What's gone wrong for Keir Starmer - and can he get things back on track?
It is just over a year since Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a huge majority and took power in London, but Starmer’s political capital is already at a low ebb. It hasn’t all been bad: most noticeably ...
7 Jul 202535min
Why does Ireland's presidential race still have no one at the starting line?
Jack Horgan-Jones and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The drive to inject some impetus into the Irish presidential race has not yielded anything of note jus...
4 Jul 202542min
Does the Government lack a clear plan for how to spend our money?
Money always matters in politics. Just ask UK prime minister Keir Starmer, whose attempt to cut UK welfare payments is on the rocks thanks to Labour party rebels, leaving a multibillion pound hole in ...
2 Jul 202536min
‘Daddy’ Trump meets Nato, while defence, trade and Gaza dominate EU summit
Pat Leahy and Cormac McQuinn join Jack Horgan-Jones to look back on the week in politics: · US President Donald Trump was the main attraction at a landmark Nato summit on Wednesday with Nato sec...
27 Jun 202544min
EU watches on as Trump changes the world
Europe correspondent Jack Power joins Pat and Jack Horgan-Jones to discuss monumental events in the Middle East, with the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities being followed by a ceasefire that ma...
24 Jun 202541min
Could the Israel-Iran war completely destabilise the Middle East?
Sally Hayden and Harry McGee join Jack Horgan-Jones to look back on the week in politics:· Sally Hayden joins the pod on the line from Beirut where missiles flying overhead have become a fact of...
20 Jun 202549min
Opposition smells blood in the water over RPZ changes
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Harry McGee to talk about the ongoing fallout from the Government's proposed changes to the rights of tenants and landlords. They look at growing criticism of th...
18 Jun 202535min
Is there any such thing as a political genius? With Helen Lewis
You can tell an awful lot about a society by who it labels a genius. You can also learn from who it excludes from that category, who it enables and what it is prepared to tolerate from them. The tortu...
16 Jun 202539min
