Labour Hub is supporting the launch of the Labour Left Podcast and the publication of its first long-form interview.  You can watch the podcast on You Tube here  and we have also submitted the podcast to all your favourite platforms. The link to Spotify is here .

The trial episode, about the history of Brighton Labour Briefing, proved to be controversial.  John McDonnell MP welcomed the podcast as a “really great grass roots initiative.” Thanks, John.

One response to John McDonnell, when he invited people to listen to the podcast, stated very clearly that he “would rather put [his] right arm in a meat mincer!”

Graham Bash, a former editor of Labour Briefing, exercised his right of reply to our views on the pages of Labour Hub and you can read his response here  The debate between us is in effect an argument about the very essence of the old Labour Briefing tradition. You can judge whether you think he has left his political heritage behind.

The Labour Party Conference edition of the Labour Left Podcast is a long-form interview with the Labour Hub contributor and former Labour National Executive Committee member Liz Davies.

Liz talks about her experience as a dissenter in Blair’s New Labour drawing on her excellent book Through the Looking Glass, A Dissenter inside New Labour.

If you like what you hear, please help us promote the podcast by subscribing, hitting the like button, and giving us feedback. If you don’t like it tell us why – but there really is no need to put your arm in a mincing machine just because you don’t like it!

Click on one of the links below and get comfortable for a Labour Left roller coaster ride.  Prepare to find out how Liz helped take socialist feminism into the heart of local government, re-live the Battle of Leeds North East, find out how Liz then rose like a phoenix from the ashes to literally face Tony Blair across the table, question Clare Short’s recent rehabilitation, hear Liz’s views on Corbyn and Labour today. Finally, find out who Liz has appointed as the very first Labour Left Podcast class hero of the month.

Enjoy the show by clicking here for the You Tube version or here for Spotify. We have also submitted it to other podcast platforms so in time you should find it by searching for the Labour Left Podcast on your favourite platform.

As we said last time, debate and argument are the lifeblood of Labour democracy, so get stuck in on social media wherever you see the podcast posted.

You can find out more about Liz on her website Liz Davies.   She wrote about her views on the Labour Briefing heritage here  Briefing: The Personal is Political – Labour Hub. A few years ago Mike Phipps, now of Labour Hub, interviewed Liz on her return to the Labour Party here The Return of the Left | Labour Briefing (wordpress.com)

Finally, when you have watched it, please follow, like and comment on your provider platform. Even if you don’t like it, saying why in response helps push us up the algorithms. If you could give the show a plug on your own social media that would be lovely.

Solidarity.

The new podcast is brought to you by Bryn Griffiths, the podcast host, and Luke Robinson, the podcast editor.  We are both activists in the labour movement, Momentum and The World Transformed in North Essex. Bryn writes regularly for Labour Hub. You can follow Bryn on social media here