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Back to SearchPeppa Pig Strikes Back: What fiction and fantasy can teach us about government, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 142
We’ve all had quite enough reality for another year. So the IfG podcast team escape back into the worlds of fiction and fantasy to discover what they…
4 years, 4 months ago
Peppa Pig Strikes Back: What fiction and fantasy can teach us about government, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 142
We’ve all had quite enough reality for another year. So the IfG podcast team escape back into the worlds of fiction and fantasy to discover what they…
4 years, 4 months ago
One Hell of a Kicking for Boris Johnson
Season 1 Episode 141
A seismic North Shropshire by-election result rocks the Johnson government, handing a seat that’s been almost exclusively Conservative for 200 years …
4 years, 4 months ago
Ain’t no Party like a Number 10 Party
Season 1 Episode 140
After a week of denying that any party took place at Downing Street last Christmas, Boris Johnson has asked Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to investiga…
4 years, 5 months ago
Why Does It Always Rayn On Keir?
Season 1 Episode 139
When Angela Rayner stood up to set out her vision for restoring trust in public life, news broke that Keir Starmer had started to reshuffle his team.…
4 years, 5 months ago
“Is everything OK, Prime Minister?”
Episode 138
The Prime Minister’s speech to the CBI, in which he enthused about Peppa Pig and lost his place for 20 excruciating seconds, has caused concern in Go…
4 years, 5 months ago
Sleaze into Another Week
Season 1 Episode 137
As Boris Johnson struggles to shake off questions about standards and MPs’ second jobs, what’s the latest in the never-ending row gripping Westminste…
4 years, 5 months ago
“Not Remotely A Corrupt Country”
Season 1 Episode 136
As the Owen Paterson mess unspools to expose Geoffrey Cox’s novel approach to working from home and much more, has the Government set off a multi-pol…
4 years, 5 months ago
A Massive Owen Goal
Season 1 Episode 135
In a series of unforced errors, the Government first whips its MPs to rescind the suspension of OWEN PATERSON MP for lobbying and rethink the entire …
4 years, 6 months ago
Budget post-mortem: A new age of optimism?
Season 1 Episode 134
On 27 October, Rishi Sunak presented his third budget and the first multiyear spending review since 2015. Now the dust has settled, what did we learn…
4 years, 6 months ago