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Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now 2 min
Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now
2 min · In this Viewsnight, anthropologist Jason Hickel asks if economic growth really makes our lives better. He is the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions.
British Diplomat Argues for Gentle Revolution to Anarchism 2 min
British Diplomat Argues for Gentle Revolution to Anarchism
2 min · Former British diplomat Carne Ross argues that representative democracy and capitalism are broken and that the only alternative is anarchism.
Meet The Protectors Who Built a Fortified Camp to Stop Oil Drilling 12 min
Meet The Protectors Who Built a Fortified Camp to Stop Oil Drilling
12 min · Oil companies estimate that 100 billion barrels of oil lie beneath the south of England. But a new breed of activists is opposing any drilling. Claire Marshall has been living with some...
Meet the Farmer Saving Cows From the Slaughterhouse 2 min
Meet the Farmer Saving Cows From the Slaughterhouse
2 min · When his father died in 2011, Jay Wilde took responsibility of running the family farm. For years he has been concerned about the welfare of his cows and the environmental impact of beef...
Watch a Thumbnail-Sized Spider Build a 25 Meter Bridge 4 min
Watch a Thumbnail-Sized Spider Build a 25 Meter Bridge
4 min · Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider...
Kate Tempest Pleads with Us to Wake Up and Love More 2 min
Kate Tempest Pleads with Us to Wake Up and Love More
2 min · Acclaimed poet Kate Tempest performs her powerful work 'Tunnel Vision' on BBC's Newsnight.
The Scottish Start-Up Making Roads with Waste Plastic 3 min
The Scottish Start-Up Making Roads with Waste Plastic
3 min · Engineer Toby McCartney explains how his Scottish start-up MacRebur is persuading councils to use local waste plastic to build roads. Two English councils have already started building...
Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit Negotiations: "How Can These Smart People be so Deluded" 6 min
Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit Negotiations: "How Can These Smart People be so Deluded"
6 min · Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, resigned back in 2015 at the height of the crisis there. He has now written a book about the whole experience, Adults in the Room - and...
Turkey's Story Tells the World Just How Fragile Democracy Is 2 min
Turkey's Story Tells the World Just How Fragile Democracy Is
2 min · Writer Elif Shafak argues that Turkey has declined into authoritarianism - and there are lessons to be learnt for the rest of the world. Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and...
The Rise of the Postmodern Politician 3 min
The Rise of the Postmodern Politician
3 min · Is Donald Trump a postmodern president? In this opinion piece, journalist and writer Peter Pomerantsev argues that President Trump and President Putin share a disdain for facts - and...
Fear-Mongers Are More Dangerous Than Terrorists 2 min
Fear-Mongers Are More Dangerous Than Terrorists
2 min · Historian and academic Yuval Noah Harari says overreacting to terrorism is a bigger threat to peace than terrorism itself.
Comedian Sums Up "War on Terror" Perfectly 1 min
Comedian Sums Up "War on Terror" Perfectly
1 min · Comedian Steve Hughes explains why the 'War on Terror' is a joke.
Commonly Asked Questions Answered By Refugees 6 min
Commonly Asked Questions Answered By Refugees
6 min · From being asked whether you arrived in the UK on a lorry, or whether you thought about going somewhere else, to the questions about what it's like to be... questioned. If you're a...
Footage From Planet Earth is the Most Amazing Chase Scene You'll See All Year 2 min
Footage From Planet Earth is the Most Amazing Chase Scene You'll See All Year
2 min · For racer snakes, the emergence of marine iguana hatchlings is a feeding bonanza.
Bonobo Starts Fires, Cooks His Own Food, and Knows 3,000 English Words 2 min
Bonobo Starts Fires, Cooks His Own Food, and Knows 3,000 English Words
2 min · A bonobo ape has learned how to start fires, cook his own food, put them out, and much, much more...
Extraordinary Film Turns Your Phone into a Refugee's Phone 3 min
Extraordinary Film Turns Your Phone into a Refugee's Phone
3 min · If you had to flee your country, what’s the one piece of technology you would take with you?
Civil Disobedience Will Always Be Necessary to Counter Unjust Laws 2 min
Civil Disobedience Will Always Be Necessary to Counter Unjust Laws
2 min · A just society has fair laws. But most societies aren't like that. So what can you do? The opponent of slavery, Henry David Thoreau, gave one answer in his essay 'On Civil Disobedience'...
