Casement's Leftovers
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★ - 1 ratingServing you hot, Irish republican takes like you wouldn't believe.
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Death of a Queen
March 21, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBLeo Varadkar has resigned, and we couldn’t be more upset about it Support the show
Pitchforks Out (w/ Gary Grimes)
February 27, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBWith an almighty Helen-shaped hole to fill, Glen and Matt recruit culture journalist Gary Grimes for a Boys Only episode on Pitchfork, and the culture media landscape in general. We talk lay-offs, the devaluing of culture writing, the changing tide of popular music, the artifice of celebrity, the cancer of fake authenticity, Stan culture, and the future of music & culture journalism. Do people even read articles anymore? How do you get a celeb to agree to an interview? And – obviously – what...
The ICJ & Israel (w/ Dr. Thomas MacManus)
February 01, 2024 02:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBLast Friday, January 26th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its provisional ruling in South Africa’s case against Israel, ruling that there is a “significant risk of Genocide” in Gaza. Both supporters of Palestine and Israel have declared the outcome of the case as a victory, while there has been disappointment that there was no order for an immediate and total ceasefire. So what are we to make of the ICJ’s ruling? Can we expect Israel to change its behaviour? And if not, what...
Class Films
January 26, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBBob Cratchit. Ron Weasley. Daniel Blake. Working class characters are often painted as humble folk, morally pure and deserving of our sympathy. But what if they're...not? Join us as we discuss truly progressive portrayals of the working class in film. Instead of patronising, what if films instead gave people agency over their own lives? Instead of portraying poverty as a purifying force, what if films were honest about the negative consequences of oppression on the subject? What if – and be...
Bad Gays, Good Faggots (w/ Hew Lemmey)
December 21, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBEver wondered why so many gays throughout history are so tragic, resilient and brave? This month Casement's Leftovers set fire to condescending stereotypes with incomparable author and historian Hew Lemmey. Hew -along with his co-host and author Ben Miller- have released the essential read; "Bad Gays", which explores identity formation and some of the more icky homosexuals which didn't make the draft for Pride month martyrs. Helen and Glen chat with Hew about awful gays, how same sex attr...
Bad Gays, Good Faggots (w/ Huw Lemmey)
December 21, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBEver wondered why so many gays throughout history are so tragic, resilient and brave? This month Casement's Leftovers set fire to condescending stereotypes with incomparable author and historian Huw Lemmey. Huw -along with his co-host and author Ben Miller- have released the essential read; "Bad Gays", which explores identity formation and some of the more icky homosexuals which didn't make the draft for Pride month martyrs. Helen and Glen chat with Huw about awful gays, how same sex attr...
Hot For Protest (w/ Vincent Bevins)
November 30, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBThe decade from 2010-2020 saw more mass protests around the world than at any other point in history. But why did, so often, these huge movements result in the exact opposite of what they had set out to achieve? We are joined by American writer and journalist Vincent Bevins (of The Jakarta Method) to discuss his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We have long been fans of Bevins' work, and we were delighted to be joined by him as we try to make sense ...
Force Fed Horror
October 31, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBHappy Halloween! We’re bringing you the scariest thing imaginable: an off-the-cuff episode. Glen, Matt and Helen challenge each other to watch their favourite horror movies (except Glen who doesn’t understand genres) and lap up each other’s reviews. We talk Freudian fears of violence and technology on the collective subconscious (guess the director), the limits of experimental arthouse horror and the bone-chilling terror of ending up cringe when you were going for camp. 17:30: Videodrome (...
The Good NATO (w/ CATU)
October 24, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBOn reclaiming the history of the 1970s rent strikes We were delighted to be joined by Fiadh Tubridy & Aisling Hedderman from CATU to discuss the latest CATU publication Rent Strike, which tells the untold story of one of the great Irish tenants' struggles. We discuss the details of NATO (National Association of Tenants Organisations) and the success of the rent strikes themselves, but also we try to apply the learnings to the modern day: what can we learn from the rent strikers of the 70s? ...
Could Ireland Have Been Different? (w/ Conor McCabe)
October 12, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBOn a critique of political economy for Ireland We were delighted to welcome researcher & author Conor McCabe on to the podcast to discuss the political economy of Ireland and its importance for the Irish left. This is a long but incredibly insightful discussion, as Conor refocuses our attention to the things that matter: who has power in Ireland? What is the real class makeup of the country? And why is everything about cows? Conor is a fantastic writer, educator and researcher who guides...
Casements' Stop Making Sense.
