Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman

About this episode

Maurice Glasman discusses the implications of recent scandals involving Peter Mandelson and the legacy of New Labour politics in Britain.

Just a week ago, the architect of Starmer’s rise to power, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over his connections to Peter Mandelson, after further proof of Mandelson’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein emerged in the newest batch of files released by the US Department of Justice. According to this week’s guest, this scandal isn’t an anomaly, but an inevitable outgrowth of the New Labour politics that have shaped Britain since Tony Blair took office in 1994. Maurice Glasman is a Labour peer and founder of Blue Labour, a campaign group that unites culturally conservative values with left-wing economic policies. He sat down with Ash to talk about meeting Steve Bannon, Tottenham Hotspur, and what Marx got wrong.

People in this episode

Host: Ash

Guest: Maurice Glasman

Topics covered

• New Labour
• politics
• scandals
• Labour Party
• cultural conservatism
• left-wing economics

Keywords

• Mandelson
• New Labour
• Glasman
• politics
• scandal
• Labour Party
• Bannon
• Epstein

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Labour, Blue Labour, Tottenham Hotspur

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