Oh God, What Now?
562 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsMaking 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: Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry Of Truth: A Biography of Orwell’s 1984 and host of Origin Story • Alex Andreou, writer, commentator, cook, actor, secret agent • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • Writer and host of This Is Not A Drill Gavin Esler • Hannah Fearn of the i paper • Comedian Matt Green • New Statesman policy and politics corresponent Zoë Grünewald • Group Editor Andrew Harrison • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis
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Episodes
Bunker Russia Report taster: It’s A Vladi Disgrace
July 22, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutesIt’s a Russian Report special on today’s edition of our little sibling podcast The Bunker, with Ian Dunt, Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Helen Lewis talking about the sheer cynicism of the Government’s do-nothing approach to Putin’s interference with our democracy. Here’s a taster – get the whole thing here or wherever you get your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
RED TAPE TIME MACHINE plus Return of the Dunt
July 17, 2020 03:00 - 1 hourThe Government launches yet another, definitely final campaign to sell the “benefits” of No Deal. What do we think of Britain’s bold New Start into £13bn of 1970s-style red tape and towering tariffs on food basics? Plus, concreting over the Garden of England: there is some corner of a Kent field that will forever be a giant lorry park. The return of Ian Dunt. And Monarchy In The UK: With the Queen and Harry AWOL in moments of crisis and Prince Andrew definitely sweating now, is there any poin...
Who ordered Rish’n’Chips?
July 10, 2020 03:00 - 57 minutesOh Rishi you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow our minds… Or will he? Will Sunak’s £10 off Groupon Meal Deal save the British economy? Do the Government’s free-spending interventions amount to the death of Old School Conservatism? Plus we welcome veteran Brexit blogger Chris Grey to look at the Ghosts of Brexit Past and Brexit Yet To Come. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Naomi Smith and Ben Stewart. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs...
Spiked: Lost in the Moral Maze – plus guest Nick Cohen
July 03, 2020 03:00 - 54 minutes“The matter is closed!” Special guest Nick Cohen of The Observer joins us to look at the fall-out from Cummings taking down the country’s most senior civil servant, the reeking corruption of the Robert Jenrick/Richard Desmond affair, and the Starmer-Long-Bailey face-off. Plus: how on earth did shady contrarian factory Spiked elbow its way into the spotlight of politics, and are they really as influential as TV producers think? And British satellites. Galileo? Galileo. Galileo? Bismillah no, o...
My Bojo’s Not Working
June 26, 2020 03:00 - 58 minutesAs Boris Johnson continues to fumble everything he touches, are the Tory Right losing patience with their flop-haired figurehead? Gove is preparing a “shock and awe” ad campaign to sell No Deal to voters. How did we get from “sunlit uplands” to deliberately inciting fear among the public? Plus, Britain thinks of itself as a magnet for foreign students. But will COVID and the Corona recession, the toxic legacy of the Hostile Environment and Brexit itself combine to wreck Britain’s university s...
Unboxing Churchill
June 19, 2020 03:00 - 57 minutesWith the world gripped by the most significant anti-racist demonstrations in half a century, why are we still obsessing over Churchill? Do we overstate the power and significance of ageing Nazis in off-brand polo shirts running around Trafalgar Square? Could Britain actually shrink its police? Plus: so farewell then, DFiD. How the spread of fake data is producing a “Liar’s Dividend”. And why Marcus Rashford can only nutmeg the Government once. “The goal of far right politics IS violence. So...
“Oven-Ready Deal” Gives Britain Food Poisoning
June 12, 2020 03:00 - 47 minutesThis week: Boris Johnson fights to undo the unfair deal imposed on us by treacherous pro-EU operative *checks notes* Boris Johnson. Alex Andreou explains his epic investigation into whether the Government really did follow the science on COVID (spoiler: they didn’t). Who’s batting for chlorinated chicken in our cabinet of all the talentless? And get ready to eat rollmop herrings for Britain. “I foolishly thought that government would put the right to an education above commercial concerns. I...
