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'What's Left?' is a progressive political podcast for the generation tasked with returning order to political chaos.With 'Left/Right' no longer a clear distinction for our politics, what does it really mean to be on the political 'left'? And given the enormous change we're living through, what is left of our values, institutions and political systems?Co-hosts Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Freddie Feltham are ex-Labour Party staffers, who have scrapped with Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate between them. Through in-depth chats with friends and experts inside Westminster and beyond, we hope to reveal what's really at stake as civilisation crosses the AI Rubicon.This is a show for anyone fed up with the status quo; ready to listen, learn and do in pursuit of a better and fairer future. Oh - and we wanna have some fun with it too.Jovan + Freddie
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- 4 days ago1h 20m
Don't Worry About AI Apocalypse - Cory Doctorow
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft Early Access to Ad-Free Extended Interviews Ask our Guests Questions LIVEs with Jovan + Freddie WL Book Club + Community Discussion Articles + Exclusive Content MAKE A DONATION: https://buymeacoffee.com/wtfisleftMeet Schrödinger’s AI apocalypse - it is / isn’t happening. Cory Doctorow is the final boss of AI criticism. His sophisticated understanding of computer science paired with science fiction writing talents means he gets a good story about the future.AI companies have been spending billions. Much of it has been in data centre buildout that is filtering out into the US economy though at a ~2% growth rote. But the rest has been in marketing budgets, selling us an ideological story about how AI will take on all the menial tasks we don’t want to do.We don’t have our heads in the sand. There have been some monumental breakthroughs in computing power that is solving millennial maths problems, creating hyper-targeting weaponry and surveillance, advancing exotic isotope development for cures for cancer. It is enhancing what some, who use the software proficiently, are able to achieve.Yet AI is not infallible. AI will not inevitably replace human labour. Like every political tradeoff, it is a choice. Something has changed in recent days. En masse, the major AI players of Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk have agreed to a slowdown in AI buildout. Why? Because, they say, too many AI safety researchers are raising alarm bells of a mass extinction possibility from this tech.So is it time to hit panic stations?Cory Doctorow is not convinced. All the most threatening things tech is capable of: shutting down economies, ransomware cyber attacks, monopoly rent extraction, are risks we are already living with. If you’re worrying about the future, you should be worried about today.00:00 Intro07:09 Is the AI Apocalypse Happening?12:30 Is The Crita-Hype View Cynical?19:28 Stock Valuations from Storytelling27:40 Can AI Replace Labour?35:30 Who Wins From Automation Adoption?43:52 Slowdown in Buildout and the AI Bubble50:50 Digital Sovereignty Is Not About AI59:05 A Post-American Internet1:08:01 Can the Left Get Serious?1:13:01 Are the Elites Divided?
- 1 weeks ago1h 24m
Exposing The Slopulist-Right Money Machine - Decoding The Gurus
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleftEarly Access to Ad-Free Extended InterviewsAsk our Guests QuestionsLIVEs with Jovan + FreddieWL Book Club + Community DiscussionArticles + Exclusive ContentMAKE A DONATION: https://buymeacoffee.com/wtfisleft****If you want a counter-counter-culture take based on FACTS and LOGIC, look no further than the Decoding the Gurus podcast. Who said there is nothing sexy about being sceptical about scepticism, defending institutional arguments or stress-testing scientific methodologies? Matthew Brown and Chris Kavanagh have been dissecting the internet’s favourite gurus for over 5 years - debunking conspiracies and critically evaluating the totalising philosophies of these alternative media sensations. It certainly seems that there are more gurus today than ever before. The internet and in particular video-based media is servicing a special kind of cult-like business, enabling mass dissemination and pseudo-community. So why is it that there are more right-wing gurus than left-wing ones? What do the politics of online gurus tell us about wider society? Is there a grievance-mongering machine that is pointing people away from organised religion to a digital silo where they must pay for a worldview?We answer all of this and so much more!Chapters00:00 Introduction04:20 Are There More Gurus Than Ever?10:01 The Relation Between Gurus, Science and Modernity20:21 Is Grievance Culture Driving Gurufication?26:02 How Does Economic Crisis Explain The Growing Market of Gurus.30:30 Don’t Trust Faux Centrists36:12 Does the Traditional Political Spectrum Exist Anymore?42:10 The Alt-Right Political Content Industry47:25 What Psychological Needs Are Met By Ideology?51:15 Why Are There Fewer Left-Wing Gurus?56:02 Is Gary Stevenson a Guru?1:09:55 Have We Become Addicted to Frictionless Capitalism?1:13:55 How Betting Has Got Out of Hand1:20:11 Do We Need To Suffer More for Social Cohesion?
