Best Claire Doherty Podcasts (2025)

Juliet Jacques interviews James Schneider (co-founder of Momentum and director of strategic communications during Jeremy Corbyn's time as Labour leader) about the creation of the new left party in Britain, why there's a greater opportunity for a left electoral breakthrough now than there has been in living memory, and about the need to rebuild the …

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Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox 1:18:42

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Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah, and Robert Knox on their new co-authored book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine'. We spoke about the inadequacy of framing the question of Palestine and the Gaza genocide solely as a humanitarian issue and how the Israeli project of settler-colonialism has been part and parcel of the expansi…

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Digital Sovereignty and resisting the tech giants w/ Cecilia Rikap 59:36

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In today's episode Cecilia Rikap - an expert in the political economy of science and technology - speaks with Paris Marx (host of the excellent Tech Won't Save Us podcast). Cecilia and Paris discussed the subservient approach that Keir Starmer's Labour government has taken to tech policy and how willing Starmer has been to give tech companies whate…

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Understanding Iran-China relations w/ William Figueroa 39:49

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Expert on China-Iran relations William Figueroa joins PTO to talk about the relationship between China and Iran in the wake of the twelve day war between Iran and Israel. We chatted about why China's backing for Iran has been - and is likely to continue to be - relatively limited as China balances support for Iran with its other interest in West As…

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Excerpt - Owen Hatherley responds to listener questions 1:13

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Owen Hatherley responds to listener questions 3:26

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Fake work and Y2K w/ Leigh Claire La Berge 46:37

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In 1998 Leigh Claire La Berge was hired by a major communications conglomerate, where she worked alongside employees of the soon to be disgraced Arther Anderson (the auditor of companies involved in high profile corporate fraud such as WorldCom and Enron). Leigh Clare and her colleagues were tasked with working on the problem of Y2K - also known as…

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[UNLOCKED] Look back in anger w/ Jeremy Gilbert 1:13:27

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Jeremy Gilbert on the Oasis reunion and the britpop phenomenon more generally. We talked about the music that britpop marginalised, why 90s nostalgia is so prevalent, and why it was that of the various guitar groups of the time it was Oasis who became so successful in the mid 1990s.By Politics Theory Other

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Aftermath of the Israel-Iran war w/ Séamus Malekafzali 46:35

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Journalist Séamus Malekafzali joins PTO to talk about the aftermath of the Israel-Iran war. We chatted about where the cessation of hostilities leaves the two states militarily, and whether Iran's strategy of reliance on ballistic missiles and a loose regional alliance was wholly misbegotten or just poorly implemented. And we talked about why the T…

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[UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers 1:13:48

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Owen Hatherley returns to discuss his New Left Review article on the Welsh guitar band, the Manic Street Preachers. We talked about the particular appeal the group seemed to hold for working class kids from non-metropolitan backgrounds in the 1990s, and about the forbearance and occasional embarrassment that is the lot of fans who've followed their…

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Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US attack on Iran 2:35

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Israel's war on Iranian society w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi 42:07

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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi joins PTO to talk about his recent article in the New Left Review on Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran. Eskandar explained why he sees Israel's goals as not being confined to destroying Iran's nuclear programme, but also - and more importantly - the de-development of Iranian society and the balkanisation of the country.…

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Excerpt - Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers 3:41

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Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the logic of the Gaza genocide 1:17

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Richard Seymour discusses the abrupt increase in Western criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza, China's energy transition, and how to understand the Trump administration.If you'd like to hear this episode in full please consider becoming a £5/pm PTO supporter on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/poltheoryother…

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The India-Pakistan conflict w/ Radhika Desai 33:47

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Radhika Desai returns to PTO to talk about the latest round of violence between India and Pakistan, following the terrorist attack that killed 26 tourists in Indian administered Kashmir on April 22nd. We discussed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir since 2019, when the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi revoked the territory's special st…

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Excerpt - Natasha Lennard answers listener questions 1:20

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Natasha Lennard returns to answer listener questions on the escalation of the Gaza genocide, the prospects for a federal ban on abortion in the United States, and whether we are seeing the emergence of a distinctly liberal brand of transphobia in the US. If you'd like to hear this episode in full please consider becoming a £5/pm PTO supporter on pa…

