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Pride and Prejudice – Can patriotism be a force for good?
Season 2 Episode 465
Has our perception of what it is to be patriotic been skewed by the likes of angry protesters parading outside a refugee hotel in Essex? And can the idea of patriotism ever be reclaimed from furious …
Published on 1 month ago
Teenage Rampage – Will votes at 16 help Labour?
Season 2 Episode 464
The government wants to lower the age of voting to 16. Does anyone really know why? Do most 16-year-olds even care about politics? And will it make even a shred of difference to election outcomes? Pl…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Stop getting change wrong! – Clive Lewis MP on Labour's stuttering start
Season 2 Episode 463
Keir Starmer suspended 4 ‘persistent rebels’ on Wednesday. Clive Lewis was not on that list, despite his many disagreements with his party, but he is on our podcast this week. We sat down with the MP…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The French Dispatch – Will Starmer’s migrant plan work?
Season 2 Episode 462
The Macron-Starmer love-in during the French President’s UK visit was guaranteed to enrage the Continuity Brexiters. But will their one-in-one-out migration plans actually deliver? Plus, is Britain’s…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
After Trump’s Big Bill – Death by a thousand tax cuts
Season 2 Episode 461
Donald Trump’s bill, we won’t be calling it beautiful, which takes from the poor and gives to the rich has passed into law. What’s in it and how easily did it get through Congress? Dr Colin Provost i…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Fear of Farage
Season 2 Episode 460
Fragmentation special! It’s all kicking off on the right and the left. Are our panic-stricken political classes talking Britain into a Farage premiership just by making it sound inevitable? And could…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
System of a Climbdown – Starmer: Year One ends in tears
Season 2 Episode 459
What better way for Labour to celebrate a year in power than with a humiliating climbdown on welfare? Political historian Steven Fielding joins the panel to discuss rebellions, “Austerity PSD”, and h…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Tiers for Keirs
Season 2 Episode 458
With Labour MPs rebelling over Keir Starmer’s planned cuts to welfare benefits – where does he stand now with his party and does even more trouble lie ahead? Plus, the UK’s new industrial strategy is…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Rivers of Bulls*it – Why is the modern right copying Enoch Powell?
Season 2 Episode 457
Dog whistle think pieces seem to be back in fashion and right wingers are more frequently using rhetoric that sounds a bit like Enoch Powell. Powell was condemned for Rivers of Blood, why isn’t sound…
Published on 2 months ago
Oh God, Not Now! – War in Iran and a Brexit anniversary
Season 2 Episode 456
Happy Dan Hannan Day! We “celebrate” nine years of Desperate Dan’s infamous Brexit prediction. Plus, War in and/or on Iran. Whatever happened to “America First”? Does Britain have any influence on Tr…
Published on 2 months ago