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Oh God, What Now?

Can Centrism save the world… again?

Oh God, What Now?

Podmasters

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The Mandelson Files are beginning to dribble out and they don’t look good for Keir Starmer. Will this be the final albatross round the PM’s neck? Zoë Grünewald and Rafael Behr talk over the unfurling consequences of the second-worst files in the world. Plus, liberalism has taken a battering this past decade, but don’t worry! Centrism can still save the world. Bloomberg columnist Adrian Wooldridge’s new book Centrists of the World Unite! is a battle cry to get liberalism back into the game. What went wrong? What does liberalism even mean in the 21st Century? Does anything unite left liberals, neoliberals and managerial liberals and why do they keep screwing up? And in the battle between liberalism and tech power, who wins?  Buy Centrists of the World Unite! through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund Oh God, What Now? by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too ESCAPE ROUTES • Adrian recommends Southland on Netflix. • Zoë recommends anything by the Danish painter Anna Ancher but if you can get to the Dulwich Picture Gallery it’s definitely worth a visit.  • Raf has been reading Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett.  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Zoë Grünewald with Rafael Behr. Audio and Video Production by Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, we've got Simon on the line. Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they?

0:09.0

What are you for?

0:10.0

Welcome to McDonald's.

0:11.0

Have you get the six minutes, please?

0:12.0

Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year.

0:19.0

How's your night?

0:20.0

Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush.

0:23.6

Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's.

0:28.6

Now are all the traitors present?

0:32.6

Let's get started, shall we?

0:34.6

From rags to riches.

0:35.6

I'm so sick of this.

0:36.6

Working like a dog and being treated worse.

0:39.2

Yorkshire to New York.

0:40.8

Or climbers, you and me.

0:42.5

A life dedicated to revenge.

0:44.5

Let's make this an occasion to remember.

0:47.0

A Woman of Substance on Channel 4.

0:49.1

Stream now. Hello and welcome to O'Gob What Now, the politics podcast that would really like £547,000, but is open to negotiations.

1:09.6

On today's edition, the Mandelson files, currently the second

1:12.9

worst files in modern politics, have been slowly dribbling out this week. But what exactly

1:17.6

have we learned from them? And can Kirstama prove beyond reasonable doubt that if he was the one

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