Starmer Revisited – Where Did It All Go Wrong? The bonus episode is out now! As Starmer steps down and Andy Burnham steps up, @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social perform the autopsy. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

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The season 9 Patreon exclusive Q&A episode with @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social is out now! www.patreon.com/originstoryp...

The Luddites’ arch-nemesis would have been all over social media if he was alive today. Probably posting every day about how great AI is. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts via linktr.ee/originstoryp... #luddites #ai #podcast #history #technology

The Luddites are the subject of our season finale. The spectre of AI coming for our jobs makes Luddite rebellion feel surprisingly relevant today. Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social as they search for the true history of the Luddites. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

⚠️ We’ve got a special between-seasons Q&A episode coming up for Patreons with @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social answering YOUR questions. ⚠️ Post yours on Patreon www.patreon.com/originstoryp... or email to [email protected]

❓It's Q&A time! If you support us on Patreon you can send in your questions on season 9 for @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social now ➡️ www.patreon.com/originstoryp...

He created Sherlock Holmes, the ultra-rational detective, but Arthur Conan Doyle believed in the supernatural and investigated poltergeists. Listen to the full episode on the history of paranormal investigations via linktr.ee/originstoryp... #paranormal #originstory #podcast #sherlockholmes

Yesssssss. The episode I’ve been waiting for!!! Thanks lads.

A friend recommended this podcast on think tanks to me. I was sceptical: I’m not a giant fan of most podcasts (I’m normally too impatient to listen through) and this subject was not one that instantly grabbed me. But it was fascinating and I listened to both episodes back 2 back: recommended.

Paranormal Investigations – a thrilling story of faith, doubt and fraud. From Arthur Conan Doyle to The Conjuring via Ghostbusters with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🎟️ NOW ON SALE! 🎟️ Come to Origin Story’s BIGGEST live show yet at London’s Union Chapel on Tue 1 Sept. 🎟️ Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social for an unmissable night of high-end political chat, analysis and exasperation. 🎟️ Tickets on sale now – www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/origin...

🧠 New episode out 🧠 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social conclude their look at think tanks. What's happening in Tufton St? How has Trump affected US think tanks? Ultimately, how influential are think tanks really? Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🧠 New episode out – Think tanks 🧠 Are they vehicles for the political agendas of right-wing billionaires or do they provide bold new ideas, independent of political parties? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social bring you their report.
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⛪ New episode out ⛪ @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social continue the story of evangelical Christianity. Has evangelicalism today betrayed its roots in its quest for political power? Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

⛪ New episode out 📺 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the fascinating story of evangelical Christianity and how it became the dominant American religion, influencing not just spiritual life but politics too. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

How did J.K. Rowling's gender-critical beliefs become her defining issue? @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social continue her story in part two this week. Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The trans rights debate is the first civil rights debate to play out on social media. We’re not convinced this is a good idea. J.K. Rowling part one is out now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp... @iandunt.bsky.social | @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

How did J.K. Rowling go from the world's most beloved author to its most divisive? In this week's episode @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social ask what Rowling’s early life can tell us about the path she has taken over the last decade. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🇪🇺New episode🇪🇺 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of European union, taking in German reunification, the Euro, Brexit and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Is Europe rediscovering its purpose in hard times? Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

New episode out – @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social continue the story of European union. Join them for a heady mix of economic expansion and political stagnation. Take a trip back in time to when Britain said "Yes!" to Europe. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

100 years ago today the General Strike began. Why not learn all about it in 81 minutes? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

European Union was a way of replacing Nazism. It is one of the most ambitious projects in the history of man. Listen to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social tell its story in episode 1 now! linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Season 9 has begun! @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social start with the story of European Union. How did war and peace turn utopian dreams into political reality? Stream part 1 now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Catch up on @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's live show from last week at Bloomsbury Theatre. This will be the last bonus episode before season 9 starts next week! Listen / watch ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Look at this elite luxury behaviour. Five stars.

We aim to please!

Showtime T minus 90 minutes, doors 6.45 and the exclusive merchandise is here! #OriginStoryLive

A reminder for Patreon supporters to join us for the live stream of tonight's show at the Bloomsbury theatre in London. Show time is 19.30. Details in the link ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

New episode out – this time @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social are discussing the general strike of 1926, the most important industrial dispute in British history. What really happened and did it really change Britain? Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

New episode out – Introvert / Extrovert Humans love to categorise things and there is nothing they like categorising more than themselves. Join @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for the origin story of these ubiquitous terms. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Dorian plays a rare away fixture on our partnerpod The Bunker.

Stephen Miller is the advisor behind many of Trump's most divisive policies. For @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social finding out more about him is like discovering a Moriarty figure. Listen / watch the full episode ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🧌 New episode out 🧌 To understand the Trump administration, you need to understand Stephen Miller. @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social are here to accompany you on this treacherous journey. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

⏲️ New episode out 🌆 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are back with a bonus episode on 15-Minute Cities. How did such a sensible and benign approach to urban planning give birth to a wild conspiracy theory about authoritarianism? Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Dana-nana-nana-nana-GLASMAN! @dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't. Listen to the episode on Blue Labour ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

People have been obsessed with Morgan McSweeney McSweeney had been a shadowy and mysterious figure at No.10. Listen to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's episode on Blue Labour - a movement that McSweeney has been linked to. 🎧 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

At last @originstorypodcast.bsky.social does Maurice Glasman. @iandunt.bsky.social "Just fucking batshit" sums it up megaphone.link/NSR7414660134

🚨 BONUS EDITION 🚨 The mystery of #BlueLabour – What is it, where did it come from… and is Maurice Glasman’s brainchild as powerful as it wants us to think? 🎙️ @dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social tide you over between seasons with this special edition 📳 Listen linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The Terminator ruined people’s confidence in communism When VHS tapes arrived in Russia in the 1980s, the difference in material circumstances between America and Russia was laid bare by a homicidal cyborg. Listen to the full episode on the fall of the USSR now ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The finale is out! Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social as they wrap up their epic season on socialism. Listen now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Populism's mystery expressed in a line. Boris Yeltsin could do no wrong in the eyes of his supporters and it baffled Mikhail Gorbachev. Listen to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's episode on the fall of the USSR now ⬇ linktr.ee/originstoryp... #communism #politics #populism

New episode out: The Fall of the USSR Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social to see how the USSR unraveled. What did this do to the hopes of socialists around the world? And how do the events of 1985-91 still shape the world today? Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The leaders of Cuba during the 1960s, including Che Guevara, did not shy away from the possibility of nuclear war. Listen to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's episode on Che here ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

New episode out! @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss revolutionary icon Che Guevara. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Welcome to the second Origin Story episode of the week as @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of the New Left. Listen to Part Two: Children of the Revolution here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social discuss how the biggest left wing organisation in decades, The SDS destroyed itself at its final convention in Chicago on June 1969. Listen to the full discussion 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #newleft #leftist #podcasts #originstory #politics #thesds

Why do some dictatorships fall? @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss in the latest episode of Origin Story: The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revolution 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #originstory #gramsci #politics #podcast #history #thenewleft

As promised, an extra episode this week. The protest explosion of 1968, revolution goes pop, and the New Left splinters in the chaotic 70s. Plus, how Gramsci became the go-to Marxist theorist and how the New Left shaped the left to this day

Welcome to the second Origin Story episode of the week as @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of the New Left. Listen to Part Two: Children of the Revolution here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history