New Economics Podcast

New Economics Podcast is a politically engaged show about the economy as a system of choices, not a force of nature. It sits where public policy, democratic rights, inequality, and political communication meet. The show’s recent run moves quickly across the pressure points of UK and international politics. It questions digital ID cards, facial recognition, protest restrictions, jury-trial changes, and attempts to weaken human rights protections. It scrutinises budgets with attention to tax, benefits, public services, fiscal rules, landlords, investment portfolios, and the political pressure coming from the left. It treats AI less as a shiny consumer story than as a financial, labour, and public-infrastructure risk. The dot-com bubble comparison matters because the show is interested in what happens after hype becomes dependency. That same concern runs through its discussions of healthcare access, public contracts, and companies built on overconfident promises. The show is also alert to political storytelling. Episodes on online strategy ask why right-wing figures reach large audiences, why progressive campaigns often miss the people they need to persuade, and why policy and communication cannot be separated. Its democracy episodes are similarly practical. Organising, protest, institutional courage, and the failures of status-quo politics are treated as live questions rather than civics-class abstractions. The housing episodes bring the argument down to rents, wages, council homes, homelessness, and the erosion of social protection. The register is urgent but not chaotic. It uses news clips, pointed questions, and guest analysis to make big systems legible. Listeners get a show that is openly progressive, sharply critical of neoliberal assumptions, and grounded in the material conditions behind the day’s political theatre.