The Politics of Hallmark Xmas Movies
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Hallmark has pumped out over 800 of these original movies - and I use the term original very loosely. Its countdown to Xmas generates over a third of its en...
21 Joulu 202437min
A Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part I
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome two very special guests - their best friends Nigel Smith and Nigella Lawson - to look back at a momentous year, the moments that have depressed, delighted, and sur...
20 Joulu 202449min
Poll Hard with A Vengeance: Politics trends in 2024... and 2025
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Naomi is joined by a Quiet Riot regular, More in Common's Luke Tryl, to discuss polling trends of 2024, what pollsters got right, what they got wrong, the h...
17 Joulu 202433min
Sunday School: The Brexit damage continues
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Naomi and Alex look at yet another two horrible consequences of Brexit - the grift that keeps on taking - in the rather esoteric GPSR that seems to have cau...
15 Joulu 202440min
The Fall of Assad: Syria Special with Arthur Snell
Alex Andreou talks to former diplomat and host of the Behind The Lines podcast, Arthur Snell, to try and construct some order out of the recent chaos in Syria. Who are the good guys? What does this me...
14 Joulu 202431min
Episode 30: Mo Money Mo Problems
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith and special guest investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan discuss the huge amounts of money that is currently flowing into our politics, the ways in which it is corrupting o...
12 Joulu 20241h 7min
Sunday School: All I Want for Christmas Is EU
Naomi and Alex disseminate Starmer's big "this is not a reset" speech. Naomi talks about the importance of a better EU deal and a new initiative for getting there, with Labour MP Andrew Lewin. Finally...
8 Joulu 202452min
France Special: Macron, and on, and on.
Alex talks to our resident France expert, Olivier Morel, about the political deadlock in France, how and why we got here and whether Macron can survive it. An informative and completely accessible con...
6 Joulu 202426min