Creating a Just Society May Require a Veil of Ignorance 2 min
Creating a Just Society May Require a Veil of Ignorance
2 min · What’s your blueprint for a just society? Your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in. If you’re rich, you may well be in favour of the freedom to...
Exodus: The Moment My Dinghy Sank in the Med 6 min
Exodus: The Moment My Dinghy Sank in the Med
6 min · Powerful footage, filmed by a refugee, shows the terror of being on an overcrowded rubber dinghy as it sinks during the crossing between Turkey and Greece. Thousands of people have died...
This Is My Body: A Formal Introduction 2 min
This Is My Body: A Formal Introduction
2 min · This is my body is a spoken word piece by Agnes Torok, a commentary on people judging, grabbing and commenting on her body. She talks about the all the incredible things she can do with...
Puppy Farms Exposed - Clear Reasons Why You Should Adopt, Not Buy 2 min
Puppy Farms Exposed - Clear Reasons Why You Should Adopt, Not Buy
2 min · BBC Panorama investigates the ruthless world of the dog trade. Using secret filming they have uncovered some shocking truths about where and how these animals are being bred - including...
Happiness is Not a Marketing Exercise 2 min
Happiness is Not a Marketing Exercise
2 min · March 20th is International Happiness Day (yes, this really is a thing). We're celebrating with spoken word artist Agnes Török who's looking for happiness with a capital H in this new...
Road to the White House Explained 2 min
Road to the White House Explained
2 min · Iowa is just the first of many caucus states and primaries on the long road to the White House. It's part of a complex vetting process as candidates try to win their party's nomination...
'I Am Not De Problem': Benjamin Zephaniah on Modern Racism 7 min
'I Am Not De Problem': Benjamin Zephaniah on Modern Racism
7 min · 50 years after the introduction of the Race Relations Act, Benjamin Zephaniah looks at whether racism in the UK has diminished, or just evolved.
In Exclusive Interview Shaker Aamer Talks About His Torture, Years in Guantanamo and Release 14 Years Later 94 min
In Exclusive Interview Shaker Aamer Talks About His Torture, Years in Guantanamo and Release 14 Years Later
94 min · Shaker Aamer was the last British resident of Guantanamo Bay. Speaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, he describes what it was like to be held without trial for nearly 14 years.
Run The Jewels on Ferguson: Riots Work 3 min
Run The Jewels on Ferguson: Riots Work
3 min · A year after the death of Mike Brown, 2014's most critically acclaimed rap group Run the Jewels took over the BBC to examine if the Ferguson riots made any difference. Outspoken on...
Take Up Space - A Clarion Call to All Women from Poet Vanessa Kisuule 5 min
Take Up Space - A Clarion Call to All Women from Poet Vanessa Kisuule
5 min · Vanessa Kisuule calls on all women, whatever their age, creed or class, to stop shrinking themselves, and instead, take up space!
Things Not to Say to a Trans Person 8 min
Things Not to Say to a Trans Person
8 min · BBC Free Speech got together some people from the transgender community to pick out questions they often hear. We asked, so you don't have to!
Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain? 2 min
Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?
2 min · Perhaps you should; because they certainly are. But will the changes mean generations plagued with attention disorders and poor social skills or will it boost creativity?
Karl Marx on Alienation 2 min
Karl Marx on Alienation
2 min · Karl Marx believed that work, at its best, is what makes us human. It allows us to live, be creative and flourish. But under capitalism he saw workers alienated from each other and the...
Jews And Arabs Refuse To Be Enemies 2 min
Jews And Arabs Refuse To Be Enemies
2 min · As millions go online to share information about the Gaza conflict, a social media campaign calling for tolerance is building.
See These Rare Photos Of Remote Tribes Before They Disappear 3 min
See These Rare Photos Of Remote Tribes Before They Disappear
3 min · It took over four years for photographer Jimmy Nelson to document 29 cultures and tribes at risk of disappearing from their remote corners of the world. He set out to "celebrate the...
The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand 11 min
The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand
11 min · Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman engages Russell Brand about voting, apathy, revolution and beards... and it's the most utterly fantastic clash between the old paradigm and the new paradigm...
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