Origin Story

Podmasters 126 - Section 28 – Anatomy of a Moral Panic

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Origin Story

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Section 28 – Anatomy of a Moral Panic

The Duke of Buckingham – How a queer love story predicted modern politics

Origin Story live show announcement!

Starmer Revisited – Where Did It All Go Wrong?

The Luddites – Rage Against the Machine

Paranormal Investigations – Is There Anybody Out There?

Think Tanks – Part Two – The Room Where It Happens

Think Tanks – Part One – What’s the Big Idea?

Evangelicals – Part Two – Good News, Bad News

Evangelicals – Part One – Altared States

J.K. Rowling – Part Two – Transparent

J.K. Rowling – Part One – Transformation

European Union – Part Three – The Expanse

European Union – Part Two – Reality Bites

European Union – Part One – Come Together

Origin Story – Live at Bloomsbury Theatre, 15th April 2026

The General Strike – The Revolution That Wasn’t

Introvert / Extrovert – In Two Minds

Stephen Miller – American Fascist

15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the Culture War

Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice

Socialism: The Finale – What’s Left?

The Fall of the USSR – End Game

Che Guevara – Guerrilla in the Mist

The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revolution

The New Left – Part One – Generation Next

Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov 2025

The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle After Another

The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace

The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British Socialism

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution

Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father

Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter

The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Possible

The British Chinese – Hidden generations

Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain

Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the Dictator

ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo

Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the dream

Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the Prize

Growth – GDP is the Magic Number

Mars – The Next Frontier?

Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal

Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup

Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America

Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines

Partition – Part One – Before Midnight

Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase