Reading the Crisis: Aditya Chakrabortty & Jeremy Gilbert

Aditya Chakrabortty is senior economics commentator for the Guardian, where he writes a regular column and reports from around Britain and the world. In 2017 he won the British Journalism Award for Comment Journalist of the year, and his work has also won a Social Policy Association award and a Harold Wincott prize for Business Journalism. Aditya has been a finalist for an Orwell Prize for journalism in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and in 2023 won the British Press Award for Best Broadsheet Columnist of the year.

Before joining the Guardian in 2007 he worked for the BBC as Economics Producer, covering economics for the Ten O’Clock News and then making films for Newsnight. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television, appearing on Newsnight and Question Time.

Aditya is now working on his first book, to be published by Allen Lane / Penguin.

Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London and the current editor of the journal New Formations. He hosts three podcasts: ACFM (on Novara media); Culture, Power and Politics; Love is the Message. His most recent books are Twenty-First Century Socialism and (with Alex Williams) Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World.

Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Westminster. Her research is focused on empire and twentieth-century British history. She led an AHRC-funded project on gender, race, and visibility tied to the BBC’s centenary, and she is currently writing a book on BBC Radio, racial liberalism, and the politics of voice in post-war Britain. Aasiya is a former BBC radio producer and journalist.