October 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBFor tickets to CCCP: Click Here. Pumpkin spiced lube, cable knit harness' and eating soup for fun. Start off October properly by letting your overheard, smoking area nightmare unravel before your ears. What was supposed to be a thoughtful meditation on American Imperialism and the "Fall"-ification of Irish Autumn culture turns into a series of bust ups, tantrums, rants, embarrassing childhood reveals, and unwanted advice from the unqualified. Support the show
Panic On The Streets Of Dublin (w/ Paulie Doyle)
September 08, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBWe are joined by The Ditch investigative journalist Paulie Doyle to set the record straight on the latest silly season media obsession: CRIME. Is Dublin really more unsafe than it was before? Why do the media seem so hell-bent on generating a moral panic about it? And just exactly how much money is Putin giving to The Ditch? It’s a wide-ranging conversation that touches on class, violence, criminal podcasts (not this one), the media, gangland and more. We also ask Paulie about The Ditch an...
The Good Kind of Fat (w/ Ellen)
August 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBOn fatphobia and attraction. That's right baby, we're talking about desire again! We're joined by the wonderful Ellen to talk about everything from fatness and beauty standards to dating and Love Island. How can we free ourselves from society's oppressive and limiting standards? Is it possible to love and to fuck in a feminist way? And is Lizzo maybe just a stuck-up bitch? As always, please feel free to reach out to us via Instagram, Twitter or email ([email protected]), and m...
This Barbie Is Girlboss
August 02, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBIn a desperatere attempt to stay current and relevant, (most of) the Casements crew watched the new Barbie movie and churned out an episode on it! Tune in for tepid takes on the film’s production, its post-modern meta-narratives, and its middle brow feminist politics. This Barbie thought the film was fine! Support the show
Special Report: Dublin Pride 2023
July 06, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBIt’s that time of year again. A time when businesses paint their inner colon rainbow, for your cash. When straight lads in the smoking area talk about how they held hands with a boy once in school. When basic gays walk around topless, proudly displaying their months of hard work in the gym. In short, it’s Pride month. Your favourite republican gonzo journalists are out on the prowl, talking to the public, getting their opinions on all things LGBTQIA. They spill their guts on coming out, on g...
AI: A Modest Proposal (w/ Christopher Michael)
June 08, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBListen up, sheeple! Are you tired of being force-fed mainstream political news and culture? Do you want a podcast that's not afraid to take a cynical, irreverent look at society? Then you need to check out "Casement's Leftovers". In this episode, hosts Matt, Helen, and Glen sit down with the up-and-coming artist and PHD Christopher Michael to talk about his new movie "In the end we all become our avatars". Chris delves into the fascinating world of media and spirituality, exploring the conc...
Andrea Long Chu and Second Wave Gender Theory
May 31, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBAndrea Long Chu has claimed that "everyone is female and everyone hates it", but what does that mean? Join us this for this very special 50th episode of Casement's Leftovers for a deep dive into one of our favourite theorists and writers, the recent Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu. Get ready for a new theory of gender that not has not only upended the field of gender studies, but also our way of thinking about what it is that makes us human. How are we all female? What part d...
Eurovision, Again (w/ PureGrand)
May 09, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBIt’s the first day of Eurovision semifinals. We know you’ve been anxious. You’ve been saying to your friends “Casements haven’t dropped their annual Eurovision episode yet. I don’t know which entries I’m allowed to like?” They’re sick of hearing it. Don’t worry - we’re here, and we brought acclaimed Dublin musician PureGrand (a.k.a Luke Faulkner), expert in all things The Past. We discuss the best and worst of Ireland’s entries past and present, the way the Brits even manage to colonise a...
Just Niall and Wave, Boys
April 25, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBSick and tired of the SILENCE from the LAMESTREAM media, the Casements gang get together for a very special episode about the latest scandal dribbling meekly out of the anus that is this Irish government. Who is Niall Collins? Did he know his wife was going to buy the public land he voted to sell? And what exactly can we get away saying on this podcast before we get sued? As always, drop us a line at [email protected], and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Grá mór daoi...
Goodnight Mister Biden
April 19, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBLast week saw the visit to Ireland of United States President Joe Biden, and the Casements gang dig behind the tweets and headlines to reveal what it all actually means. We use the illustrious occasion as a jumping-off point to talk about American-Irish relations more broadly, and to ask tough questions like: what are the limits of nationhood and identity? What will a post-FFFG Ireland do on the global stage? And is it okay to be cringe as long as you are seizing power? We address the co...
