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Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023) 43:23

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Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Jane Hamlett & Dr. Julie-Marie Strange tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has changed radically. The book describes the growth of pet foods and…

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I was Cancelled for Writing About the DELUSION of MULTICULTURALISM 38:16

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On today's #NCFWhittle we speak with Harry Saul Markham, a 24 year old writer who was cancelled by his publisher. Harry's book was deemed to be too controversial as it dealt with issues such as multiculturalism and Islam. Harry joins us to discuss what happened to him as well as the wider subjects his book deals with.---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you…

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Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024) 1:00:46

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Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip (Ohio State UP, 2024) is the first full-length study of US comic strips from the period prior to the rise of Sunday newspaper comics. Where current histories assume that nineteenth-century US comics consisted solely of single-panel political cartoons or simple “proto-comics,” Los…

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Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction 29:01

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From Dune to The Three Body Problem, is science fiction having a moment? Attention to the genre, as well as TV and films based on it, seems to have exploded in the past few years. With sci-fi often getting a bad rap, it’s time to ditch the snobbery and celebrate its complexity and diversity. And who better to do this with than New Scientist’s scien…

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James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024) 42:56

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The history of rock and roll music can be seen in a long arc of Western civilization's struggle for both greater individual expression and societal stability. In the 1960s, the West's relationship with authority ruptured, in part due to the rock revolution. The lessons and implications of this era have yet to be fully grasped. James A. Cosby's book…

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En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023) 38:47

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During the Qing dynasty in China, a wide variety of people participated in a lottery game named weixing (“surname guessing”), which had participants placing bets on the surnames of civil service examination candidates. A fiercely competitive process, those who passed the various levels of the civil service and military examinations could climb the …

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Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) 49:12

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Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) provides a critical and nuanced analysis of the relationship between popular culture and politics in Russia during Vladimir Putin’s first two decades in power. It traces how the performance of Russian citizenship has been remolded according to a neoconservat…

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Britain's Wealth was NOT Built on Slavery & Colonialism | Dr. Kristian Niemietz 30:21

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On today's #NCFWhittle we speak with Dr. Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy and author of several books at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). He joins us to discuss his latest book "Imperial Measurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism"---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our chan…

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Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024) 56:48

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We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are making decisions and taking grassroots actions on multiple dimensions. Unpacking this understudied phenomenon, Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as D…

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How Can We Make Britain a Free Country Once More? Free Speech, Faith and the Next Generation 35:48

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On today's Deprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt of the European Conservative and freelance journalist Evan Riggs are joined by writer and commentator Lois McLatchie Miller, a spokesman for the Alliance Defending Freedom.---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underne…

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Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023) 56:51

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'Star Wars' is a global phenomenon that in 2022 celebrated its 45th year of transmedia storytelling, and it has never been more successful than it is today. More 'Star Wars' works than ever are currently available or in simultaneous development, including live-action and animated series, novels, comics, and merchandise, as well as the feature films…

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Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023) 41:24

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What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popular entertainment for Arabic-speaking audiences, many of whom were uneducated and striving to contend …

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Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022) 1:13:21

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While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television (Wayne State University Press, 2022) by Dr. Julia Havas is the first sustained critical analysis of the twenty-first-century resurgence of this tradition. In W…

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Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024) 29:41

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Marion Casey is a professor at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has published widely on various aspects of Irish-American history and in 2006 she co-edited Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States with Joe Lee. In this interview, s…

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Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change 32:48

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How do we understand the stakes of climate change, and communicate them? As we’re facing the consequences of climate change and our historical inaction as a species, how do we come to terms with the reality and uncertainty of our situation? In H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z, Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert …

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Gaza & Migrant Protests Infiltrated by Radicals + Is Progressive Politics Dead? + Local Elections 40:48

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On today's #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and SDP London mayoral candidate Amy Gallagher discuss:* Far Left radical agitators are infiltrating Gaza protests on university campuses* Middle class leftists stop removal of illegal migrants to Bibby Stockholm* Do SNPs misfortunes mean that progressive politics…

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Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023) 53:35

