PoliticsJOE Podcast

Zack Polanski did not win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. But is there a world where he could have?

Ava and Seán breakdown the result, what it means for the Greens, and why it went Labour's way.
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Could Zack Polanski's leadership represent something much bigger than a change of direction for the Green Party?

Ava was joined live by Green Party leader Zack Polanski and author Russell Warfield on the launch of Russell's book "The Green Socialist: Zack Polanski and the Battle for Britain’s Future" to discuss the rise of the Greens, the crisis facing British politics and the political ideas behind Polanski's rapid rise.

Is the Green Party's rise a temporary reaction to Labour, or part of a much bigger transformation of British politics?
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Jeremy Corbyn has been no stranger to international solidarity in his long career as a politician.

He sat down with Ava to discuss his campaigning for the blockade to be lifted on Cuba, after a summer of campaigning which led him to travel to the Caribbean island to show his support for its people.

Corbyn also breaks down his assessment of Andy Burnham's time as Labour leader to this point, and how the former Manchester mayor can solidify Labour's recent spike in the polls.
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Ava and Seán take to the studio to chat through Ava's appearance on the beeb last week, on the topic of immigration.
Having had a couple of chances to speak on a crammed show, she and Seán get into the meat of the arguments started on the telly.
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Daron Acemoglu is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of What Happened to Liberal Democracy.

He joined Ava to explain why liberal democracy is facing one of its biggest crises in generations — and what needs to change to save it.

Acemoglu argues that the problems facing democracies go much deeper than individual politicians. Across the UK, US and Europe, trust in political institutions has eroded as economic growth has become less widely shared, communities have weakened and the relationship between political elites and working-class voters has fractured.

Buy Daron's book here: https://profilebooks.com/work/what-happened-to-liberal-democracy/
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