The Casement Finishing School For Upright Young Deviants
March 20, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBWhat's the difference between etiquette and politics? To some they've become one and the same. Can you have good politics but bad manners? Is it time to relegate etiquette to the bourgeois bin-bag of time along with man servants and charity wristbands? Casements has the answers. Listen to your favourite internet inepts as they stumble through their guide to etiquette in the 21st century and beyond. Discover exciting new ways to diagnose your mates as terminal dickheads in the pub. Also on ...
Ireland: Revisited
March 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBHelen and Matt get together to analyse some of the biggest stories from the last few weeks of Irish politics (unfortunately we recorded this just before the release of the Windsor Protocol and the appointment of Holly Cairns as the new leader of the SocDems – of course). Helen has their sights set on the smaller parties in the state, as they chastise the Greens for showing up to the #IrelandForAll March and wonders what even is the point of the Soc Dems. We also discuss the return of Berti...
Art vs Artist. FIGHT!
February 09, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBTwo tribes go to war. It's that fucked conversation which has plagued smoking areas and idle canteen chit chat for decades. Art vs Artist. Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you? Are boycotts worthwhile? Is the Left honing an effective weapon against reactionaries or dainty ettiquette for dinner parties and twitter threads? Whether it's Wagner, Caravaggio or Rowling, Casement's slogs through the shitty discourse and fight each other for your listening pleasure. Support the show
Piss
January 17, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBThis one starts out fairly bad, then it gets okay for a little bit in the middle, and then towards the end it gets a whole lot worse. Sorry about this one, we'll try again next week Support the show
Charity and Other Lies
November 24, 2022 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MB"Come on," I hear you say. "They must be taking the piss now." "I know they claim to 'serve up hot takes like you wouldn't believe', but charity? Really? They had a go at CHARITY? Someone needs to finally put a stop to these edgy socialists who pathetically think it's progressive to be 'controversial'. This isn't helping anyone. What could possibly be wrong with CHARITY?" Join Glen, Helen and Matt as they skewer the do-gooders and expose the charity myth. They talk about the efficacy of c...
Dream F@gs
November 07, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWe're your Dream F*gs, boys. We'll make you happy. Step inside the most surreal Casement's episode yet. The gang reveal their Fenian dreams and lay them on the slab for some good aul fashioned Freudian analysis. What does David Lynch, Hauntological soundscapes and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reveal about the republican psyche. Is Glen stuck in the anal stage? Does Matt's Granny's burning house reveal a devestating hatred of women? Is Helen a Trans narcissist? Sit back and enjoy while t...
Dream F@gs
November 07, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWe're your Dream F*gs, boys. We'll make you happy. Step inside the most surreal Casement's episode yet. The gang reveal their Fenian dreams and lay them on the slab for some good aul fashioned Freudian analysis. What does David Lynch, Hauntological soundscapes and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reveal about the republican psyche. Is Glen stuck in the anal stage? Does Matt's Granny's burning house reveal a devestating hatred of women? Is Helen a Trans narcissist? Sit back and enjoy while t...
Liz Truss Has Joined The IRA
October 21, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBA formless, aimless episode in which we discuss: the Free State's relationship to the IRA and the Troubles, Bono being a Pox, the departure of Mommy Truss, the efficacy of protest vs parliamentary politics, and the rehabilitation of the Yorkshire Ripper. Don't forget to subscribe, review, and tell your friends about the cleverest and sexiest leftist podcast in Ireland. Other bits: Matt’s essay on Irish hip-hop and cultural cringe: https://therockisdead.com/2021/02/20/whats-that-sound-px...
Liz Truss Has Joined The IRA
October 21, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBA formless, aimless episode in which we discuss: the Free State's relationship to the IRA and the Troubles, Bono being a Pox, the departure of Mommy Truss, the efficacy of protest vs parliamentary politics, and the rehabilitation of the Yorkshire Ripper. Don't forget to subscribe, review, and tell your friends about the cleverest and sexiest leftist podcast in Ireland. Other bits: Matt’s essay on Irish hip-hop and cultural cringe: https://therockisdead.com/2021/02/20/whats-that-sound-px...
Nonce-Sense
October 06, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBExplicably, the nonce one. In the grand tradition of Brass Eye, our resident pedophile expert, Helen, talks us through why they did their BA dissertation on pedophiles and pedophile rehabilitation, and how it's made them the superstar they are now. We talk about the construction of sexuality, Lacanian notions of desire, Epstein's flight logs, and flesh out our theory that money makes you a nonce. Plus, we libel ourselves! What could be more fun! In all seriousness, this is an episode about...
