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Coward. It’s a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources from court-martial cases to literary and film classics such as Dante’s Inferno, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Thin Red Line, Cowardice recounts the great harm that both cowards and the fear of seeming cowardly have done, and traces the idea of cowardice’s power to its evolutionary roots.

It's 2006 in the fictional East London borough of Leytonstow. The UK’s pub smoking ban is about to happen, and 38-and-a-half year old John Torrington, a mopper and trolley collector at his local DIY store, is secretly in love with the stylish, beautiful, and middle-class barmaid Lois. John and his hapless, strange, and down-on-their-luck friends, Gabby Longfeather and Glyn Hopkins, live in Clements Markham House - a semi-derelict Edwardian villa divided into unsanitary bedsits, and (mis)managed by the shrewd, Dickensian business man, Mr Kapoor.

Comedians Chris Walsh (Netflix, Comedy Central) & Gary Petersen (Team Coco) love the good times, but live for the bad times. Join them each week as they interview their friends about the nightmarish shows that nearly destroyed them!

A News and literature channel focused on the working class, reading non-fiction anti-imperialist, anti-Western propaganda material but also things like news and poetry. My goal is to help the working class of the West see beyond the propaganda and entertainment on demand culture that we are bombarded with. I hope you'll join me and that we all come away a lot more informed at the end of the day.