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When the system breaks, what happens to resistance?
A court rules Palestine Action’s proscription unlawful. Arrests should stop. They don’t. Power shifts, reverses, and reasserts itself. This isn’t dysfunction. It’s how power operates—entrenched, unaccountable, and built to resist challenge.
In this episode of The Tea, we sit down with hip-hop legend and political powerhouse Lowkey, one of the UK’s most uncompromising voices. From West London to the world stage, he has spent two decades dismantling empire through music — and challenging the idea that art can ever be neutral.
From Gaza to Grenfell, from direct action targeting arms factories to the widening crackdown on dissent, we dig into what happens when anger meets silence—or repression.
Also in the show:
⚡ Music as resistance to propaganda
⚡ Raucous Records & Rupert Murdoch’s orbit — the business of “conscious rap”
⚡ “Music is not apolitical” — why artists must reflect their times
⚡ Stormzy and the McDonald's backlash
⚡ Attempts to silence Lowkey — pro-Israel lobbying and censorship
⚡ Universal Music Group & the Israeli lobby—a family affair
⚡ Zionism and the origins of an ethnocratic project
⚡ Iran’s historical pro-Palestinian stance explained
⚡ Israel’s “Unit 8200” — from military tech to private power
⚡ The Grenfell tragedy —a textbook case of corporate impunity
⚡ Tony Blair —a love affair with the Israeli lobbies
⚡ Kanye West and the politics of cancellation
Lowkey argues that real change doesn’t come from within the system — but from applying pressure outside it. And as repression grows, so does resistance. As he puts it, “who doesn’t resist is closer to death.”
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AUDIO CREDITS
Presenter–Producer: Dr. Myriam François
Guest: Lowkey
Senior Producer: Sara Farolfi
Producer: Nadège Bizimungu
Assistant Producer: Poppy Jacobs
Research: Constance Creswell, Martha Missingham
Video Editor: Max Bubnov
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