all parties to the Occupied Territories.I had my hands over my face at one point. You'll hear why.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zach Foster is a fascinating guest: he hails from a strongly Zionist background, but it was through his scholarly research of Palestine that his perspective changed. We discuss the long history of Palestinians being dehumanised, why he thinks Israel makes Jewish people less safe, the history of Gaza and Hamas that's airbrushed, Israel's history of using hunger as a weapon of war, genocidal sentiments in Israel - and so much more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new devastating report - based on interviews with CNN journalists and staff and internal emails and memos - has exposed CNN's raging pro-Israeli bias.This matters - a lot.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since this horror began, we've platformed lots of perspectives - but one has been missing, military expertise. Major-General Charlie Walker served in the British Army for well over three decades and explains to me why Israel's onslaught against Gaza is self-defeating on its own terms - and how peace can't be achieved by military means, but by ending the occupation.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Sunak disgraced himself today - but many of those condemning him are raging hypocrites.We explain why - and then speak to brilliant author Arthur Webber to put all this in context.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does he really think you are this gullible?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remember how Israel's claims that staff at UNRWA - Gaza's main humanitarian agency - were involved in 7th October attacks drove the ICJ ruling from the headlines, and led to Western countries cancelling funds?Those claims are falling apart. Journalists who've seen Israel's dossier say there's "no evidence" to back them up. This is a scandal of monumental proportions.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour's leaders are planning to boot out MPs who have such outrageous extreme opinions as 'rich people can afford to contribute more', 'public services are better run by the public' and 'war crimes are bad'. Here's the proof.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brianna Ghey was a loved, talented 16-year-old girl with her life ahead of her. She was also trans, and suffered transphobia hatred. Almost exactly a year ago, she was brutally murdered, and the two young killers have been sentenced. Crucially, the judge acknowledged the role of transphobia in this hideous crime.I speak to the brilliant Jess O'Thomson, a journalist and legal researcher, who sat through the whole case - about not just what happened to Brianna, but what it says about our society, and what we all now must learn.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can the Israeli state possibly defend itself from this?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a voice you need to hear. Alon Mizrahi is a Mizrahi Israeli - that is, his heritage is Arab, with his mother having moved from Morocco. He tells me why he thinks Israel is white supremacist, why he rejected Zionism, why he thinks Zionism is bad for Jews - and why he thinks Israel is heading for a disastrous future.He wrote this fascinating article: https://easternoak.co/maybe-its-time-we-started-talking-about-how-terrible-zionism-is-for-jews-too/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Oborne knows the British media inside out - including prominent roles at right-wing outlets The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator and in TV. He talks me through the media's complicity in the horrors of Gaza, Israel's defiance of the ICJ ruling, and the outrageous role of our political establishment.Make sure you get his latest book The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's easy to laugh this off. It isn't actually funny.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do you even say. Laurence Fox, actor turned unpleasant right-wing activist, libelled two men as 'paedophiles' after they called him racist. The courts had their say: he lost on all counts.I speak to drag queen Crystal, who he smeared - who tells us all about the case, and also why it has a much bigger meaning.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thought the International Court of Justice ruling would force Israel to scale back its murderous onslaught? Think again. The opposite has happened.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour has just suspended left-wing MP Kate Osamor. Her crime? Describe Israel's onslaught on Gaza as a genocide, just days after the highest court on earth placed Israel on trial for possible genocide.Meanwhile, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy claims the party has always been clear through the conflict that international law must be upheld. That is a lie. Here's the sordid truth about Labour's wretched Gaza policy - and how it's allowed the Tories - and Israel - to get away with murder.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don’t fall for it. Donate to UNRWA here: https://donate.unrwa.org/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the truth about the ICJ ruling against Israel that most of our media won't discuss, with Mouni Rabbini, a brilliant researcher, analyst and commentator with many hats.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is blood boiling stuff.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's a never-ending smear campaign against Gary Lineker over Gaza. But it's not just about him, bad as it is: there's far more at stake.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s called ‘pinkwashing’ - the use of LGBTQ+ rights to justify Israel’s brutal oppression of the Palestinian people.Whether you’re straight or LGBTQ+, you need to hear why this argument is based on outrageous lies - and why it has nothing to do with freeing LGBTQ+ people at all.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's hunger which risks killing most Palestinians, not bombs and bullets. Israel is using hunger as a weapon of war - and Israeli claims there are no food crisis in Gaza is a grotesque lie. A terrible famine may beckon - and even in the violence stopped now, immediately, many would still die.I'm joined by Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, who has been writing about famine since the 1980s.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Violent deaths caused by Israeli weapons are now thought to be well over 30,000 once you include those buried under the rubble. That's horrific on its own terms - but the deadliest threat doesn't come from bombs and bullets.I'm joined by UN Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo-Agudo to discuss the big threat too few are talking about.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Noura Erakat is one of the most important voices on Palestine we need to hear. A Palestinian-American university professor, legal scholar, human rights attorney, and activist we discuss - US complicity, South Africa's ICJ case and international law, Zionism, what possible hope - and so much more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tal Mitnick is a courageous 18-year-old Israeli citizen who was jailed after refusing to serve in the army - in protest at the war on Gaza, and the oppression of the Palestinian people.Here he tells me absolutely shocking truths - but also explains why there is hope.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why did the interviewer let him get away with this?David Cameron made a series of total outrageous claims about Israel - and we do the job that should have been done.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The International Court of Justice has issued a devastating provisional ruling against Israel today. Don't fall for the spin of the apologists for Israel's crimes: the ICJ has accepted there is a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide, and that it must be fully investigated. In the meantime they have imposed provisional rulings which, among other things, order Israel to cease killing and maiming Palestinians and provide full access to food, water and humanitarian assistance - all impossible without a ceasefire - and to take action against Israeli leaders and officials who have incited genocide.This ruling has more significance than you think - here is why.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Could British ministers - and British civilians who fought with the Israeli Defence Forces - face prosecution for aiding and abetting Israel's war crimes?A new legal case has been launched - including a criminal complaint alleging UK government ministers' complicity in war crimes which has been lodged with the Metropolitan Police. Could this really lead someone?I speak to Tayab Ali, partner at Bindmans LLP and Head of International Law, and one of the driving forces behind the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians which is driving the case.You can support the case here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-cases-against-war-crimes-committed-in-gazaSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe Biden isn't even bothering to pretend anymore. He's exposed his contempt for Palestinian life - and as I show here, that's no surprise given his history, and Netanyahu's boasting of running rings around the US.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Human shields' - you'll have heard those words spoken a lot by Israeli spokespeople and their apologists. The aim? To make you think that the catastrophic death toll isn't the fault of Israel at all.But not only does the evidence completely destroy the narrative - it actually shows the Israeli state has a far worse record of using Palestinian civilians as human shields.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We desperately need to elevate the voices of courageous Israeli peace activists - without them, there is little hope - and so it was an honour to interview Dana Mills. She's an author and writer, and here she discusses the trauma of 7th October, the grim atmosphere facing Israeli peace activists, the horrors unleashed on the Palestinian people, the terrifying plans of the Israeli right - and what happens next.We also discuss what German-Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg - Dana Mills.is her biographer - would have made of all this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While those still cheering on the massacre of Gaza should be treated as morally depraved beyond reason, what of those still silent? No excuses anymore. It's time to shame these people - this is about life and death on a colossal scale.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week South Africa presented a devastating case against Israel at The Hague alleging genocide - and then Israel offered its defence. So what will the International Court of Justice likely rule?This is such an important interview with Dr. Alonso Gurmendi. He says "the Master's tools will not dismantle the Master's house." He cautions those expecting the ICJ to issue a definitive ruling on genocide - but explains the real significance of what has just happened.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is dangerous stuff. When Zarah Sultana - one of the few Labour MPs taking a courageous stance over Gaza - spoke in Parliament, Tory PM Rishi Sunak and his sidekick made a truly grim jibe.Zarah Sultana joins me to talk about how dangerous racist rhetoric is used to shut down solidarity with Palestinians, how the atmosphere is getting worse - and how she's taking on Israeli arms sales.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Regev is the slick PR man for Israel's mass slaughter of Gaza. Normally he's used to walking all over journalists who are pliable, ill informed, weak and not up to their job. So it's refreshing to hear LBC's Lewis Goodall actually put him on the spot - and Regev left flustered.Here, too, is more facts which shred the false narrative Regev keeps trying to build.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow. What do you even say. Even if you've been closely following Israel's war crimes, South Africa's legal team provided overwhelming, utterly devastating evidence of genocide against the Palestinian people.I go through the key points and claims here - and why the Israeli state has no leg to stand on.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Both of Maoz Inon's parents were killed when Hamas attacked their kibbutz on 7th October. Now he's using his platform to demand peace.Here this extraordinary man tells me about the humanity he inherited from his parents, why we can forgive the past and present but not the future - and why he sees hope amidst such horror.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the Houthis staged attacks on shipping in the Red Sea - claiming a defence of Palestinians - Britain and the US have staged attacks on Yemen. But who are the Houthis, what is the war in Yemen all about - and why would more bombs on Yemen work given a Saudi-led coalition armed and backed by the US and Britain has bombed the country for years? What's the actual alternative to bombing - and what kind of catastrophe could beckon?I'm joined by the brilliant Dr. David Wearing, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex and author of AngloArabia.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At The Hague , Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC delivered an unbelievably powerful - condemning the Israeli state for the utter horror it has unleashed against Gaza. Here it is in full - everyone needs to hear it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A witch-hunt against Palestinian solidarity is sweeping the Western world - but nowhere is more severe than Germany. The German state is compelling artists to sign a definition of antisemitism weaponised by the Right to shut down criticisms of the Israeli state's behaviour - that is, if they want to protect their livelihoods. As the German far-right rises, the establishment courages the idea that the real danger to Jews comes from the left and Palestinian solidarity activists - including Jewish activists.This is the world turned on its head. So I'm delighted to talk to German-Israeli author Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus who speaks with huge moral clarity, and tells the truth about what's really going on.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lord Cameron has moved from his old role of 'destroying Britain's social fabric' to Foreign Secretary, and this week he was interrogated about Israel's onslaught on Gaza.His responses were completely damning.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm delighted to interview Ofer Cassif, an Israeli politician of the leftist Hadash party. He has signed a petition backing South Africa's genocide claim against Israel - and he explains why he's done so, the horrors currently enveloping Gaza, the attempt to silence him, the genocidal rhetoric of Israeli leaders, and what happens next.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The statistics don't lie - the US and UK media have now been exposed for their outrageous racism towards Palestinians. This should be a massive scandal - not something we shrug off.Read The Intercept’s dynamite study into US media racism against Palestinians here: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palestine-bias-new-york-times Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was honoured to speak to @MansourShouman, who is in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in a live interview. He is one of the courageous Palestinian journalists risking their lives to tell the world about the horrors unleashed against Gaza.We discuss the work of these journalists, the horrors currently being suffered by civilians, the historical and political context - and what we can all do to help.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Avi Shlaim is one of the great living historians: Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, he's a proud self-described Arab Jew, born in Baghdad in 1945. That heritage has deeply influenced him, and we talk about Zionism, the real history of Israel that is often erased, defying the attempt to start the clock on 7th October, the question of state terrorism, how there could have been a different approach to Hamas, genocide - and why a one state giving equal rights to all is the solution.His new book, appropriately enough, is 'Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew'.