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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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- Today1h 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
- 1 weeks ago1h 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
- 2 weeks ago1h 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?
- 3 weeks ago1h 28m
Debating ‘DeGrowth’ Green Economics - Michael Mezz
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 ****Another heatwave just dropped so we’re here with our first in-depth convo on the climate crisis, joined by one of the world’s biggest eco-influencers, Michael Mezz. After studying economics at Stanford, Michael decided to hold onto his soul and become an activist to prevent ecological collapse. Remember folks, the magic circle law firm / big 3 consultancy isn't the only way.In this episode we explore the major shift in green politics: away from classic environmentalism and towards a social media friendly left-populist economics. In particular, we discuss the decline in the ‘green growth’ agenda and the rise of the ‘degrowth’ or ‘post-growth’ political economy, pushed by thinkers like Jason Hickel (who has featured on Michael's podcast).What would reality look like if we exited the perennial treadmill of infinite growth? If such a future is possible how can it happen? Our objections to degrowth models centre on the global top-down application of such economic theories. Is a wholesale rewiring of the global economy a fantasy untethered from the hard realities of geopolitical competition? We also examine challenges around the Jevons Paradox (that energy efficiency creates greater throughput rather than reducing emissions), whether China is making a moral or expedient green transition and why green economists can’t escape the attraction of modern monetary theory.The question the left has to answer in the face of radical global uncertainty and multipolar competition over energy, security and tech, is who benefits from our system? A world of automation beckons under a canopy of ecological collapse and mass suffering. The old world has certainly died and a new world struggling to be born. Let's hope it's not on Mars.Chapters00:00 Intro04:14 Polanski and Eco-Populism11:20 Zarah Sultana Hypocrisy12:11 Internationalism vs. Nationalism17:42 Has ‘Green Growth’ Failed?26:02 Why Eco-Socialists Want ‘De-Growth’30:55 Does De-Growth Make Sense?40:44 China’s Electrodollar vs. US Petrodollar49:50 The Challenge of Declining Living Standards57:20 Global Anti-Imperialism 1:00:54 Debating Modern Monetary Theory1:05:22 Wealth Taxes and Democratic Capitalism1:17:45 Is Populism De Facto Bad?
- Jun 29, 202635 min
Eco Tycoon Says 'Scrap Net Zero' - Dale Vince
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 **** Green Industrialist and Labour Party mega-donor Dale Vince is beefing with Energy secretary Ed Miliband, as speculation around Andy Burnham's Chancellor nomination reaches fever pitch. Vince, in typically bombastic style, intervened in the Times to argue that Labour should 'scrap Net Zero'. Yep, you read that right. Is Britain's most divisive 'Eco Tycoon' reneging on his lifetime commitment to environmentalism? Of course not. Vince is arguing that a number of policies within 'Net Zero' amount to a waste of public money, zeroing in on carbon capture and heat pump subsidies. He says that Reform UK's attack line against Net Zero is cutting through as families face stubbornly high energy costs, which look set to rise after Trump's reckless war against Iran. Conveniently for Vince, this intervention coincided with Burnham's first major speech outlining his policy direction if he becomes Prime Minister. Centring on increasing devolution, Burnham has committed to reindustrialising Britain - which could run into conflict with Labour's highly ambitious green transition to a net zero energy grid by 2030. Subsequently, Miliband has been the subject of unprecedented Union endorsements and denouncements as Burnham weighs up his choice for Chancellor. Not only is Miliband too ideological for the right-wing press, it appears he's no longer the man for Dale Vince either. Their beef hinges on Miliband's failure to fully commit to Vince's flagship policy of 'breaking the link', decoupling expensive gas pricing from all other energy pricing... Let us know what you think in the comments.Chapters00:00 Intro03:25 Dale's Beef With Ed Miliband05:23 'Breaking the Link' between Gas Prices and Electricity09:05 Carbon Capture Racket12:30 Dale vs. Nuclear Energy16:19 In Defence of Nuclear Buildout20:15 Why Isn't Britain's Grid Working?24:19 Is Dale Protecting His Business Interests?28:56 Air Conditioning Rollout vs. Climate Activists31:21 Does Burnham Have a Mandate for Change?33:20 Will Vince Remain a Donor if Burnham Reindustrialises?
- Jun 18, 20261h 42m
Should Young Women be Angry? - Tilly Middlehurst, Emily Lawford
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***********Emily Lawford's viral New Statesman cover story 'Meet the Angry Young Women' created huge waves of online discourse, undulating from the radical TikTok Left to the extreme Right on Elon Musks's brainwashing algorithm.Polling from Merlin Strategies found that Gen-Z women were feeling extremely pessimistic,about their future, young men and our politics. Why?We thought there was no one better to ask than our own resident (self-annointed) angry young woman and friend of the show, Tilly Middlehurst (a.k.a. BlondePraxis).Is the anger justified or misplaced? Is the pessimism motivating or paralysing? Do these two young women agree on the causes... and the solutions?Apologies for issues with the sound/video quality, one of our cameras overheated :( Appreciate your patience with us as we improve over time x Chapters00:00 Emily's Viral 'Angry Young Women' Article04:59 Tilly’s Response10:02 Is the ‘Femosphere’ as Dangerous as the ‘Manosphere’?16:36 Is Gen-Z Feminist Pessimism Justified?20:27 Do Young Women Misperceive Injustice?27:04 Which Gender is More Negative About the Other?36:42 Biological Essentialism and Reactionary Feminism44:30 Politicising the Fertility Crisis51:40 Anti-Feminist Global Conspiracy?55:26 Gym Influencers vs. Manosphere1:03:43 Has Social Media Catalysed Polarisation?1:13:47 Identity, Community and Free Speech1:21:57 Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally1:26:30 Migrant Violence Against Women and Girls1:36:10 Reaction to Emily’s New Statesman Article
- Jun 9, 20261h 35m
Will the Left Forgive Itself? – Alastair Campbell
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**********************************************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...Chapters00:00 Intro02:29 Is The Rest Is Politics Too Orthodox?08:59 Short-Form Politics and Short-Termism16:03 Who Cares About Truth?21:37 Failure of Globalisation26:50 Madman Theory and WW335:43 What New Labour Got Wrong43:01 Class Warfare52:21 Are Greens the Future of the Left?1:01:30 Has Farage Hit His Ceiling?1:06:07 Crypto Billionaires Financing Reform1:11:47 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 Work1:31:40 Abuse in Public Life
- May 27, 202631 min
Why Won't Labour Talk To Gary Stevenson?
In our latest video essay (optimised for YouTube), Freddie breaks down why the Labour Party refuses to engage meaningfully with Gary Stevenson - and why that all might be about to change...********************* 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 *********************
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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