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Raw power – Is Trump turning America into a new Russia? – Bonus episode with Mark Galeotti
Season 2 Episode 510
Trump’s actions in Venezuela revealed how far he’s prepared to push his power – and how happy he is to act like Vladimir Putin. How will America’s in…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Oh God, What Now? Politics Awards 2025
Season 2 Episode 509
Who and what will receive our FIFA Peace Prize-style gongs for the year? Elon Musk for his brief, mayfly political life of casual mass murder? Trump …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
2025: The Year of Tragical Thinking – End of Year Special
Season 2 Episode 508
Thank God that’s nearly over… It’s been a grim old year in politics, so in the penultimate OGWN of 2025 our panel pores over the entrails of the year…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Westminster Village Idiots? – Parliament in 2025 with John Crace of The Guardian
Season 2 Episode 507
As 2025 spirals around the plughole of posterity, The Guardian’s parliamentary speechwriter John Crace joins us to look at the year inside the Westmi…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Trump to Europe: “Drop Dead”
Season 2 Episode 506
America’s new National Security Strategy is a hellish concoction of far-right obsessions, paranoid conspiracy thought, imperial fantasy, and outright…
7 months ago
Lost in the Far-Right Funhouse – How bots and fakes create a false, angry Britain
Season 2 Episode 505
Social media’s sewer pipe of white nationalism, conspiracy thought and violent far-right incitement is seeping into mainstream politics. But where is…
7 months ago
In-Fight Club – Your Party flames out
Season 2 Episode 504
What went wrong with “Your Party”? As absolutely nobody could have predicted, the new Left vehicle’s first conference collapses amid factional squabb…
7 months, 1 week ago
Can we get Britain out of its hole?
Season 2 Episode 503
Britain is in trouble. Stagnating wages, collapsing public services and a feeble economy are turning politics angry and rancorous. Keir Starmer says …
7 months, 1 week ago
Big Budget Breakdown – Wage Against the Machine
Season 2 Episode 502
Behind all the predictable shrieking about “tax raids”, what really happened in Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed misery Budget? And what’s behind Labour’…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Tech Sucks – Cory Doctorow on Enshittification and how to fix it
Season 2 Episode 501
It’s the word of the moment. “Enshittification” is the reason Google is all ads and no useful results, Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products, …
7 months, 2 weeks ago