Oh God, What Now?
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Oh God, What Now?
Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes. Regulars include: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • N...
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Card Declined – Inside the Digital I.D. Wars
Labour want to bring in digital I.D. and many people do NOT like it. Are they right? Are they wrong? And what is the “Lethal Trifecta” that makes the...
Is the Conservative Party dying? – Plus: What the Manchester terror attack means
The Tory Party looks fatally damaged. Who hijacked the corpse at their conference in Manchester – Reform or Robert Jenrick? Josh Glancy of The Sunday...
Who would win a war in Europe?
Nobody wants to imagine a large-scale war in Europe. But after Putin invaded Ukraine and Trump tore up Europe’s security guarantee, it’s horribly plau...
Starmer vs. Farage – Keir finally picks his enemy
Keir Starmer’s conference speech is getting heaps of praise after he finally went hard against Farage. But has he done enough to show he’s in control,...
Build, baby, build – Is Labour losing the Regeneration Game?
Labour has staked its future on building hundreds of thousand of homes and fixing up crumbling communities. But does “regeneration” actually work? Hou...
Enoch, Enoch, Who’s There? – Reform’s deranged repatriation plans
The ghost of Enoch Powell punches the air as Farage announces jaw-dropping plans for mass deportations and tearing up Indefinite Leave to Remain, clai...
So wrong, it’s right wing – Could Project 2025 happen in Britain?
Project 2025 gave Trump a roadmap for his authoritarian presidency. As the UK turns to the right, Reform UK is on the rise and fears over a Farage gen...
Inside the new ‘Battle for Britain’
British politics is increasingly divided – but where are voters really going as they shift between parties? And how should Labour recalibrate their ta...
Starmer drama – Who's in control of the Labour Party?
Starmer is Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party – but does he feel totally in charge of things? Plus, the race to be Deputy Leader of the Lab...
Britain’s Got Tyrants – Can any party out perform Reform?
Reform UK kicked off party season in the weirdest way possible – will any of the other parties be able to overshadow them in the coming weeks? Perhaps...
Angela’s Ashes: Rayner fallout – plus The Crazy World of Tony Blair
The (former) Deputy Prime Minister resigns literally two minutes before we press “record”. Regulars Rafael Behr and Andrew Harrison plus special guest...
It never Rayners, it pours — EmergencyCast
Angela Rayner’s out. The resignation, which most of us saw coming, finally happened on a Friday afternoon. Was her position really untenable, or could...
Reshuffles, Polanski, the EHRC on trans rights… and the Fight to Stay Sane
The Equality and Human Rights Commission new guidance on trans people’s rights is coming up. What will this mean for trans people in the UK and how di...
How to fix the future – with lessons from the past
Warning: contains hope for tomorrow! It sometimes feels like the polycrisis of global heating, collapsing democracy, job-killing A.I. and radicalisati...
The Very, Very Cross of St George
Who let the flags out? We look at the mania for running a Cross of St George or Union Jack up the nearest lamp-post, who’s fomenting it and why it’s s...
Confessions of an Unlikely MP – Chris Bryant on his astonishing life
One of the best-liked MPs in Westminster, Chris Bryant has led an incident-packed life as the title of his new autobiography A Life And A Half proves...
Why predict a riot? – The people who want Britain to explode
Robert Jenrick’s hanging out with the far-right at the migrant hotel protests, the Express claims “tens of millions” of Britons want a full-blown revo...
Israel and Gaza – The full picture and what happens next – with Dr Julie Norman
It seems like there’s no end to the horrors in Gaza, the torment of the Israeli hostages and Netanyahu’s expansionism. And the more events escalate, t...
“Farage will be found out” – ED DAVEY on how the Lib Dems can fight Reform and rival Labour
Ed Davey’s reborn Lib Dems are on a 100-year high with 72 MPs and a shot at becoming the conscience of progressive Britain. So why do Reform get all t...
Art of the Steal – Could Trump run for a third term?
The Constitution expressly forbids anyone from seeking a third term as US President. But since when did that ever stop Trump from doing anything? Ex-c...
Identity crisis – Are I.D. cards inevitable?
Is the hysteria around digital I.D. cards justified? Or should we simply realise this is the future and get on with it? Plus, how deep is the UK unive...
The ultimate A.I. explainer – Will it kill us all or make us rich?
In one of the most fascinating episodes we’ve ever done Alex Hern – A.I. writer at The Economist, who writes on A.I. but isn’t one himself – joins us...
Chaos Addicts – Why the Right wants a summer of anger
Far-right agitators are amping up protests against a migrant hotel in Epping and Farage claims Britain is “close to civil disobedience on a vast scale...
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Jezza’s Revenge – But will [party name here] hand power to Farage?
OK, the launch might have been a bit shambolic and the name isn’t settled – but will Corbyn and Sultana’s “Your Party”* have more impact than the aver...
Pride and Prejudice – Can patriotism be a force for good?
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 i...
Teenage Rampage – Will votes at 16 help Labour?
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 ev...
Stop getting change wrong! – Clive Lewis MP on Labour's stuttering start
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...
The French Dispatch – Will Starmer’s migrant plan work?
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 mig...
After Trump’s Big Bill – Death by a thousand tax cuts
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 easil...
Fear of Farage
Fragmentation special! It’s all kicking off on the right and the left. Are our panic-stricken political classes talking Britain into a Farage premiers...
System of a Climbdown – Starmer: Year One ends in tears
What better way for Labour to celebrate a year in power than with a humiliating climbdown on welfare? Political historian Steven Fielding joins the pa...
Tiers for Keirs
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...
Rivers of Bulls*it – Why is the modern right copying Enoch Powell?
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 w...
Oh God, Not Now! – War in Iran and a Brexit anniversary
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 “Amer...
Dawn of the Dread – Ten years of Trump
Trump came down that golden escalator ten years ago this week, and thus began America’s descent to the depths of madness. The gang looks back on his p...
Trump parade – The empire strikes out
Tanks for nothing… We look at the contrast between Trump’s pathetic North Korean-style self-celebration, the magnificent #NoKings protests, and the ho...
Hey, mid spender!
Rachel Reeves’ spending review is out – what’s in it and what do the panel think should have got more attention? Plus, Reform UK wants to bring the DO...
The Battle of the B*stards
The world is watching in horror as Los Angeles turns into a real-life immersive Rage Against The Machine song. Is the President looking for a Reichsta...
Burnham down the house – Is Starmer really under threat?
Seems like King in the North Andy Burnham fancies his chances of taking over Labour and giving the troubled government new direction. Is talk of a lea...
Vote of the Living Dead – Why British politics is ruled from beyond the grave
He’s old, he’s reactionary, he’s authoritarian-curious, he hates the EU… and he’s dead. Why are the main parties fixated on the demands of a zombie vo...