ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction

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🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

After a Trip episode about the meaning of mainstream, this time the gang go deeper into ‘Mainstream’ – that is, the new soft-left faction inside Labour. Yes, a festive episode about the inner workings of a political party! Don’t say we don’t spoil you. Jem, Nadia and Keir explain the emergence of Mainstream’s ‘radical realists’ […]

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0:00.0	This is acid man.
0:03.7	Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.
0:24.0	My name's Kea Milburn, and I'm joined as usual by my good friend Nadia Idle.
0:29.2	Hello.
0:30.3	And my other good friend, Jeremy Gilbert.
0:32.9	Hello.
0:34.1	And today we're discussing a new faction in the Labour Party called Mainstream.
0:40.8	No, don't turn off, let me explain what's going on.
0:43.9	We're in the middle of a series of episodes where we're trying to look at all of the different things that are going on in the left in the UK at the moment.
0:53.0	We started off with a main episode about parties and then did
0:56.1	a microdose about your party, the new left party that just formed on the weekend as we record
1:04.2	this. Then we've just recorded an episode on the concept of the mainstream as a setup really to discuss this new
1:13.5	faction mainstream. Then next we'll be discussing the concept of ecology and we'll be discussing
1:19.1	the Green Party and Zach Palanski's leadership of the Green Party and all that that involves.
1:25.8	So I've just explained why we're talking about mainstream.
1:30.2	Perhaps we should just get into it.
1:34.5	Perhaps Jeremy, you could just give us a little bit of a rundown on what is mainstream?
1:39.9	Where's it come from?
1:40.9	What's it trying to do?
1:42.2	Okay, sure.
1:43.2	Before I do that, let me just apologise to everyone listening for the fact that this is going to be an episode involving a lot of gemsplaining of the history of the soft left and things like this.
1:55.4	And this is, this is in effect going to be our festive episode.
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