Grown Up Politics: 2. How can Andy Burnham deliver a future that works? With Rupert Read and Clive Lewis MP

About this episode

The episode discusses how Andy Burnham can address national and international challenges while navigating political and environmental crises.

As we (and everyone else) predicted a whole month ago in episode #341 , Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election for Labour and is going to be the next Prime Minister. So now the question is one we ask on this podcast all the time - how can we bring power to those with wisdom and wisdom to those with power? Specifically, how can he deliver a future that repairs the ruptures within our national and international culture in a time frame that works while in the face of biophysical collapse and the onward march of the political wing of predatory capital? In today's bonus episode, we're delighted to joined again by Rupert Read , Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, and newly, by Clive Lewis, the Labour MP for Norwich South to explore the potential of this pivotal moment. We recorded on one of the hottest days of one of the hottest years in human history with the El Niño effect due to ramp up considerably in the next 12-18 months. We're at a moment of geopolitical instability engineered by the hard-right (although here in the UK we have the summer silly-season comedy interlude of Nigel Farage deciding to charge the taxpayer for an unnecessary by-election and finding himself…

People in this episode

Guests: Rupert Read, Clive Lewis

Topics covered

• politics
• climate change
• geopolitical instability
• future planning
• power dynamics

Keywords

• Andy Burnham
• Rupert Read
• Clive Lewis
• politics
• climate change
• geopolitical instability
• future
• Labour
• Makerfield by-election

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Labour, Climate Majority Project

Places: UK

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