Crash Course With Michael Walker Michael Walker

I've been wanting to get more ideological diversity and productive disagreement on Crash Course, and so I was pleased when Albie Amankona agreed to come on for an interview. Albie is a regular commentator on GB News, and vice chair of LGBT Conservatives. We discussed the council election results, how he became a conservative, the legacy of austerity, and whether he thinks his party is intentionally stoking a culture war.
To listen to the full interview sign up at patreon.com/crashcoursepod

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**This is a free preview of a longer paid episode. To sign up visit patreon.com/crashcoursepod**
Given the local and mayoral elections in England and Wales I've taken a break from my India series to look at politics closer to home. In this episode I speak to George Eaton from the New Statesman about the nature of "Starmerism" and what Labour would do if - as seems very likely - they get into power at the next general election.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

India's elections are the world's largest. But in a context in which Modi's political opponents are subject to arbitrary arrest, can we really call the country a democracy?
LSE Anthropologist Alpa Shah thinks we shouldn't, and in her new book 'The Incarcerations' she explains how the arrest of 16 intellectuals and activists symbolises India's slide into authoritarianism, and even fascism.
**This is a free preview of a paid episode. To listen to the full interview sign up at patreon.com/crashcoursepod**

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To mark India's general election, I'll be doing a few episodes on the politics and economics of the world's most populous nation. In this first interview, I speak to the Oxford historian Pratinav Anil about Modi's Hindu Nationalism, and how it came to dominate politics in India.
**This is a free preview of a paid episode. To listen to the full interview sign up at patreon.com/crashcoursepod**

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second part of my conversation with Vincent Bevins we discussed the arab spring and the fall of the Soviet Union. The conversation includes Vincent giving a really useful explanation of the rise and fall of the Egyptian revolution, and me making a tentative case for small-c conservatism.
**This is a free preview of a paid episode. To listen to all Crash Course episodes in full sign up at patreon.com/crashcoursepod**





Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vincent Bevins is one of my favourite authors - and a good friend of mine - so I knew when I got him sat down in a room our conversation good go on for a long time. I wasn't wrong. This is the first part of a three hour conversation where we discuss his latest book "If We Burn: The Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution" . In this episode I tell Vince my doubts about the protest movements I was part of in the early 2010s, and we take a deep dive look at protest movements in Brazil and Chile.
To listen to the full episode sign up at patreon.com/crashcoursepod

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.