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Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune.
In the latest episode, Grace talks to Sam Moore, co-author of The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right, about how the climate crisis is being weaponised by reactionaries – and how the left should respond.
From record rents to punitive tax hikes and skyrocketing student loan rates, Britain’s elite is forcing young people to pay the cost for economic crisis – and it won’t stop until they organise to fight back.
Grace talks to Kojo Koram, who teaches in the School of Law at Birkbeck College, about who benefitted from the days of Britain’s formal empire, how imperialism continues to this day, and why the right are so keen to keep the culture wars alive.
The cost of living crisis is causing the biggest fall in living standards in decades – and the only way to turn the tide is to fight for wage increases across the economy.
On this week’s podcast, Grace talks to Sumi Rabindrakumar of the Trussell Trust about the roots of the cost of living crisis, who’s being worst hit, and what could be done to tackle it.
Landlords raised rents by the highest percentage ever in 2021. More than 1,200 people died while homeless in the same year. It’s time for tenants to organise – and take back housing from the profiteers.
This week, Grace chats to David Wearing, author of ‘AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain’, about Boris Johnson’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE – and how the energy crisis will transform world politics.
Rising inflation is driving the cost of living crisis, but it isn’t an act of God. It’s the result of policy decisions that favour the rich — and socialists need to have an alternative.
This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, look ahead to the Chancellor’s spring statement – which looks set to contain very few of the measures needed to tackle the cost of living crisis.
This week, Grace speaks to Gary Stevenson of Gary’s Economics about the cost of living crisis – where’s it coming from, who’s paying for it, and what can we do about it.
Rising prices and stagnant wages are pushing millions of workers towards poverty – but, as usual, corporate giants are profiting from the chaos.
This week Grace talks to author and academic Susanne Soederberg about the class roots of the global housing crisis, and about resistance to the cycle of debt, eviction, and homelessness.
This week, Grace talks to Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam, about why inequality increased so much during Covid, how it’s affecting our democracies, and what we need to do about it.
Western sanctions that drive ordinary Russians into poverty would be both wrong and ineffective – it’s time to hit Putin’s real base of power: Russia’s 500 richest oligarchs.
Over one million workers in Britain are now on zero-hour contracts. Their proliferation has never been about ‘flexibility’ – it’s about keeping workers insecure and wages low.
This week, Grace talks to Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, about why the government is trying to take away firefighters’ right to strike – and how FBU members are organising to resist.
After a decade of stagnant wages, rising inflation is threatening to drive millions towards the breadline. Forget what the establishment says – it’s time to demand higher wages.
This week, Grace talks to writer and filmmaker Rupert Russell about how apparently random movements in prices, often driven by speculation in the Global North, create tectonic shifts that multiply around the world.
This week, Grace speaks with author Laurie Penny about the resurgence of gendered violence, building a culture of consent, and how women can organise to resist oppression.
Today’s right-wingers are hoping to solve the inflation crisis like they did in the 1970s: through hiking interest rates and suppressing wages. That’s how economists wage class war.