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Behind the News: Ruling-Class 'Chums' w/ Simon Kuper

Behind the News: Ruling-Class 'Chums' w/ Simon Kuper

On the Tories ruling Britain and the dispiriting Labour opposition.

Jacobin Radio · Jacobin

August 10, 202253m 0s

Show Notes

Doug speaks with Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. Then, an interview with James Meadway, director of the Progressive Economy Forum, on the dispiriting economics of the leader of the Labour Party, the drab Kier Starmer.


Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html