Budget Buddies 2023
September 28, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBSo, when are we gonna start REALLY taxing fags? Support the show
A Journey to the Past
September 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBExhausted by the media circus? Do you long for a time when the biggest news story was some banal issue with a TD's houses? Casement's are here to serve. Listen to your favourite fenian cynics discuss news segments from a week ago and rip each others throat out over podcasting slights. In this episode Glen takes the wheel and crashes the podcast into a brick wall. The gang discuss misogyny, ex-pat culture, landlords, nonce culture, the fall of the Soviet Union and much more. Take a break...
Nuclear, Newly Clear
August 23, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBSo, you can't afford to pay your heating bills or fill up the tank of your Fiat 500, and even if you could afford to, you'd be killing the planet anyway. It's truly fucked. What are you to do when faced with the twin crises of energy and the climate? Luckily, Casements have the answer, and it's available right now. In this bumper episode, Glen, Helen and Matt get together to finally tell the truth about nuclear energy. What seems to us an obvious open goal has been abandoned as a viable ...
The News According to Casement's
August 02, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBIn a feat of journalistic excellence, the Leftovers are taking on their biggest challenge yet with a round the (western) world news roundup. From the Tory leadership contest to Irish back bench revolts, American happenings to Berlin night clubs, the pod gives a brief summary of stuff that's been cluttering your timeline with their standard, internet poisoned delivery. Get in touch with Casment's Leftovers and let us know what's been pissing you off in your part of the world to be in with a...
The News according to Casement's
August 02, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBIn a feat of journalistic excellence, the Leftovers are taking on their biggest challenge yet with a round the (western) world news roundup. From the Tory leadership contest to Irish back bench revolts, American happenings to Berlin night clubs, the pod gives a brief summary of stuff that's been cluttering your timeline with their standard, internet poisoned delivery. Get in touch with Casment's Leftovers and let us know what's been pissing you off in your part of the world to be in with a...
Casement's Liveline: Pride 2022
June 23, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBA very, very special edition of Casement's Leftovers where we invited you, the listener, to join us on the show. We asked on our socials: "what does Pride mean to you?", and you responded with the same quantity and ferocity of the most deranged Liveline caller-base. Join us today as we take a cynical, unconvinced look at Dublin Pride and ask what it's all even for, before turning to the nasty, unwashed public for their opinions on this finest pageant of all things Gay. Given the horrific...
Casement's Liveline: Pride 2022
June 23, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBA very, very special edition of Casement's Leftovers where we invited you, the listener, to join us on the show. We asked on our socials: "what does Pride mean to you?", and you responded with the same quantity and ferocity of the most deranged Liveline caller-base. Join us today as we take a cynical, unconvinced look at Dublin Pride and ask what it's all even for, before turning to the nasty, unwashed public for their opinions on this finest pageant of all things Gay. Given the horrific...
Marxists Solve the Housing Crisis
June 08, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBIreland has been living through a housing crisis for what feels like forever, and we here at Casement's Leftovers think it's high time that someone got up off their arses and did something about it. But what? We are joined by writer David Hartery (@DinoCrisisActor) to discuss his excellent article 'Marxism and the Housing Crisis', written for Socialist Voice. David explains what Marx and Marxism has to say about housing, before walking us through the origins of the crisis in Ireland and po...
The Trauma Industry
May 27, 2022 17:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBThis month Heather & Matt are too busy "working" to perform their vital role of reigning Helen & Glen in from being the cyclical haters they were born to be - that's right, we're throwing it back to the original line-up babyyy! Join Helen & Glen as they take on the online cottage industry of monetizing your trauma in order to be the best activist there ever was. We discuss how identity is becoming the core of our politics, and how those identities are reified by the trauma attached to the...
Enter the Metaverse: Part 2
April 22, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBIn which Matt says “fuck the Metaverse, all my homies hate the Metaverse” but Heather shouts back “LET 👏 PEOPLE 👏 ENJOY 👏 THINGS 👏.” Join Heather, Glen and Matt for the second half of their discussion on the Metaverse. This time round, Matt attempts to make a few extremely insightful points into the true nature of desire and the impossibility of any liberation from its indestructible shackles, but Heather and Glen spend most of the hour making fun of him for watching Law and Order: Special ...