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From 7th October 2023, it's been clear that media coverage about Palestinians has been defined by racism: that their lives are considered to have little value.That's not simply an assertion. A detailed study has gone through the BBC's coverage in depth - and it has exposed the undeniable fact that there is proportionately far less coverage of Palestinians being killed than Israelis, and that far less humanising language is being used per violent death.This isn't simply a moral affront - this racist coverage is crucial to making sure that one of the great crimes of our time is not being stopped.You can see the study by the brilliant researchers Jan Lietava and Dana Najjar here: https://github.com/liet-git/bbc-biasSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This "interview" with respected Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti was an absolutely disgrace - and it's easy to dismiss the host as an unpleasant pantomime villain.But this nauseating performance tells us so much about the Western media as Palestinians suffer one of the great atrocities of our age.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hanan Ashwari is one of the most recognisable faces associated with the Palestinian cause. The official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991, she served as a minister in the Palestinian Authority as a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee.Here, we discuss genocide, the West's complicity, the historical context which must be remembered - and what happens next.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's rare that I end an interview on the brink of tears, but this was such a powerful interview with former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein. He tells me his family history of surviving the Holocaust - unlike so many of his relatives - and how this informed his struggle against Apartheid.But he tells me why Israel's oppression of the Palestinians is worse than Apartheid, why the anti-apartheid movement is an example to now follow, the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices, South Africa's case against Israel alleging genocide - and why history shows we have a responsibility to speak out.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a huge honour to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem, who delivered a hugely powerful Christmas message about Israel's onslaught on Gaza. We speak about Western complicity - including those who remain silent - and the refusal to describe Israel's actions for what they are.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tzipi Hotovely is an extremist who has long issued disgraceful statements about the Palestinian people - but now a line has been crossed. She has committed a criminal act on UK soil - and now she must be expelled.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

South Africa has filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. The 84 page document offers an absolutely terrifying and overwhelming. Here I go through that document - and why it is one of the most important things written in our time, and why everyone needs to know what it says - before it's too late.Here is the document in full: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

South Africa has filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. The 84 page document offers an absolutely terrifying and overwhelming. Here I go through that document - and why it is one of the most important things written in our time, and why everyone needs to know what it says - before it's too late.Here is the document in full: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Israel has just bombed Beirut, killing senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri. But Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has already promised retaliation if Israel bombs Lebanese capital. Does regional war beckon - and how catastrophic could that be? What of the media's continued refusal to tell the truth about the horrors of Gaza? What do IDF TikTok videos boasting of war crimes tell us? And has Joe Biden destroyed his presidency?We're joined by Palestinian-American analyst Omar Baddar to answer all of this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Russia launches missiles at Ukraine and kills innocent civilians, Western governments are in uproar. Yet when Israel unleashes far worse war crimes, there's not only no condemnation - Western governments are arming and supporting Israel's onslaught.The rest of the world isn't stupid - and this double standard will have devastating consequences for Western power for a very long time to come.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gideon Levy is a man of immense moral courage and leadership: the award-winning Ha'aretz columnist has spoken out against the atrocities committed against the Palestinian people, and has become an increasingly lone voice.Here he tells me how Israeli society has degenerated to a terrifying degree, why he has so little hope, the forgotten horrors of the West Bank - and why the only chance for a just peace will come from sanctions against Israel.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many of you feel you have watched the horror of Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza and felt fury and grief - but helplessness. You may have participated in large demos, tweeted about it, peacefully occupied a train station, yelled at your computer screens and TVs, or offloaded on to friends and family - but ultimately felt "there's nothing more to do to stop this genocidal war!"Well there is. I interviewed Omar Barghouti - he's a Palestinian human rights defender, winner of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award, and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement https://bdsmovement.net/. He explains how this peaceful, Palestinian-led mass global movement can help bring this horror to an end - and finally bring about freedom, justice, equality and dignity.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are two pillars of Western complicity in Israel's massacre of Gaza: one, governments which arm and back Israel; and two, mainstream media outlets which cheer on Israel's onslaught, and which fail to report properly on the scale of the crime currently unfolding.I'm joined by Adam Johnson, a pre-eminent media critic in the US and co-host of Citations Needed pod, to dissect the media's role. Even if you thought you had no illusions, the examples given by Johnson will shock you.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Israel's Netanyahu and Turkey's Erdogan have engaged in a vicious war of words, each accusing the other of mass murder. They're both right about each other - they just don't have a moral leg to stand on. But this spat had an unfortunate consequence for Netanyahu - he just accidentally confessed to genocide.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization, who served as a Palestinian peace negotiator. Here we discuss Israel's undisguised ethnic cleansing, why this is an Israeli-American assault on Gaza, the forgotten horror in the West Bank - and why this won't end well for Israel.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Benjamin Netanyahu has made Israel's true intentions gruesomely clear - and now there's no excuses for pleading ignorance.Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the pro-war media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While much of the Western world is distracted by Christmas, Israel has a gruesome opportunity - to use this moment to get away with horrendous crimes. Unspeakable horrors are being committed over Christmas - and it's our responsibility to make sure they're not hidden.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a new Telegraph article, the former Tory Defence Secretary admits Israel is guilty of a series of war crimes. Here's why that's not good enough.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remember Israel's claim that al-Shifa hospital was Hamas' headquarters? They used that to justify a devastating attack on the hospital, destroying medical facilities and killing doctors, nurses and patients alike.Well, a new study in the Washington Post has exposed these claims for what they are - and underline that this was a war crime, and a grave war crime at that.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Human Rights Watch have just done an in-depth report about how Meta is censoring pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. Here I show that I've been 'shadowbanned' on Facebook - and why this is part of a general attempt to silence the few pro-Palestinian voices with a mainstream platform.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As our attention is understandably focused on Gaza, another horror is unfolding in Sudan. The world isn’t paying attention - and that has to change.I’m joined by Sudanese political commentator Dallia Abdelmoniem who explains what’s happening, how her own loved ones are at risk - and what must happen next. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daniel Levy is a former member of Israel's negotiating team, a Middle East analyst, and commentator - and here he uses his expertise to discuss a two state solution, apartheid, the current onslaught - and what the hell happens next.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Israeli-born Omer Bartov is one of the world's most esteemed experts on genocide: the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, he's written several acclaimed books on the Shoah and Nazism.Here he warns ethnic cleansing is under way in Gaza - and warns: "ethnic cleansing often deteriorates into genocide because people don't want to move, and so in order to encourage them to move, you kill them."Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yousef Munayyer is the Head of Palestine/Israel Program at the Arab Center, Washington DC, and here he exposes not just the horror of Israel's assault on Gaza - but the outrageous complicity of Western governments.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hammam Farah is a Palestinian Christian based in Toronto - and right now, he faces unimaginable horrors. His family are sheltering in the besieged Holy Church in Gaza - and his relatives have been brutally killed by Israel's onslaught. Here he exposes an outrageous Israeli lie - and gives a harrowing testimony about the fate of Gaza's Christians, and Palestinians in general.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies and one of the world's leading experts on war. This is a devastating interview which draws on what's happening on the ground and other precedents - like Iraq and Afghanistan - which exposes why Israel cannot win this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to this. They're not even pretending.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ariel Bernstein is a former IDF combat soldier who fought in Gaza in 2014. Now he campaigns for peace and against the occupation. This is one of the most fascinating interviews I've done - he tells me about his experience in Gaza, about dehumanisation, Israel's wartime propaganda - and where this is all heading.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yanis Varoufakis is one of the world’s most important thinkers. Here we discuss Gaza - including the question of genocide, the world order, history - and whether there is any hope at all.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They're not even trying to be subtle anymore.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nahedh is a Palestinian former journalist who is trapped in Gaza with his family. He's fled to the south, where he speaks to me - about the carnage inflicted by Israel's war, about the horrors endured by him and his family - and about the complicity of Western governments.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Scahill is one of the top US investigative journalists - a founder of The Intercept and a bestselling author - and here he takes apart Israel's propaganda, the devastating US role in Gaza atrocities, and why Palestine's history matters.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Israel isn't even covering up many of its war crimes to the world. It's broadcasting them - and boasting about them.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow: after his first appearance on BBC Question Time in two decades, my colleague George Monbiot smashes the Tories - and reveals the real secret behind their Rwanda plan.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s time for some consistency. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Palestinian journalists are being killed by Israeli weapons in unprecedented numbers - as they risk their lives to bring the world the truth. Where is the outrage?I speak to Sheri Mansour from the Committee to Protect Journalists to explain the scale of this crime - and the question of deliberate targeting by Israel.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Both Israel and cheerleaders for its onslaught against Gaza are engaged in a sophisticated propaganda war. The brilliant Marc Owen Jones - associate professor in Middle Eastern studies - talks me through the key elements, how it works - and what the impact is.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is extraordinary: members of Israel's intelligence community have exposed the workings of Israel's war machine. The truth is more shocking than you may realise.I'm joined by brilliant Israeli investigative journalist Yuval Abraham - of Israeli-Palestinian publication @972mag - https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ - who wrote this astonishing exposé.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is almost beyond belief - and underlines how depraved the propaganda machine about the onslaught against Gaza has become.A special thanks to Iraq Body Count for their help in the research for this video. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is one of the most important revelations since the war began. Journalists at an Israeli-Palestinian media outlet have exposed claims that the Israeli military seeks to avoid civilian casualties - by interviewing those at the heart of the military intelligence establishment. I go through the findings here - they will shock you.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mehdi Hasan is a razor-sharp interviewer, forensic, who knows his facts inside out. What's more, his progressive instincts accord with the sort of audience MSNBC should be cultivating. So what did they do? Cancel his show. It comes after his critical stance on Israel's Gaza offensive - when he put Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev on the spot.This matters - as pro-Palestine voices are under attack.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was invited to watch a screening - organised by the IDF - of the Hamas atrocities committed on 7th October. Here's my response in detail."When you learn of the horrors which humans are capable of inflicting against each other, you either allow these horrors to deepen your humanity or you use those horrors to numb your humanity so that you can be complicit in even more, and indeed often, greater horrors."Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Gary Lineker suggested an interview with an Israeli-American scholar in genocide and Holocaust studies was worth watching, the British media combusted. But there's a crucial lesson here - about the attempt to silence those speaking out about one of the great horrors of our time.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

But this isn't a one-off - it tells you everything you need to know about US foreign policy towards the Palestinians.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Far right violence erupted in Dublin yesterday after the shocking news of three children and a woman being attacked. The brilliant journalist Una Mullally joins us to explain exactly what happened - and how ignoring the far right has proved a disastrous mistake.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you want to know exactly what the Autumn Statement means - and tear apart Jeremy Hunt's spin - the brilliant economist James Meadway (host of Macrodose) tears it apart.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a four day 'truce' is announced, we have the best latest analysis, including from:- Aimee Shalan, Chair of the British Palestinian Committee and Director of Makan, a Palestinian-led educational organisation- Uri Weltmann , the National Field Organizer of Standing Together, the biggest grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel- Dr Michael Silva, a Consultant Surgeon at Oxford University HospitalsSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Even for those passionately opposed to Israel's assault on Gaza, there's a lack of understanding of just how dire the catastrophe facing the Palestinian people is. It needs setting out here - thoroughly.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raz Segal - an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University in the US - is someone you need to listen to. When he uses the term 'genocide', it is not done lightly - it is with precision. Here he sets out the case that the Israeli state is committing an ongoing genocide in Gaza - and questions of intent, incitement, prevention and accountability.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take these claims apart.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last night I went on Piers Morgan's show to debate Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza.Piers has previously said that Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine constitutes genocide. If that's true - then why doesn't the same apply to Gaza?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh. Dear. God.Let’s just go through her resignation letter shall we!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This morning, I went on Good Morning Britain to challenge media complicity in Israel's murderous onslaught against Gaza. Ed Balls - George Osborne's business partner - detonated. Listen for yourself.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The world is turned upside down. Apologists for Israeli war crimes are trying to portray those opposed to the mass killing of children as the real extremists. I speak to Ben Jamal, Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, on the truth.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't let them get away with this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow. She's really gone off the deep end this time. Unhinged is actually generous.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's a big reason we know why Israel's onslaught will fail, and badly. This is why.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

- Jun Pang from Liberty, on the nonsense legal case against the Gaza protests- Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini, who resigned from the Labour party over Gaza, on Keir Starmer's moral cowardiceSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They've done everything they can to cancel the protest - and so far, it's backfired. The Met can't find an excuse to ban it. But this tawdry episode tells us so much - and it is not good.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most of us have suffered bereavements: but how do you even begin to process 23 members of your family being killed, including little children, caused by unimaginable violence?Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist co-founder of We Are Not Numbers (https://twitter.com/WeAreNotNumbers): and even more horrifyingly, other family members were killed before the latest horror. But he has a crucial message - that the media shares responsibility for the massacre of Gaza. He needs to be listened to urgently.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Atalya Ben-Abba is an Israeli conscientious objector: as a teenager, she was sent to prison for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Forces because of her opposition to the occupation. Now she's calling for a ceasefire - and the least we can do in response to her courage is to stand by her.Please sign her petition here: https://www.anothereurope.org/petitions/ceasefire-now/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As over 10,000 have now officially been killed, we are at the stage of an Israeli minister stating dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is an option. He was suspended from government meetings - for a few hours. It underlines a basic fact - claims that the Israeli has any respect for civilian life is a lie.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jewish peace activists have been at the forefront of many of the pro-Palestine protests that have swept Britain since the horrors began. These protests have been described as threatening to the Jewish community, as antisemitic, and there's even calls to have them banned.I speak to Em Hilton, director of Diaspora Alliance, a co-founder of Jewish peace movement Na'amod, about the truth.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This does not normally happen to leaders of the opposition when the government has collapsed.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Francesca Albanese speaks, we need to listen. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, she is an expert international lawyer - and here she provides the detailed legal argument against Israel's massacre in Gaza.She offers a comprehensive take down of any legal basis for the current onslaught.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An interview with a Hamas official promising to repeat the 7th October atrocities has gone viral amongst opponents of a ceasefire. It shows, they say, that Israel's onslaught must continue, with an endless death toll. Here's why this argument is bankrupt on moral and practical grounds - and will unleash an even greater catastrophe.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Genocide is not a word which should be bandied around without good ground. So when a senior UN official resigns warning about genocide in Gaza, and hundreds of genocide experts warn of the same thing, then have to listen urgently - before it's too late.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the horrors of Gaza multiply, we are joined by:- Ahmed Najar, playwright, director, actor, financial analyst who has family in Gaza and studied at Al Azhar University in Gaza- Uri Goren, an Israeli man who cousin was kidnapped by Hamas- Dr. Brenda Kelly from Gaza Medic Voices on the latest humanitarian crisisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Antisemitism is an evil in itself - it is the cause of terrible horrors over many centuries - and it is also a mortal enemy of peace in Palestine.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A leaked Israeli government document calls for the permanent mass ethnic cleansing of Gaza. When you listen to other statements by Israeli ministers and officials, this outcome can't be dismissed. They're not hiding their support for war crimes. They mean what they say - believe them.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is beyond outrageous. A Labour MP calls for a peaceful settlement for Israelis and Palestinians alike - and the Labour leadership suspends him for it. The attempt to demonise those opposing the current horror will only escalate - so we must speak louder.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alon-Lee Green is the co-director of Standing Together, which brings together Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel in the struggle for peace. In this interview he tells me what campaigners like him are up against, where the struggle for peace goes now - and what he'd like from the international left.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He's a Palestinian leader who offers an alternative to both Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank - and he desperately needs to be heard. Mustafa Barghouti leads the Palestinian National Initiative - which campaigns for a progressive, free Palestine - and here he lays down the facts - about the humanitarian catastrophe, the West's double standards, and why Palestinians will never be broken.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most of our media isn't even pretending that Palestinian life has an equal worth to that of an Israeli or Western life. Here, Palestinian writer Hamza Ali Shah exposes this endemic racism - and why it must be confrontedSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keir Starmer's decision to back war crimes - then be dishonest about it - and refusal to support a crisis has plunged him into crisis. A massive internal revolt has now gripped Labour, demanding the party support peace - and that's down to you.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is how a rogue state behaves.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Courageous Israelis - who support peace and Palestinian justice - are under attack. They are being victimised, harassed and targeted. Uri Horesh is one striking example: a sociolinguist who faces being fired for speaking out.This is a must-listen about what's happening in Israel right now.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the horror in Gaza mounts, we've got the latest best analysis and news, including:- İyad el-Baghdadi, writer, human rights' activist and Palestinian refugee.- Omar Abdel-Mannan, UK-based paediatric neurology doctor who has visited Gaza multiple times since 2011, to discuss the humanitarian crisisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With growing public fury at the horrors unleashed by Israel against Gaza, the cheerleaders of this crime have a strategy. Those who oppose it are to be harassed, intimidated, fired. Here we document what's happening, who has been targeted - and why we must fight it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Israel's onslaught against Gaza unleashes ever greater horrors, supporters of peace have become increasingly targeted. In Germany, most pro-Palestinian protests have been banned, often using the justification of fighting antisemitism.I speak to German-Israeli author and Jewish peace activist Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus on Germany's crackdown, the racist implications - and why it doesn't make Jewish people safer.Here's a letter from Jewish writers, academics, journalists, artists, and cultural workers living in Germany condemning the crackdown: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/freedom-for-the-one-who-thinks-differently/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Defenders of Israel's onslaught against Gaza know that public opinion is turning, and that they have no moral high ground. So a smear campaign is underway - and here it it expSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is actually beyond belief - and the fact Starmer is allowed to get away with this tells you everything you need to know.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

These were by-elections the Tories had whopping big majorities for - and they lost them. There's no coming back - Tory rule is coming to an end. So what next?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Omar Baddar is a brilliant US-Palestinian analyst based in Washington DC, and here he takes apart the hypocrisy over Israel. As he notes - look at the damning statements about Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine, and contrast them with what's being said about Israel's onslaught against Gaza.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keir Starmer's public support for war crimes - endorsing Israel cutting off water and energy from Gaza's civilian population - caused outrage. Across the country, Labour councillors and members have been resigning.Two of the courageous councillors to resign - Cllr. Shaista Aziz (https://twitter.com/shaistaAziz) and Cllr Amna Abdullatif - speak to me about why they quit, what has to happen now - and what they've gone through.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Israel's authorities have a long history of blatant misinformation and deceit. Here I look at examples of how they've done just that - and how that's become the basis of their propaganda offensive during the current horror in Gaza.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Gaza is plunged into humanitarian catastrophe, we have the latest analysis from:Asad Rehman, director of War on WantEm Hilton, co-founder of Na'amodDr. Nick Maynard, surgeon who has worked in GazaSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, you can't say you weren't warned: Israel has just revealed its real intentions in Gaza. This should be a scandal - but our governments won't do a thing.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How tragic that it's taken a Tory MP to talk sense.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This interview with the Israeli Ambassador has to be seen to be believed. But it's so important we dissect this propaganda - because people's lives are at stake, and time is running out.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After thousands took to the streets to oppose the horror being unleashed against Gaza, the BBC smeared us as Hamas supporters. This is dangerous - and shows how a British Establishment exposed for defending war crimes intends to treat those upholding human rights.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A war crime on a mass scale is now being unleashed against Gaza by the Israeli state, all with Western backing.For the latest facts about what's happening on the ground, we are joined by:- Sarit Michaeli, from Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem- Sally Abed, Palestinian activist from Haifa and a leader of Standing Together, the largest Arab-Jewish grassroots movement in IsraelSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A war crime on a biblical scale is taking place in Gaza. Our governments are directly complicit, and most of media is failing to show the reality. This is the truth.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How far Labour have sunk. As Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry back Israel committing war crimes, this is why it matters - because it has massive implications for life and death.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It should not be controversial to oppose the killing of both Palestinian and Israeli children. It should not be controversial to oppose war crimes.But in this Sky News debate about Gaza and Israel, the Labour MP Margaret Hodge tried to shut me down for doing exactly that.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Horror upon horror is now being unleashed in the Middle East - and humanity, truth and context are all being trashed. Don't let it happen.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every year we go to Tory Conference to record our behind the scenes documentary - and this one is the most shocking.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the way he came back and doubled down on it!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Braverman's speech should leave you in no doubt - the Tories are becoming a far right party.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear oh dear. And to think commentators once fawned over him.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The rampant misogyny on display at GB News has caused widespread outrage - but has most of the debate completely missed the point?Laura Bates - founder of Everyday Sexism and author of Men Who Hate Women - tells us what this horrendous incident really exposes.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our free speech martyrs are out there dying for all of us - and I for one think it's time we stood up for them.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This tells you all you need to know about the modern Conservative Party. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the nauseating misogynistic attacks on journalist Ava Evans, Laurence Fox has been suspended by GB News - but Dan Wootton, himself the subject of serious accusations, apparently remains on air. But what now for this cesspit of a news channel - and what does this episode tell us about Britain in 2023?We're joined by Novara Media's Dalia Gebrial.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s time we finally said it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are heading to a really gruesome place. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as the head of his malicious media empire - and now is the time for honesty about the carnage this man has helped unlash.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Sunak is lying to you. He is lying through his teeth. And he's trying to throw your future under a bus for short term political gain. Don't let him get away with it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You might think that, after crashing the economy and leaving the Tories in political ruin, Liz Truss might just quietly depart the political stage. Not so! I honestly think she wants to be PM all over again...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Being horrified by Suella Braverman might seem like a waste of emotional energy - but her latest public utterances are disturbing, and this is why.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rory Stewart is a pin up for centrist dads everywhere - and his defence of Jeremy Corbyn is going to have them frothing, to say the least. But what he says needs to be heard carefully.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories are in freefall and face electoral annihilation - and now a panicked Rishi Sunak is desperately thrashing around, now throwing net zero promises under a bus. Where does he think this will end for him?We're joined by Adam Bienkov from Byline Times and Leo Murray, the co-director of climate campaign group Possible.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Sunak's attack on Labour over immigration underlines one basic fact - the Tories are in a desperate, desperate place - and this isn't going to work.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OK, I know what you're thinking: 'this guy is a pantomime villain, 'yuck', 'I can't believe how awful these people are'. But this capitalist accidentally revealed the truth about capitalism - and it needs to be heard.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The real class warriors are the Conservatives - and new secret plans being cooked up underline exactly why.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories have wrecked the country - and if Labour doesn't offer a bold alternative now, then when? If you listen to Rachel Reeves' car crash interview, the answer is "never".Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's all falling apart: literally. The schools crisis underlines how Tory rule has led Britain to the point of disaster. We're joined by an expert to explain how we got here - and what it says about government policy.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's all over for the Tories: there is no coming back. Here's why their fate is sealed.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories have reduced Britain to a burning skip, but Labour aren't offering an alternative. Is it time to vote Green? I talk it over with Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Theresa May's attempt to justify what she did to this country deserves nothing but contempt.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know that sound is? It's the sound of a government which has pursued policies which have systematically trashed the country finally colliding with reality.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You'll never guess who is behind the ultimate takedown of the government.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when you're a Tory minister and you catastrophically fail not just on your opponents' terms, but your own terms, too? Let's go straight to Suella Braverman and find out!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So we're really going to have a culture war over clean air we are? Myths and lies are being pumped out about ULEZ - so I comprehensively debunk them here.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories have ruined this country - and many are looking to Labour for a lifeline. So this is just absolutely indefensible betrayal.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow. To call this messy behaviour on the part of Nadine Dorries is an understatement.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If this doesn't make you angry and want to do something - what will?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You think Boris Johnson's capacity to disgust and repulse you will finally meet his limit... and then he writes another column.Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

These people have no self-awareness do they? Like, absolutely none. Here's your slice of brazen right-wing behaviour for the day!Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's economic news is being cheered on by the government - but the reality is far, far different.Joining us is Alfie Stirling is the chief economist and associate director at The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, to explain what's really going on.Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is it too much to ask for the BBC to do its job and not echo false Tory narratives?Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hugh Grant had some devastating truth bombs about the state of the British media.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You'll never guess, but this was the Tories' 'Stop The Boats' week. How's that gone, then?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The fact there's more outrage over this than the mass deaths of human beings tells us all we need to know.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories are on course for a catastrophic election defeat - and in their desperation, they're whipping up bigotry against migrants and refugees, and going in hard on the so-called culture war. Could it work - and even if it doesn't, what damage could be caused?We're joined by Leila Zadeh, CEO of Rainbow Migration, and Jun Pang, Policy and Campaigns Officer at Liberty.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

t's a channel which spews out conspiracy theories, misinformation and anti-vaxx nonsense, and which offers a salary top-up service for Tory MPs. But is it finally in trouble?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does this sound any different to the British National Party?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Britain is ruled by a left-wing dictatorship, or so says the Daily Telegraph, and they always get the big calls. Yes, I know, this sounds totally nuts - but here's a massive insight into the psychology of British conservatives.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This man is beneath contempt.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok, so the Tories are cornered animals, they're desperate, they're running out of time, I get it. But good grief, this is unhinged behaviour.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories are in a catastrophic mess, and they are running out of time. So what's Rishi Sunak's desperate plan to cling on to power? Grab a clothes peg - because here's a journey into the sewer.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The by-election results are clear: the Tories are set to get properly thrashed last year. But Labour's behaviour in the aftermath tells us a lot about what they'll be like in government - and it is not looking good.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What on earth was he thinking. Goooooooodness me.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Tories and Labour unite around welfare policies which drive children into poverty, we expose the truth - not just the harm it causes families and society, but how it damages our economy, too.We're joined by the economist James Meadway.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jamie Driscoll is the much lauded North of Tyne Mayor who was blocked by Starmer's Labour from standing for the North East Mayoralty. He talks to me about why he was purged, his new campaign - and why he's going to win.He also tells me why his campaign fundraiser has brought in so much money: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jamie-dris...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sir Keir Starmer is now backing Tory policies which drive children into poverty. What on earth is the point of the Labour party?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While the media have been focusing on Huw Edwards' private life - an actual scandal involving Boris Johnson is being ignored. Here's where we have to focus.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's have a little check in on Rishi Sunak and how it's all going for him. Oh dear oh dear! Not looking good, is it, buddy boy?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the last few days, the BBC has been involved in a massive scandal about allegations centring on a BBC presenter and a young adult. But is it all what it seems? This is why it matters.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's 75 years today since the NHS was founded, but it has never been in such crisis, with question marks over its very survival. So how bad are things - and where are things heading?We're joined by Dr Andrew Meyerson, an A&E doctor from the US with experience of working on both sides of the Atlantic, and Jamie Hale, CEO of the Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This whole episode is so revealing about what our political and media elite condemn - and what they ignore.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If he's this rattled by two teenage climate activists, how's he going to deal with Donald Trump if - god forbid - that guy is re-elected?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nigel Farage claimed he was a victim of persecution at the hands of the banks. So what actually happened?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Millennials don't know how good they have it': that's the argument I went on to fight on Good Morning Britain today. And I mean: come on.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suddenly some of Just Stop Oil's most natural supporters are angry with it. But are they really right?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Thames Water facing collapse, this is just the latest example of the ruinous failure of privatisation. We're talking to experts about what is exactly is happening - and how we get out of this mess.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok, so, I've been diagnosed with ADHD - or Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Here I explain what that means - but also talk about the scandalous NHS waiting lists for ADHD diagnosis and treatment, and why this matters.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They tried coming for Mick Lynch. They missed.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's easy to just ignore this nonsense - but it's dangerous, and it needs to be taken apart.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't let David Cameron and George Osborne get away with what they did - and how they left Britain exposed to COVID.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What an absolute joke of a man.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boris Johnson is finally getting properly scrutinised - the problem is, it's much too late.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's the questions we should really be asking.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Boris Johnson is damned by the Parliamentary investigation, he throws the world's biggest temper tantrum - but don't let the people who put him there off the hook.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last night, Labour had a chance to block Tory attacks on our basic freedoms in the House of Lords. We speak live to Prem Sikka, one of the 10 Labour rebels who stood up for liberty.Plus, 6 years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster, we speak to Peter Apps, author of 'Show Me The Bodies'.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Home Secretary exposed for who she is.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boris Johnson's NAUSEATING Honours ListSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boris Johnson finally resigns in disgrace - but damn the people who put him in power and now are trying to wash their hands of him.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The far-right is on the march in Europe and beyond - and nothing is stopping them.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This says everything about Starmer's Labour. Jamie Driscoll - the hugely successful mayor purged by the party's leadership because he believes in public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and scrapping tuition fees - speaks out.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Owch.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Go head to head with Mick Lynch on the facts at your peril.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enough is enough. We've been lied to for years: and so I'm going to show the truth about immigration, and how it's been used to deflect anger at everything wrong with this country.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do they have to hide? This is ridiculous: the Tories are dragging their own inquiry through the courts to stop them getting hold of crucial messages from Boris Johnson...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok, Keir Starmer cheerleaders. Come and try and defend this, without resorting to "waa waa you're a Tory enabler!!"Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories want you to believe that we're out of the woods on the economy, but facts are facts: inflation is higher than predicted - particularly food prices; inflation is higher than any Western European nation; and interest rates are set to go even higher than projected. Just how bad a mess are we in - and how much worse will it get?We're joined by brilliant economist James Meadway.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oooooof. If you're a Tory trying to spin water privatisation as a resounding success, probably don't do it on a panel with Martin Lewis. And as we see, the claims about our crap spewing water industry are based on lies - which is why public ownership is the only practical solution.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suella Braverman has already been forced to resign once for her behaviour in office, and now she's embroiled in allegations that - after she was caught speeding - she tried to get civil servants to arrange a one on one speeding awareness course to avoid embarrassment. But the real scandal of Braverman goes so much deeper.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I mean, this guy was Health Secretary, part of a government which oversaw a totally catastrophic response to the pandemic, broke his own rules, then tries to spin himself as the victim. Pathetic - and it sums our political elite up.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Above all else, we need to get the Tories out - but how do we have the best chance of reversing awful Tory laws, getting electoral reform, and stopping Starmer's authoritarian impulses? This is the solution - and here's my answer to the critics, too.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We were promised sunny uplands and a oven ready deal: instead we've been served extra helpings of cow excrement. As Nigel Farage admits Brexit is a disaster, car manufacturers threaten to walk and Keir Starmer calls for a renegotiation, it's time to accept reality.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eeeeeeeeesh. What on god's name are you about to listen. Adopt the brace position - because this could be your country's future.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the leaked Labour report revealed damning truths about the behaviour of the party's Right, Keir Starmer commissioned leading barrister Martin Forde to conduct a report. Some - myself included - feared a whitewash: but the conclusions were damning, including on factionalism and perceptions of a hierarchy of racism. But Labour have almost entirely failed to engage with Forde over his report - and now he's broken his silence.We speak to Richard Sanders - one of the makers of Al Jazeera's 'Labour Files' - and award winning investigative journalist Peter Oborne.Please read alongside this episode:In July 2020, the Labour party apologised 'unreservedly' and paid a six figure sum to 7 former Labour employees and the BBC journalist who made the 2019 Panorama programme 'Is Labour Anti-Semitic'.Labour said: 'The Labour party is here today to publicly set the record straight, and to apologise to the claimants for the distress and embarrassment it has caused them.'To the BBC journalist: 'The defendant is here to set the record straight and to apologise unreservedly to Mr Ware.'Al-Jazeera was also told: 'The BBC told us it stands by its reporting. John Ware said that he did not recognise Mr Forde's characterisation of his communications. He described Mr Forde's criticisms of Panorama as misleading and inaccurate. Mr Ware also said that Ben Westerman claimed that the 'are you from Israel' comment was made at the end of his meeting with Rica Bird and was not therefore recorded.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There we have it: a smoking gun, a confession of guilt. Jacob Rees Mogg has admitted the Tories are de facto trying to rig election. Here's what it means - and how we respond.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rob Burley was long one of the most powerful men in broadcasting, charged with running the live political shows which grill our frontline politicians. In his new book - Why Is This Bastard Lying To Me - he details everything from the art of the political interview, to revelations about the BBC's relationship with government. Fascinating stuff, I thought, which helps us understand how power works in modern Britain.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This tells us so much about modern Britain. The brilliant actor Adjoa Andoh remarked on the contrast between the diverse crowds at the Coronation - and the whiteness of the Royal Family. The result? Thousands have complained to Ofcom. This is white fragility: a certain type of white person who feels angrily resentful at racism being challenged, and relishes any opportunity to turn the tables.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An entire plank of Tory ideology has collapsed. They promised privatisation would deliver efficiency, cheaper prices, better performance, and modernisation. It did the oppose - and in a humiliating u-turn, they've started having to start nationalising what they flogged off.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is grotesque: as Donald Trump was found guilty of sexually abusing a columnist, a GB News show hosted by Jacob Rees Mogg featured a panel composed exclusively of Trump apologists. This whole episode exposes the hypocrisy of right-wingers like Mogg - who grandstand on moral issues when it means opposing civil rights, but having no words of condemnation for the most morally corrupt figures of our time.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So this is how freedom dies. As peaceful protesters are arrested with no legitimate cause at the Coronation, we can see the impact of the Tories' repressive policies. Our democracy is dying - and unless we do something fast, we will end up in a very dark place indeed.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the day of the Coronation, amidst all the pomp and ceremony, predicting the fall of the monarchy might seem far fetched. But the evidence is overwhelming: time is running out for the House of Windsor.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Coronation beckoned, indigenous leaders in 12 Commonwealth nations have demanded an apology for monstrous crimes committed by the British Empire. And do you know what? Good. We haven't had a reckoning with our past - and we will never understand our present until we do.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If this was happening in Putin's Russia - but it's happening here, and it should terrify you. Here's the law the Tories don't want you to know about.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the few promises remaining from Keir Starmer's leadership campaign was to abolish tuition fees: and now his team have briefed the Murdoch press that they're abandoning. This serial dishonesty is the enemy of democracy itself.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The campaign of hatred which has been unleashed against trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney exposes the truth. These people simply do not want trans people to exist - and they won't just stop there: they are coming for the rights of other LGBTQ people and women. We either stand together - or we are all going to fall together.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Richard Sharp is forced to resign as BBC Chair, this whole episodes sums up just how rotten our Establishment is - and why they all have to go.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Capitalism, we're told, has lifted billions out of poverty and is the driver of prosperity for humanity. Here's why it's a total nonsense.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

These are the truths about the media they don't want you to know: why they serve the interests of the rich, and act not as a means to educate and inform - but to lobby for powerful vested interests.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh spare me: every time Theresa May criticises the government, a bunch of liberals applaud her like seals. Yaas queen Theresa! I don't think so. As she criticises the Tories' repulsive Illegal Migration Bill, a reminder that no politician has done more to whip up the anti-migrant and anti-refugee hate campaign which has caused so much misery and suffering as May. Stop rehabilitating monsters!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone's talking about it: but how much of the hype around Artificial Intelligence is justified, and how scared should we be?Michael Wooldridge - Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University - tells you everything you need to know!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Look, my comfort zone is sticking it to the Tories who have wrecked the country. But Starmer's job is to offer a compelling alternative - and instead keeps reneging on his promises. The latest one shows how unprincipled he is - and why his ratings are plummeting.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Diane Abbott's letter was wrong - and I explain why. It should be understood as coming from a place of hurt, not bigotry - and the complete hypocrisy of her treatment should be seen for what it is.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There can be no doubt: Suella Braverman's rhetoric is racist, and it's putting minorities at risk. Don't listen to me: listen to Tory Baroness Sayeeda Warsi who has spoken out: this is a damning indictment of a party infested with racism from the bottom up.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Britain is in a right old mess - but economist Daniel Chandler, author of new book FREE AND EQUAL, offers a range of practical solutions that could turn it all around.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keir Starmer became Labour leader based on a pack of lies, and after promising party unity, waged a ceaseless war on the left. But given our electoral system - and the choice being a Tory or a Labour government - do we have no choice but to support the main opposition?Matt Zarb Cousin is Jeremy Corbyn's former spokesperson and recently defected to the Green Party. Here he sets out why he thinks disillusioned Labour supporters should do the same - and why nothing will change if they don't.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The junior doctors are striking to have their pay restored - after being robbed by the Tories for years - and this one was not having any of it on TV. She underlines that doctors aren't just striking for themselves - they're striking for all of us.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You'd think she'd have some shame after crashing the economy, wouldn't you? But Liz Truss has gone to US and given a totally unhinged speech to a right-wing foundation - where she blames lefties for her downfall, and completely rewrites why the West is in such a mess: free market capitalism.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world's most exciting economic thinkers, and her new book - THE BIG CON - exposes how consultancy firms are eating up billions upon billions of pounds. You won't think of our economic system the same way again.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear oh dear: as Tory MP Scott Benton is embroiled in scandal - after being caught out by a newspaper sting - there is a much wider issue to look at: how our so-called democracy is in total crisis.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You probably didn't think Suella Braverman could shock you - but look at the absolute state of this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is absolutely disgusting. Labour's new attack ad shows that both political parties are going to drag our democracy into the sewer - and underline that our politicians don't have any real answers to the crises affecting the country.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In new incredible data, the British public give a resounding thumbs down to Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer - and here's why it has a lot to do with Nigel Lawson, the Tory Chancellor who died this week. Trust me - it makes sense!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This attempt by the Tories to rig elections in their favour is an outrage: so why is it being so widely ignored?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She can't get away with this: Suella Braverman's latest hatred taken apart.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear, oh dear. Not looking good, is it Rishi?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Macron has pushed the French people to the brink - and now an uprising has shaken the very foundations of the country. What's the situation on the ground - and what happens next? We're joined live from France by journalist Cole Stangler.Plus: with Jeremy Corbyn being kicked out of Labour by Keir Starmer, what happens to both him and the Labour left? We're joined by Jess Barnard, member of Labour's National Executive Committee.Plus: we'll be joined by historian Rory Scothorne and journalist Steph Paton discuss the election of Scotland's new First Minister.Help us keep the show on the road here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Corbyn hasn't been Labour leader for 3 years, and journalists are still screaming at him outside his house. Where do you see the powerful subjected to this relentless treatment? But on the day he is purged from the party he's been a member of his entire life, there is a wider lesson - this is about making an example, and purging anyone who believes in redistributing wealth from those at the top.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Corbyn faces the boot from a party he's been a member of almost as long as Keir Starmer has been alive. Park whatever you think about Corbyn: after the 2019 election defeat, Starmer was singing his praises because he wanted to win Labour members' votes. This is part and parcel of a leadership defined by deceit and duplicitousness - and anyone who cares about honesty and democracy should object.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh boy, does Matt Hancock have a humiliation kink or something? Along with some of his Tory colleagues, he"s been stung by Led By Donkeys, who posed as a South Korean firm offering to purchase his services: and this man does not come cheap! But rather than just bash Hancock, as fun as that is, this latest episode is indicative of a political system which is totally broken.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So the French are not taking this lying down: the country is convulsed by mass protests after right-wing President Macron tried to drive up their pension age. Meanwhile our pension age has been hiked much higher, and our state pensions are much lower - but not a peep. Why aren't we kicking off, too? The truth is we do have a courageous history of fighting back - and if we want to avoid being screwed over, then maybe we should reclaim it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sunak really is a cheeky so and so: after months of promising to release his tax return, he finally did it when Boris Johnson was having his public meltdown, hoping noone would notice. It reveals an absurdly rich man paying a stupidly low percentage of tax - and personally benefiting from a tax cut he voted for. This just sums up how broken and ridiculous our tax system is.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is excruciating beyond belief. Boris Johnson - the guy who repeatedly broke the lockdown rules he was in charge of imposing - today testified to MPs that, yes, he misled Parliament, but he didn't do so recklessly or deliberately. What a complete joke: his entire defence rests on him being irredeemably thick. There is a darker truth: not only is Johnson defined by his own crass selfishness, his trenchant belief that rules are for the little guy, not for him - but in so many ways his behaviour sums up our rotten Establishment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's 20 years since the invasion of Iraq opened the gates of hell - and the former UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix has sensationally said Blair and Bush should be put on trial for war crimes in principle. Here's why this matters - and why trying to airbrush the calamity of Iraq will lead us to even more horror.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The right-wing media in this country has successfully long peddled a lie: that the BBC is somehow left-wing. Nothing could be further from the truth. The BBC has long promoted pro-Establishment coverage - but in the last few years, it's been Torified. Leaked emails and WhatsApps show how the Tories successfully pressured the BBC to do its bidding. In doing so, it may well be that the BBC has dug its own grave.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if we told you socialism does exist - but only for rich people? The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond has a new book - Poverty, by America - and it answers big questions. Why do we spend lots on dealing with poverty, but without solving it? How has poverty become a profitable industry? Why is it so expensive to be poor? And can we really abolish poverty?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mehdi Hasan is second to none when it comes to debating, and so his new book - Win Every Argument - is a must read. Here, he talks to me about why the left can be so bad at convincing people of its arguments; he tears Tory racism to pieces; points out the outrageous hypocrisy of the BBC over Gary Lineker - and warns that US democracy may yet succumb to fascism.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You've heard this claim peddled by conservatives time and time again - that the Nazis weren't really right-wing, but were actual socialists. The latest example appears in the Daily Mail, and it is a ridiculous nonsense. As I show, the Nazis were driven by a burning hatred of what socialism is commonly understood to mean. They were helped to power by right-wing parties and big business, and their policies were right-wing ideas taken to extreme conclusions. This pernicious myth needs to be taken to pieces once and for all.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You're going to hear a lot of nonsense about the Tories' latest Budget - so here is the truth. Brilliant economist James Meadway clearly explains why this Budget offers bungs to the rich, leaves Britain with stagnating growth and falling wages, and explains why further crisis looms on the horizon. Everything you need to know in less than 14 minutes!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BBC's attempt to silence Gary Lineker - undoubtedly under pressure from the government - has ended in a humiliating climbdown. Lineker will return to air, without having to offer a retraction or an apology for damning Tory rhetoric towards refugees. But what does this say about the political nature of the BBC - as well as how we confront the vicious war against some of the most vulnerable people on the planet?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BBC doesn't have a leg to stand on. As the Corporation reels from the consequences of its decision to suspend Gary Lineker for speaking out about the Tory attacks on refugees, more and more evidence has come to the fore: what they did wasn't about impartiality, but about policing and suppressing progressive opinions. This is part and parcel of a sinister political project - to make Britain a hostile political environment for anyone who doesn't have raging right wing opinions.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BBC's decision to suspend Gary Lineker for exercising his free speech has plunged the Corporation into crisis. Fellow pundits, commentators and sports staff have refused to work, collapsing its sports coverage. But this whole episode is so, so important - it exposes the right-wing bias of the BBC, and the absurd lie that it was ever left-wing.