From what I saw he's a "Orwell is a great socialist author" and "the USSR was fascist" kind of terminally white bourgeois British dude. Did he, like, watched a Hakim or JT video before accepting?? I hope it's because he's having a redemption arc or something
I take it as a credit to Tom Nicholas that he accepted the invite. For all the "he's not left enough" criticism the boys will get from having him on, Tom's going to get so much more hassle from people bleating "you appeared on a tankie podcast."
But they invited him and he accepted, and because of that connection a lot of minds that were closed to are going to be opened at least a little, and whenever that honest, communicative kind of connection happens, people shift left. Nichols is too astute to not have know that.
My optimistic self was thinking that too but you formulated it a lot better which helps me giving it credit. I hope his audience will at least take interest in hearing a more ML point of view and not go for the full liberal hive mind