- 3 weeks ago1h 17m
Will Andrew Tate Face Justice in the UK? - Matt Shea
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleftEarly Access to Ad-Free Extended InterviewsAsk our Guests QuestionsLIVEs with Jovan + FreddieWL Book Club + Community DiscussionArticles + Exclusive ContentMAKE A DONATION: https://buymeacoffee.com/wtfisleft****Friend of the show, Matt Shea, returns for an update on the Andrew Tate case and a meaty analysis of Looksmaxxing CEO Clavicular. Are young boys really looking up to these jokemen? Has the media misunderstood the manosphere as a moral panic? Or does it reveal something deeper about the gender wars and who is funding them?Matt is your most hated grifter's worst enemy. An ex-VICE documentarian, Shea has investigated some of the most notorious stories. It led him to making a series of docs on Andrew Tate, where he spent intimate time with the Tate brothers and their 'War Room' in Romania.Shea now co-hosts the BBC's new podcast 'Top Comment' which looks at disinformation and online subcultures. It's worth a listen if you've exhausted all your WL episodes while poolside chilling this summer xChapters00:00 Intro03:54 Louis Theroux’s Manosphere Documentary 07:48 Manosphere Ideology10:15 Truth About Looksmaxxing17:35 What’s Wrong with Clavicular?24:06 The Online Freak Show Circus27:10 Ceuta Crisis and Foreign Interference34:25 The Right Wing Amplification Network37:45 Tate’s Links to Russia41:10 Andrew Tate’s Lunatic Lawyer47:41 Latest Updates in The Criminal Investigation54:01 It’s a Cult1:01:56 Deep-seated Male Insecurities1:05:08 What Is Positive Masculinity?1:12:45 Changing the Culture
- Aug 18, 20261h 9m
The Anti-Tech Revolution is Coming - Beeban Kidron
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleftEarly Access to Ad-Free Extended InterviewsAsk our Guests QuestionsLIVEs with Jovan + FreddieWL Book Club + Community DiscussionArticles + Exclusive Content****Baroness Kidron completed Hollywood. She could be living the high life. Instead she's outchea trying to take down the latest Frankenstein of Capitalism: Big Tech.Beeban is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and has dedicated the latter stage of her career to keeping children safe online. It's somehow a contentious topic. Are children safe on the internet? Or has our generation been exposed to irreparable harms?We discuss all this and more: what does AI sovereignty look like? How has Britain been captured by American corporate interests? What can we do to fight back?Chapters00:00 Intro02:15 Growing Up With Socials07:20 Gen-Z, The Anxious Generation?13:08 Does Big Tech Own Us?17:03 Corporate America's Capture of Westminster22:00 How the Tech Broligarchy Took Over26:35 AI Sovereignty32:05 What Could Spark the Anti-Big-Tech Revolution39:15 The UK's AI Security Institute43:23 Temporarily Embarassed Millionaires48:14 Destruction of Real Life Communities52:15 Britain's Dependency On US Tech56:45 Gen-Z and Unemployment1:03:01 Left-Wing Patriotism and National Service
- Aug 11, 20261h 51m
Is Restore Ethno Nationalist? - Peter McCormack, Hassan Damluji
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleftEarly Access to Ad-Free Extended InterviewsAsk our Guests QuestionsLIVEs with Jovan + FreddieWL Book Club + Community DiscussionArticles + Exclusive Content****FIRST EVER RESTORE SUPPORTER IN THE HOT SEAT.WHATS LEFT, WHATS RIGHT, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?INFLATION, MONETARY POLICY, CRYPTO, IMMIGRATION, CULTURE, DEMOCRACY, DEPORTATIONS, BILLIONAIRES, TAXES, LIBERTARIANISM, ECONOMIC GROWTH... WE COVER IT ALL.CONSIDERED PUTTING IT BEHIND A PAYWALL... NAHHHH. But please please please consider donating to our show either via substack or by https://studio.