“Is your culture war still working, Mr Cummings?”
June 05, 2020 03:00 - 1 hourHow hard will a No Deal/COVID double whammy hit the British economy? New research from Best For Britain shows it will devastate the places you don’t expect as well as Brexitland. Could Black Lives Matter and America’s revolt against institutional racism cross over to the UK? And special guest Daniel Trilling of The Guardian explains how the new immigration regulations aren’t designed to “take back control” but to rip off workers. “We’ve proven you can’t bury No Deal under Corona… Some 7 mil...
Domnishambles
May 29, 2020 03:00 - 1 hourDom’s last stand (again): how did the supergenius who instinctively understands Britain’s heartbeat become the most hated man in the UK? SDLP MP Claire Hanna makes a welcome return to Remainiacs to explain the state of play in Northern Ireland vis-a-vis both COVID-19 and the cliffhanger Brexit trade negotiations. And Tobias Jones calls in from Parma, Italy to tell us how it felt to live through one of Europe’s grimmest COVID experiences. “Cummings has upset one of the biggest and most dange...
BUNKER BONUS: Emergency DomCast excerpt
May 25, 2020 12:12 - 12 minutesAs the Government went up in flames over Dominic Cummings’ flagrant breaches of his own lockdown rules, Dorian, Alex, Ros and Andrew got together for an Emergency CummingsCast for The Bunker. For our subscribers who weren’t on social media over the weekend and may have missed it, here’s a teaser. Find the whole show and subscribe to The Bunker here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donkey Business, No Deal Drama
May 22, 2020 03:00 - 56 minutesThis week… Keir Starmer, a man out standing in his field, and why you don’t want to get on the wrong side of Big Donkey. Where do the hands of the EU Negotiations Doomsday Clock stand? How are COVID and the increasingly perilous EU trade negotiations looking from Germany? Rachel Stern from TheLocal.de joins us from Berlin to explain. And your Brexit news round-up, all with Dorian Lynskey, Naomi Smith and Ben Stewart. “If the furlough scheme ends for ordinary people but not Monaco-based billi...
Stayin’ Alert, Stayin’ Alert
May 15, 2020 03:00 - 47 minutes“It’s all right, it’s OK/The press will look the other way/And we will fail to understand/Can’t Britain find a better man?” This week: Boris Johnson’s deceitful advice on unlocking. Why appealing to magical “common sense” is his ultimate get-out clause. And as Spain reopens its own society we talk to Fiona Govan of TheLocal.es about what the crisis has done to Spain’s politics. “No-one really knows what common sense means. It’s just a dogwhistle.” – Ros Taylor “The closer you look at these...
“Authoritarian in the streets, Libertarian in the sheets”
May 08, 2020 03:00 - 58 minutesAs Britain registers the worst COVID toll in Europe, why is blame for the failure sliding off Boris Johnson? Lovelorn Prof Neil Ferguson feels the sap rising. Operation Bookshelf Barbarossa. Why VE Day belongs to us, not the petty nationalists. Is the fish a credible war animal? And who decided that if you’re pro-Brexit you’ve got to be pro-virus too? Dorian Lynskey, Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt police one another’s tones. “People are saying this is not the time to criticise the government. It’...
“Outwitted by goo.”
May 01, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutesThis week in Euro-Plague news: How is Sweden’s risky approach to the COVID crisis really working? James Savage of news network The Local joins us from Stockholm to give us the view on the ground. Plus: That weird feeling when the person demanding a proper merciless lockdown is… evil Dominic Cummings? Alan Sugar’s totalitarian boomer tweets. And why we shouldn’t trust people who say we don’t trust journalists. Also… towns! “The Brexiters are realising that the economic hit of COVID will be s...
“But their emails!”
