In the new Left To Burn podcast, Josh White and John Foster look at the decline of Liz Truss, and rise of Giorgia Meloni. It should be a triumph for Italy and the UK to have women leaders, but both have brought destructive politics to power. Will Meloni fail like Truss? We’ll soon find out.

In part II of their talk about Georgia Meloni’s victory in the Italian election, Basilio Korman and Battleground editor Joel Schalit change their focus to the damage it inflicted on Italy’s far-right. Meloni both alienated Italian fascists, including members of her own party, and defeated her main far-right competitor, Matteo Salvini, and his older, historically larger, Lega party.

Giorgia Meloni was always the winner. If the press is anything to go by, her triumph was confirmed the day Mario Draghi resigned. To make things worse, she didn’t win the popular vote. The Battleground’s Editor-in-Chief, Joel Schalit, spoke with staff journalist Basilio Korman about why Meloni triumphed and what it says about the state of Italian democracy.

In the new edition of Left To Burn, Josh White and John Foster mull over the latest regressions in British politics and lament the European left’s tendency to appropriate the worst errors of populism. Join us for another informed chat by our intrepid Transatlantic editors, who this week discovered the threads linking UK Premier Liz Truss to left-wing German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck.

When is a change not a change? When one member of the moribund House of Windsor gives way to another but the inexorable decline of the United Kingdom continues apace. In this episode of the Left To Burn podcast, Battleground editors Josh White and John Foster look at events that masquerade as transformations.

In the latest episode of Left To Burn, Battleground editors Josh White and John Foster discuss the unfortunate synergies being created by the continued influence of far-right populism and climate change.

The Tory leadership contest is hotting up, with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak failing to pitch themselves as Thatcher 2.0. Meanwhile, in the United States, the logjam in the Democratic Party holding back Joe Biden’s agenda is on the point of breaking. In this episode of Left to Burn, Battleground editors Josh White and John Foster parse the ins and outs of political developments in the US and the UK.

Boris Johnson has resigned. He’s still premier until September, so it’s not time to start singing “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead” just yet. These should be good times. But Britain’s Labour Party is mired in malaise, with Keir Starmer unable to do anything other than mimic the Tories. In the latest Left To Burn, Josh White and John Foster look at the sorry state of Labour and ask whether it might be relevant again.

The overruling of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court has roiled American politics. Was this a foreseeable consequence of failing to defeat Donald Trump? Should leftists have held their nose and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016? Battleground editors John Foster and Josh White take on the issue of tactical voting. Can voting for a mainstream party be the right political strategy?

Few French politicians are as loathsome as Marine Le Pen. Patiently waiting her turn for the presidency, she's spent decades on the sidelines preparing to take over. Thanks to centre-right leaders like Emanuel Macron copping her nationalist politics and pushing France rightwards, Le Pen finally has her shot. Maxime Sattonay discusses the French election results, on The Battleground's Left To Burn podcast.