Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMamdani – First we take Manhattan
Season 2 Episode 496
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoralty race electrifies the global Left, rocks the Democratic establishment and leaves Trump titanically unamused. What does it all mean? Plus: Do we need …
Published on 11 hours ago
Starmer’s dilemma – Electoral reform or Farage in No.10?
Season 2 Episode 495
After decades of waving away electoral reform, Labour and the Tories suddenly have a reason to question First Past The Post – the nightmare prospect of a Reform government. Has proportional represent…
Published on 3 days, 11 hours ago
System Failure – Why does British politics feel broken?
Season 2 Episode 494
British politics feels stalled and the only people benefiting are Farage and the quick-fix demagogues of Reform UK. Why is the debate about our national future frozen and what can we do about it? Spe…
Published on 1 week ago
Scary Migrants, Super Creeps – Can Britain break out of migration madness?
Season 2 Episode 493
A neurotic obsession with illegal migration is driving British politics rightwards, trapping the parties in an arms race of escalating harshness towards migrants. Now Tory far-righter Katie Lam want…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Jumping out of the Overton window – Is brainrot taking over politics?
Season 2 Episode 492
Reform UK just pulled off the sequel to the Jackie Weaver Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting, and it’s excellent. The leaked Zoom meeting from Reform’s flagship Kent County Council shows things ar…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Don’t mention the pension! – Can we avoid a two-tier society?
Season 2 Episode 491
The papers still dangle the dream of a sun-dappled retirement. Yet millions have nowhere near the savings they’ll need, while a fortunate few are amassing family wealth that could change Britain fore…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Starmer’s China Syndrome – plus Green MP Siân Berry on the new power balance on the Left
Season 2 Episode 490
After the collapse of the China spying case, do we have to accept that Britain is way past being able to spar with Beijing? Especially when we depend so much on their students? Green MP Siân Berry ta…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Card Declined – Inside the Digital I.D. Wars
Season 2 Episode 489
Labour want to bring in digital I.D. and many people do NOT like it. Are they right? Are they wrong? And what is the “Lethal Trifecta” that makes the plan so risky? Hannah Fearn is very opposed to di…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Is the Conservative Party dying? – Plus: What the Manchester terror attack means
Season 2 Episode 488
The Tory Party looks fatally damaged. Who hijacked the corpse at their conference in Manchester – Reform or Robert Jenrick? Josh Glancy of The Sunday Times was there and he explains whether there’s a…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Who would win a war in Europe?
Season 2 Episode 487
Nobody wants to imagine a large-scale war in Europe. But after Putin invaded Ukraine and Trump tore up Europe’s security guarantee, it’s horribly plausible. Is Russia as powerful as Putin wants us to…
Published on 1 month ago