We’re back with a new season, a new co-host, and a government in crisis
Craft Politics2 Syys 2025

We’re back with a new season, a new co-host, and a government in crisis

It’s back-to-school, back-to-politics, and back to your feeds with Season Two of Craft Politics — now with a brand new format and a new co-host. We’re thrilled to welcome Holly Mumby-Croft, former UK Member of Parliament, to the pod. She’ll join Percy and I each week for our Tuesday Issue Scan episode, adding deep political insight and a healthy counter-weight to Percy... In this episode: 🇬🇧 Labour’s economic mess: Starmer sidelines Reeves, reshuffles advisors, and still can’t land the message 📉 Reform UK leads the polls—now ahead of Labour and the Conservatives combined 🏴 National flag protests, economic confusion, and the risk of a populist summer boil-over 🇨🇦 Canada’s Trump problem continues: no deal, no clarity, and no end in sight 📊 Carney’s super honeymoon: how long can he ride high on sky-high approval ratings? 🇫🇷 Why France’s looming debt crisis could become everyone’s problem 💸 What happens when both the left and the right promise unsustainable spending? 🚨 A special new segment: “Lipstick on a Gerbil” — where we rate the worst political comms moments of the week. This week we look at Angela Rayner’s stamp duty dodge and Stephen Kinnock’s weasel-worded defence And of course: 🍺 Joseph and Percy drink one of BC’s finest Pilsners 🍷 Holly sips Ribena

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Sam Coates: Reform's £72 million pay day

Sam Coates: Reform's £72 million pay day

Two crypto billionaires gave Reform UK £72 million in 36 hours, more than every British party combined raised in all of 2025. All of it legal, for now. This week on Craft Politics: Sam Coates, Deputy...

16 Syys 43min

Darren Grimes: On Reform UK and What's Next

Darren Grimes: On Reform UK and What's Next

Reform UK is having the best year of its life. Official opposition in Wales. Seventeen seats in Scotland. Over 1,400 councillors. And yet Middle England still hasn't climbed aboard. This week on Craft...

8 Syys 45min

Ginny Roth: Trade War Reality Test

Ginny Roth: Trade War Reality Test

Ten days ago Ginny Roth posted a thread arguing that Canadians need to stop being shocked by Donald Trump and start making hard choices from a weak hand. Jason Kenney replied, accusing her of "craven ...

1 Syys 56min

How Vote Leave Actually Won — Nick Varley on the Brexit Ground War

How Vote Leave Actually Won — Nick Varley on the Brexit Ground War

Ten years ago, everyone who was supposed to know — the British government, the Bank of England, the IMF, half the world's economists, even President Obama — said Leave couldn't win. Then a campaign wi...

1 Heinä 53min

UK By-Elections Quick Take: What Just Happened?

UK By-Elections Quick Take: What Just Happened?

We're trying a new episode format, so let us know what you think of it. We didn't have time to record a full show, we have as a short and snappy take on this week's by-election results in the UK and w...

19 Kesä 9min

One Country, Two Fires

One Country, Two Fires

A week ago, the Henry Nowak case was the story dominating the news agenda. Then Belfast caught fire — literally — and two separate stories became one. Percy and Joseph work through how a murder in Sou...

11 Kesä 38min

The Purity Test

The Purity Test

Over the weekend the BC Conservatives picked the candidate the smart money had written off — and half the commentariat instantly called it a gift to the NDP. We're not convinced. A party that went fro...

2 Kesä 34min

37 Words: How Alberta's Ballot Question Tilts the Field

37 Words: How Alberta's Ballot Question Tilts the Field

Last week, we recorded with Evan Menzies about the brewing Alberta referendum — and within hours of us hitting publish, Premier Smith unveiled the actual ballot question. So we're back at it. It's als...

27 Touko 42min

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