'What's Left?' is a progressive political podcast for the generation tasked with returning order to political chaos.
With 'Left/Right' no longer a clear distinction for our politics, what does it really mean to be on the political 'left'? And given the enormous change we're living through, what is left of our values, institutions and political systems?
Co-hosts Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Freddie Feltham are ex-Labour Party staffers, who have scrapped with Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate between them. Through in-depth chats with friends and experts inside Westminster and beyond, we hope to reveal what's really at stake as civilisation crosses the AI Rubicon.
This is a show for anyone fed up with the status quo; ready to listen, learn and do in pursuit of a better and fairer future. Oh - and we wanna have some fun with it too.
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Is Western Intervention Ever Justified? - Owen Jones
Season 2 · Episode 31
Thursday, October 15, 2026 • Duration 01:33:51
In our latest escapade to widen discourse on the Left, we sat down with Owen Jones to discuss his latest book, 'The Fall of The West'.
Certainly, Owen Jones is a polarising figure in British politics. Once upon a time, he was the leading talking head representing Labour under Corbyn. But he has since become a campaigner in his own right, now known across the globe for taking the mainstream media (and indeed his old party) to task over its coverage of the Middle East.
Owen's latest book looks at the broader demise of the West - an analysis shared with many on the populist right. His argument is that hubris has created decline, pushing the West to wage backfiring foreign wars that have destroyed its credibility, created global instability and added huge debts to an already crumbling financial model.
In this discussion we traverse the large expanse of modern foreign policy, how domestic politics has become polarised and address the numerous criticisms of Owen's anti-imperialist politics.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:47 How Do You Define ‘The West’?
10:12 Critiquing Corporatist Capitalism
14:45 Could The Left Predict The Rise of Fascism?
20:53 A New Left Political Economy
29:02 The Green’s ZiR Motion
38:42 The Two State Solution
47:47 ‘From The River To The Sea’
52:12 Is Western Intervention Ever Justified?
1:02:02 NATO, Putin and Ukraine
1:10:38 What About Anti-Western Ideology?
1:22:15 How Should We Defend Ourselves?
Can 'Trauma' Bring You Clout? - Catherine Liu
Season 2 · Episode 30
Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 01:34:58
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Catherine Liu is literally the best. That’s all you need to know.
Slip into this portal of coherent dissent and slide on to the class politics bandwagon.
We take the scalpel to identity politics, liberal illiberalism and bioated bureaucracy.
What’s your universal principle? Ours is to increase the labour share of surplus value relative to capital. A perennial struggle.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:45 Was Identity Politics A Psyop?
05:35 Woke 1 Was Crazier
09:53 Is Egg Freezing Anti-Feminist?
14:17 The Professional Managerial Class
21:22 Why Class Analysis Went Out of Vogue
26:36 Is Catherine’s ‘Working Class’ Ahistorical?
38:12 University’s IdPol Script
44:20 Depressed Wages and Mass Migration
51:35 Left-Liberal Death of Vision
55:46 The Satanic Panic
1:00:18 Ever-Enlarging Bureaucracy
1:06:20 Institution Building
1:16:17 Zombie Liberalism and Disability Dependency
Will The AI Bubble Burst - AI Minister Kanishka Narayan MP
Season 2 · Episode 29
Sunday, September 27, 2026 • Duration 55:05
We're delighted to be joined by the Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP. In our first episode from Labour Conference 2026, we discuss the backlash to AI doomsday warnings, the fragility of the AI economy and how this tech will be used - to the benefit or detriment of workers. As listeners will know, we've approached AI with a healthy dose of scepticism. Technology is itself neutral but the politics emerges in its application. We have plenty examples in history of how industrial revolutions disempowered workers before inevitable backlash and revolution. Do we need to wait for things to get bad? Or does the UK have a serious plan for a future that harnesses the white heat of technology? We delve into all of this and more, asking how the UK is preparing for the moral mission of worker-centric AI.
Should The Left Talk About Birthrates - Stephen J Shaw
Demographer Stephen J Shaw's research on global birthrates has become a cause célèbre of the radical right.