April 24, 2020 03:00 - 54 minutes“They want power, but they don’t know why.” How this government’s obsession with rebutting bad COVID news is masking a total absence of ideas. As No.10’s story on our failure to join the EU joint purchase of medical equipment falls apart, Naomi gives a true crime fan’s guide to the timeline. Fire and brimstone among the Brexiters as a few heretics float the idea of extending transition. And is exiting under No Deal in midwinter – prime COVID Wave 2 time! – really a good idea, Minister? “The ...
“But their emails!”
April 24, 2020 03:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB“They want power, but they don’t know why.” How this government’s obsession with rebutting bad COVID news is masking a total absence of ideas. As No.10’s story on our failure to join the EU joint purchase of medical equipment falls apart, Naomi gives a true crime fan’s guide to the timeline. Fire and brimstone among the Brexiters as a few heretics float the idea of extending transition. And is exiting under No Deal in midwinter – prime COVID Wave 2 time! – really a good idea, Minister? “The...
D’oh! You Priti Thing
April 17, 2020 03:00 - 1 hourPriti Patel’s nonpologies. Former Green MEP and Brighton & Hove Mayor Alex Phillips joins us to look at how the Corona crisis could at least provide an opportunity for a green reboot of economics. Alex and Dorian read the entire leaked Labour antisemitism report so you don’t have to (they wish THEY didn’t have to). Will the EU Corona bailout actually work for European countries – and is Britain really going to stampede towards No Deal, now of all times? “The same people who told us Brexit wa...
Failing the global stress test?
April 10, 2020 03:00 - 1 hourIs Brussels’ hamfisted approach to resurrecting the European economy really a danger the EU’s own existence? Will Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation expose the flaws in his Corona policy? Where in the world is Priti Patel? And we’re joined by Fleur Anderson MP, the only Labour gain in the 2019 General Election, to look at Keir Starmer’s options to regenerate Labour – and the party’s future position on Europe. (This edition recorded before the EU stimulus deal was struck on Thur 9 April). “The E...
A moment of clarity?
April 03, 2020 03:00 - 53 minutesWill the seismic trauma of COVID-19 provide the moment of clarity we need to change the way we live? Authoritarian governments seize on Corona to enact the repressive moves they’ve always craved. Chemicals and ventilators: is the Government’s slipperiness with facts undermining its Corona message? Transition denialism drags us towards the abyss. And our special guest, former Labour MP for Bury James Frith, give his totally disinterested take on the arrival of the Starminator. “There IS a mo...
Panicky in the UK?
March 27, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutesREMOTELY RECORDED FOR YOUR HYGIENE… Has the deepening Corona crisis rendered the Brexiteers’ plans for economic nirvana obsolete? Why the EU’s big financial guns are coming out. Special guest Charlotte Potts – London political correspondent for Deutsche Welle – tells us what Germany thinks of Britain’s efforts on transition, Johnson’s wayward handling of COVID-19… and Angela Merkel’s unexpected last stand. And have the Brexit years created a hysterical media that’s no longer fit to cover a re...
At War With The Invisible Enemy
March 20, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourRECORDED FROM SECRET BUNKERS ACROSS EUROPE… As the Corona Crisis deepens, is the Government blowing its response? Will Fortress Britain have to request an extension to our transition out of EU arrangements? Guest Mike Galsworthy of Scientists 4 EU tells us what’s really going on with the science of the COVID battle. Plus, the truth about Dominic Cummings’ secret science army. The heroic return of Our Man in Mykonos Alex Andreou, if only in a virtual context. And top tips for working from home...
The Coronacession – plus Dark Money brought to light
March 13, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutesCrisis? What, MORE crisis? How well is plucky Brexit Britain set up to cope up with the Coronacession? (Spoiler: badly). Investigative academic Seth Alexander Thévoz shows the breathtaking power of untraceable dark money in UK elections – and how it helped the Tories knock down the Red Wall. The EU shames itself in the Greece-Turkey refugee crisis. Toilet paper: Britain displays its Bumkirk Spirit. And the clucking awful truth about chlorine chicken. “The economy was screwed already. Boris b...
