Podcast Episodes

Plumber Occupied Government feat. Abigail Thorn

Episode 997

Our good friend Abi joins us to discuss the new EHRC guidance and the plan to spend billions of dollars on bathrooms. But first… we look to the skies…

13 hours ago

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*PREVIEW* The One Million Mayors of Manchesterism feat. Dan Davies

Episode 996

  Dan Davies, friend of the show and author of The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind…

5 days, 7 hours ago

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Graham the Storm feat. Annie Kelly

Episode 995

We’ve invited friend of the show and journalist Annie Kelly to discuss the recent far-right march in London, the online AI slop aspect of it, and the…

1 week ago

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*PREVIEW* White Skin, White Masks feat. Nish Kumar

Episode 994

We’ve brought on our friend and long-suffering literary correspondent Nish Kumar to discuss Matthew Goodwin’s new book that he wrote using AI while c…

1 week, 5 days ago

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Large Labubu Models feat. Adam Becker

Episode 993

We speak with astrophysicist and journalist Adam Becker about a new development: what if you could outsource even more aspects of your childcare, nam…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

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*PREVIEW* The Turing Chaser Test

Episode 992

In advance of the local elections, we got to witness a new phenomenon in British politics: Corbyning Without Corbyn. We also discuss Richard Dawkins …

2 weeks, 5 days ago

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A Milton Keynes of the Mud feat. Gareth Dennis

Episode 991

We welcome Gareth back to the show to discuss something he recently discovered: a planned private city of a million people? in Cambridgeshire? Suppos…

3 weeks ago

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*PREVIEW* Fair Working Apathy feat. Emiliano Mellino

Episode 990

  Emiliano Mellino from TBIJ joins us to discuss the upcoming (and some might say shortcoming) Fair Working Agency, and we ask the perennial questio…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

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The House that Garfield Built feat. Hettie O’Brien

Episode 989

Riley and November speak with journalist Hettie O’Brien about her book The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. It’s not…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

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*PREVIEW* The Fermentation Barge feat. Mattie Lubchansky and Jaya Saxena

Episode 988

It's the food one, in which we discuss the weird fixations of the Make America Healthy Again death cult and their particular emphasis on "real food,"…

1 month ago

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