Podcast Episodes

Is Labour finally being Labour?

Rachel Reeves has delivered her very first spending review, promising to ‘renew Britain’ with big cash boosts for the NHS, housing and defence. It’s a marked change of tone but the Tories are calling…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

How to protect abortion rights from the far-right

England and Wales is still - unbelievably - operating under an 1861 law that criminalises abortion access. An unprecedented rise in prosecutions and the rise of an aggressive US-style anti-abortion m…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Babies, Benefits and Black Lives Matter

Stay out of wombs Nigel! Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wants us to have more babies - which for new mum Coco feels like being bamboozled into being rightwing. Not only this, Farage is even coming for…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Gaza and Benefits: is Starmer changing course?

Reunited, Coco and Nish are finally back together in the studio to talk U turns, disability benefits, Brexit and… gimp masks? There’s a lot of politics to catch up on including some big shifts from t…

Published on 3 months ago

Pod Save an Island of Strangers

Coco’s back! She’s both sleep and politics deprived, but Nish is ready to fill her in.

The government's shake-up of legal migration laws landed this week - but the news has been dominated by one ques…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

How Labour should (but probably won’t) reset after Reform’s big win

There’s no ifs or buts - Reform had a won big in last week’s local elections - but it’s not all bad news. Near-total Tory wipeout, positive signs for the Liberal Democrats and Greens and a lesson for…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The UK Supreme Court ruling and the fight for trans rights

Episode 103

In the wake of the UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of woman should be based on biological sex, Nish and Zoë speak to LGBTQ+ activist Ellen Jones, author of "Outrage: Why the fight f…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nish and Coco spill the tea: your questions answered

Episode 102

As Parliament sits for Easter Recess, Nish and Coco dive into the PSUK mailbag to answer your burning questions. 

There’s the serious political questions - who are the real progressive party? How can …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s Tariffs: are you feeling liberated?

UPDATE: 10/04/25: President Trump has planned to pause extended tariffs on most countries for 90 days, while pushing ahead on plans to implement a 104% tariff on Chinese goods. A flat 10% tariff rema…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Waiting For The Apocalypse: tariffs, food security and the right to protest

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of sexually explicit and sexist song lyrics.

While we wait to see if Trump’s tariff juggernaut is going to squash our fragile economy, Nish and Coco count t…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago