Episodes

  • #79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers

    #79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
    Dec 25 2024
    A whole lot of nonsense has been written about the invention of the modern Christmas. It was thought up by Washington Irving or Charles Dickens or Prince Albert. We just can’t resist attaching a famous name to things, especially if the name belongs to a writer or a royal. We deserve better than this. (R)

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    29 mins
  • #107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Dec 18 2024
    We present the final, damming evidence that the neoliberal case for freedom from all government regulation was always a dangerous deceit. It was always intended to make us prisoners of the unaccountable rich, as we are today. This is not liberty. It is not even the twilight of sovereignty. This is Armageddon.

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    31 mins
  • #106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Dec 11 2024
    Unbelievable, sinister. Milton Friedman advises apartheid South Africa that neoliberal free-market economics can solve the problems of the Soweto riots, in the same way it delivered a ‘miracle’ of liberty under the brutal dictatorship of General Pinochet in Chile.

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    29 mins
  • #105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Dec 4 2024
    Neoliberalism was welcomed, finally, as a way to tackle what seemed to be a breakdown in American society in the late 1960s. Big business and FBI under J Edgar Hoover felt threatened by Keynsian consensus on welfare and the eradication of poverty. They had plenty to gain by provoking the extremism, and clearing the way for Milton Friedman.

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    28 mins
  • #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Nov 27 2024
    The breakdown of American post-war consensus in the 60s calls for desperate measures on all sides: a government war in Vietnam, inner-city rioting, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Alarmed, US businesses seek salvation from the previously dismissed economic theory of neoliberal free-market capitalism.

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    31 mins
  • #103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Nov 19 2024
    We look at the roots of free market Neoliberalism and discover that big business in the US has been championing freedom from regulation since 1895, even claiming in 1923 that the anti-child labour movement in America was secretly being run from Moscow…

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    34 mins
  • #102 'The Cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #102 'The Cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Nov 13 2024
    How did less welfare, less government regulation of business (aka neoliberalism free market) become a global ‘fashion’ without any evidence of its benefits? Something to do with an imposter ‘Nobel’ prize and a PBS TV series funded by American big business?

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    31 mins
  • #101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Nov 6 2024
    Civil liberty is different from individual liberty. Philosophers have known this since at least the 17th Century. We explore the two fundamental fallacies of neoliberalism to show why neoliberal economics can only bring prosperity to the few, and is incapable of predicting financial crashes. Today in the USA those damaged by neoliberalism have been driven to elect an unhinged criminal...

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    33 mins