{"podcast":{"title":"What's Left? With Jovan + Freddie","slug":"what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642","podcast_index_feed_id":7312642,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/20250428_100455_d8247ddbed27fddf8fc93a901706c97a.png","author":"What's Left? With Jovan + Freddie","episode_count":34,"summary":"'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. Jovan + Freddie","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T02:17:39.272409+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642"},"episode":{"title":"Can Class Consciousness Overcome the Culture Wars? - Ash Sarkar","slug":"can-class-consciousness-overcome-the-culture-wars-ash-sarkar","published_at":"2026-03-23T13:27:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642/can-class-consciousness-overcome-the-culture-wars-ash-sarkar","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/2653338","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/327403/2653338/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/2026_03_23_13_04_54_976a358e-6e8b-4272-856e-7ccb952c5fa0.mp3","summary":"JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft Early Access to Ad-Free Extended Interviews Ask our Guests Questions LIVEs with Jovan + Freddie WL Book Club + Community Discussion Articles + Exclusive Content ********************************************** Ooooo yesss it's another WL x Novara crossover, as Ash Sarkar joins us in the studio! You know there's nothing we love more than a chaotic chat about political theory with a few gags mixed in – you are certainly entitled to question whether any of it is useful beyond a collective intellectual ego massage. We hope it is lol. Ash joins us following the paperback launch of her latest book 'Minority Rule' which explores how the left is losing the culture wars, and needs to get serious about political organising if it is to resist the surge of the radical right. In this convo, we drill into the deep fissures in class consciousness and whether there needs to be more than the condition of downward economic mobility to unite a political program that challenges the status quo. It's bleak reading on the current electoral map, where the left looks splintered and is tearing lumps out of itself, and any number of unpredictable outcomes could result from our first past the posts electoral system. So don't expect any prophesies from us... But what we defend is the important work of getting out into your community, meeting real people and searching for common ground. Getting organised is the only way real change becomes possible - and if the upshot of this conversation is that you open communications with people who think differently, then that is a good thing for our democracy whatever your political stripes. As always, the one thing we're striving for here is more intellectual curiosity, a willingness to learn and the courage to chang…","meta_description":"JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft Early Access to Ad-Free Extended Interviews Ask our Guests Questions LIVEs with Jovan + Freddie WL Book Club…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5066,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642/episodes/can-class-consciousness-overcome-the-culture-wars-ash-sarkar/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642/can-class-consciousness-overcome-the-culture-wars-ash-sarkar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}