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Cruel Britannia – Labour loses it on migration
Season 2 Episode 500
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked a backlash and it’s not clear they’ll even work. So, why have they gone down this route? What option…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Deface The Nation – Is Trump starting to lose? – with Molly Jong-Fast
Season 2 Episode 499
Is Trump finally falling apart? His approval ratings are catastrophic, the Republicans took a hammering in the November elections, his gross-out dist…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Make Auntie Great Again – Will Trump destroy the BBC?
Season 2 Episode 498
Trump and the right wing press are gleefully hounding the BBC over a clumsy speech edit – will they succeed in taking down the broadcaster? Plus, man…
8 months ago
Budget ’25 – Why Rachel Reeves should hold her nerve
Season 2 Episode 497
Tax rises! Cuts to everything! Here comes the pain! Seldom has a Budget been heralded with such dire warnings… if you believe the Toryform Press. But…
8 months ago
Mamdani – First we take Manhattan
Season 2 Episode 496
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoralty race electrifies the global Left, rocks the Democratic establishment and leaves Trump titanically …
8 months, 1 week ago
Starmer’s dilemma – Electoral reform or Farage in No.10?
Season 2 Episode 495
After decades of waving away electoral reform, Labour and the Tories suddenly have a reason to question First Past The Post – the nightmare prospect …
8 months, 1 week ago
System Failure – Why does British politics feel broken?
Season 2 Episode 494
British politics feels stalled and the only people benefiting are Farage and the quick-fix demagogues of Reform UK. Why is the debate about our natio…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Scary Migrants, Super Creeps – Can Britain break out of migration madness?
Season 2 Episode 493
A neurotic obsession with illegal migration is driving British politics rightwards, trapping the parties in an arms race of escalating harshness tow…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Jumping out of the Overton window – Is brainrot taking over politics?
Season 2 Episode 492
Reform UK just pulled off the sequel to the Jackie Weaver Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting, and it’s excellent. The leaked Zoom meeting from Ref…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Don’t mention the pension! – Can we avoid a two-tier society?
Season 2 Episode 491
The papers still dangle the dream of a sun-dappled retirement. Yet millions have nowhere near the savings they’ll need, while a fortunate few are ama…
8 months, 3 weeks ago