Warning: contains hope for tomorrow! It sometimes feels like the polycrisis of global heating, collapsing democracy, job-killing A.I. and radicalisation can’t be solved – but what if there are answers in similar turning points from the past? Roman Krznaric, author of History For Tomorrow : How The Past Can Inspire Our Future, joins Andrew Harrison and Zöe Grünewald for a surprisingly uplifting tour of invaluable lessons of the past, from the fight to end slavery to the battle to control artificial intelligence.
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Why is that scouse bloke blaming everybody else for Labour being shit? Just because his mum and dad voted Labour, it doesn't mean that everybody else has to too. Starmer was given the country on a plate and still managed to fuck everything up in double quick time. It's almost as if he conned his way into power to serve the interests of the status quo. If the presenter wants to blame someone for Reform's popularity he should blame Starmer, even if it upsets his mum and dad.
Clive Lewis -- genius! *That's* what I want in a Labour Politician!
I'm listening to this while looking for Emma Kennefy's podcast. Slow switching.
with regards to your contributors joke about space X, it really shows his bias and unintelligence that he didn't know space x has rescue 2 astronauts this year.
Andrew… LFC 👍 I had tickets to the Spurs match but swapped them as got a place in the London Marathon….which I then had to defer to next year due to injury 🫣 Watched the match in a pub in Putney with 200 Liverpool fans 🥳 and rang 80 yr old mum in Kirkby in tears 😆 UTFR !
Love all the subliminal XTC messaging. Top work, Mr Harrison.
Chinese human rights? while you support the Israeli murder of millions in Gaza?
please stop talking about the GDP, its totally meaningless.
lost the room? mote like they have lost their minds. Europe wants to have a war to distract from their failure to secure some sort of economic future for the majority of people
Europe is done and dusted. And it is welcomed everywhere else in this dying world.
"unhinged dictator," just who would you be referring to? Amerika, perhaps.
what utter bollocsks. unsubscribe.
why Mr .... Sir is his title.
Labour the handmaiden of Farage's fascism. Imagine preferring IDS to standing down.
Why does the streaming of this episode keep jumping?
Re: your discussion about medical assistance in dying (MAID), I don't know where Marie Le Conte gets her information about Canada's MAID laws, but her description of people accessing MAID because they can't afford to feed themselves is the worst sort of disinformation. Please inform yourselves - perhaps start with https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html. An apology would be appropriate.
The neoliberalism Centre hates "the left" much more than any tory
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Ayesha and Naomi had some good points to make but there was a disappointing failure to joint the dots in this discussion. OGWN really need a police consultant to help them through this maze. I am happy to help.
they just take and give nothing back. period.