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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. |
0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. |
0:24.9 | My name's Keir Milburn, and I'm joined as usual by my very dear friend Nadia Idle. |
0:30.9 | Hello. |
0:31.5 | And my other very dear friend, Jeremy Gilbert. |
0:34.5 | Hello. |
0:35.3 | And today we're discussing growth. |
0:38.3 | So why are we discussing growth? |
0:40.6 | Is it in the news or something? |
0:42.5 | Well, for one thing, the Labour government for the past year has made its claim that |
0:48.0 | it's delivering economic growth. |
0:51.3 | It's central legitimating proposition. |
0:55.2 | Their entire political project revolves around the idea that if they can create enough |
0:59.0 | economic growth, they'll be able to deliver improvements to services out of tax receipts |
1:05.5 | without having to significantly re-engineer the tax system in such a way is to have an actually redistributive |
1:12.0 | effect, which was, of course, the new Labour model. And it's obviously totally inappropriate |
1:19.1 | to Britain in 2025, but that's one reason to talk about growth. And then the whole concept of |
1:26.5 | growth, of economic growth growth there's like the central |
1:29.7 | aim of the of economic policy in a modern and capitalist economies we're thinking about there but |
1:37.3 | there's all these other ways in which the idea of growth or concept of growth function in our |
1:43.2 | culture and in ways that are related to that or different |
1:46.3 | from that. So the idea of personal growth is really important. We want to think about the ways |
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