In the pod today we kick around some of the issues raised by this week's Can Labour Win series: does the party fight the next election on the economy or change the record?
Will Woodward, the Guardian's head of politics, tells us that the finding's of this week's ICM poll points towards the former: if the economy picks up, so too may the fortunes of the party.
Anne Perkins, one of the paper's leader writers, is amazed, and pleased, to be reminded by Gordon Brown this week of a previous era's politics; Brown is pledging to run down the UK stockpile of nuclear weapons should America and Russia do so too – a big deal, Anne says.
And booze – the UK has banned smoking in public places but seems nervous of the chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson's proposal that the minimum price of alcohol should be raised. Michael White identifies a double standard there.
