May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

Do you hear that?

It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy.

At EDF, we're busy generating more British zero carbon

electricity than anyone to help keep future energy costs down for

everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. Sound good to you? Find out more about our

zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello I'm Serena Kaczynski, the digital editor of the New Statesman, and welcome to a special edition of the New Statesman podcast,

where over two exciting episodes we will explore the questions raised for the future of the left by our

New Times issue which is out now.

Joining me today will be Jason Cowley, the editor of the New Statesman, Colin Robinson,

the co-founder of All Books, and a New Statesman contributor who will give us the U.S.

perspective, and George Eaton

the New Statesman's political editor and later on I'll be talking to Phil Collins

no not the pop star the former Tony Blair speech writer who's now a columnist for The Times,

and Roswin Jones, the journalist and campaigner who writes for the Daily Mirror,

and has been up and down the country interviewing people in the wake of the Brexit

vote.

Jason, would you like to first maybe outline where the idea for the New Times issue came from and what the history of the concept is?

New Times echoes back to the famous or the celebrated Marxists in today issue called New Times in October

1988 when Martin Jack's the editor Stuart Hall and other contributors were attempting to analyze what they saw as the

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