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The astonishing behind-the-scenes story of the 1963 film Cleopatra and how it changed the face of Hollywood makes it one of the most fabled films of all time. Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the film’s making soon became a cautionary tale, for the lavish extravagance of production on Cleopatra all but bankrupted 20th Century Fox and a…

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Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024) 25:48

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How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games. They all share one thing in common: rules. Indeed, rules are the one and only thing game scholars agree is central to games. But what, in fact, are rules?…

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What Really Happened on Whitehall on St. George's Day: Citizen Journalist's First-Hand Account 51:43

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On this episode of Deprogrammed, host Harrison Pitt of the European Conservative is joined by SDP London mayoral candidate Amy Gallagher and special guest Charlie Samson, political commentator and citizen journalist, who tells us what really happened when the police confronted English patriots in Whitehall on St George's Day---------------SUBSCRIBE…

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Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works) 1:09:51

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It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we are joined by Professor Robert Farley, author of “Andor: Star Wars Recreates the Battle of Algiers (And it Works).” We talk about how Andor, the Disney+ streamer, was deeply influenced by Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 movie The Battle of Algiers. Both texts tell the story of a rebellion against authoritarian colonial …

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Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024) 53:15

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Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions across the nation developed an obsession with their colourful plots of land. Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain (…

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Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023) 1:04:27

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Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration, and early expedition leaders needed publicity to generate support for their endeavours. Their le…

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Prioritizing Identity Over Excellence & Competence is Destroying Us 51:20

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Our guest on this week's #NCFWhittle is Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed novelist and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin". Her new novel is "MANIA: What if calling someone stupid was illegal?" - and it could not be more relevant to our increasingly dystopian times. Order here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man…

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Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021) 52:04

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As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in twentieth-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. Yet - perhaps surprisingly - many of these gre…

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Sadiq Khan's Disgraceful Slur on Tory Mayoral Candidate 36:32

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On today's #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and SDP London mayoral candidate Amy Gallagher discuss:* Metropolitan Police over-react to English patriotic gathering on St. George's Day* London Mayor Sadiq Khan's disgraceful slur on Tory mayoral candidate.---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, …

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Fleeing the Cult: Detransitioner Slams Trans Ideology 49:33

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On today's Deprogrammed, host Harrison Pitt of the European Conservative magazine is joined by NCF regular Amy Gallagher, a nurse and psychotherapist who is suing the Tavistock Centre for discrimination, and by writer and commentator Charlie Bentley Astor. Charlie discusses her personal journey from deciding she was trans to eventually realising sh…

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Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023) 50:38

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From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z's song "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," politicians have used music not only to construct their personal presidential identities but to create the broader identity of the American presidency. Through music, candidates can appear relatable, show cultural comp…

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Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024) 1:06:11

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In Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—…

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Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024) 48:37

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Free time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to “doomscrolling” on social media for thirty minutes? Today, despite the promise of modern industrialization, many people experience both a scarcity of free time and a disappointment in it…

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Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023) 50:14

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Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (Reaktion Books, 2023) tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has changed radically. The book describes the growth of pet foods and medicines, the rise of pet shops, and t…

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Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence 28:27

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How much faith should we be putting in artificial intelligence? As large language models and generative AI have become increasingly powerful in recent years, their makers are pushing the narrative that AI is a solution to many of the world’s problems. But Meredith Broussard says we’re not there yet, if we even get there at all. Broussard is the aut…

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Muslim Prayer Victory. EU's Fascist Undertones. Is Liz Truss a True Conservative? UK Smoking Ban. 44:17

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On today's #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and SDP London mayoral candidate Amy Gallagher discuss:* Free Speech suppressed in the heart of the EU at the National Conservative (NatCon) conference. * Katherine Birbalsingh's landmark victory as court rules Muslim children do not have the right to pray in her …

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Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023) 1:01:18

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In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl (Rutgers University Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Leon-Boys explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture …

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The Police came when I was on Stage. The EU resembles Soviet Communism 7:42

