Episode 128: Open Relations (pop culture episode / Lily Allen)
Lily Allen's latest album details her husband's infidelity after initiating an open relationship. We discuss the unviability of open relationships, the risks of public confessionalism as therapeutic, the pernicious valorisation of the concept of consent beyond sex, and how people are hacking their own privacy on the internet.
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Episode 127: The Collapse of the Grooming Gang Enquiry
Last week saw the collapse of the Labour government's enquiry into the grooming gangs as both candidates for chair resigned and several survivors walked away demanding Jess Phillips' resignation. We discuss how the grooming gangs pose an irreconcilable intersectional car crash for Labour and the wider Left, which has produced a complex edifice of denial around the topic and unwillingness to address the issue as it truly exists. Plus, the Left’s conception of the Subject, how you can’t mark your own homework, why the lumpen are considered unreliable narrators and therefore politicians view them as ripe for own purposes, and how the politics of the Me Too era has been used to dilute the specificity of the grooming gang enquiry towards men in general.
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Episode 126: WTF Is Happening in the UK?!
This episode focuses on the political climate in the UK via topics including Graham Linehan’s armed arrest compared to actions police take against rapists, how Labour’s crack down on social media leads back to embarrassment over the grooming gangs, and digital ID. Plus, Matt Taibbi’s book 'I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street', Labour government policies as soon to be cultural historic artefacts, the Manchester synagogue terrorist out on bail for rape, how the UK’s euthanasia legislation is worse than Canada, middle-class nannying maternalism in politics, Jess Philips as a thug and therefore a vandal, and the Labour Party's implosion.
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Episode 125: On Erika Kirk
We review the Charlie Kirk memorial and discuss how Erika Kirk has been receiving the Amber Heard treatment online. Also, why women who refuse to be victims are often hated the most and women as symbols of cultural meaning. Plus, American evangelicalism, 'over performing' during times of grief, the first person industrial complex of confessional writing as the highest form of self-expression, forgiveness, and the "life disabled".Apologies for the noise of parakeets near the end, there are flocks of them in and around South West London, with many competing urban myths as to why!
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Episode 124: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
We discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, how transgender rights activism was a primary motivation of his killer, why the dehumanisation of political opponents has become the domain the political left operates from, and how subsequently it means Trump's decision to classify Antifa as a terrorist organisation is downstream of that. Plus, Robert Nozick's thought experiment 'The Experience Machine' becoming a real life test, Stella O’Malley’s excellent recent Spiked article, mass cultural infantilism, why being rightwing is the new youth subculture after transgenderism, and how revisiting childhood things takes the sheen off nostalgia.
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