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The whole gang is back together for a quick catch-up and a dive into what each has been reading. Glen brings us on a culinary trip through the history of Ireland via Margaret Hickey's Ireland's Green Larder., Helen finds God in John Dominic Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, and Matt disproves the labour theory of value through the divine power of tunes in Jacques Attali's Noise: A Political Economy of Music. Support the Show.

Helen’s on holiday this week but Glen and Matt bravely soldier on without them, as the news isn’t going to react to itself. Tune in to the world’s only male-exclusive podcast as we perform our semi-regular temperature check on the state of Western civilisation. The U.K. is having an election, the U.S. is entering a home, and Germany’s brain is unfortunately gone totally kaput. We also talk about Ireland recognising Palestine and the reactions to the ICC potentially issuing arrest warrant...

During the middle of the 20th century, the Third World movement represented the desires of billions for agency and justice. As the old colonial empires collapsed and new power structures were emerging, there was a brief moment of hope for a world in which the Global South stood strong, united and liberated. This was until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the solidification of US-led liberal capitalist democracy as the dominant global system seemed to put an end to these hopes....

What happens when scions, aristos, tycoons, speculators, moguls and tech gets thrown into a blender? We’re living it.In this episode of Casement’s Leftovers; Helen, Matt and Glen come together to chat Techno-feudalism. When so many of the global hyper rich are treated like deities and given unprecedented access to policy and power, can the serfs push back? What organisational strategies have worked in the past? Is blowing the taxi driver a way of avoiding the sticky fingers of capital? And wh...

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With an almighty Helen-shaped hole to fill, Glen and Matt recruit culture journalist Gary Grimes for a Boys Only episode on Pitchfork, and the culture media landscape in general. We talk lay-offs, the devaluing of culture writing, the changing tide of popular music, the artifice of celebrity, the cancer of fake authenticity, Stan culture, and the future of music & culture journalism. Do people even read articles anymore? How do you get a celeb to agree to an interview? And – obviously – w...