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After Gary Lineker's attack on the Tories' despicable war on migrants and refugees, the British Right are demanding the BBC fire him. What a bunch of raging hypocrites. The same crew who constantly bleat about 'cancel culture' and the 'woke mob' attack on free speech, who said nothing when an actual flagship BBC political journalist - Andrew Neil - promoted right-wing ideas. This whole episode tells us so much about modern British society - and it is very, very ugly.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This sums up so much horribly wrong with British society.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Matt Hancock leaked WhatsApps saga gets grubbier and grubbier. Now we discover he discussed threatening to pull disability funding in an MP's constituency if he didn't back lockdown rules. You don't have to sympathise with the Tory rebel's cause to be repulsed. But is there anything unique about this gruesome behaviour? This actually lifts a lid on how our grubby system of government works - and as I show, it goes back many many years.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just when you think Boris Johnson can't shock you anymore with his general moral depravity, here's there to surprise you! The disgraced former prime minister has nominated his own father for a knighthood: yes, the Stanley Johnson who stands accused of sexual assault and domestic violence. This sums up not just the moral corruption of Johnson - but how rotten our entire honours and peerage system is - and indeed our entire Establishment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a truly disturbing episode: Labour MP Apsana Begum was elected in 2019, the first hijab-wearing MP. But she has spoken out about her experience of domestic abuse, and has said that this abuse has been weaponised against her in an attempt to remove her as an MP. Labour stands accused of a terrible failure in their duty of care - while Begum is being hounded.On International Women's Day, we speak to Begum about the horrendous ordeal she is continuing to suffer.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's all kicking off: Matt Hancock's incredibly stupid decision to give Isabel Oakeshott tens of thousands of WhatsApp messages has led to them being splashed all over the Telegraph. But what's this really about? Here is a right-wing newspaper trying to rewrite history about what really happened in the pandemic - and it must be resisted.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On his big visit to Britain, I met Bernie Sanders and we had a lot to chat about: capitalism, about working class struggle, personal freedom, the 4 day week, how we can all do our bit to change the world - and what he thinks about the UK Labour party's direction.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has Rishi Sunak managed what some believed to be impossible: won meaningful concessions from the EU over the Northern Ireland protocol? What does the deal mean - and is it workable? And where now for Brexit?We're joined by former diplomat and Brexit expert Dmitry Grozoubinski, and Colin Murray, Professor of Law and Democracy.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seriously, what on earth is Matt Hancock on, handing his WhatsApp history to Isabel Oakeshott, a right-wing journalist whose previous source ended up in prison for perverting the course of justice? Both Oakeshott and Hancock come out really badly - but what does this all tell us about the catastrophic handling of the pandemic, and how the British Establishment works?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Sunak's 'Windsor Framework' agreement with the EU has been promoted with great fanfare. Finally - or some senior Tory figureheads boast - Brexit has been done. But here's the thing: Sunak has unintentionally publicly declared that his Tory Brexit has been a disaster. And he's absolutely right.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your hangover could soon be a thing of the past. Want to socialise with your friends, elevate your mood without damaging your health, packing on calories and feeling worse for wear the next day? Prof. David Nutt is one of the world's leading specialists on all things related to drugs, and he's developing a substance which could replace alcohol. He talks to me about why we get hungover, why alcohol is such a killer - and his extremely exciting project.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Sunak has promised over and over again to publish his tax return. He promised to do it last summer, he then promised to release it by Christmas, he then promised at the start of February to do it soon. So where the hell is it? What's he got to hide? And what does this say about a prime minister sinking without a trace?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shamima Begum should be tried in her own country for her alleged crimes: why? Because she's British. That she was groomed, trafficked and then placed in a forced marriage has been erased, because it means dealing with an unavoidable fact: she was radicalised here, and she is our problem. Instead the government has announced that millions of Britons have citizenship which is conditional - because someone like myself would not have citizenship revoked if we committed a serious crime. This is a truly horrendous precedent.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear oh dear. Kate Forbes was the anointed successor to Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's First Minister - by much of the media, anyway - but her campaign immediately went into meltdown when she revealed she'd have voted against equal marriage. How can a social conservative possibly be leader of an ostensibly progressive party - and how can someone who opposes civil rights for same-sex couples lead one of our nations?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're not keen on things like poverty and bigotry, this has not been a great few years, let's be honest. You're probably feeling resigning to things being generally grim. So cheer up! This research shows the British public is becoming more left-wing - and that boosts those of us who think transformative policies and an inspiring vision is what the country needs.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keir Starmer's speech this week had a very clear message: if you believe in things like the rich paying a fair share of tax, that utilities such as energy should be publicly owned, or young people should be punished with student debt, then you're not welcome in the Labour party.A lot of the focus has been on Jeremy Corbyn - and that issue does underline Starmer's lack of integrity. But his dishonesty is much more far reaching - and it represents an attack on democracy itself.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This lifelong Tory has spoken the truth. Iain Anderson is a Tory donor who has been a party member for nearly 4 decades. He's friends with Liz Truss and Michael Gove. Now he's left the party - and in doing so, he's told a key truth, in fact one of the biggest truths of British politics - without which you can't understand it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a national catastrophe we can no longer ignore. We've just had a whole load of new evidence about just how disastrous the Brexit deal negotiated by Boris Johnson really is. But there's a conspiracy of silence over it - from the Tories to Labour, in newspapers, the BBC. That has to change. So how do we talk about fixing this disaster without a new culture war?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Throughout history, bigots have used terrible crimes committed by individuals to justify targeting entire minorities. When I pointed this out, anti-trans activists have, for the billionth time, demanded that I'm fired. But, as I show, it's the truth - and it's also the truth that far right extremists have massively infiltrated the anti-trans movement. The truth needs to be heard.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As far-right extremists rioted in Knowsley over the presence of asylum seekers at a Merseyside hotel, it's time to ask: when can those responsible be held accountable? It's politicians and media outlets who've made this possible - and if their rhetoric continues to escalate, far uglier scenes beckon.We're joined by refugee and campaigner Kolbassia Haossou, and anti-fascist youth organiser Benny Hunter.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People on the left are often denounced as Putin's 'useful idiots'. But while the left is nowhere near power, the likes of Tony Blair played crucial roles in legitimising Putin and - long after leaving No. 10 - even advocated an alliance with him. He's been rehabilitated in the Labour party, his acolytes run Keir Starmer's operation - and yet people nowhere near power, who have never advocated an alliance with Putin, are castigated with far more vitriol. What does that tell us about power in Britain?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear: this writer has really set them off! Mic Wright wrote a detailed exposé of the British media's 'nepo babies' - that is, how so many journalists are related to other famous media types. The result was a fair bit of anger. But the British media on a national level is one of the most privileged industries in the country. It distorts and damages our democracy - and this is why it matters.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all knew Rishi Sunak's government was a state - from scandals to Britain's disintegrating social fabric - but things are even worse than they look. By appointing Lee Anderson - a glorified troll, as I show - as Conservative vice-chair, Sunak tells us everything we need to know.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How was the first time for you? Well bad luck, because Boris Johnson is set to return as Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak is toast, and Tory MPs know it, and when the Conservatives get a kicking in the May election, they'll come to conclude they have nothing to lose. Johnson is in full campaign mode, and will claim he's the only one with a mandate to replace Sunak. Brace yourself: the Johnson era mark 2 beckons.Note: apologies - I meant the OLDEST millennials are 42!!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You're probably losing track of Tory scandals right now - understandable, there's a lot of them! - but deputy prime minister Dominic Raab is under investigation for no less than 24 complaints by civil servants alleging bullying. The allegations include being regularly reduced to tears, being physically sick before meetings - and even worse. How can Rishi Sunak not have known about this? And - more importantly - what does this tell us about a culture where this behaviour can allegedly run rampant?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok sure, Liz Truss crashed the economy with her unhinged right-wing policies, but who are we to hold a grudge? Apparently she's plotting a comeback with a big public intervention lauding her catastrophic policies, and supportive MPs are mobilising. But here's why Truss' arguments are bull - because history shows they are a failed experiment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Shell makes massive profits because of war while millions struggle British Gas have been employing debt collectors to smash their way into the homes of pensioners, single mums and disabled people. It sums up our broken system - and why the calls of the likes of Bernie Sanders for a peaceful political revolution are more pressing than ever. Seriously, how much of this can you take?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is this guy and his publicist thinking? Matt Hancock has been engaged in a massive 'please rehabilitate me tour' in an attempt to deflect from a) mass avoidable death under his watch and b) resigning in disgrace after canoodling against regulations and - as we see here - quite possibly the law. This humiliation on national television, however, offers an important lesson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 1st February, from teachers to train drivers to civil servants, a mass strike is taking place across the country. It's a fightback against plummeting living standards and an assault on working people - while the Tories are driving through a law to try and make strike action all but illegal.I'm joined by Henry Chango Lopez, general secretary of the Independent Workers of Great Britain, to talk through why it matters so much - and how we can all fight back.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, this is catastrophic: the latest IMF projections have Britain suffering the worst economic growth than any major economy - and also Russia, which is involved in a massive war and hit by huge sanctions. And by worst economic growth, I mean recession. Tory excuses of 'well, everyone is suffering' have been demolished. Here is how the country has been taken to its knees.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is this guy serious? In the midst of a massive housing crisis, this landlord thinks he has the solution - why didn't anyone think of this?This came up in a new podcast by Michael Walker - Crash Course - and I discuss it with him here. Support it if you can!: https://www.patreon.com/crashcoursepodSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Tories lurch from scandal to crisis, I'm discussing all the latest government horror stories with Michael Walker - plus, talking about his new amazing podcast about the housing crisis!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the big controversies enveloping the Tories - I know, you've probably lost count! - focuses on allegations that the man who became BBC Chair helped secure a loan for Boris Johnson. But this just underlines a much bigger problem - the cosy relationship between the Conservatives and Auntie Beeb.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, Nadhim Zahawi had a defence - that being forced to pay a huge penalty on his tax affairs was just a careless error. Slight hiccup: the head of HMRC has said that "innocent" mistakes aren't penalised. So where does that leave us? But there is a broader point - why we should talk about social harms rather than crimes, because our justice system is rigged in favour of the rich against the poor.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I never thought Carol Vorderman would become the de facto Leader of the Opposition, but that's the timeline we're in! Watch her shred the Tories over the Nadhim Zahawi scandal - and look at how she's doing a job which should belong to others, taking on the Tories' gruesome behaviour.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why isn't this leading the news bulletins? This news story is so shocking that when you hear the details, you'll find yourself asking why: 200 child asylum seekers are missing from hotels run by the Home Office. What on earth has happened to them? How could this be allowed to happen? And how has government policy made it possible?We speak to the anti-trafficking social worker Lauren Starkey who has all of the details.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Nadhim Zahawi embroiled in a storm over his tax affairs, we talk to the tax expert Richard Murphy about the truth, including Zahawi's defence. This exposes a tax system rigged in favour of the rich - at everybody else's expense.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's fair to say I'm not a fan of any Tory MP, but good grief, this one. Lee Anderson's latest contribution is to use his researcher as social media fodder to suggest people who use food banks are simply bad at budgeting. Here's the truth - and what it says about Toryism and the state of the country.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finally, the truth is coming out: Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi has admitted reaching a tax settlement with HM Revenue and Customs over a supposed 'error' worth million. Even more remarkably, he negotiated the settlement when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. What on earth is going on, what's the truth - and what does it tell us about our broken tax system? Tax expert Richard Murphy joins us to explain all.As the anti-trans moral panic escalates with the showdown over Scotland's reform of the gender recognition process, we're joined by trans writer, vlogger and activist extraordinaire Katy Montgomerie.Plus: with horrific news that dozens of child asylum seekers have been abducted by gangs, we talk to anti-trafficking social worker Lauren Starkey.