Will the Left Forgive Itself? – Alastair Campbell

June 9
1h 35m

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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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