Personality Crisis
A podcast featuring John Cole of Balloon-Juice.com, New York Times Pitchbot and mistermix of heymistermix.com. The focus is on politics, and specifically the motivations and psychology of the personalities involved.
Personality Crisis
Episode 22: Jonn Elledge on Burnham, Starmer and Labour
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Jonn Elledge is a British author and journalist. He’s been columnist and assistant editor of the New Statesman, as well as a contributor to publications like The Guardian and I. He’s also the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders and A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions.
In this episode, Dylan Ris and Jonn discuss Britain’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and how Burnham might take Labour out of its defensive crouch. Jonn also discusses the stark economic realities post-Brexit, which “buggered” the economy.
Jonn’s Substack, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything: https://jonn.substack.com/
Jonn on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jonnelledge.bsky.social
Jonn’s author page at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B092PS3XJH
