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Farage's candid camera calamity — Emergencycast from Oh God, What Now?
Season 1 Episode 1893
Quick-fire reaction with News Statesman’s associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe and Jacob Jarvis. Given the Farage fallout, we had to record som…
2 months, 1 week ago
Burnham-Badenoch bust-up, Reform's griftfest, RIP Gloria Steinem – Weekly Wrap-Up with Seth Thévoz
Season 1 Episode 1892
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Burnham and Badenoch finally went head-to-head at PMQs. Who came out on top? Reform kicks off…
2 months, 1 week ago
What's really going on in Britain’s dodgy “vape shops”
Season 1 Episode 1891
Is that mini-mart laundering money? Why have five barbershops opened on the same street? And how can suspiciously empty phone repair shops afford to …
2 months, 1 week ago
Roy Cohn – The monster who created Donald Trump
Season 1 Episode 1890
Amoral attack dog for Senator Joe McCarthy during America’s Red Scare of the ’50s. Corrupt mob lawyer, cruel swindler and powerbroker. Racist. Closet…
2 months, 1 week ago
Burnham gets serious – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison
Season 1 Episode 1889
Setting up the stories for the week ahead… The carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over for Andy Burnham as Parliament returns with tricky …
2 months, 1 week ago
Parton is such sweet sorrow – Weekly Wrap-Up with Zoë Grünewald
Season 1 Episode 1888
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Dolly Parton’s death leaves the world brokenhearted but reflecting on a true rarity: someone …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside the clickbait storm – Hot Take Time Machine with Jonn Elledge and Miranda Sawyer
Season 1 Episode 1887
Hot Take Time Machine is back with Paper Cuts alumni Miranda Sawyer, Jonn Elledge and Jacob Jarvis sniffing out the strangest, worst – and occasional…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Lightbulb moments – John Elledge on the big ideas that created our world
Season 1 Episode 1886
We’re living through another technological revolution, but it’s easy to take for granted how much of the world around us was once a radical new inven…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Churchill, JFK, Mao, Alex Ferguson… The “great leader” is a myth, says Jared Diamond
Season 1 Episode 1885
Do great leaders actually matter? Or are they just being carried along by bigger forces – from timing to sheer dumb luck? It’s the question that unde…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Burnham’s summer review – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor
Season 1 Episode 1884
Burnham’s summer is coming to an end, how has his start in office gone? And what problems does he have to look forward to? Plus, there are new hackin…
2 months, 2 weeks ago