Enter the Metaverse: Part 2
April 22, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBIn which Matt says “fuck the Metaverse, all my homies hate the Metaverse” but Heather shouts back “LET 👏 PEOPLE 👏 ENJOY 👏 THINGS 👏.” Join Heather, Glen and Matt for the second half of their discussion on the Metaverse. This time round, Matt attempts to make a few extremely insightful points into the true nature of desire and the impossibility of any liberation from its indestructible shackles, but Heather and Glen spend most of the hour making fun of him for watching Law and Order: Special ...
Enter the Metaverse: Part 1
April 11, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBTechnology – what’s it all about, anyway? Join Heather, Glen & Matt as they examine the promises and possibilities of Web 3.0. Can NFTs provide a viable alternative for artists to get paid fairly for their work? Is the Metaverse truly a game-changer for tech, or simply another false dawn? And what the hell is up with Mark Zuckerberg’s hair? We get into all of these questions (and more) over the course of two cyber-soaked episodes. In this, the first part, we start with a now woefully out...
Enter the Metaverse: Part 1
April 11, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBTechnology – what’s it all about, anyway? Join Heather, Glen & Matt as they examine the promises and possibilities of Web 3.0. Can NFTs provide a viable alternative for artists to get paid fairly for their work? Is the Metaverse truly a game-changer for tech, or simply another false dawn? And what the hell is up with Mark Zuckerberg’s hair? We get into all of these questions (and more) over the course of two cyber-soaked episodes. In this, the first part, we start with a now woefully out...
Sex Negative
February 14, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBFeeling alone? Sexually inadequate? Is your dating app fueled anxiety getting you down? We're here to help. This week Casement's Leftovers is cringing over the "Sex Positive" identity industrial complex. We weigh in on whether being into p*ss play makes you a better comrade or if wearing latex to sex parties will get you radical points online. Glen discusses the marketplace of TikTok "non-straight" masc queer baiting, and reveals his appreciation of the stanislavski method on P*rnHub. H...
The PMC, or: Exciting New Ways to Hate the Middle Class
January 19, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBAll the way back in 1977 John and Barbara Ehrenreich coined the term “the professional-managerial class” to refer to “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labour may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations.” The term reemerged in the 2010s with renewed vigour as a useful way of denoting a class of technocratic liberals who occupy an increasingly dominant role in ...
The PMC, or: Exciting New Ways to Hate the Middle Class
January 19, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBAll the way back in 1977 John and Barbara Ehrenreich coined the term “the professional-managerial class” to refer to “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labour may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations.” The term reemerged in the 2010s with renewed vigour as a useful way of denoting a class of technocratic liberals who occupy an increasingly dominant role in ...
Love Actually (2003) Is Iraq War Propaganda
December 14, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBFollowing an unexplained absence almost as traumatic as that of the Galaxy Truffle, everyone’s favourite Irish republican podcast is back, and just in time for the holidays! As the out of control woke brigade continues its unprovoked and ruthless war on Christmas, the Casement's crew get in the festive spirit by looking back on a war possibly even more pointless and unjust: Iraq. More specifically, Helen ruins your favourite Christmas film by arguing that Love Actually (2003) is literally ...
Love Actually (2003) Is Iraq War Propaganda
December 14, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBFollowing an unexplained absence almost as traumatic as that of the Galaxy Truffle, everyone’s favourite Irish republican podcast is back, and just in time for the holidays! As the out of control woke brigade continues its unprovoked and ruthless war on Christmas, the Casement's crew get in the festive spirit by looking back on a war possibly even more pointless and unjust: Iraq. More specifically, Helen ruins your favourite Christmas film by arguing that Love Actually (2003) is literally ...
Inexplicably, the Eurovision One
May 21, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBWe know what you're thinking - why hasn't my favourite republican podcast done an episode about the KEY event in the communist calendar: The Eurovision Song Contest?! It's TOMORROW NIGHT and THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN ON IT YET - WELL WORRY NO MORE!!! HERE IT IS!!!!!! We talk everything from Johnny Logan to Dana, the American influence to the growing stalinisation of the competition, Riverdance to the event's typically European centrist claim of being "unpolitical" (and thus being explicitly politi...
Inexplicably, the Eurovision One
May 21, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBWe know what you're thinking - why hasn't my favourite republican podcast done an episode about the KEY event in the communist calendar: The Eurovision Song Contest?! It's TOMORROW NIGHT and THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN ON IT YET - WELL WORRY NO MORE!!! HERE IT IS!!!!!! We talk everything from Johnny Logan to Dana, the American influence to the growing stalinisation of the competition, Riverdance to the event's typically European centrist claim of being "unpolitical" (and thus being explicitly politi...