Andrew Miller

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175 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · It’s not easy being Green: Zack Polanski · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

Polansky's first hand experience of precarity makes him, for many of these people, a timely tribune of the gig economy.

Let's tell us a bit about your Lib Dem years.

So um It's a really embarrassing bit.

By his own admission, Polansky had little interest in political parties in his youth.

Then in twenty fifteen he joined one.

Not the Greens, but the centrist lib dems.

His choice and timing were curious.

The Lib Dems were coming out of a coalition government with the Conservatives, which had made them extremely unpopular.

But for a young man keen to be noticed, the choice made a kind of sense, since clambering up a defeated party is easier than rising in a buoyant one.

Former Libdem colleagues of Polansky's who I spoke to have two memories of him.

One is that he broke into an a cappella rendition of Ain't Nail Mountain High Enough on stage at a party conference.

And the second is that he tried to secure the party's candidacy for a parliamentary by-election in twenty sixteen.

According to Lib Dem Law, when he failed, he flounced out.

Polanski switched to the Greens in twenty seventeen and four years later was elected as a member of the London Assembly, a job he still holds alongside his party leadership.

Under him, the Greens have become a vehicle for what is sometimes called eco populism or eco-socialism.

The party's still interested in the environment, but it's a much less prominent issue than the kind of economic grievances that animate the new left everywhere, in particular squeezing the rich.

Polansky's emphasis on affordability for ordinary people and his talent for short-form propaganda have encouraged comparisons to Mamdani in New York.

An analogy Polansky liked less is with Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, an anti-immigrant right-wing party in Britain.

Each is accused of offering simplistic solutions to complicated problems.

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