The Progressive Britain Podcast

The Progressive Britain Podcast

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The Progressive Britain Podcast episodes

  • 88. Politics in the era of the meme – with Oli Dugmore

    Henna and Stefan are joined by Ally and Oli Dugmore, head of news and politics at JOE to discuss political communication in the era of the dank meme, whether anyone but Boris can sink his chances of becoming prime minister, and whether anything will have changed in the Year 3000. 

    Learn more:

    *Matthew Goodwin on the European elections

    *Subscribe to the Progress Daily Email

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    41 min
  • EXTRA: The people vs climate change
    Henna Shah sits down with Stefan Rollnick to talk about the climate crisis and how progressives should be making the argument, how Labour can be the party of Remain without just being the party of Remainers and what comes next in the Tory hunger games.

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    20 min
  • 87. Change starts local with Tom Neumark-Jones

    In part one, Stefan sits down with Alison McGovern to talk about Boris Johnson's many middle names and then Henna sits down with Tom Neumark-Jones to discuss why all change starts local, how to reclaim the concept of community, and why progressives should be hanging out at their local GP surgeries. 

    PLUS we discuss who really *is* proud to be from Bromley.

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    45 min
  • EXTRA: Two years on
    Henna and Stephanie discuss the legacy and inaction on Grenfell, why a no-deal is getting ever more likely, and the possibility of a Jez v Jez election showdown. 

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    20 min
  • 86. Bondfield, Boris and Brexit – with Rachel Reeves MP

    Henna, Ally and Stephanie are joined by Rachel Reeves to discuss the very first female cabinet minister, why unicorns are the Tories' favourite animal, and whether it's creepy to stick a photo of Margaret Thatcher on a podium.

    Learn more:

    *Buy Women of Westminster

    *Submit a motion to your local Labour Party on Brexit 

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    27 min
  • EXTRA: #rorywalks

    Join Henna and Stephanie as they discuss the rise of the Brexit party in the Peterborough by-election, the truly remarkable line up of Tory leadership contenders, and why Labour Party conference could change the course of Brexit

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    *Submit the LabourSay motion to your CLP

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    17 min
  • 85. EHRC and antisemitism with Danny Stone

    Guest host Stefan Rollnick sits down with pod regular Stephanie Lloyd and Danny Stone from the Antisemitism Policy Trust to talk about why it's difficult for some people to understand Labour's antisemitism crisis, what institutional antisemitism looks like and why the Labour party needs to do more to protect its members from harassment.

    Useful links:

    —Antisemitism Policy Trust

    —Join the Jewish Labour movement 

    —David Prescott story

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    36 min
  • 84. FFS: young people against Brexit

    Millennials have ruined everything… and now hopefully they can ruin Brexit as well!

    On this week’s pod we’re joined by Richard Brooks from For our Future’s Sake (FFS), the youth-led anti-Brexit movement, to talk about Labour’s quantum Brexit policy, the European elections and what’s going to happen next in parliament.

    *Find out more about FFS 

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    46 min
  • EXTRA: standing up for equality

    Henna and Stephanie discuss the run up to next week's European elections, the return of sex and relationships education to the agenda, and why we need to stand up against Islamophobia. 

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    *Wes Streeting MP on Newsnight

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    20 min

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