164 / 11th June 2017

THING: Hung Parliament 
QUESTION: What's next?

CONTAINS: The Schadenfreude Olympics, how the Tories accidentally followed through, The Corbyn Boys singing ‘Go Left’, and one demented fascist grandma

LINKS: UK election 2017: Conservatives lose majority / THE LEFTOVERS - Season 1 | Full TRAILER | HD / Furious 7 - Official Trailer (HD) / A Different Country by Richard Seymour / Corbyn Won Because Hope Turned the Unthinkable Into Reality /
All Worked Up and Nowhere to Go The ever more futile politics of left protest / Where We Go From Here by Richard Seymour /

163 / 4th June 2017

THING: The Kraken Manifesto
QUESTION: How would you win the election?

CONTAINS: The Airbnb fascism filter, delays on the Maginot Line, the Libertines' new smackhead, and how to pull hope from the jaws of defeat

LINKS: General election 2017: The non-Brit's guide to the UK election / THE LABOUR PARTY MANIFESTO 2017 A manifesto for a better, fairer Britain. / 1000 Manifesto List / How to Win an Election Op-Docs By SARAH KLEIN and TOM MASON  / London Graphic Novel Network Book Club / Not Just about Being Cool / Crows / What's the dividing line between humans and animals? / The Left, Corbyn and Labour’s Future: An Interview with Alex Nunns

161 / 21st May 2017

THING: The Malt-right
QUESTION: Is genocide the new counter-culture?

CONTAINS: Alliot and the far-right gentlemen's drinking club, how logic and reason don't extend to climate science, the paradox of a virgin's fear of cuckoldry, and booting our guest to the murder staircase

LINKS: Whisky / What Is The ‘Alt-Right’? / ASSHOLES ARE LIKE OPINIONS, EVERYONE’S GOT ONE, AND EVERYONE’S IS JUST HIS OPINION / Charles Murray AUTHOR OF THE BELL CURVE; SCHOLAR AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE /

159 / 30th April 2017

THING: UK Snap Election 2017
QUESTION: Is Tim Farron a sin?

CONTAINS: Borges’ “Snap Election of Babylon”, sleeping with people with tie-dye sheets, the incoming reign of Mad King Charles, and Kraken standing for MP

LINKS: BBC Election 2017  / THE HANDMAIDEN Trailer (PARK CHAN-WOOK - 2016) / The Lottery in Babylon / How the Election Fraud Scandal Could Destroy the Tory Party / Why Tim Farron’s Record on Gay Marriage Matters / General Election Most Seats Betting Odds / What Corbyn Already Won TOM MUNDAY

157 / 16th April 2017

THING: Nationalism
QUESTION: What are you so proud of?

CONTAINS: Dishonourable discharges, the end of the British union, the drunk Telegraph admirals in the cupboard, and being conscripted into the Great Gibraltar Monkey War

LINKS: Nationalism / Crabs / Chinchilla / Brexit: Lord Howard accused of 'sabre-rattling' over Gibraltar / Gibraltar row: Spanish warship disrupts British Navy training / The problem of patriotism and the left

155 / 2nd April 2017

THING: Marxism
QUESTION: Nothing but chains?

CONTAINS: Richard Barbrook, in defence of Labour's digital comms, the boring day after the revolution, and being a Never Flush

LINKS: Dr Richard Barbrook / Corbyn promises to 'democratise the internet' - Politics live / Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village / Class Wargames / Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey / Marxism lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 1/8 / Karl Marx Early Writings / Karl Kautsky

153 / 19th March 2017

THING: UKIP
QUESTION: Will any English revolution always be reactionary?

CONTAINS: Richard Seymour, the rise of the spiteful class, analysing Nigel Farage's victory love-making, and the real meaning of bronies

LINKS: LENIN'S TOMB / Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour / Salvage / The UKIPisation of English politics by Richard Seymour / Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit / Logan | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX / It's the Beginning of the End For Ukip by Sam Kriss / This isn’t the end of Ukip; it’s just the beginning / Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase / NEW BOOK: Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman / A Radical History of Britain. Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries: the Men and Women who Fought for Our Freedoms

151 / 5th March 2017

THING: The February Revolution
QUESTION: What do you think will happen next?

