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JAMES WALSH recommends the left-wing podcast Trashfuture for politics and nerdy wit that goes beyond the mainstream
Trashfuture is at the nexus of popular tech critical, economics and politics podcasts which aren’t afraid of a bit of dialectic materialism [Author supplied]

Trashfuture
Backyard Comedy Club
https://www.trashfuture.co.uk

 

I AM in the only room left in Britain where the mention of Matt Hancock gets a cheer.

I’m not at a masochistic Tory fringe event, or at the disastrous former minister’s birthday party. Instead, I’m at a sold out live recording of a left-wing podcast, with many thousands more primed to listen online.

Trashfuture’s preposterous, ironic love of “human labrador” Matt Hancock is one of the many in-jokes that makes it feel like a community or club, the secret of all successful gangs.

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