Casement's Leftovers

Back in the halcyon days of 2022 Helen hit you with their grand political economic theory: money makes you a nonce. It's safe to say the world hasn't been the same since. In the wake of the latest "tranche" of Epstein files, we revisit this grand unifying theory of power and abuse. Along the way we talk about so many of your faves including William "Bill" Gates Gates, Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, Soon-Yi "Daughter-Wife" Previn, and Elon "Loser" Musk. How many ways can we reference the...

Recorded from deep in the hells of the bleakest January on record, Helen, Glen, and Matt ask: is it our fault we haven’t been recording any podcast episodes lately, or can we blame the world around us? In either case we're back now with a deep dive on Davos and what it tells us about the state of (neo)liberalism today. Are the middle managers finally out of a job? We also talk about the more recent displays of naked power and imperialism from our Yank brothers across the pond in M...

Due to holidays and other commitments, you get your pod a week EARLY this month! Lucky you! There was so much political news to catch up on that we said "actually, fuck that" and did a movie pod instead. It's interesting though: 'Eddington' and 'One Battle After Another', two big "political" thrillers grappling in different ways with the modern world, have come out this year to much fanfare and controversy. We discuss both and ask: what makes a film Marxist? Does it matter? Ther...

2000s nostalgia is en vogue at the moment, so we decided to take a trip back in time to the golden era of the internet, and the time of 'New Atheism'. We talk Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, and discuss how edgy attacks on religion swerved so seamlessly into right-wing populism and "defending Christian society". We then turn our attention to religion in Ireland, before spilling the proverbial on Mother Teresa and highlighting leftist currents of Catholicism in Latin America. Pr...

Two episodes this month because you've all been so good. It's a loosey one today. Topics covered: Lena Dunham, Epstein and Israel, Tucker Carlson, Conor McGregor's shlong, the CATU protest, trans pride, and much much more. In the back half — for our real fans — we categorise our least favourite races, before standing up for the most discriminated against group of all: bald men. I love the em dash (—) and am sooooo mad that it's become a tell-tale sign of AI. Like when I used one earlier in th...

Desperately running out of different ways to mark Pride Month, this year we decided to throw caution to the wind and do a two-part series on Illicit Gay Sex. We sent our intrepid reporter Glen deep into Dublin's gay underground to speak to the most sordid, depraved individuals he could find, asking the questions you've been far too scared to ask. First up is world-famous drag queen Goblins Goblins Goblins, who agreed (NOT under duress) to speak to Glen about his dirty little exploits. L...

Helen and Glen have Beef. They have beef with each other, they've got beef with Israel, they've got beef with Terfs. They've beef with fascists, they've beef with people who get duped on Facebook but most of all they've got beef with Matt. Join a one third lighter, castrated Casement's Leftovers as they shameless call out their haters and have the last laugh. Buy us a mixer! Email: casementsleftovers@gmail.com Insta: @casementsleftovers @casementsleftovers.bsky.social Support th...

Donald Trump loves to talk about tariffs, and people love to panic about them. But what exactly are they? Are they really all that new? And what does Trump's fondness for them say about our the current state of liberalism? Listen to this episode for answers to at least one or two of those questions. Our gofundme: https://gofund.me/69125e85 Email is casementsleftovers@gmail.com Support the show

They're apparently saying we've been "caught lacking" on the podcast front lately, so to make up for our recent flop era we are giving you all a bumper episode to review the year 2024. We talk all the major events in politics and beyond, plus have a chat about the year's culture with Luke & Eleanor. You may have heard we were "washed", but today we are definitely "goated". From now on, new episodes will come out on the last Thursday of every month, plus there'll be some bonus eps i...

To celebrate 75 episodes of pure socialist republican slurry, we thought we would kick off Season 2 of Casement's Leftovers by returning to the man who first brought us all together: Mark Fisher. The Weird and the Eerie – published just weeks before Fisher's death by suicide in January 2017 – is a work of literary criticism that has always seemed strange to us. We get together to try to make sense of this final work, which brings us to conversations about the nature of reality, capitalism, Th...

Helen and Matt finally conclude their famed Berlin trilogy by speaking to Caoimhe of The Irish Bloc Berlin. A "Berlin-based platform for Irish solidarity with Palestine", the Irish Bloc has been on the frontlines of opposition to Germany's continued support for Israel and the Berlin police's brutal repression tactics. We talk to Caoimhe about the group's organising efforts, but also dig deeper into just why Germany is so fucked. Follow The Irish Bloc at irishblocberlin on Instagra...

The housing crisis is the definitive social issue of our time, affecting almost everybody across the West in varied and horrifying ways. But how do we go about. solving it? One seemingly novel idea has been put forward by housing activists in Berlin: simply take properties out of the hands of the massive landlords and place them back under tenant control. In this, the first in our mini-series of episodes recorded live from Matt’s bedroom in Berlin, Matt and Helen speak to Danielle of Right 2...