Burnham, Polanski, the Collapse of Neoliberalism and How a New Song Might Sound

Hello, welcome to the Echo Chamber podcast. My name is Tony Grose and folks, before I come to our guest today, one of my favorite guests it has to be said, I just want to say if you haven't heard the podcast with the doctor we just recorded in Gaza, Adnan Abu-Lel Adnan, pediatrician, please do check it out. I know a lot of

people now wanted to skip conversations that happen around Gaza because it's it can be quite heavy or you're onto something else or whatever it is, but it was um it just was really impactful to hear a guy talk about the the children he sees and people who have children who've been traumatized or

if even if they haven't been really exposed to the genocide in Gaza, the impact of a lack of medicine when it was required, of the impact of sewage in the water, lack of proper nutrition, and you know, the kids with gastroenteritis, all of these things that we we would probably call adverse childhood experiences and the lifelong

impacts they can have. He gets quite emotional, but I think it's really really important and I'm grateful for him. You've no idea guys, it took him hours just to get an internet connection, so we're very grateful for him to actually to to to take the time and I would say if he can do that, you

can go back and listen to it. Anyway, parking that now and coming to where everything is actually fixed now, um we've spent years on this podcast talking about the problems of the UK, but it turned out all you needed was Keir Starmer in a with a Manc Liverpool kind of attitude and a t-shirt. Um our returning champion

Professor Richard Murphy, Richard, you're back and you were so wrong. Andy's in and everything everything the vibes have changed everything. It's all good now. >> I thought about giving up. What is the point of carrying on? Andy has solved all the problems. Everything from the fact that Manchester City have never broken a financial rule. They never