In January 2019 we were planning a public event with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour, discussing the aftermath of the December 2019 general election and the then-ongoing Labour Party leadership election. We had to cancel the event because of a problem with the venue and instead recorded a conversation between Anna, Richard and Jeremy as a podcast a few weeks later. This was all before the Covid-19 crisis struck and before the leadership election was resolved. Also, I had a heavy cold while we were doing it (no, it wasn’t Covid). Still, there were many interesting insights from Anna and Richard that we thought worth preserving, so here it is.

Links:

https://www.annaminton.com

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2020/03/rise-disaster-nationalism-why-authoritarian-right-resurgent

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/labours-defeat-and-triumph-johnsonism/

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/in-the-aftermath-of-defeat.mp3