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Where do US-China relations go from here? w/ Jake Werner 51:41

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Jake Werner on US-China relations in the context of the trade war. We discussed why Donald Trump has dialled down his rhetoric over tariffs, and why the term "decoupling" hardly captures the severity of what a breakdown of the economic relations between the US and China will look like. We also talked about the prospects of increased military tensio…

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Israel's renewed offensive w/ Amjad Iraqi 46:52

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Amjad Iraqi returns to PTO to discuss the Israeli offensive in Gaza - following on from Israel's violation of the ceasefire in late March. We spoke about why the ceasefire was always likely to be violated, the eroding support for continuation of the war within Israel (as the war increasingly comes to be seen as a way of shielding Benjamin Netanyahu…

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Excerpt - Quinn Slobodian responds to listener questions 1:44

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Quinn Slobodian returns to answer questions sent in by listeners in response to our recent episode on Quinn's new book, Hayek's Bastards: The neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right.If you'd like to get access to this and all other episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/poltheoryother…

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Hayek's bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian 58:10

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Quinn Slobodian returns to PTO to talk about his new book 'Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'. Whilst politicians and thinkers of the new right are typically characterised as fierce opponents of neoliberalism, Quinn explains how the emergence of the populist right developed through a split within the neoliberal movement i…

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Whither the Democrats? w/ Natasha Lennard 36:23

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Natasha Lennard joins PTO to talk about her recent writing on how the Democrats are making sense of their electoral defeat in November and how the mainstream of the party is adopting conservative social policy while flirting with far-right activists and influencers. We also talked about the enduring and ever more bizarre democrat obsession with civ…

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Excerpt - Ambushed in the Oval Office? w/ Richard Seymour 3:50

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In the latest episode of Interregnum Richard Seymour comments on the the fallout from the calamitous meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and JD Vance.If you would like to listen to this episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 p/m supporter on patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c/poltheoryother…

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The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat w/ Hannah Proctor 53:44

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Hannah Proctor joins PTO to discuss her book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat. Amongst other aspects of the book, we discussed the practice of Maoist self-criticism and its influence on the American and European New Left, the accounts of women involved in the 1984-85 miners strike following its defeat at the hands of the Thatch…

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Excerpt - Adam Tooze on resistance to Trump 1:13

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Adam Tooze returns to answer the many excellent questions sent in by PTO supporters.If you would like to listen to this episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 p/m supporter on patreon:www.patreon.com/c/poltheoryotherBy Politics Theory Other

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Postcards to the Future

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The Mighty Mini Podcast

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Richard Seymour responds to listener questions 0:53

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Britain's new left party w/ James Schneider 36:49

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Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox 1:18:42

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Digital Sovereignty and resisting the tech giants w/ Cecilia Rikap 59:36

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Understanding Iran-China relations w/ William Figueroa 39:49

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Excerpt - Owen Hatherley responds to listener questions 1:13

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Owen Hatherley responds to listener questions 3:26

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Fake work and Y2K w/ Leigh Claire La Berge 46:37

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[UNLOCKED] Look back in anger w/ Jeremy Gilbert 1:13:27

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Aftermath of the Israel-Iran war w/ Séamus Malekafzali 46:35

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[UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers 1:13:48

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Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US attack on Iran 2:35

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Israel's war on Iranian society w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi 42:07

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Excerpt - Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers 3:41

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Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the logic of the Gaza genocide 1:17

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The India-Pakistan conflict w/ Radhika Desai 33:47

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Excerpt - Natasha Lennard answers listener questions 1:20

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Where do US-China relations go from here? w/ Jake Werner 51:41

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Israel's renewed offensive w/ Amjad Iraqi 46:52

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Excerpt - Quinn Slobodian responds to listener questions 1:44

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Hayek's bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian 58:10

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Whither the Democrats? w/ Natasha Lennard 36:23

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Excerpt - Ambushed in the Oval Office? w/ Richard Seymour 3:50

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The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat w/ Hannah Proctor 53:44

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Excerpt - Adam Tooze on resistance to Trump 1:13