Can Labour afford to raise taxes?
With the Autumn budget looming, the government has some tough decisions to make. Rachel Reeves has to find a predicted £30bn in extra revenue to meet her self-imposed fiscal rules.But as part of its m...
28 Loka 202524min
Should Labour sack Starmer to beat Reform?
The Caerphilly by-election proves Reform can be beaten. But is Keir Starmer the man to do it?Last week voters in Caerphilly confounded pundits by electing their first Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd ...
27 Loka 202525min
Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns
The youngest winner of the Booker Prize fell silent. Now she's back with a new novel.--With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary p...
25 Loka 202545min
The death of Welsh Labour
Is Welsh Labour dead?Plaid Cymru won a historic victory in the by-election, trouncing Labour who had been dominant for over 100 years.The "middle child" as Plaid's new MS describes them, also beat Ref...
24 Loka 202529min
Labour loses Caerphilly for first time in over 100 years
After 14 attempts, Lindsay Whittle has won the Caerphilly seat in South Wales for Plaid Cymru. Reform came in second with over a third of the vote, and Labour trailed in third with 11%. A devastating ...
24 Loka 202516min
Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer is failing Britain
Andrew Marr says he thought Labour would fix everything, but: "I was wrong".--Andrew Marr is stepping down as political editor of the New Statesman. In this, his last regular podcast appearance (he'll...
23 Loka 202545min
Why the Trump-Putin summit fell apart
Donald Trump's planned summit with Vladimir Putin is cancelled. Here's why.--Less than a week after Donald Trump offered to meet Vladimir Putin in Budapest, the proposed summit has already fallen apar...
22 Loka 202531min
Your Party and the UK's left crisis
James Schneider, the former director of strategic communications for Jeremy Corbyn, was involved in the founding of Your Party earlier this year. He has since stepped back from the project.In this epi...
21 Loka 202553min
