~Andy and Simon discuss Zohran Mamdani’s victory, which has energised much of the left even in Britain—but at regional level the purse is much tighter and vulnerable to the interference of greater power. This side of the pond, we’re seeing Reform UK implosions in Kent, Cornwall and Lancashire well before Nigel Farage gets a sniff of national power. Over in the activist scene meanwhile we’ve had a pair of sentences handed down for Just Stop Oil members, with two being found not guilty of criminal damage to Stonehenge after a cornflour and orange dye incident, and six being convicted for climbing a gantry on the M25—notably, having been denied the right to offer their reasoning to the jury. And we round off with a bit of chat about Freedom stories of the week, including the targeting of Elbit Systems insurer Allianz in Europe, the conviction of ten students in Leicester for protesting the university’s complicity in arms trading, and the infamous, lethal police raid on a favela in Rio.