Lewis Goodall
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Your lives have to be transformed.
However big tech firms want,
you wait for a mother of all backlashes and for populist forces to come along and go, no, they don't.
Well, except that boosted inequality, just as AI revolution might well boost inequality profoundly.
Look at what's going on with youth unemployment at the moment.
But this is why I was saying that, just quickly, John, this is why I was saying that a Blair at his political peak, which would have been probably in the first five to seven years, I think would not have written...
this essay and if he had written this essay would have been precisely valuable he's forgetting why he was successful at his most successful at his most successful the reason that his politics had such purchase and such power albeit in a different political age is because he was seen to marry labour visions of social justice with a dynamic free market economy and in this he is shorn
of the first and only relies on the latter.
And as a result, he does the thing which he always used to criticise his opponents for, which is to say that the important thing about politics is to maintain your values.
And he doesn't speak about values at all in this essay.
It is basically valueless to maintain your values, but your policies update over time.
All he's doing is talking about policy and not about values.
And that's just political death in the modern era.
When was the last time he spoke to an ordinary voter?
That's what I was just saying.
In which case, that's completely against what Blair was saying.
Because if you were just listening to a Blair prospectus, you would just allow this to just happen.
Well, there's a really important report out today which links back to the conversation to some extent that we've just had about some of the things Tony Blair was saying and about what the government can do to reinvigorate our economy.
This specifically relates to young people and young people who are not in education, training or employment, so-called NEETs.
And there is now a million young people in this situation, a new record.