Britain self-isolates
March 06, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutesAs the Coronavirus bites, the government decides it’s a good time to cut us off from the EU Pandemic Warning system. PLUS: who makes the Nazis? HOPE Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how Brexit rolled out the carpet for the extreme right, up to and including actual Nazi Satanists. Red tape bad, blue tape good: the 50,000 customs officers nobody asked for. And how mad do you have to be to think that No.10 loves the Priti Patel scandal because it keeps the Russia report quiet? ”The reason the traditi...
Big Trouble in Little Britain – plus guests Cornershop
February 28, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutesOn Radio Free European Britain this week… The Independent’s sketch writer Tom Peck on our politics’ descent into self-lacerating madness. Heroes of Remain and creators of our theme tune Cornershop join us to discuss their new album ‘England Is A Garden’ and making defiant, multicultural pop in a xenophobic era. The Brexiters’ ongoing Culture War turns into an actual war on culture. The Points-based Pandora’s Box continues to spill its poison. And a glorious future of British “champagne” indus...
Points-Based Immolation
February 21, 2020 04:00 - 56 minutesThe Government’s immigration plans are out and yes, they’re every bit as narrow, vindictive, boneheaded, vicious and philistine as we expected. What next when the hostile environment leaves the people who voted for it without the health care and other workers they need? Plus former Lib Dem MEP Caroline Voaden explains what Brussels and Strasbourg really think of us. And RTÉ’s London Correspondent Sean Whelan on what Brexit Britain needs to know about Ireland. (It’s a lot). “The first rule of...
Keeping The Lights On for EU citizens
February 14, 2020 04:00 - 54 minutes(This episode recorded just before Sajid Javid got Cummingsed…) The long campaign for our EU friends and neighbours is on. As Johnson’s government breaks its promises to UK-resident EU citizens daily, MONIQUE HAWKINS of campaigning group the3million updates us with horrific stories of government indifference and incompetence. Plus: If Remainers are now the “fruitcakes and loonies” as Farage says, is there freedom in having nothing left to lose? Returning regular Ben Stewart of Led By Donkeys ...
Order! The one with JOHN BERCOW
February 07, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourClear the lobby for special guest JOHN BERCOW, the most controversial Speaker in recent history. He visits Remainiacs to talk about his time in charge of Commons at war, his new autobiography Unspeakable, what Remain got wrong, David Cameron’s disastrous miscalculations, whether he’d do Strictly… and those incendiary bullying allegations. Plus: The Government starts its relationship with the EU as it means to go on, in loutish bad faith. Why Cummings is losing a war with Sajid Javid that nob...
BONUS: Our new politics podcast THE BUNKER
January 31, 2020 18:20 - 2 minutesIf there was ever a good day to try our new, no-Brexit politics podcast THE BUNKER then it’s today, Friday 31 Jan. Every Wednesday we’ll be talking about the wider world of politics with voices both familiar and new. Subscribe to THE BUNKER (or bookmark it) on… APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-bunker/id1496246490 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1g7XYt7lI0XNVZ4Ze8mDau?si=hs0KKFCUSGOhF1JEvcycsg ACAST: https://play.acast.com/s/the-bunker RSS: rss.acast.com/the-bun...
Brexit Day: Not with a bong but a whimper
January 31, 2020 04:00 - 57 minutesOur bloody but unbowed Brexit Day edition. As Britain slopes out of the EU like an embarrassed pub drunk, Leaver triumphalism is strangely muted. Is the Brexiters’ victory is beginning to feel a little hollow? Maybe the REAL Brexit was the enemies we made along the way. Plus, period of reflection latest! The Labour Party sets the “days since we decided Jeremy did everything right” clock back to zero. Why the trade talks will inevitably turn into a culture war too. What we Remainiacs have lea...
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish – plus special guest Ian Murray MP
January 24, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourThis week: fish, food, agriculture, immigration, Scotland and our special guest, Labour’s deputy leadership candidate and only Scottish MP, IAN MURRAY. On the menu: Labour’s existential crossroads, why the party lost Scotland, the Brexit vs Corbyn blame game, and what Labour needs to do to win back Britain’s confidence. Plus: Why crossing the imaginary Brexit finish line won’t change Britain’s inevitable reckoning with the immigration issue. What use is the Government’s greenwashed Agricultur...
The Bong Remains Insane
January 17, 2020 03:00 - 58 minutesAs Britain spirals down to a Bonkers Big Ben Brexit Day Breakdown, we avert our eyes and look to the future, specifically the policies Labour might need in (gulp) 2024. Plus, has the UK actually done the EU a favour in the long term by Brexiting? And we fill up the swear jar as we ask whether Johnson can govern on a “F*** business” platform. Also: Has Brexit really cost us $170bn, more than the cost of all our contributions to the European community since we joined it 47 years ago? Why the Au...
Into 2020: Fake Unity and Labour’s Future
January 10, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourThe battle to keep Britain in the EU is over but with Parliament neutered, Brexit needs more scrutiny than ever. This week: Does Boris Johnson’s “plea for unity” amount to a pass-agg order to shut up and accept whatever Brexit be fancies? From continuity Corbynistas to closet Centrist Dads, we run the rule over the Labour leadership candidates. Uri Geller applies for a job with Classic Dom. And Ingrid talks for the first and last time about her mum becoming a Tory MP. Yes, Remainiacs is back ...
The Remainiacs Annual Christmas Messages
December 24, 2019 12:03 - 36 minutesBrexit roasting on an open fire! Rees-Mogg nipping at your toes! Yes, it’s a miserable old Christmas for Remainers, but whatever. We need to gird our loins for a big year in 2020, so we present inspirational messages from a few of our regulars: Ros Taylor, Ian Dunt, Dorian Lynskey, Ingrid Oliver, Alex Andreou and Andrew Harrison. (Naomi Smith wasn’t feeling up to it, so she sent a very special guest). Listen now, at 3pm on Christmas Day, or maybe Christmas morning just like Jeremy Corbyn does...
Apodcalypse Now: Remainiacs Live in London 17 Dec 2019
December 20, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourWe got knocked down but we’ll get up again. Join the panel of REMAINIACS for our last live show of 2019 and our last full podcast of the decade – recorded onstage in London’s Leicester Square Theatre on Tuesday 17 December. It’s election post-mortem time but there’s no room for misery. How did the Remain parties blow it so spectacularly? Was it really all down to Corbyn’s massive turn-off factor? Where should Remain’s tattered but unbowed legions put their energies now? And what awaits in the...
Election aftermath – The long road ahead
December 13, 2019 17:31 - 42 minutesYes, we got a kicking. Remain parties might have edged the popular vote but it didn’t stop Boris Johnson winning the majority he always craved. So what now? Is Remain dead? Where do we put our energies from now on? Are lies and contempt for basic scrutiny the new normal for political campaigns? Will Labour face its culpability for the hard right’s greatest success since Thatcherism? And exactly how much sleep did our panel get? Incredible though it seems, we’ve done the easy stuff. Now it’s a...
155: “YES, THERE IS HOPE.” The Election Endgame edition
December 11, 2019 19:33 - 57 minutes“GET IN THE FRIDGE!” As the polls tighten on the eve of the vote, we tell you exactly where to vote tactically, how to persuade waverers, and why a Johnson majority might prove to be a curse... on Boris Johnson. Plus: Will the PMs’ foul attitude to a sick kid in a Leeds A&E finally, finally move the needle among his supporters? Ian’s tips on how to stay awake for the full horror of Election Night. Where will the anger go if Brexit ever DOES “get done”? Boris Johnson reveals himself to be a t...
