Show Notes
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Can the Left forgive the Centre? Can the Centre forgive the Left?
This week we are joined by the UK's second biggest politics podcaster on where the Left is going wrong and how it must unite to win. Keeping out Reform will not be enough to fix the country. A consensus must be built around a political economy that works for the majority, rather than a privileged few.
So how do we get there? What can be done? Who can tell the right story?
Centrist Dads will be delighted to know that we haven't figured it out just yet, and can keep on equivocating in the meantime...
Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:29 Is The Rest Is Politics Too Orthodox? 08:59 Short-Form Politics and Short-Termism 16:03 Who Cares About Truth? 21:37 Failure of Globalisation 26:50 Madman Theory and WW3 35:43 What New Labour Got Wrong 43:01 Class Warfare 52:21 Are Greens the Future of the Left? 1:01:30 Has Farage Hit His Ceiling? 1:06:07 Crypto Billionaires Financing Reform 1:11:47 Will The Labour Party Survive the Century? 1:17:45 Is the Left Intellectually Bankrupt? 1:23:55 Is Gen-Z Cooked? 1:28:05 Teamwork Makes the Dream Work 1:31:40 Abuse in Public Life
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We're delighted to be joined by the Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP. In our first episode from Labour Conference 2026, we discuss the backlash to AI doomsday warnings, the fragility of the AI economy and how this tech will be used - to the benefit or detriment of workers. As listeners will know, we've approached AI with a healthy dose of scepticism. Technology is itself neutral but the politics emerges in its application. We have plenty examples in history of how industrial revolutions disempowered workers before inevitable backlash and revolution. Do we need to wait for things to get bad? Or does the UK have a serious plan for a future that harnesses the white heat of technology? We delve into all of this and more, asking how the UK is preparing for the moral mission of worker-centric AI.
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