The Another Europe Podcast
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The Another Europe Podcast
Hosts Zoe Williams (@zoesqwilliams) and Luke Cooper (@lukecooper100) are joined by guests with a left take on Brexit, Europe and more. Surveying the big transformative ideas of the age, interrogating the tough questions, and opening up new horizons radical thinking and policy, the Another Europe pod...
Episoade Recente
106 episoade
106: What would an alternative "strategic defence review" look like?
To much fanfare, Britain has announced yet another "strategic" defence review - the fifth that a UK Government has undertaken in the last 15 years. Th...
105: The Care economy: bringing wellbeing back into our politics
In an age of war and permanent crisis, is it all too easy to forget the fundamentals? How do we look after each other, care for one another and create...
104: A far right Davos? The inside story on London's Arc conference
The drift of the global billionaire oligarchy to the radical right is quickening its pace. The Arc conference - billed as a "far right Davos" and with...
103: Ukraine in 2025: what now?
With the return of Donald Trump in the White House - and his insistence that Kyiv and Moscow strike a peace deal "in 24 hours - huge uncertainty now h...
102: What does Trump 2.0 mean for the world?
Millions of people across the world have looked on at the American election result with a sense of dismay and fear. As the world tries to compute and...
101: What to make of Britain’s new Labour government?
After 14 years of frankly horrendous Conservative rule, millions celebrated Labour’s decisive victory. But since that fateful July day the new comms t...
100: Anti-racism after the fascist riots: what do we do now?
With white supremacist riots targeting Muslims and peoples of colour, this was a summer to forget for many of our communities in the UK. Building on t...
99: Georgia's democratic uprising against the 'Russian law'
A huge protest movement has taken to the streets in Georgia against the "foreign agent" law. This new legislation would require all organisations that...
98: Liz Truss and the scary future of the British Conservatives
Liz Truss has managed to persuade herself of a very convenient (from her perspective) "truth": she wasn't a terrible prime minister with a flawed econ...
97: How the rich win: A story of misogyny, money and power
He's the city trader that went rogue. But he didn't lose the bank money. Quite on the contrary, he made them hundreds of millions from the fallout of...
96: British politics after the return of George Galloway
George Galloway has done it again, in a byelection as predictable as it was depressing. But surely this is isn't just about one individual. It feels l...
95: The Polish Spring
Poland has dumped its far right government in a historic election victory for pro-democratic forces. After years of authoritarianism and anti-migrant...
94: Robert Oppenheimer, anti-fascism and the nuclear bomb
It was a scientific discovery that changed the world forever. The nuclear bomb was largely a brainchild of left wing scientists who were determined Na...
93: Decolonising Crimea
In the first podcast in our Ukraine and the World series, Luke Cooper talks to Masha Shynkarenko, a Research Associate with the Ukraine in European Di...
92: From 'Global Britain' to Broken Brexit
It managed to unite Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in opposition. So why has the UK signed up to the CPTPP (the 'Comprehensive and Pr...
91: Neoliberalism and the war against Ukraine
Ukrainians have shown extraordinary heroism and resilience in pushing back the imperialism Russian invasion. But are Ukraine's successes on the battle...
90: This is only the beginning – the making of a new left
Hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to Another Europe Is Possible old-hand, Michael Chessum, about his new book, This is only the beginning (Bloom...
89: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
In our latest podcast, Luke Cooper talks to Lea Ypi about her extraordinary international bestseller, Free; Coming of Age at the End of History. A yea...
88: The cost of living crisis
Another year, another crisis. As inflation skyrockets, we talk to leading economic thinker and former City trader Gary Stevenson about the almighty hi...
87: Brexit is racist
Asking whether "Brexit is racist" might be seen as the "is the pope a Catholic" question of our era. But calling out the racism of Brexit is often see...
86: World politics after Putin's war
As the Russian invasion moves into its second month, in this special edition of the Another Europe podcast we were joined by a panel of experts to ana...
85: Betwixt and between? Eastern Europeans in Britain
In the last twenty years Britons and Eastern Europeans have become closer and more intertwined than ever before. But it's often been a relationship of...
84: As the Boris Johnson regime faces its most serious crisis... how do we beat the Tories in 2022?
As his government lurches from scandal to scandal there is a new sense of hope that the Tories can be defeated. So what role can Another Europe play i...
83: Spain’s left are leading Europe, so why are the far right on the rise?
Spain has one of the most successful vaccination programmes in the world. It's also set to launch the most ambitious national investment strategy in i...
82: COP26 and the global climate crisis: how do we save the planet?
As COP26 comes to a close, we investigate the global environmental and economic challenge facing humanity. In this podcast, Luke Cooper talks to econo...
81: Reflections on the German elections: Scholz's Spring and the centre-right collapse
It wasn't so long ago that Germany's declining social democratic party was seen as a a classic example of 'Pasokification' in Europe, a term referring...
80: Paul Mason on How to Stop Fascism
Fascism - the twentieth century's most barbaric ideology - is back and winning support on the streets and at the ballot boxes all over the world. What...
79: 'I fled the Taliban, now I fear for my people'
The crisis in Afghanistan has dominated the airwaves this summer - and rightly so. In this episode, Luke Cooper talks to Shukria Rezaei, an Afghan liv...
78: England, Englishness and anti-racism after the Euros
Can Englishness be anti-racist? After a remarkable football tournament, where the England football players made such a strong anti-racist statement we...
77: Hope despite retreat? Reflections on five years since the Brexit referendum
Does June 2016 seem like only yesterday? Or does it seem like an eternity? Fives years on from the referendum hosts Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams meet...
76: Where is Germany going? The future of Europe's sleeping giant after the Merkel era
The fight is on to replace Germany's centrist chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after dominating the country's political scene for a dec...
75: European super WHAT? Money and power in modern football
The European Super League was dead almost on arrival. An uprising of fans, the football authorities and governments swiftly killed the project. It see...
74: Do economies always have to grow? The question facing capitalism
In this podcast, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to ecological economist, Tim Jackson, about his new book, Post-Growth; Life After Capitalism....
73: Fighting for life after Covid: how do our economies need to be redesigned?
By now it should be clear. Coronavirus is a ‘strategic’, not episodic, crisis for human development in this century. It poses sweeping social and econ...
72: Migrant rights under Covid: the quiet battle for human dignity
Britain's migrant workers are living through a huge moment of change. The country's immigration system has now fundamentally changed after the exit fr...
71: One good thing could come out of Brexit: a bonfire of national illusions
As the four nations of the United Kingdom struggle to reconcile themselves to life outside the EU are we witnessing the gradual unravelling of the ill...
70: 2021 – year of climate resistance?
The Coronavirus pandemic can be seen as a huge ecological warning: a sign that our footprint on planet Earth is becoming terribly unsustainable. And w...
69: The UK at the cliff edge. Are we heading for a no deal catastrophe?
Will he do it? If Boris Johnson leads the UK to a no deal crash out from the transition period he'll surely be remembered as the most irresponsible pr...
68: Is the game finally up for Donald Trump?
After what seemed like a lifetime, the final results are in: America has said "no more" to Donald Trump. Collectively the world breathed a sigh of rel...
67: Is an ethical foreign policy possible in an authoritarian world?
We talk about authoritarianism a lot on this podcast and how it's resisted from below by grassroots movements. But we haven't yet broached what the pr...