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard . We need donations to keep our ting going.Big ups to Peter McCormack for joining us for an open and wide ranging discussion on why he'd vote for Restore! Peter is one of Restore's biggest supporters, with a podcast sporting over 400k subscribers talking about crypto, economics and the right-wing side of the culture wars. While we might disagree on much, we are very grateful for giving us his time with his contribution to this episode!Great to also see Hassan Damluji (WL #6) return to the stu for his second outing. If you liked Hassan's bars, he'll be returning soon with a show of his own. You can find out more about the work of his think tank, Global Nation by dropping him a follow @hassandamluji on all socials.Chapters 00:00 Intro03:45 Peter's Background07:42 Hassan's Background12:56 Monetary Policy and Inflation20:54 Is Inflation Always Bad?26:45 Democracy and Short-Termism30:42 Restore and Deportations38:32 Does Peter Have More Free Speech than Hassan44:30 Why People Want To Deport All Muslims49:36 Do Different Religions Mix?57:42 Why Has Immigration Failed?1:04:30 Hard Trade-Offs of Government1:10:01 Billionaires, Relative Inequality and Minimum Wage1:19:09 Can The Government Fix The Country?1:29:02 Real Austerity, Debt and Balancing the Books1:36:34 Wealth Taxes vs. Spend?1:44:13 What We've Found In Common...1:48:18 University Education
- Jul 29, 20261h 12m
Independent Journalism Or Harassing Politicians? - Jack Roworth
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleftEarly Access to Ad-Free Extended InterviewsAsk our Guests QuestionsLIVEs with Jovan + FreddieWL Book Club + Community DiscussionArticles + Exclusive Content****This one is gonna set the cat amongst the pigeons.In the spirit of openness and fair hearings, we've decided to bring Jack Roworth on the show.Jack is a controversial online figure - a young man (the youngest to ever grace the stu at 19 years old) - who has been documenting his life on social media. From messy sesh content to dangerous japes abroad, Jack broadcasted his antics as he was spiralling down alcohol and cocaine addiction.He became a mainstay of the cursed TikTok algorithmic circus, feeding viewers viral drips often under the influence. He is not the first, nor will he be the last, of this zany and alarming content.Jack left school at 14, flunked his GCSEs and has since been raising himself amidst the hedonic pulls of adult society. For a period he was a NEET, (not in education, employment or training).But about a year ago, Jack decided to get sober. Concentrating his entrepreneurial spirit into journalism, he's now on a clip farming journey around Westminster and beyond. Jack's recent doorstepping of Reform's Richard Tice and Robert Jenrick, his local MP in Newark, has been the subject of criticism on the Right. The Telegraph's Camilla Tominey called Jack and other 'faux journalists' out for harassing politicians. Jack's defence is that he is asking questions in the public interest.With the context of the brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe, you can understand the heightened concerns around MPs safety. Widdecombe is the third MP to be murdered in a decade.Does this new style of independent journalism amount to genuine scrutiny? Or is it simply a new vehicle for virality, used to intimidate those in public office to push a certain agenda?Chapters00:00 Intro01:09 Ann Widdecombe and Political Violence07:07 Journalism or Harassment?16:13 Ethics of Platforming Jack19:53 Public Interest Journalist26:30 Growing Up and Going Viral31:45 Jack's Education and Community38:04 Jack's Cocaine + Alcohol Addiction45:51 How Did Jack Become Political?50:15 Planning Jack's Career55:50 Friends Who Went Down the Wrong Path1:02:01 Do Reform Understand the White Working Class1:05:10 Jack's Next Steps
- Jul 21, 20261h 29m
Burnham's Plan to Beat Farage - TUC Chief Paul Nowak
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft WE NEED YOUR (FINANCIAL) SUPPORT TO KEEP GOING!****Babe wake up, new PM just dropped!Since we launched this podcast, politics has been lurching from crisis to crisis. Yet again, Britain has a new leader. Our 5th in 4 years, our 7th in a decade. It can’t go on like this, surely?!This week we have a special episode with Paul Nowak, the General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress, the national umbrella organisation for trade unions in England and Wales, representing nearly 6 million workers.Founded in the 19th century, The TUC has a storied history. Agitating for greater rights and protections for workers, Trade Unions have guaranteed the weekend, sick pay and holidays. As the relation between capital and labour is rewritten by new tech, we forget our Union heritage at our own peril. Collective bargaining has been at the core of progressive change. Without it, we are at the mercy of vested interests. For many historians, Margaret Thatcher won a decisive victory over agitating Unions. Union memberships drop from over 50% to 