Bas Eickhout on how smarter climate policies can avoid more protest movements like the Yellow Vests | A lawmaker in charge of writing opinions for a European Parliament committee denies climate science | Poland pushes Big Coal at UN climate conference

Volt Europa says citizen-focused democracy can help tame populism | Tom describes an evening with DiEM25 and James warns against direct democracy | Pelle Christy tells upstart progressive parties get ready to make compromises

Proud Bear on satirizing suspected Russian meddling in the Brexit referendum | Anu Bradford on British delusions | James and Tom on where hardcore Brexiteers got their funds and why the EU is such a hard sell

David Ibsen of the Counter Extremism Project focuses on the new generation of white supremacists in France | James and Tom discuss whether Marine Le Pen should keep her appointment with a government psychiatrist

Migration expert Karen Mets unpicks Lauren Southern's anti-refugee antics | Campaigner Lyudmyla Kozlovska describes how far-right trolls sought to pass her off as Christine Blasey Ford | James and Tom talk about fighting Matteo Salvini's incivility with incivility

Berlin-based queer activist Aileen Kakavand explains how hypocrites in the far-right Alternative for Germany party stoke fear of Islam to court the LGBT community | James and Tom talk pop stars, populism and politics