Identity Crisis: Keir Starmer’s Britain and Kamala Harris’s United States

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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• New second live date in Liverpool, TUE 24 SEPT. Tickets here. • OGWN Live in Hove, Weds 9 Oct. Tickets here. Labour’s aspiration to transcend culture wars is easier said than done. What’s Starmer’s take on the politics of identity and can he paint a more hopeful picture of Britain? Director of British Future and author of How to Be a Patriot, Sunder Katwala, joins the panel. Plus the DNC has got Democrats hyped, but how unified are Democrats really? And what is Kamala Harris’s vision for America? Plus, in The Extra Bit for subscribers, race riots have kept everyone busy this August, a month where nothing usually happens. So away from all of that, what has been keeping the panel sane? • Get our exclusive Nord VPN deal here – nordvpn.com/ohgodwhatnow. It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Marie Le Conte and Matt Green. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Video production by: Kieron Leslie and Chris Jones. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A Family Day Out with a Difference
0:02.0	Join the race to help build the new Children's Cancer Center at Great Orman Street Hospital.
0:07.0	RBC Race for the Kids, a family festival and fun run, is coming back to London Hyde Park on Saturday 12th of October.
0:14.0	Bring the whole family to walk jog or scoot, 2K or 5K
0:18.0	and enjoy a day full of music, games and entertainment.
0:21.0	All while supporting Great Orman Street Hospital Children's Charity.
0:25.6	Kids Go Free.
0:27.0	Sign up to date at gosh.org slash race. Welcome to Oh God What Now, I'm Dorian Linsky. On today's show, Labor's aspiration to transcend culture
0:45.3	wars is easier said than done. What starmers take on the politics of identity and can he
0:50.0	paint a more hopeful picture of Britain. Meanwhile over the pond the Democratic
0:53.8	National Convention has gone big on unity and progressive patriotism. What is
0:57.9	Carmelah Harris's America? And in the extra bit for supporters it's been a funny
1:01.8	old summer with racist riots and American
1:03.8	election drama keeping politics front and centre despite the parliamentary recess.
1:08.3	So what's been cheering us up?
1:10.2	Let's meet today's panel.
1:11.2	First author and columnist Marie Lacont. Hi Marie.
1:13.2	Hello. As you noticed, some lawyers had protested that Angela Rayna's crackdown on workplace harassment
1:18.4	could kill the office party. Are these lawyers people you would want to be at an office party with?
1:23.6	I would love nothing more actually.
1:25.6	I've emailed them all to be like, you know, clearly sound like your great crack.
1:29.2	No, it's quite a nod story.
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