The billionaire class has captured the essentials. They own property, utilities, transport, energy – things we can’t live without – then charge us to use them. We have no choice, so they profit. In Britain, all our monopolies were sold…
Video by Barry’s Economics The video challenges the widely held belief that people only work under the threat of poverty, arguing instead that financial pressure erodes the mental capacity needed to act. It draws on Bruce Alexander’s rat experiments, which…
Video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Jeremy Corbyn joins Zack Polanski to discuss the Gaza Tribunal, a book-length project modelled on the Russell Tribunal that gathered expert testimony on Britain’s role in the conflict. Corbyn argues that Britain is…
Video by The Linux Experiment The speaker argues that Linux, at 35, has become a mainstream option across nearly every computing category, even if it has not technically won any. He defines winning as relevance: something people actually consider for…
Video by The Tech Report Ed Zitron argues that OpenAI is being crushed by the gap between its promises and its actual trajectory. The company has roughly $800 billion in commitments to Oracle, Cohere, Cerebras, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, yet…
Video by ExplainingComputers The presenter argues that moving from Windows to Linux requires accepting a “lose to win” tradeoff, where some familiar capabilities will degrade in exchange for benefits like open-source software and greater control. The central challenge is software…
Video by Michael Horn The video reframes Linux not as an operating system but as a kernel, the layer that takes control of hardware once the bootloader hands it over. On top of that kernel sits the GNU system, a…
Video by Novara Media In a wide-ranging conversation, Ash Sarkar and Ta-Nehisi Coates open with a playful contest over which country has exported more racism, with Coates arguing that America has outdone its British origins through sheer scale and cultural…
Video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel Ralph Nader argues that the collapse of American democracy is rooted in a deliberate shift by the mass media, especially the New York Times, away from covering grassroots civic movements. He traces this…
Video by Owen Jones Ha-Joon Chang argues that the four-decade neoliberal experiment has failed on its own terms. Growth has actually fallen compared with the more regulated capitalism of the mid-twentieth century, inequality has ballooned without the promised trickling down,…