Labour’s instinctive aversion to regicide means Starmer is probably safe for now. Shabana Mahmood is so right-wing that even the current Labour Party would baulk at making her leader. Labour’s approach to this electoral threat has so far been incoherent. But such an account, without a wider sense of the country’s structural problems, inherited traditions and peculiarities, or parallel phenomena in other countries, can degenerate into a form of court gossip. In its first episode, available today, we ask questions about Labour’s stalled government and the country’s uncertain future.