Episodes

  • ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction

    ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction
    Dec 21 2025
    After a Trip episode about the meaning of mainstream, this time the gang go deeper into ‘Mainstream’ – that is, the new soft-left faction inside Labour. Yes, a festive episode about the inner workings of a political party! Don’t say we don’t spoil you. Jem, Nadia and Keir explain the emergence of Mainstream’s ‘radical realists’ […]
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream

    ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream
    Dec 7 2025
    Jem, Nadia and Keir debate the meaning of ‘mainstream’ – something none of them could ever possibly be, of course. Is ‘woke’ the new mainstream? Can there be a mainstream if we don’t all have access to the same culture? Is Tommy Robinson shifting the Overton Window? Why is nonconformity associated with coolness? And who engineers […]
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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?

    ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?
    Nov 2 2025
    After last week’s episode on Parties, this time ACFM exposes the predicament facing Your Party, the new leftwing faction led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn. What expectations do leftwing voters have for Your Party? Does the Corbyn faction distrust the membership? Is Zarah a politician or a poster? And does ‘Yorp’ stand a chance […]
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • ACFM Trip 55: Parties

    ACFM Trip 55: Parties
    Oct 19 2025
    Amid the bumpy launch of a new left-wing party and the rise of the Greens and Reform, the ACFM crew turn their attention to parties. Do we still need them? Do parties work by drawing people together, or by excluding the uninvited? And should a political party have anything in common with a dance party? […]
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi

    ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi
    Sep 28 2025
    After last week’s ACFM Trip to the Future, Jem and Keir reconvene to talk about science fiction. Is sci-fi a reaction to the “time-space compression” of the present? Is it inherently progressive? How did dystopian and paranoids visions of the future come to dominate sci-fi? Was Arthur C. Clarke an early acid communist? Find all […]
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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • ACFM Trip 54: The Future

    ACFM Trip 54: The Future
    Sep 21 2025
    What if we stopped treating the future like a speculative asset and started trying to actually build and prepare? The ACFM gang look to the horizon in this Trip episode. Did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? […]
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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: Gardening

    ACFM Microdose: Gardening
    Aug 31 2025
    Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening, from the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain. Find the books, music and Dunmore Pineapple mentioned in the show: https://novara.media/acfm Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support
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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • ACFM Trip 53: Growth

    ACFM Trip 53: Growth
    Aug 3 2025
    Keir Starmer claims that growth is the only cure for a country in decline. But why is it the central obsession of modern capitalist economies? And can we think our way out of it before our planet runs out of resources? Nadia, Keir and Jem offer their weird-left take on growth, degrowth, radical abundance, ecomodernism […]
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    1 hr and 22 mins