Episodes

  • Why Europe

    Why Europe
    Jan 9 2026
    Keir Starmer biographer Tom Baldwin lays out why it's time for the centre-left to get over its timidity Brexit

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    48 mins
  • It is time to choose

    It is time to choose
    Dec 19 2025
    A year into the Labour Party in power in the UK and the loss of the Democrats to Donald Trump in the US, we round out 2025 with the crew giving a damning verdict on where the center left is at the end of this year, and give a tour de force of what what must be ahead if we are to win back trust, credibility and deliver change in 2026.

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    47 mins
  • Stop pretending you're talking to young people

    Stop pretending you're talking to young people
    Dec 5 2025

    Co-author of the recent report ‘Inside the mind of a 16 year old’ for UK think-tank Demos together with Peter Hyman, Shaub details the journey of speaking with 700 young people across the country about their thoughts on politics - and why centre-left politicians need to get their house in order when it comes to talking to young people themselves.


    Now is not the time for timid grids of the past - it’s well past the moment for something new and different; politicians happy to go where voters are; unafraid of being authentic. It’s not just what young people demand - but what our politics, and democracy, needs.


    It’s time to slay the sacred cow that the centre-left is talking to young people - it’s not.

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    41 mins
  • The Enemy is The State

    The Enemy is The State
    Nov 20 2025

    Centre-left governments are often few and far between. So when they lose their way - the renewal has to be done swiftly, and at times bloodily.


    Trapped in process and unable to communicate, McTernan says the left loses its way when it believes the state has became our friend, just because we are running it. Bureaucratic, talking about ‘delivery’, and using management speak, we forget who the enemy is and what the purpose of a centre-left government is all about. What is required, instead, is to junk the sacred cow that the state is the answer and offer a clear moral purpose as a progressive government - aligning ourselves with the people.


    Join as we dive head-first into a long overdue debate about the future of mainstream politics on both sides of the Atlantic - no holding back, no pulling punches.

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    39 mins
  • Let's level on Net Zero

    Let's level on Net Zero
    Nov 6 2025
    This week the herd is joined by Tone Langengen, Senior Policy Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, who argues that the centre-left must face economic and political reality and realise that people won’t back Net Zero unless it means cheaper energy and credible growth. Has this agenda become a moral badge rather than a workable plan and can that shift without abandoning climate ambition?

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    36 mins
  • Or else, armageddon

    Or else, armageddon
    Oct 23 2025
    The political center and center-left needs to create new ways to protect our peace and prosperity, based on a clearer understanding of our mutual national interests, or else we risk slipping deeper into anarchy, towards World War Three - or even, armageddon. Join the herd as we dive into the future of foreign policy and where we’ve gone wrong in the last few years.

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    35 mins
  • Order at the Border

    Order at the Border
    Oct 10 2025
    Join us in this second episode where the herd are joined by Frank Sharry, a former Kamala Harris adviser and founder of US think tank America’s Voice, to look at whether the centre-left needs to ditch its timidity and how it can talk about and win on the issue of immigration.

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    46 mins
  • We're the cows

    We're the cows
    Sep 28 2025
    We're starting a much needed and overdue debate about the future of mainstream politics – no holding back, no pulling punches. In this our first episode, the herd are joined by Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to look at where the center left is going wrong.

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    41 mins