Podcast Episodes

David Lammy's plan to stop Farage | Exclusive interview

The Deputy PM believes that Labour can beat the threat of the populist right, Nigel Farage and Reform. Lammy says that Labour can achieve this by tackling the cost of living crisis, uniting the centr…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

England's most deprived areas revealed

Which are the most deprived neighbourhoods in England and how might this map onto voter intent?

Anoosh Chakelian is joined by senior data journalist Ben Walker, to discuss what we can learn from the E…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Abolish the rotten monarchy

Another bad week for Prince Andrew. You could say the man hasn’t had a good week since 2011. Although, actually, he does live in a 30-bedroom mansion in Windsor and enjoyed a million quid a year from…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Can Labour afford to raise taxes?

With the Autumn budget looming, the government has some tough decisions to make. Rachel Reeves has to find a predicted £30bn in extra revenue to meet her self-imposed fiscal rules.

But as part of its …

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Should Labour sack Starmer to beat Reform?

The Caerphilly by-election proves Reform can be beaten. But is Keir Starmer the man to do it?

Last week voters in Caerphilly confounded pundits by electing their first Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, becoming - at the time - the youngest person ever to d…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The death of Welsh Labour

Is Welsh Labour dead?

Plaid Cyrmu won an historic victory in the by-election, trouncing Labour who had been dominant for over 100 years.

The "middle child" as Plaid's new MS describes them, also beat …

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Labour loses Caerphilly for first time in over 100 years

After 14 attempts, Lindsay Whittle has won the Caerphilly seat in South Wales for Plaid Cymru. Reform came in second with over a third of the vote, and Labour trailed in third with 11%. A devastating…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer is failing Britain

Andrew Marr says he thought Labour would fix everything, but: "I was wrong".

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Andrew Marr is stepping down as political editor of the New Statesman. In this, his last regular podcast appearance (he'l…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Why the Trump-Putin summit fell apart

Donald Trump's planned summit with Vladimir Putin is cancelled. Here's why.

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Less than a week after Donald Trump offered to meet Vladimir Putin in Budapest, the proposed summit has already fallen apa…

Published on 1 month ago