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What historical lessons can we learn from the UK's one experience of a truly transformative progressive government?

In this emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert analyse the key speeches at this year's Labour Party conference from Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey. The official slogan of the conference was 'Hope Again.' Are we feeling it?

What makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, 'experts' on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything, and why does it matter? Why does the political right hate 'experts', and are they correct to do so? And what should radicals, socialists and democrats think about the role of 'intellectuals' in our movements?

What makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, 'experts' on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything, and why does it matter? Why does the political right hate 'experts', and are they correct to do so? And what should radicals, socialists and democrats think about the role of 'intellectuals' in our movements?

Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert explore the question of what counts as 'knowledge' or 'expertise' in our society, where the idea of 'the intellectual' came from, whether it has any relevance today, and what the point is of 'theory', 'analysis' or any other kind of knowledge of expertise.

Part 4.  What would it mean for a UK government to fully break with the history of neoliberalism?  In the final episode of a four-part mini-series, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert consider what it would mean for a UK government actually to break with the history of neoliberalism. What kind of economic policies, systems of government, media culture and […]

Why do some people say neoliberalism does’t exist? How did neoliberalism respond to the conditions of the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic? Is it still the ruling ideology of our age? And is neoliberalism always socially conservative?

Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert explore how neoliberalism went from being a set of obscure academic ideas to the governing philosophy of late twentieth-century capitalism

Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert explore the meaning and origins of 'neoliberalism'

In this episode Jeremy Gilbert talks to David Wilkinson about his article 'Mark E. Smith, Brexit Britain and the Aesthetics and Politics of the Working Class Weird' and his book Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain.

Part 2 of our interview with pioneer of feminist cultural studies, Angela McRobbie For notes, info and to support us: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/08/07/angela-mcrobbie-feminism-culture-politics-part-2/

An interview with pioneer of feminist cultural studies, Angela McRobbie. For notes, info and to give us support: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/08/07/angela-mcrobbie-feminism-culture-politics-part-1/

Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the beginning of the Andy Burnham premiership.

Do the universities have a future (and why does the tech sector hate them?)? For info, link and to support us: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/07/16/universities-in-crisis-part-1/

How have universities changed in the eras of Fordism, post-Fordism and Platform Capitalism? How has the intersection of this history with the politics of neoliberalism and financialisation brought the entire sector to the brink of catastrophe? For info, links and to support us: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/07/16/universities-in-crisis-part-2/