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This country is a burning skip, and not since the aftermath of World War II has there been a more desperate need for transformative policies. But after Labour leader Keir Starmer abandoned his leadership promises, there is a massive vacuum. RMT leader Mick Lynch has shown courage and determination in fighting the Tories - and without more of that, the danger is of a Labour government which causes mass disappointment and opens the door for very dark political forces.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What on earth is going on here? There are allegations that Tory Chair Nadhim Zahawi has been forced to pay millions to HMRC, after allegedly not paying tax by using an offshore trust when he sold off his company. We don't know the truth because Zahawi hasn't answered the questions properly - and there isn't enough media pressure. But this sums up a society where it's one rule for the top - and one rule for everyone else.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enough. As the Tory government shuts down the democratic decision of the Scottish Parliament to expand trans rights, it's time to wake up to a gruesome reality. One of the most vulnerable minorities is being subjected to the exact same hate campaign gay and bi people faced in the 1980s and 1990s. You either have the courage to be on the right side of history - or you can stand back and allow an oppressed community to suffer unnecessary pain and fear. Here's the argument for trans rights - and why the opponents are going to be judged just as harshly as homophobes were.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have an action packed show today:- Nurse Maxine Wade on the strike and the NHS crisis- Commentator Ellie Mae O'Hagan on Tory crisis and Keir Starmer- Trans activist Beth Douglas on the stand-off over Scotland's reform of gender recognition- Holocaust survivor Joan Salter on confronting Suella BravermanSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are the Tories buckling before nurses' demands? News reports suggest they're beginning to accept they're going to have to increase their pay. For those who say we don't have enough money - we need to start asking ourselves what we value more: rich people being ridiculously rich, or a functioning healthcare system?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Sunak's budget is like English food before the 90s - with its overcooked vegetables - and Liz Truss' Mini-Budget is like bringing back Tex-Mex. Confused? In his new book EDIBLE ECONOMICS, Prof. Ha-Joon Chang uses food to take apart the ruling economic mantras of our time - and shows that there is hope for an alternative.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is absolutely gruesome stuff: what Tory MP Andrew Bridgen has said about vaccines is disturbing and dangerous. But it raises an important question - how do we reach people who've been radicalised by anti-vax conspiracism, especially given it's often a gateway?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ugh, guys, I'm so angry with myself. I got comprehensively ripped off by a plumber and want you to avoid going through what I did!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To lots of people, the drama centred on Prince Harry must seem like a pointless distraction from a world that is on fire. But the revelations should spur on a long overdue conversation - about abolishing the monarchy. And the reason for that has been completely erased from this conversation - as I show.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a matter of life and death - nothing is more important. So why the silence? We know we lost a huge number of people because of Covid. But right now there is a surge in deaths happening not because of Covid. This is the biggest scandal all of us should be talking about.See this crucial thread here: https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/stat...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Look, I'm not a fan of Rishi Sunak, fine, but this is absolutely ridiculous even by his standards. Just watch him repeatedly refuse to answer a basic question about whether he uses private healthcare - which he clearly does. He's responsible for the NHS, he knows it's imploding, but wants to protect him and his family for a crisis he's to blame for. And he's not the only politician being dishonest, as we can see...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As you've noticed, the vast majority of my videos aim fire at the Tory government - but it's my job to challenge all politicians, including Labour. This week, Keir Starmer did a speech - and made clear he backs more privatisation of your NHS, and won't commit to the spending our imploding public services need. You deserve better than this - we all do.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You probably think this title is an exaggeration, that my contempt for the Tories is sending me over the top. But no. In response to nurses - and rail workers, and teachers, and other key workers - being driven to such despair that they strike, the Tories have finally come up with a response: to sack them. But it won't just be our nurses and other pillars of society who will pay the price - we all will.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Honestly, this guy. Firstly, if you still remember Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister, then fair play to you, because he's practically invisible. But having reduced the country to state of 'massive burning skip', he's now set out 5 pledges which can be achieved through literally nothing the Tories do. This is taking the mick on a grand scale - and here's why we should see through every single pledge.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This really has to be seen to be believed. During the referendum campaign, the Vote Leave campaign released a video about how the NHS was in chaos, but how it would be idyllic when Brexit happened. The people who staffed the Vote Leave campaign are the wing of the Tories who've run the country for years - and now the NHS is on the brink of collapse, with Britain now suffering a humanitarian catastrophe. This is the truth about what's happened - and this doesn't make your blood doesn't boil, then nothing will.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories are in so much trouble. 'Yeah I know', you might say, everyone knows that - they partied in lockdown and lied about it, they failed to deal with the cost of living crisis, had a massive civil war - then crashed the economy with unhinged policies. But it is so so so so much worse than that - as I'll explain!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ooooooooooof! From now on, epic misogynist Andrew Tate will be known as 'that guy who got wrecked by Greta Thunberg on Twitter'. He thought he was being well hard and clever, but suffered the mother of all smackdowns. But this matters - because this underlines the biggest issue of all which is at stake.Help us take on the right-wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy Christmas you lot! Ok, so a lot of my videos verge on the bleak side, but we have to work with the material we've got. Yet there so many reasons to be happy and optimistic - and here I set them out. Consider it a Christmas present!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear oh dear. Two reports have come out showing that Boris Johnson's Brexit deal has been disastrous for the economy, meaning slashed growth and tax revenues. But what do we do about it - given the gruesome culture war detonated by the EU referendum?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spare a moment for the poor suffering editor of The Spectator magazine. Besieged as it is - just because his publication publishes deeply offensive bile! - he now declares that the Royal Mail isn't delivering it on time to customers. But old on a minute: didn't you loudly cheer on its privatisation as a "resounding success"?!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why doesn't Rishi Sunak just give nurses and paramedics the pay rise they deserve? Their pay has plummeted, after all, it's left the NHS massively short of staff, the public on their side, and there's no evidence it'll drive up inflation. This is the truth - and it's gruesome.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Clarkson's repulsive attack on Meghan Markle in The Sun newspaper has rightly been widely condemned. But what he said can't be seen in isolation. This is just one gruesome symptom of a system of male domination of women - and it's why all men must speak up.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elon Musk calls himself the king of free speech, but he's just mass banned a load of journalists who were scrutinising him from Twitter. Now the right don't really believe in free speech at all - by their own definitions, though they are hypocrites. What they really want to defend is the right of privileged white men like Musk to say what they want, not least about marginalised minorities, and face no response or consequence.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seriously, Alan Sugar's latest diatribe against Mick Lynch is one of the stupidest yet. What it shows is there is genuine fear at the RMT - they're attacking Lynch because they know his message has resonated. Here's what it tells us.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're now at the 'let's demonise nurses' stage of the collapsing Tory government. By going on strike, we're told, the nurses are putting the NHS at risk. But the truth is the demands of the strikers are key to saving not just the NHS - but saving lives. This is how...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Owch! Mick Lynch was in no mood to play the standard media game, and turned his fire on the BBC live on air. His accusation: that it has an Establishment bias. Is that fair? The evidence is actually overwhelming - as we can see here.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In his war on striking public sector heroes, Rishi Sunak has told us that giving them a pay rise that matches the cost of living would cost £1,000 per household. This is a total lie. Here's this nonsense comprehensively debunked.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok, so this was an experiment - I let people listening choose what we spoke about. This was a lot of fun!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the new Netflix documentary on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drops, the media are in overdrive against the couple. But what's the truth? The brilliant Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu talks us through what the show tells us - and how the response of the media damns the industry. Plus: is Prince Harry now a republican?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Weak doesn't cover it: Rishi Sunak's government is flailing around without any direction. Here we list some of Sunak's u-turns, underlining a weak, unprincipled politician blowing around with the breeze.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It gets worse and worse for the Tories: Rishi Sunak stood up at Prime Minister's Questions to say he was 'shocked' about the Michelle Mone scandal, involving allegations around a massive government contract to a company the Baroness allegedly lobbied for and allegedly profited from. But this scandal goes so much further: it's about how a society in which we are told that plucky entrepreneurs make their own money through their hard graft, while benefit claimants are dependent on the state. But who are the real state dependents we should be worried about?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories want us to blame nurses, paramedics and railway workers for the coming chaos. But these strikes could have been avoided - if the Tories stopped screwing over the people who keep this country running on a daily basis. Here's why the last people we should blame are those forced into a corner - and why it's the Tories who have wrecked Christmas.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a scandal that rocked the monarchy: Lady Susan Hussey - Lady of the Household - subjected Ngozi Fulani - a Black British woman and chief executive of domestic violence charity Sistah Space - to a racist interrogation. In the aftermath of her resignation, much of the media has focused on sympathy for this senior member of the Royal court. This is a travesty. Mandu Reid - leader of the Women's Equality Party - witnessed the whole event, and tells us exactly what happened, why it matters - and what it tells us not just about the monarchy, but about British society in 2022.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership contest with promises of party unity, a "broad church", and the right of Labour members to select their own candidates. All of these commitments have gone up in smoke - and Starmer's leadership has waged a remorseless war against the left.We speak to former Channel 4 News journalist Michael Crick - who has been following Labour's selections closer than any other journalist - about the shocking revelations he has uncovered; and former Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who has written to Starmer about the internal stitch-ups.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So I get flak from two sides - all part of the job!: from Starmer ultra supporters who are all waaaaa leave our boy alone!!! and lefties baffled at why a socialist could vote for the modern Labour party. So here's my main reasons - and I'd love to know your thoughts so do leave them in the comments!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories just suffered their worst defeat in Chester for nearly 200 years - and the polling shows that Rishi Sunak is well and truly sunk. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has made it clear that he's standing for re-election as a Tory MP. Here's why his return as PM isn't actually far fetched - but even plausible.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As our Prime Minister is reduced to defending private schools - a class privilege used only by Britain's elite - and denouncing striking workers - who the public are solidly behind - here's why Sunak is in a catastrophic mess.Help us take on the right-wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nigel Farage has responded to the 2021 Census - which shows Christians are a minority and Britain is more diverse - with objective untruths and nonsense. Here we comprehensively debunk the gibberish of him, Douglas Murray and Andrew Pierce.EDIT: Misspoke at 5:25, obviously meant "because white Britons have become a minority", not "non-whites" (doesn't make sense otherwise)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This scandal is absolutely breathtaking: how vast sums of public money were showered on companies and individuals with Tory connections during the pandemic, often with no background in supplying PPE. Some provided useless PPE - but still made a packet at public expense. Why isn't there more outrage? We're joined by Russell Scott from the Good Law Project to explain clearly and succinctly all the details you need to know.Support the Good Law Project here: https://goodlawproject.org/donate/help us take on the Tory media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

George Osborne now graces our TV screens as an oh-so-wise pundit, dispensing his informed and learned tidbits about British politics like a detached observer. But no single person is more responsible for the mess this country is in than Osborne: his cruel ideologically-driven austerity agenda whipped up a whirlwind of discontent which helps explain our current plight. This rehabilitation of monsters - and the failure to hold the powerful to account - is why we will keep suffering over and over again.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Britain is a country which cracks down on the misdemeanours of the poor but facilitates the crimes of the rich. Shoplifting is soaring - but instead of dealing with the causes - mass poverty in a rich country - the government and supermarkets want to go to war with desperate people instead. Here's what that says about Britain in 2022.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