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Straight off the train from Belgium, Nigel Farage joins us to provide a blow by blow account of what happened at the National Conservative (#NatCon) conference when three mayors in and around Brussels tried to suppress free speech by cancelling the event.---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTu…

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Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023) 35:11

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Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the silver screen, but with the rise of talkies, Velez c…

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Why I'm Standing to become Mayor of London. SDP candidate Amy Gallagher: "I Grieve for London". 31:29

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On today’s episode of #NCFWhittle we speak with our good friend Amy Gallagher, the SDP’s London mayoral candidate in the May 2024 local elections. Amy lays out her vision for London and why Sadiq Khan must go. She also explains why she is standing for the SDP.---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on …

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Gap Between Muslims & Rest of UK Society Wider Than Ever + Cass TRANS REPORT Should Shame the NHS 45:02

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On today's #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and SDP London mayoral candidate Amy Gallagher discuss:* The Henry Jackson Society's poll into views and attitudes of British Muslims reveals the huge gulf that exists between them and the rest of British society, with a majority wanting to ban homosexuality and r…

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How to Increase Birth Rates? Should Women Put Family Before Career? What about Engineered Babies? 44:10

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On today's Deprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt of the European Conservative magazine and freelance journalist Evan Riggs are joined by Fleur Elizabeth Meston, a researcher at Orthodox Conservatives, writer for The Critic and political commentator with the Bombshells podcast ---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to ou…

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Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022) 1:00:37

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This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel (Edinburgh UP, 2022) pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated…

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Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016) 39:50

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Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures (UP of Mississippi, 2016) examines this trend by taking up philosopher Um…

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Axe the Tax! Why do WE FUND the BBC & Pressure Groups that HATE US? £800k to Decolonise RL Stevenson 34:35

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University researchers have been awarded £800,000 to "decolonise" Robert Louis Stevenson's class work "Treasure Island". To discuss this and the wider issue of tax-payer funded, anti-British lobby groups, we are joined by Elliot Keck, Campaign Manager for The Tax Payers' Alliance: https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/ #NCFWhittle---------------SUBSCRI…

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Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023) 49:11

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Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic (Rutgers UP, 2023) reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite similar to the stories they tell. Perfec…

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Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:00:00

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Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past,' Drawing from the Archives considers comics memory in the contemporary North American graphic novel. Cartoonists such as Chris Ware, Seth, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, and others have not only produced some of the most important graphic novels, they have also turned …

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Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation 39:17

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Half of the human population undergoes the menstrual cycle for a significant proportion of their lifetimes, yet periods remain a taboo topic in public and private life. And that makes it harder both to prioritise necessary scientific research into conditions like endometriosis and for people to understand the basics of how their bodies work. Blood:…

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"Arrest me!" JK Rowling v Hamza Yousaf. Could Scotland's Hate Speech Law Bring Down the Government? 40:16

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On today's episode of #NCFNewspeak NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, London mayoral candidate Amy Gallagher, and historian and author Charles Coulombe discuss:* Three year anniversary of the Batley teacher going into hiding after showing his class pictures of Mohammed* JK Rowling takes on the SNP after the Scottish Parli…

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Men Need Their Own Spaces. Cucks, Cockwombles & How the Right Should Fight Back 56:59

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On today's Deprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt of the European Conservative magazine & freelance journalist Evan Riggs are joined by writer and columnist Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor and podcast critic for The Critic.---------------SUBSCRIBE:If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath…

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Adele Oliver, "Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill" (404 Ink, 2023) 48:10

2M ago48:10

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Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill (404 Ink, 2023) by Adèle Oliver shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught relationship with the British legal system. Intervening on current discourse steeped in anti-Blackness and moral panic, this Inkling ‘deeps’ how the criminalisation of UK drill cannot be disentangled fro…

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Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:06:57

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Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to service members. Begi…

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Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 38:22

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How is comedy hostile to women? In Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities (Bloomsbury, 2023), Ellie Tomsett, a Senior Lecturer in media and film at Birmingham City University, explores the reality of a comedy industry that, despite many changes, still has a sexism problem. The book draws on a hug…

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Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023) 48:55

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In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as…

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