It’s the night before Christmas, and Jasper, sick of Labour losing yet another election, joins the Conservative Party. However, at home, he is visited by Joe, the King of Soft Left Twitter, who sends him three groups of ghosts from the past, present and future of British and global politics in an effort to change his ways. Will Jasper come back to…
Jasper sits down with freelance political campaigns strategist @mandeldril to diagnose what went wrong with Labour’s election campaign, ranging from the manifesto presentation to the lack of message discipline. Plus, Joe gives a call to arms for the left and argues that activists must embrace community organising in the wake of the election defeat. iTunes Link
The Tories have won – again. Jasper, Eugenie, Tyron and Lines sit down to offer their post-election analysis and figure out where the Labour Party and the left go from here. Who should lead Labour next? What should we be learning from defeat? And can the new Conservative electoral coalition survive? iTunes Link
This week, Lines gives some explainers on cybersecurity, why we should all be caring more about it and how defence policy will increasingly be written for the digital world. Plus, Jasper, Tyron and Sean break down some of the finer points of Labour’s manifesto pledges on foreign policy and security. iTunes Link
Jasper chats to Labour activists Miriam, Sean, Michael and Dominique to learn about the art of canvassing and door-knocking, why and how political parties do it, and their funniest stories from life on the doorstep. Plus, William joins for Optimism of the Will – a new segment on what there is to be optimistic about in this week of the 2019 General…
This week, Jasper, Morgan and Lines sit down with Chris Terry (formerly Electoral Reform Society, now a PhD student at University of Manchester) to discuss his work on election polling, marginal seats, changing the electoral system and the possible outcomes from the current 2019 general election polls. iTunes Link
Have you ever thought that superheroes are a bit capitalist? That the movies you go and see all have weird political undertones? This week, Jasper sits down with Dr Dan Hassler-Forest, an academic whose work focuses on the overlap between politics and pop culture to talk Disney, balancing being a fan with being a critic and the uneven ideologies of Batman movies.…
Happy Halloween! The ghouls and ghosts of The Social Review have crawled out from our dark pits to the podcasting microphones to talk all things horror. Jasper sits down with Darryl Jones, Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, to discuss the history of the horror genre and why we’re so drawn to it, then joins Eugenie and Henry to answer some…