According to devastating revelations in The Guardian, the Tory peer Michelle Mone is alleged to have lobbied on behalf of a company she reportedly made vast sums of money from - despite previous denials. These allegations need answers, of course - not least from Michael Gove, who told Sky News that he referred the bid to the appropriate civil service channels - but this seems to be contradicted by the evidence. So what is really going on? And what does this say about modern Britain?Read David Conn's latest piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/24/michael-gove-under-pressure-explain-role-ppe-deals-michelle-mone Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the moment where Suella Braverman's cruelty and stupidity was taken apart - and the horror of our asylum system exposed.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The right to an independence referendum is like the right to divorce: you don’t have to support separation to accept it as a right. The Scottish people voted for parties which back a referendum: denying them that right is an attack on democracy itself. I don't support independence - but I do support democracy, and the Scottish people must have their decision respected.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oooof. The RMT's Mick Lynch was in no mood for the Daily Mail's nonsense, responding to their description of him as the 'grinch' by referring to their history of backing the Blackshirts. So now is a good time to remind ourselves of the Daily Mail's record - back then and now, and what purpose they serve in society.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh great news everyone, Keir Starmer has secured the lucrative Nigel Farage endorsement: the former UKIP leader is cheering on Labour for being to the "right of the Tories on immigration". We've got to stop politicians constantly pretending that it's immigration responsible for falling wages - or other problems, like the housing crisis and struggling public services. Here's the real reasons!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the England team to wear the OneLove armband was the most basic act of solidarity possible - given the minor detail of the World Cup being held by a tinpot dictatorship which oppressed LGBTQ+ among others. But when FIFA banned them from even that, the Football Association immediately crumbled, showing how pathetically weak their solidarity really is. There's massive lessons here - and here they are.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement made it clear: Britain faces two years of acute social and economic pain. This is the only major country introducing cuts and tax hikes as we head into recession: laying the foundations for a doom loop of falling growth. Has the Tory project finally collapsed? Or will the world's most electorally successful political party find a way to claw back support?Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's International Men's Day, and I want to talk about homophobia against straight men. No, this isn't a joke: it's deadly serious. Homophobia is the violent border guard of masculinity, there to punish and victimise any man deemed to violate the norms of 'being a man'. So obviously queer men are the principal victims of male homophobia - but it's homophobia against straight men that allows us to understand what this bigotry is, and how maleness is constructed.Here's my Guardian column about it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/17/homophobia-against-straight-men-lgbtq Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh wow. This Tory MP - Vicky Ford, who represents Chelmsford, unlucky guys! - went on TV to claim Britain had better economic growth than other countries. She could not be more wrong! No European country is set to have such terrible economic growth. Ford offers us a valuable lesson though: about how much of an economic catastrophe Tory rule has represented, and why we should never let them get away with it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tories are trying to present their Autumn Statement as fair and compassionate - but it's anything but. After 12 years of economic misery, they're back for more cuts and ideologically driven mayhem. Economist James Meadway explains why it's a con, what it actually means - and why there is an alternative.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're told by the Tories and their media allies that there's a whopping big £50 billion fiscal hole which, unless we do another round of cuts that'll destroy public services, will cause the markets to collapse. It's a big lie. Here I explain why - and why we can't let them get away with it.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow. A former Tory Cabinet minister, Sir George Eustice, declared to the House of Commons that the trade deal with Australia was a "failure" and "not actually a very good deal" for the UK. But we were promised a post-Brexit buccaneering Britain: instead, the Tories have given us non-existent growth and declining living standards. Will we really let them get away with it?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unfortunately, suggesting the Health Secretary Steve Barclay is high is a generous explanation after he said the NHS doesn't need more cash. Wow. Just wow. The truth is the NHS is teetering on the edge of total catastrophe - soaring waiting lists, unstaffed vacancies, collapsing morale - and without urgent extra resources, people are going to die.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has been marked by mass sackings, mass resignations, mass desertions by advertisers, a calamitous abandoned rollout of 'Twitter Blue', and talk of bankruptcy: all in the space of a fortnight. Is this really the end of Twitter?We're joined by New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac with the inside story of a disaster, and former Twitter vice-president Bruce Daisley.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Hancock is being paid £400,000 rather than do his parliamentary duties, and he clearly has one main aim: to whitewash his reputation, and make us think of him as a cuddly nice guy. If you fall for this, you're a sucker. This is a Health Secretary who presided over avoidable mass death, PPE shortages and real terms pay cuts for nurses. It's this repeated failure of accountability that keeps leaving us in the mess we're in.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear oh dear. You might have thought Elon Musk's take over of Twitter would be disastrous - but did you think it would be this bad? There's now every chance that a medium which, whatever its flaws, has become a critical plank of our social and democratic infrastructure could collapse. Here's the story of the catastrophe - and why it has very, very serious implications for all of us.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh dear oh dear: it was supposed to be a Republican wave - in mid-terms, the opposition normally does well, there's massive inflation and Joe Biden's popularity is low - but it didn't happen. To explain what the results mean - for the Democrats, the left and Donald Trump - I'm joined by David Sirota - journalist, former Bernie Sanders speechwriter and writer of 'Don't Look Up'.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the name of clamping down on refugees, a Tory MP has proposed scrapping all your rights and freedoms. Think I'm being hyperbolic? Well, bad luck! This goes to show where bigotry always leads: it's not the foreign 'other' which threatens your freedom, but demagogues who try to scare you about those deemed to be alien.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is the BBC thinking? As bile and hatred is whipped up against migrants and refugees - some of the most vulnerable people on earth - a BBC reporter talks of the UK "defending itself on the frontline against migrants". This is the language of war and invasion - and with a far right terrorist attack on a migrant processing centre, this narrative is radicalising dangerous elements. This is the truth.You can complain to the BBC here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaintsPlease subscribe - and keep the channel going here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a very funny slapdown of the Prime Minister and his incessant attacks on the former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn declared he lives 'rent free' in Rishi Sunak's head. But the Tory attempts to link Keir Starmer to Corbynism belie a basic fact: progressive policies - like taxing the rich and public ownership - are not just hugely popular, but more relevant than ever. Here's why these attacks can't be allowed to bury a basic truth.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, or so the quote ascribed to Albert Einstein goes, and that more than applies to the catastrophic failure of the 'war on drugs'. All it's achieved is mass criminalisation of disproportionately young Black men, more violence, people with addiction not getting the support they need, handing criminal gangs a massive source of revenue, ensuring dangerous stuff can circulate and so much more. End the madness - legalise it now.We can only keep this channel and podcast going with your support: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vile. The Home Secretary sprayed the sort of invective about asylum seekers you might expect from the far right. I give the facts here: those arriving at our shores are a tiny proportion of those fleeing violence and persecution globally - most are hosted by poorer countries, and many are leaving homes because of Western complicity. Why do we allow ourselves to be conned by the powerful into blaming desperate people for problems caused by our elites?Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, the BBC committed a straightforward violation of journalistic objectivity, presenting Tory spending cuts as an inevitable consequence of the economic situation. I did a video about it, and huge numbers of you complained. The BBC have now responded to your complaints - and goodness grief, it is absolutely epic gaslighting and dishonesty. This matters - a public broadcaster which is supposed to be impartial and objective cannot manufacture public consent for ideological right-wing policies. And as I show here, this couldn't matter more - it's a matter of life and death.Please share, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hallelujah: far right demagogue Jair Bolsonaro has been defeated in Brazil's presidential election by progressive standardbearer and former president Lula da Silva. It was a victory secured despite attempts at voter suppression by an authoritarian regime. But nonetheless - despite Bolsonaro's catastrophic record - the vote was so close. Why? How was victory achieved? What happens next? And how frightened should we be about Bolsonarismo coming back?I'm joined live from Brazil by David Adler - the general coordinator of the Progressive International - and Aline Piva - the Latin America coordinator.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Tories roll back their energy support package, households are faced with £5,000 energy bills - just completely unaffordable for millions, and threatening to driven large sections of the population below the waterline. What if we all refuse to pay our energy bills - and forced the government to come back with proper support?That's the plan of Don't Pay UK who are asking for one million people to together commit to not pay their energy bills - sign up here: https://dontpay.uk/Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Israeli state not only killed iconic Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla - the police force then attacked her funeral procession. Much of the world is shocked - but governments continue to arm and back the Israeli state, disregarding the conclusions of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem that it is guilty of Apartheid. Is the Israeli state overreaching so much that Western public opinion will shift decisively against it?We talk to Salem Barahmeh, Executive Director of Rabet, and Sarit Michaeli from Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, about what's happening on the ground, whether accountability is possible, what the mood is - and what happens next.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the French people are now forced to choose between the neo-liberal Emmanual Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election, we talk to the fascinating young French intellectual Edouard Louis - about what this means for France, for the left, and what hope there is in a bleak political landscape.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Much of the world were relieved when Donald Trump was defeated back in 2020 - but as Joe Biden's administration plunges new depths of unpopularity, how much of a mess is it in? Whose fault is the stalling of the domestic agenda? How serious are his gaffes on Russia's invasion of Ukraine? What hope of a progressive fightback - not least as midterms loom, and Trump is ahead in the polls?We're joined by brilliant commentators from across the Atlantic.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the dictatorship of Kazakhstan violently cracks down on protesters, what's really going on? What's the role of inequality and poverty - and the broken promises of the free market? Just what is the nature of the governing tyranny - and with Russian intervention, what does this mean for global politics?Kazakh voices have been far too erased from this coverage. That's why we're talking to sociologist Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergenova to explain what caused this, what's happening on the ground - and what happens next.Please subscribe - and help us take on the Establishment media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Tories are embroiled in the Owen Paterson scandal, we examine the truly scale of corruption in Tory ranks, why it's a threat to democracy - and how we fight it, featuring investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of openDemocracy Peter Geoghegan.Is COP26 a great step forward in the struggle to save humanity - or just a greenwash for the world's polluters? We're joined by Green MSP Patrick Harvie.As the BBC are embroiled in scandal over a transphobic article which drew on the testimony of an alleged serial sexual predator who called for the genocide of trans people, we discuss the fallout and implications with writer Roz Kaveney and journalist Ugla Stefanía.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rather than take the fight to the Tories - from the energy crisis to Universal Credit to food shortages - Keir Starmer has plunged Labour conference into civil war over his plans to shut down democracy. Will his proposal to scrap One Member One Vote for future leadership elections - giving MPs far more say than grassroots union and party members - get through? Is there any hope for a vision from Labour? And what the hell should the left do?We're joined by Labour MPs Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Lloyd Russell-Moyle, and NEC member Lara McNeill.Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the US, UK and Australia sign a new pact, is a new dangerous Cold War with China inevitable? We're joined by Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies, King's College, London; Martin Jacques, author of "When China Rules the World"; and China historian David Brophy.Please press 'like', subscribe - and help us offer an alternative here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Multiple award-winning actor Robert Lindsay has been a fixture on our screens and the stage for decades - from Citizen Smith to My Family. We talk about the crisis in acting, how he's shifted to the left, Ricky Gervais and the genuinely hilarious real story of Extras, and COVID-19.Help us take on the right wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While many companies have struggled badly during the COVID-19 pandemic, not so for online gambling which thrived during the crisis. Matt Zarb Cousin and James Grimes are two former gambling addicts turned campaigners who tell me how they were driven to the very edge, how the industry exploits the vulnerable, how cosmetic reforms have made little difference - and how the worst post-war emergency allowed online gambling to thrive.Help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.