Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden

2025-11-11

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Investigative journalist Paul Holden has spent the last four years digging into the political machinations that brought Keir Starmer’s Labour Party into office – findings that propel his powerful 2025 book, The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together and the Crisis of British Democracy. He tells Ash Sarkar about the cache of leaked emails that revealed the […]

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Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden

Novara Media

Fler avsnitt från "Novara Media"

Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic

Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden

Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy

Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr

Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu

Downstream: What Really Changed on 7th October w/ Ahmed Alnaouq, Yara Eid and Tareq Baconi

ACFM Trip 55: Parties

Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill

Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis

Downstream: The Right Is Stirring up Anti-Muslim Hate – and It’s Getting Worse w/ Myriam François