The Owen Jones Podcast

This whole saga is completely infuriating. Kate Clanchy is an author who piled on a reviewer who called out racist and bigoted passages in her book; Clanchy denied she'd written them (actually, she had, except she'd written "Ashkenazi nose" rather than "Jewish nose", which is if anything worse), and called on everyone to report the review. What happened next? Women of colour who spoke out about it - not least what it said about the publishing industry - were vilified and abused, while Clanchy was turned into a martyr.One of those women was the brilliant author Monisha Rajesh, who joins me to talk about the truth about what actually happened.Please subscribe - and help us take on the establishment media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh good grief. Nadine Dorries - who is actually a Cabinet minister, with actual power - keeps being wheeled out to TV studios to defend the indefensible, with catastrophic consequences. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry - but what on earth does this tell us about the behaviour of the people running the country, who apparently have no shame at all?Please subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

he Equalities and Human Rights Commission is supposed to be Britain's official equalities watchdog, but after u-turning on trans rights - after a series of Tory appointments and its former chair warning it was under political pressure to back the government agenda - it's been engulfed in scandal.Investigative work by journalist Ben Hunte has uncovered private meetings between the EHRC and anti-trans rights organisations, while whistleblowers have told him about an anti-LGBTQ culture at the organisation and a failure to recognise racism, leading to an exodus of staff. Ben Hunte joins us to tell us the details, and we're joined by trans commentator Katy Montgomerie to put it all into context.Plus: after author Kate Clanchy piled on a reviewer who pointed out racist and bigoted passages in her books - which she falsely claimed she hadn't written - the author has been turned into a martyr, while women of colour who spoke out about it - and the racism of the wider British publishing industry - have been vilified and dogpiled. We speak to celebrated author Monisha Rajesh who has been viciously trolled online over the saga to tell us the truth.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Despite overwhelming evidence of No. 10 parties, the Met refused to investigate them for weeks - until a last minute u-turn at just the right moment to sabotage the Sue Gray report. But is this behaviour really out of the ordinary for the Met?We're joined by Kevin Maxwell - a former Met police officer who detailed being abused for his race and sexuality in 'Forced Out' - and Alastair Morgan - the brother of Daniel Morgan, murdered in 1987 after investigating police corruption.Please subscribe - and help us take on the Establishment media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is this finally the end of Boris Johnson? As his polling collapses, Sue Gray's report looms and Tory MPs plot, could this be the week when the Prime Minister's hubris meets its nemesis? More broadly, what next for the Tories - and what of the politicians and pundits who made him Tory leader know exactly what and who he was?We're joined by Adam Bienkov, Chief Westminster Correspondent at Byline Times.With the Ukraine crisis escalating, we are joined live from Moscow by journalist Ilya Budraitskis and from Ukraine by journalist Volodymyr Ishchenko.And following Tory MP Christian Wakeford's defection to Labour, we're joined by Young Labour Chair Jess Barnard.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here:https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Boris Johnson's government is convulsed by scandal and crisis, could this be not just the end of him - but the end of the Conservative party, too? That's what Peter Oborne - a longstanding Conservative supporter - thinks is entirely possible.Please subscribe - and help us take on the Tory media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has any government been so convulsed by such a catastrophically damaging scandal since World War II? As continued revelations about rampant partying in No. 10 envelop Boris Johnson, is it finally all over for him? Will he bring the Tories down with him - or will a leadership change allow them reboot? Is Labour triumphalism justified?We're joined by Peter Oborne - author of The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism - and campaigner Matt Zarb Cousin.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Boris Johnson’s premiership is consumed in crisis after his repeated lies about multiple parties in No. 10, is it all over for him? Will he drag the Tories down with him? Are there even worse scandals? Will what comes next be even worse? Can’t imagine what that would look like? (We can).We are joined by Jolyon Maugham to explain how his Good Law Project successfully exposed the corruption of the government in the courts - and Ellie Mae O’Hagan to talk over what this all means.Please subscribe - and help us take us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the dictatorship of Kazakhstan violently cracks down on protesters, what's really going on? What's the role of inequality and poverty - and the broken promises of the free market? Just what is the nature of the governing tyranny - and with Russian intervention, what does this mean for global politics?Kazakh voices have been far too erased from this coverage. That's why we're talking to sociologist Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergenova to explain what caused this, what's happening on the ground - and what happens next.Please subscribe - and help us take on the Establishment media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Megastar actor Emma Watson has been falsely smeared as an anti-Semite by former Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon after posting a pro-Palestine message on Instagram. Here is a striking example of anti-Palestinian racism: of how even expressing mild sympathy with the plight of the Palestinians is portrayed as a grotesque act of hatred.This is just the latest attack on a public figure expressing sympathy with the Palestinian people - but is it overreach and a sign of weakness by apologists for Israeli occupation? Is this strategy succeeding in marginalising support for the Palestinians - or is support for Palestinian justice greater than ever? And what does it mean for combatting the very real and growing menace of antisemitism across the world?We're joined by Salem Barahmeh - Executive Director of Rābet by PIPD - live from Ramallah, Palestine; and Em Hilton - co-founder of Na'amod: British Jews Against Occupation.Also: after the 'Colston 4' are cleared by a jury of criminal damage for their part in toppling the statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol, we are joined by one of the vindicated live.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.