2025 in British politics: from Starmer’s flop-flops to AI slop
Pod Save the UK18 Joulu 2025

2025 in British politics: from Starmer’s flop-flops to AI slop

Warning: this episode contains a use of a racial slur.


From the rollback of human rights and Trump’s BBC lawsuit to AI slop in politics - what the %@£! was that? Nish and Coco are joined by comedian Shappi Khorsandi and political commentator Jovan Owusu-Nepaul to make sense of the wild year that was.


Labour’s first full year in office was marked by u-turns and an inability to use the word ‘genocide’ but there were some significant new bills that boosted the rights of renters and employees.


Reform’s polling and local election success had mainstream parties running scared - but the reality of actually running stuff may have revealed the party’s limits. While Starmer focused on the threat from the right, the left was revitalised by the resurgence of the Greens and the (albeit chaotic) energy of Your Party - can they shift the political dial?


As 2025 draws to a close - Nish and Coco hand out some very special awards and can we get a Palestinian lullaby to Christmas No.1?


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GUESTS

Shappi Khorsandi, Comedian

Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, Co-Host of What’s Left?


USEFUL LINKS

https://togetherforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lullaby


CREDITS

Labour Party/TikTok

Parliament TV

Sky News/YouTube

Channel 4 News/YouTube

Channel 4 News/YouTube

BladeoftheSun/X

Shaparak Khorsandi/TikTok

The Last Leg/Channel 4

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg/BBC

Basil the Great/X

Sky News/YouTube

5 Live/BBC


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