I mean it's mad when you think about it.  
We were just some chancers who started a radio show
We'd all come out of the student
movement...
I actually didn't like Aaron when I first met him!
Sorry!
We had protested against tuition fees. 
We had occupied universities
If you remember, we had been charged down 
by police on horseback in that freezing square
and we lost.
But a lot of us knew I think, that there was this 
huge gap between the status quo and the future
But I think what we probably both agreed on was that we 
weren't represented much by the mainstream media
or really by any political party.
and that it was time for us to transform it ourselves
and that this was the time to have those 
big ideas and to be talking about those big ideas
and that they should come from us, from all of us
I think if there's a moment when Novara became Novara
It was in 2015 when we interviewed Jeremy Corbyn
in the leadership election, and it was 
the day that his odds were cut
he became the favourite
and there was almost a moment before that interview
where I sat down and I thought
Wow, this guy could be the labour leader
and that meant that, that brand of politics was very relevant
but also that our suspicions were right and that
actually Novara media was on the cusp 
of something very important
We're at a political tipping point right?
All the old assumptions are falling away
another world is coming and the question
is what's it gonna look like?
Neoliberalism is dying innit. And Novara
Media started what five years ago?
But it's really in the last two years we've
started making a real difference
Yeah, the sky's the limit and so far 
we've been doing it all on a shoestring
I think people don't
know but all our contributors are paid
but the overwhelming majority of the
core team are purely volunteers
and that has to change.
and that's why we're asking you to donate 
just one hour's worth of your monthly wage
and we will keep working round the clock to build
a new media for a different politics
