Episode 137 - Bab News For Labour

The Labour leadership contest is now a four-way race, with the anointed right-wing wrecker candidate Jess Phillips pulling out to spend more time doing softball interviews with journalists who won't ask her difficult questions about "leadership" and "vision of the future" and "what policies would you change in the 2019 manifesto?" The media have unanimously declared the disintegration of the Phillips campaign a most lamentable tragedy, which they attribute to the Labour membership being unable to handle her truth, and her "authentic authenticity". We have a different take, and in this episode we talk about the phenomenon of politician-as-media confection, as well as the latest addled ravings of former left-winger Paul Mason, and - naturally - we check in on our old friend Michael John Gapes.