Since publishing his data on delaying parenthood as the cause for "unplanned childlessness", Stephen has been welcomed to the upper echelons of Right-wing discourse - with the likes of Jordan Peterson and appearances at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.
Undoubtedly, these are places that don't share our politics. So why have we hosted Stephen?
Well, because Stephen's research and his methodologies have been peer reviewed. His data, as much as we might find it uncomfortable, is real. And if the Left doesn't have an analysis for the effects of global birthrate decline, then the Right certainly will.
In this discussion, we explore Stephen's findings and why there has been cross-cultural delaying of parenthood. In particular we question why population decline would be harmful, how attitudes toward parenthood have changed and why the Right have co-opted this issue as their own.
Is there a case for a left-natalism, drawing on the innovations and heritage of social democracy?
Don't Worry About AI Apocalypse - Cory Doctorow
Season 2 · Episode 27
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 • Duration 01:20:52
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Meet Schrödinger’s AI apocalypse - it is / isn’t happening. Cory Doctorow is the final boss of AI criticism. His sophisticated understanding of computer science paired with science fiction writing talents means he gets a good story about the future.
AI companies have been spending billions. Much of it has been in data centre buildout that is filtering out into the US economy though at a ~2% growth rote. But the rest has been in marketing budgets, selling us an ideological story about how AI will take on all the menial tasks we don’t want to do.
We don’t have our heads in the sand. There have been some monumental breakthroughs in computing power that is solving millennial maths problems, creating hyper-targeting weaponry and surveillance, advancing exotic isotope development for cures for cancer. It is enhancing what some, who use the software proficiently, are able to achieve.
Yet AI is not infallible. AI will not inevitably replace human labour. Like every political tradeoff, it is a choice.
Something has changed in recent days. En masse, the major AI players of Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk have agreed to a slowdown in AI buildout. Why? Because, they say, too many AI safety researchers are raising alarm bells of a mass extinction possibility from this tech.
So is it time to hit panic stations?
Cory Doctorow is not convinced. All the most threatening things tech is capable of: shutting down economies, ransomware cyber attacks, monopoly rent extraction, are risks we are already living with. If you’re worrying about the future, you should be worried about today.
Exposing The Slopulist-Right Money Machine - Decoding The Gurus
If you want a counter-counter-culture take based on FACTS and LOGIC, look no further than the Decoding the Gurus podcast. Who said there is nothing sexy about being sceptical about scepticism, defending institutional arguments or stress-testing scientific methodologies?
Matthew Brown and Chris Kavanagh have been dissecting the internet’s favourite gurus for over 5 years - debunking conspiracies and critically evaluating the totalising philosophies of these alternative media sensations.
It certainly seems that there are more gurus today than ever before. The internet and in particular video-based media is servicing a special kind of cult-like business, enabling mass dissemination and pseudo-community.
So why is it that there are more right-wing gurus than left-wing ones? What do the politics of online gurus tell us about wider society? Is there a grievance-mongering machine that is pointing people away from organised religion to a digital silo where they must pay for a worldview?
We answer all of this and so much more!
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Will Andrew Tate Face Justice in the UK? - Matt Shea
Friend of the show, Matt Shea, returns for an update on the Andrew Tate case and a meaty analysis of Looksmaxxing CEO Clavicular.
Are young boys really looking up to these jokemen? Has the media misunderstood the manosphere as a moral panic? Or does it reveal something deeper about the gender wars and who is funding them?
Matt is your most hated grifter's worst enemy. An ex-VICE documentarian, Shea has investigated some of the most notorious stories. It led him to making a series of docs on Andrew Tate, where he spent intimate time with the Tate brothers and their 'War Room' in Romania.
Shea now co-hosts the BBC's new podcast 'Top Comment' which looks at disinformation and online subcultures. It's worth a listen if you've exhausted all your WL episodes while poolside chilling this summer x
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00:00 Intro
03:54 Louis Theroux’s Manosphere Documentary
07:48 Manosphere Ideology
10:15 Truth About Looksmaxxing
The Anti-Tech Revolution is Coming - Beeban Kidron
Season 2 · Episode 24
Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 01:09:20
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Baroness Kidron completed Hollywood. She could be living the high life. Instead she's outchea trying to take down the latest Frankenstein of Capitalism: Big Tech.
