Farage: It wasn’t me! — Start Your Week with Alex von Tunzelmann
Nigel Farage is doing everything he can to deny having been in the wrong in those disastrous sting videos. Can his excuses work? Plus, Trump is going wild with AI slop, Kushner has visited Putin and t...
7 Sep 30min
Farage's candid camera calamity — Emergencycast from Oh God, What Now?
Quick-fire reaction with News Statesman’s associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe and Jacob Jarvis. Given the Farage fallout, we had to record something quickly, so we did an emergencycast! This wa...
4 Sep 23min
Burnham-Badenoch bust-up, Reform's griftfest, RIP Gloria Steinem – Weekly Wrap-Up with Seth Thévoz
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Burnham and Badenoch finally went head-to-head at PMQs. Who came out on top? Reform kicks off its conference, complete with £3,000 tickets for a...
4 Sep 29min
What's really going on in Britain’s dodgy “vape shops”
Is that mini-mart laundering money? Why have five barbershops opened on the same street? And how can suspiciously empty phone repair shops afford to run? For years, rumours have swirled about Britain’...
3 Sep 26min
Roy Cohn – The monster who created Donald Trump
Amoral attack dog for Senator Joe McCarthy during America’s Red Scare of the ’50s. Corrupt mob lawyer, cruel swindler and powerbroker. Racist. Closeted but extremely sexually active gay man who in pub...
2 Sep 28min
Burnham gets serious – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison
Setting up the stories for the week ahead… The carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over for Andy Burnham as Parliament returns with tricky questions on defence funding, prisoner release and ...
1 Sep 31min
Parton is such sweet sorrow – Weekly Wrap-Up with Zoë Grünewald
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Dolly Parton’s death leaves the world brokenhearted but reflecting on a true rarity: someone rich, famous and powerful who never stopped being a...
28 Aug 28min
Inside the clickbait storm – Hot Take Time Machine with Jonn Elledge and Miranda Sawyer
Hot Take Time Machine is back with Paper Cuts alumni Miranda Sawyer, Jonn Elledge and Jacob Jarvis sniffing out the strangest, worst – and occasionally best – opinions of the past month. On this epis...
27 Aug 37min
