Zack Polanski’s Green wave is shaking up British politics—and Jack Price-Harbach isn’t letting it pass unexamined. In this episode, Jack dives into the strange mirror-image populism of Britain’s left and right, and asks what happens when charisma outpaces policy.

From the hypnotic charm of Polanski’s media game to the Liberal Democrats’ struggle for national attention, Jack explores why nuance gets lost in today’s attention economy—and how pragmatic liberalism can still cut through the noise.

He pulls no punches on Ed Davey’s stunts, revisits the tuition fee hangover, and weighs up the appeal and absurdity of eco-socialist dreams like abolishing landlordism. Along the way: water companies, wealth taxes, NATO realism, and a healthy dose of liberal self-deprecation (“Liberalism. Nice, not naughty.”).

The question at the heart of it: Can liberals make pragmatism sexy in an age of slogans and spectacle?

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