BONUS PODCAST: All We Want For Brexmas is EU - Live from Leicester Square Theatre
December 09, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourDeck the balls with Multi-level Regression and Post-stratification polling! Our penultimate live show of the year saw a full-panel turnout for a festive evening of the latest Brexit analysis, campaign horror stories, pre-election recrimination and the hellishly difficult Have I Got Brexit For You quiz. If you were there you can relive it. If not, you can pretend you were. Hold tight for Naomi Smith, Dorian Lynskey, Ian Dunt, Ros Taylor, Nina Schick, Ingrid Oliver, Alex Andreou and Andrew Harr...
154: HIGH STAKES, LOW TACTICS: Election endgame
December 06, 2019 06:00 - 59 minutesWith less than two weeks to go, how is this simultaneously the most terrifying and consequential – yet somehow boring – General Election in history? Even with the Conservatives looking to stack every aspect of the constitution permanently in government’s favour? Plus: what the party leaders’ stock reactions to the London Bridge terror attack reveal about how they see the electorate. Did Labour’s leaks about NHS privatisation come from Russian hackers? WTF is an Australian points-based immigra...
153: LET'S GET TACTICAL, the legacy of Empire and more Ask Remainiacs
November 29, 2019 08:29 - 1 hourIt’s halfway through the election campaign… Producer Andrew is away for Thanksgiving this week, so our regulars are off the leash and the metaphors get a little… colourful. In the wake of updated tactical voting data, we discuss the possibilities that lie ahead on polling day and try to bring some cheer to proceedings while keeping references to “flesh piñatas” to a minimum. Campaign speed bumps abound for the main parties, as Jeremy Corbyn is grilled by Andrew Neil in an interview Boris Joh...
152: CORBYN & JOHNSON'S TRUDGE MATCH, plus polls, manifestos and ASK REMAINIACS
November 22, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourThe first episode of Remainiacs to be verified by "Fact Check UK” as “proper good, five stars on iTunes from us…” Who won the first debate of the campaign between Johnson, Corbyn and Corbyn’s enormous specs? We discuss manifestos, polls and potential landmines for the main parties, and how wave after wave of scandals like CCHQ's @factcheckUK con, dubbed Actually Orwellian by our Orwell expert Dorian Lynskey, have dulled our reaction to them. “If I step on a turd and walk into this studio, a...
151: BORIS, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE with guest Peter Foster of the Telegraph
November 15, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourA first for Remainiacs as we welcome a guest from the Telegraph! But don’t worry, it’s their eminently sensible Europe Editor PETER FOSTER with a tour d’horizon of the frosty future that Britain faces if Johnson gets the Brexit he says he wants. Plus! Why can’t we read this Russia report, then? As Nigel Farage pulls a wheeze too far, the Jacobin Rebellion finally comes home in the Brexit Party. Why Tom Watson’s face is like an HBO box set. Is there really more Remain stuff in the Telegraph t...
BONUS AUDIO COLUMN: It’s time to tell them “NO” says ALEX ANDREOU
November 15, 2019 00:00 - 6 minutesIn a special mini-episode, Alex Andreou puts his mellifluous voice to a Twitter thread he did with Best for Britain earlier this week, about the need to start saying “No” to the so-called strongmen who don’t understand the meaning of the word… The column is dedicated to Ruth, on her birthday. Follow Alex @sturdyAlex on Twitter, and B4B @BestForBritain. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask...
BONUS PODCAST: Remainiacs Live in Manchester with guest Rob Ford
November 10, 2019 14:00 - 1 hourOur first live show in Manchester YES OK SALFORD on Sat 2 November was a smash hit. Dorian, Ros and Ian joined special guest Rob Ford of the University of Manchester onstage at The Lowry theatre to deal with the state of play in those far-off days of the weekend we were supposed to leave the EU but, erm, didn’t. This special bonus podcast went out to our Patreon backers early last week, so if you want to be first with extra Remainiacs content, why not sign up as a supporter now? On the agenda...
FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE: Election Week One
November 08, 2019 06:00 - 53 minutesElection Week One: everyone sabotages themselves! Farage vs Rees-Mogg! Trump vs Johnson! Plus tactical voting: our panelist Naomi Smith on the controversy over her organisation Best For Britain’s advice site. Is B4B’s data really a better guide than the 2017 results… and why is everyone so angry about it? Also: What sort of coalition to prepare yourself for. The most effective Parliamentary petition you didn’t know about. How Nick Clegg is still damaging independent political lobbying from be...
149: CAMPAIGN STUPOR-NOVA with guest John Crace
October 31, 2019 12:00 - 1 hourAs Christmelection 2019 finally, finally, finally gets under way, could Boris Johnson’s good-time blustering turn out to be a campaigning bug, not a feature? Why we should all have looked harder at the opinion poll which claimed that voters were OK with political violence as long as they got their way on Brexit. And The Guardian’s magnificent political sketch-writer JOHN CRACE joins us to talk about his new book Decline And Fail – and Brexit’s endless race between satire and reality. “One th...
BONUS BIT: Ian Dunt guests on On The House
October 25, 2019 16:44 - 3 minutesNeed a bit more Dunt for your Friday? Britain’s sweariest pundit is the special guest on this week’s edition of our companion podcast On The House, where Lib Dem MPs and Tory escapees Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee convene over a pint to try and work out what the hell has gone on in their workplace this time.Here’s a tiny excerpt. You can listen to the full rare Dunt away fixture on…Apple Podcasts Spotify Acast Have a listen to get Ian’s take on this week’s razor’s edge votes in the Commons… the ...
148: INTERMISSION IMPOSSIBLE with guest John Curtice
October 23, 2019 17:46 - 1 hourAs Boris Johnson experiences embarrassing Brexitus Interruptus, the Remainiacs team discuss this week’s knife-edge Commons votes… what the Pause means for the Cause… and whether voters really are coalescing around the Deal when they literally don’t know what’s in it. This week’s special guest, undisputed godfather of election psephology JOHN CURTICE, brings more granular polling detail than you can handle. Where are battlegrounds of opinion? Has Labour’s “unusual” Brexit position set the elec...
147: EMERGENCY PODCAST: Remain for the LetWIN
October 19, 2019 21:17 - 19 minutesWe were expecting a funeral march. Instead we got a victory procession – of sorts. After the big march and the even bigger vote, heroic Best For Britain march organiser Naomi Smith and truly knackered journo Ian Dunt join Andrew Harrison in an echoey Portcullis House to work out exactly what happened, and what happens next.Plus, news from the soundsystem and the joyous street activities! Who says we can only do gloomy EmergencyCasts, eh? This one will put a smile on your face.Remember, it’s a...
146: EMERGENCY PODCAST: The Long Night before the Big Day
October 18, 2019 16:11 - 35 minutesThe Vote. The March. The Deal and the Amendments. The balance of power. And the decision? As we steel ourselves for the biggest day in this whole struggle, Dorian Lynskey, Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt assemble to examine what’s on the table, how we got here and how we might get out of it. “This deal is not going to be popular for very long. It’s not very popular NOW…” Re. the March: We’ll see you on the corner of Curzon St and Park Lane tomorrow from 12 noon. And remember: whatever happens, howeve...
145: INTO THE ENDZONE: Is this finally it for Brexit?
October 16, 2019 16:46 - 55 minutesSo we’re finally here. Boris Johnson thinks he’s got a deal. Arlene Foster isn’t so sure. Nobody knows what’s in the deal – but some of the ERG think it’ll pass the Commons anyway. The Remainiacs team gather to work out what we know, what we don’t know… and what we think will be put before Parliament on Saturday. Plus special guest Mike Butcher of TechForUK joins us to explain the digital tools he and his cross-platform team of wonks and ninjas have built to fight Brexit, and which ones will ...