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Britain’s Got Tyrants – Can any party out perform Reform?
Season 2 Episode 480
Reform UK kicked off party season in the weirdest way possible – will any of the other parties be able to overshadow them in the coming weeks? Perhap…
10 months ago
Angela’s Ashes: Rayner fallout – plus The Crazy World of Tony Blair
Season 2 Episode 479
The (former) Deputy Prime Minister resigns literally two minutes before we press “record”. Regulars Rafael Behr and Andrew Harrison plus special gues…
10 months ago
It never Rayners, it pours — EmergencyCast
Season 2 Episode 478
Angela Rayner’s out. The resignation, which most of us saw coming, finally happened on a Friday afternoon. Was her position really untenable, or coul…
10 months, 1 week ago
Reshuffles, Polanski, the EHRC on trans rights… and the Fight to Stay Sane
Season 2 Episode 477
The Equality and Human Rights Commission new guidance on trans people’s rights is coming up. What will this mean for trans people in the UK and how d…
10 months, 1 week ago
How to fix the future – with lessons from the past
Season 2 Episode 476
Warning: contains hope for tomorrow! It sometimes feels like the polycrisis of global heating, collapsing democracy, job-killing A.I. and radicalisat…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Very, Very Cross of St George
Season 2 Episode 475
Who let the flags out? We look at the mania for running a Cross of St George or Union Jack up the nearest lamp-post, who’s fomenting it and why it’s …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Confessions of an Unlikely MP – Chris Bryant on his astonishing life
Season 2 Episode 474
One of the best-liked MPs in Westminster, Chris Bryant has led an incident-packed life as the title of his new autobiography A Life And A Half prove…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Why predict a riot? – The people who want Britain to explode
Season 2 Episode 473
Robert Jenrick’s hanging out with the far-right at the migrant hotel protests, the Express claims “tens of millions” of Britons want a full-blown rev…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Israel and Gaza – The full picture and what happens next – with Dr Julie Norman
Season 2 Episode 472
It seems like there’s no end to the horrors in Gaza, the torment of the Israeli hostages and Netanyahu’s expansionism. And the more events escalate, …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
“Farage will be found out” – ED DAVEY on how the Lib Dems can fight Reform and rival Labour
Season 2 Episode 471
Ed Davey’s reborn Lib Dems are on a 100-year high with 72 MPs and a shot at becoming the conscience of progressive Britain. So why do Reform get all …
10 months, 4 weeks ago