22% today. But now, memberships are rising again as workers realise the threat ahead. Oligarchy has returned. Tech is taking jobs. And democracy itself appears to be on the line.Chapters00:00 Intro02:00 Union Members For Farage06:05 Burnham’s Change Agenda11:01 Getting Britain Building Again17:36 Can Burnham Take On Vested Interests?23:42 Employment Rights vs. Farage’s Crypto Interests29:05 Populist Right Hypocrisy36:30 Ending Neoliberalism42:03 Fixing the Unproductive State48:52 Can the Union Movement be Reactionary?53:37 Left-Wing Talent Pipeline59:54 Trades vs. Universities1:05:34 Reindustrialising Britain1:13:16 Lifelong Educational Reform1:20:20 Can The State Afford Radicalism?1:25:10 Youth Unemployment and Mental Health
- Jul 14, 20261h 21m
What Brexiteers Don't Want You To Know - Tom McTague
JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleftEarly Access to Ad-Free Extended InterviewsAsk our Guests QuestionsLIVEs with Jovan + FreddieWL Book Club + Community DiscussionArticles + Exclusive Content****Are we more American than European? Has the UK's future been fatalistically forged? New Statesmen Editor and Brexit Historian Tom McTague offers an account of the real trade offs faced by the British establishment.Too often, politics resorts to a conclusion of managed decline. A despondent shrug. Are we suffering from learned helplessness? A belief that it’s now too hard to create the change our society is yearning for?History does not work like that. A radical contingency of events might present as inevitability. But in McTague’s chronicle of Britain’s topsy-turvy relationship with the Europe and its Union, one thing stands out: it is never over. So perhaps the Pro-European Left needs to channel their inner Declan Rice (“It’s not done!”). Maybe it isn’t - maybe the dream of Britain as an integral player in the EU need not be abandoned.But if that is to be the unwritten Post-Brexit story, the #FBPE brigade need to get real. Why did Britain choose to leave?One answer is to lament the brainwashing of the right-wing press, the outsized influence of Cambridge Analytica and the weather on the day (it was raining for both teams, Ty!).But another answer, one that cuts deeper, would argue that this is a profound civilisational question. One that must arrest the hard realities of geopolitical competition, like a British moth to an American flame.In the end, it is about money and it is about power. How much hard power should Britain give up to be able to choose its own destiny? Is it even possible to decouple from the American empire? What control is really open for us to wrest back, after all?Some of these questions we attempt to answer. But the diagnosis is clear: if we want to keep the welfare state, things are going to have to change. Chapters00:00 Intro02:11 Is Farage Closer to Power or Failure?08:37 Unpredictability of the Next Election14:28 Where’s the Left’s Dominic Cummings?18:18 Why the Starmer’s Project Failed23:32 Reindustrialisation and the AI Revolution28:42 Tech Regulation and British Sovereignty 35:05 The Populist Right’s Civilisational Project40:01 Restoring the Left’s Radical Tradition44:35 A Federal Europe or an Imperial America?51:32 Can Middle Powers Create an Alliance?58:82 Britain’s Post-Brexit Ambitions1:03:19 A Left-Mythology on English Identity1:10:58 Enoch Powell’s Impact on The Modern Right1:14:00 A Future For European Integration?
About What's Left? With Jovan + Freddie
'What's Left?' is a progressive political podcast for the generation tasked with returning order to political chaos.With 'Left/Right' no longer a clear distinction for our politics, what does it really mean to be on the political 'left'? And given the enormous change we're living through, what is left of our values, institutions and political systems?Co-hosts Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Freddie Feltham are ex-Labour Party staffers, who have scrapped with Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate between them. Through in-depth chats with friends and experts inside Westminster and beyond, we hope to reveal what's really at stake as civilisation crosses the AI Rubicon.This is a show for anyone fed up with the status quo; ready to listen, learn and do in pursuit of a better and fairer future. Oh - and we wanna have some fun with it too.Jovan + Freddie
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