Beeban is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and has dedicated the latter stage of her career to keeping children safe online. It's somehow a contentious topic. Are children safe on the internet? Or has our generation been exposed to irreparable harms?
We discuss all this and more: what does AI sovereignty look like? How has Britain been captured by American corporate interests? What can we do to fight back?
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:15 Growing Up With Socials
07:20 Gen-Z, The Anxious Generation?
13:08 Does Big Tech Own Us?
17:03 Corporate America's Capture of Westminster
22:00 How the Tech Broligarchy Took Over
26:35 AI Sovereignty
32:05 What Could Spark the Anti-Big-Tech Revolution
39:15 The UK's AI Security Institute
43:23 Temporarily Embarassed Millionaires
48:14 Destruction of Real Life Communities
Is Restore Ethno Nationalist? - Peter McCormack, Hassan Damluji
Season 2 · Episode 23
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 01:51:05
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FIRST EVER RESTORE SUPPORTER IN THE HOT SEAT.
WHATS LEFT, WHATS RIGHT, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
INFLATION, MONETARY POLICY, CRYPTO, IMMIGRATION, CULTURE, DEMOCRACY, DEPORTATIONS, BILLIONAIRES, TAXES, LIBERTARIANISM, ECONOMIC GROWTH... WE COVER IT ALL.
CONSIDERED PUTTING IT BEHIND A PAYWALL... NAHHHH. But please please please consider donating to our show either via substack or by https://studio.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard . We need donations to keep our ting going.
Big ups to Peter McCormack for joining us for an open and wide ranging discussion on why he'd vote for Restore! Peter is one of Restore's biggest supporters, with a podcast sporting over 400k subscribers talking about crypto, economics and the right-wing side of the culture wars. While we might disagree on much, we are very grateful for giving us his time with his contribution to this episode!
Great to also see Hassan Damluji (WL #6) return to the stu for his second outing. If you liked Hassan's bars, he'll be returning soon with a show of his own. You can find out more about the work of his think tank, Global Nation by dropping him a follow @hassandamluji on all socials.
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Independent Journalism Or Harassing Politicians? - Jack Roworth
Season 2 · Episode 22
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 01:12:35
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This one is gonna set the cat amongst the pigeons.
In the spirit of openness and fair hearings, we've decided to bring Jack Roworth on the show.
Jack is a controversial online figure - a young man (the youngest to ever grace the stu at 19 years old) - who has been documenting his life on social media.
From messy sesh content to dangerous japes abroad, Jack broadcasted his antics as he was spiralling down alcohol and cocaine addiction.
He became a mainstay of the cursed TikTok algorithmic circus, feeding viewers viral drips often under the influence. He is not the first, nor will he be the last, of this zany and alarming content.
Jack left school at 14, flunked his GCSEs and has since been raising himself amidst the hedonic pulls of adult society. For a period he was a NEET, (not in education, employment or training).
But about a year ago, Jack decided to get sober. Concentrating his entrepreneurial spirit into journalism, he's now on a clip farming journey around Westminster and beyond.
Jack's recent doorstepping of Reform's Richard Tice and Robert Jenrick, his local MP in Newark, has been the subject of criticism on the Right. The Telegraph's Camilla Tominey called Jack and other 'faux journalists' out for harassing politicians. Jack's defence is that he is asking questions in the public interest.
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With the context of the brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe, you can understand the heightened concerns around MPs safety. Widdecombe is the third MP to be murdered in a decade.
Does this new style of independent journalism amount to genuine scrutiny? Or is it simply a new vehicle for virality, used to intimidate those in public office to push a certain agenda?
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19:53 Public Interest Journalist
26:30 Growing Up and Going Viral
31:45 Jack's Education and Community
38:04 Jack's Cocaine + Alcohol Addiction
45:51 How Did Jack Become Political?
50:15 Planning Jack's Career
55:50 Friends Who Went Down the Wrong Path
1:02:01 Do Reform Understand the White Working Class
