Hello, welcome back to our God What Now, I'm Andrew Harrison.

Today we are doing the Ogwin time warp again, we're recording on Wednesday, those triple

bi-elections are on Thursday and non-patreon people will be listening on Friday by which

time you'll know the results.

We don't, we're trapped in the past, like General Zod in the Phantom Zone, but fear not,

we are recording a special post-election emergency cast on Friday morning with Jacob

Jarvis, Axon Dreow and Zoe Greenwald, and they'll be making sense of it all for you in

a distant future, which we can have no comprehension of.

On today's show, though, the backlash against Labour's plans for the two-child cap-on benefits

continues to swirl, should be judge-starmer on a record he doesn't even have yet.

And while measures once described as the worst social policy ever, so stubbornly popular

with British voters, plus in a new, irregular series, we're going to be looking at some

of the big headaches that the next Labour government, Touchwood, will face.

This time defence, there's war in Europe, China's increasingly assertive, and the British

economy is badly weakened.

Can a starmer government make the British armed forces fit for purpose in a world that

is stretching them to breaking point?

And in the extra bit for Patreon backers, the consumer pint index.

Can the inflationary mess we find ourselves in, or be tracked back to the price of a pint?

Let's meet today's panel.

Arthur Snell is the host of Doomsday Watch and the author of How Britain Broke the World.

Hello Arthur.

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