CONTAINS: The first ever broadcast of the Kraken Radio Hour in 1917, taking in the shocking news from Russia, the Hairless Ball motif in the history of class struggle, Karl Marx’s big thatch nappy, and the pegging of the British Empire

LINKS: February Revolution / The Art Story Dada / Fascism: Origins and Ideology / Deny the British empire's crimes? No, we ignore them George Monbiot  / The Russian Revolution and Britain, 1917-1928 / A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 /

148 / 12th Feb 2017

THING: 1984
QUESTION: Do you love Big Brother?

CONTAINS: NadSac the Sun columnist, the second sequel to 1984 after 1985, who'd be the best manager of the murder machine, and how Bernie woulda won the battle but lost the war

LINKS: Nineteen Eighty-Four / Rooftoppers By Katherine Rundell / THE KING OF COMEDY - Trailer ( 1982 ) / THE WANSTEAD TAP / Classic Novel '1984' Sales Are Up In The Era Of 'Alternative Facts' / A colossal waste of time 1985 — Anthony Burgess / George Orwell Review of “WE” by E. I. Zamyatin / 1984 vs Brave New World / The Bottomless, Fiendish Stupidity of the Horseshoe / Why can’t he be loved? Benjamin Kunkel

147 / 5th Feb 2017

THING: Free Speech
QUESTION: What would you censor?

CONTAINS: Robert Sharp, the Queen's relation to George Michael, divorcing Cecil Rhodes, and Hate Speech, Actually

LINKS: American Civil Liberties Union / Free Speech / Censorship  / Robert Sharp / English Pen / Paul Auster’s City of Glass / The Good Shabti - a Shirley Jackson Award finalist! / The Djinn Falls in Love / Nardwuar the Human Serviette / "In the mouth of madness" trailer / Why is Cecil Rhodes such a controversial figure? / Matthew Perry debates drug courts with Peter Hitchens - BBC Newsnight / Italy's Supreme Court rules public masturbation not a crime

145 / 22th Jan 2017

THING: Protests
QUESTION: What will you fight for?

CONTAINS: Protests versus marches versus riots, why Joel is an under-cover horse, Ian's Battle for Chicken at Cable Street, and Mazin's rendezvous with Tony Blair in a toilet cubicle

LINKS: Guardian Protests / Women's March / 'Million' march against Iraq war / Occupy London / Battle of Cable Street, 1936 / As it happened: England riots day five / Anti-Fascist Network / Pacifism

138 / 27th Nov 2016

THING: Alex Jones
QUESTION: Have the globalists lost?

CONTAINS: Jack Frayne-Reid, the irony Bromanovs, taking our shirts off in anger, burning the wrong owls at Bohemian Grove, and how it's protocols all the way down 

LINKS: Alex Jones (radio host)) / THINKCEASE A myopic eye on our ailing human civilisation / Army of One Official Trailer #1 (2016) Nicolas Cage, Russell Brand Comedy Movie HD / Adrian Mole series / Rolling Stone Meet Alex Jones / Jon Ronson THEM: Adventures with Extremists / Alex Jones vs Piers Morgan On Gun Control - CNN 1/7/2013 / Alex Jones Explosive Andrew Neil Sunday Politics Bilderberg Interview / Alex Jones English Accent Classics / Ghostface Killah KILLS Martin Shkreli (Verbally, Politically, & Emotionally) / Piss Cameron

137 / 20th Nov 2016

THING: U.S. Presidential Election 2016
QUESTION: Is it the economy, stupid?

CONTAINS: The unfairly maligned policy of seppuku, the moustache of John Bolton versus the sock of Mitt Romney, the great racism and sexism bake-off, and choosing our desert to go and die in

LINKS:  Presidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins / What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters / Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there Thomas Frank / People are getting "empathy with Trump supporters" all wrong. It can't just mean the left has to empathise more with their economic struggle / The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished. What a joke. By Jim Newell / Vengeance Is Mine Chaos reigns…fascist stooge finds his balcony…the resistible rise of Donald Trump…bomb crater America finds its Dauphin…Hillary Clinton: 10.0 Richter scale failure….the pinko revolt begins….digging ourselves out of the collapsed gold mine…. by Dan O'Sullivan / RESIDENT CHUMPS by Jacob Bacharach / How you lost the world