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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745 episodis
TikTok You Don't Stop – Labour vs social media with Bridget Phillipson MP
Labour surprises everyone with a ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X for the under-16. Critics say the “Australia Plus” regime...
Belfast and the Far-Right – The Bottomless Buffet of Bullshit
What’s more revolting? The racist pogrom against innocent families in Belfast? Or the way the far-right is again using a violent attack to claim that...
“Brexit? It wasn’t our job to have a plan” – What the BBC’s jaw-dropping doc reveals
The BBC gets in early with its “ten years since the Brexit Referendum” jamboree with a “star”-studded retro-documentary, Brexit: A Very British Civil...
Farage’s riot act — How the right is exploiting Henry Nowak’s murder
Farage and the far-right have been quick to seize on Henry Nowak’s horrific murder, ignoring pleas from the victim’s family for the killing not to be...
Who votes Reform and why? – with Sir John Curtice
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Blair: “Modern Life is Rubbish”
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What else does a beleaguered PM like Keir Starmer need but… ...
The Count of Dodgy Crypto
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Nigel Farage’s latest defence of his “gift”...
The Brexit Bus is coming (and Andy Burnham’s jumping)
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And OGWN is nine years old! Today: A Labour candidate up aga...
Slash’n’Burnham – Makerfield is already getting nasty
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Makerfield residents, wire up your letterboxes – the leaflet...
Where the Streets has no shame
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Broadcasting from the middle of the Labour chaos vortex, we...
Get Starmer
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Amid the rubble of last week’s electi...
Emergency Localscast! – What Labour’s walloping REALLY means – with Steve Richards
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Fast analysis with don of political c...
Zack’s Appeal – Are the Greens a one-man band?
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The Greens are on fire and Zack Polanski’s travails don’t se...
Lifestyles of the rich and heinous
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Filler-faced, gilded mansions and utterly unhinged. Today’s...
Monarchy in the USA – Has Charles outfoxed Trump?
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Applauded by Congress, lauded by Trump and working his way t...
Trump’s Ballroom Blitz – Reform’s Tragical History Bore
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Another week, another assassination a...
Emotional Support Leadership Candidate
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As the dust settles from the umpteent...
Return of the Mandel-Scandal
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Oh Mandy… the scandal that won’t die...
The End is Nige – What happens if Reform win?
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What happens if Reform actually wins? We dive into a d...
Viktor is a Loser – Hungary’s brilliant revolution
Good news for a change! Revolting far-right tinpot tyrant Viktor Orbán gets his marching orders in Hungary. Our panel talk about how it’s bad news for...
For Whom The Booth Tolls – or, Strait to Hell
Trump threatens the literal obliteration of an entire civilisation, then announces a ceasefire. So war crimes work, right? Er, not when you create the...
Why is Keir Starmer so hated?
After nearly two years in the job, Keir Starmer isn’t just disliked or unpopular – he’s actually hated in much of the country. But why? How did this u...
Shake your money-maker – Why you’re getting Capitalism wrong
Capitalism: Where did it come from and what does it want? Is it falling to pieces or just reinventing itself to remain immortal, as it always has done...
Has Trump destroyed Trumpism?
Trump promised America lower prices, cheaper gas, no more foreign wars and worldwide respect. Instead his Iran rampage has dynamited the world economy...
Have we reached Peak Reform?
Is Farage faltering? Reform’s poll lead is slowly sliding, so much so that last week Farage administered a Trumpian punishment beating to pollsters Yo...
Great British Nukes, Tice’ s tax and the Manosphere – Theroux the looking glass
Ed Davey wants Britain to have its own nuclear weapons – smart move against the Greens or the end of the old anti-nuke Lib Dems? Why is the damning st...
Can Centrism save the world… again?
The Mandelson Files are beginning to dribble out and they don’t look good for Keir Starmer. Will this be the final albatross round the PM’s neck? Zoë...
Tough-Guy Politics – Will Britain ever be free of it?
British voters are overwhelmingly against Trump’s war in Iran but the pundits and politicians of the Tory-Reform universe seem to want more, harder an...
“Performative cruelty and a waste of money" – Stella Creasy MP rips into the Government's migration plans
The Government’s migration and asylum plans have had that unique Keir Starmer way of annoying everyone. Including many of their own MPs, such as Walth...
The Special Abusive Relationship – Starmer trapped in Trump’s Iran Nightmare
On the upside, a tyrannical theocrat and much of his entourage are dead. On the downside, so are thousands of innocent children and adults. As Trump’s...
Straight Outta Denton – What it really means for Labour, Reform and the Greens
This edition recorded before the US attacks on Iran. The dust is still settling from Gorton and Denton. Are the Greens playing with fire with their vo...
Trump’s deadly Iran gamble – Special from This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
A special crossover edition from our geopolitics podcast This Is Not A Drill – Trump’s stunning surprise attack on Iran could be the most consequentia...
It Ain’t Easy Beating Greens – Gorton and Denton EMERGENCYCAST
The Greens take Gorton and Denton and Labour take a pounding. What does it all mean? Is there more going on than all the hot takes suggest? Is the Sta...
Peter Mandelson and the Never-Ending Scandal
Who gave the tip-off that resulted in Peter Mandelson’s sensational arrest? And will this mess ever stop unraveling? Plus, an Australian-style social...
24 Hours In Police Custody: Royal Edition
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Epstein-related allegations of misconduct in public office stuns the world. He has not been charged with a...
Withstanding the Farage Barrage – Can we Reform-proof the UK?
Could Reform really carry out a Trump-style, Project 2025-inspired shock-and-awe assault on Britain’s institutions and politics if they get into gover...
Is Britain ready for war with Russia?
“There is no British security without Europe,” Keir Starmer told the Munich Security Conference this weekend. Nobody wants a wider war in Europe, but...
The End of the Keir Show?
First thing on Monday it looked like Keir Starmer was organic sourdough toast. By teatime he’d riled up Labour MPs and looked – somehow – safe for now...
Is Trump a psychopath? – The cruel psychology of modern power
Remember Trump’s first term when we talked about “kakistocracy”: rule by the worst of the worst? They’re back and they’re worse than ever – not just T...
Morgan McSweeney: So gone, what now? – Emergencycast!
Keir Starmer’s now former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has gone, so what does this mean for the Prime Minister’s project and government? Zoë Grünew...