#9: 'Feudalism 1; Art Students 0'

Revolutionary Despatches

Ninth episode of Revolutionary Despatches with Chris Wright and David Brian.

Recorded 2nd August 2018. Released 6th August 2018.

In this episode, we discuss:

- [00:00:29] Introduction, housekeeping and accidental art criticism

- [00:06:14] Brexit, again

- [00:24:38] The Trump-Russia scandal

- [00:42:47] Israel-Palestine and the new 'Nation State' law

- [00:59:42] Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

- [01:15:51] Violence in Northern Ireland, and a tangent on the US electoral college

- [01:30:22] A musical recommendation

Theme music is 'Autoantagonist' by hardcore band Regular Gonzales, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

Shownotes:

That scene from RENT (sorry for poor quality): (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMqxFfuSvW8&t=2s)

Patrick Maguire in the NS on DexEU [Soft Paywall]: (https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/07/dominic-raab-theresa-may-brexit-take-over-dexeu-negotiations)

Steve Richards on BBC R4 on the Cameron Years: (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m4wyx/episodes/player)

The FiveThirtyEight Podcast on the Trump-Russia Scandal: (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-four-theories-about-the-trump-russia-connection/)

Blake Hounsell in Politico on the Trump-Russia Scandal: (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/20/confession-of-a-no-longer-russiagate-skeptic-219022)

Benjamin Studebaker on US-Russian relations: (https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2018/07/20/why-every-president-tries-to-make-nice-with-russia-and-why-it-never-works/)

Benjamin Studebaker on the left of the Democratic Party: (https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2018/07/24/the-left-should-commandeer-red-state-democratic-parties/) Guardian Editorial on the Israeli 'Nation State' law: (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/22/the-guardian-view-on-israels-new-law-popular-will-is-being-weaponised)

Peter Beaumont in the Guardian on the EU's response to the Israeli 'Nation State' law: (https://tinyurl.com/y7ax89kt)

Ben Lynfield in the NS on the Israeli 'Nation State' law [Soft Paywall]: (https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2018/07/it-s-disgrace-israel-s-nation-state-law-leaves-liberal-democracy-behind)

Phil BC on Margaret Hodge: (http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2018/07/besmirching-labours-name.html)

BBC News on the Peter Willsman remarks: (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45014771)

YouGov polling on Anti-Semitism (apologies for partisan link, but it was the only place I could find the graphs): (https://tinyurl.com/y9hfgs6s)

Phil BC on Labour Anti-Semitism: (http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2018/07/labours-incompetent-handling-of-anti.html)

Owen Jones on Labour Anti-Semitism: (https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/labour-and-the-anti-semitism-saga-or-walking-and-chewing-gum-d0c6388aa661)

The New Statesman Podcast, for a different angle on Labour Anti-Semitism: (https://www.acast.com/newstatesman/laboursanti-semitismrow-part94-)

The Week on violence in Northern Ireland: (https://tinyurl.com/y6sg6er7)

Amanda Ferguson in the NS on violence in Northern Ireland [Soft Paywall]: (https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/northern-ireland/2018/07/brexit-changing-northern-ireland-s-direction-it-isn-t-heading-back)

Fedora-Smashing Militant Black Metal from Neckbeard Deathcamp: (https://neckbearddeathcamp.bandcamp.com/releases)

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