We Consider The Matt Closed
Pity about Matt Hancock. He was a real hands-on Minister. But the story isn’t the hapless ex-Health Secretary’s office affair, it’s the serious implications of leaked CCTV, off-books emails to “collab...
29 Jun 20211h 1min
TRYST AND TRACE: Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
As we clear away the bunting and empty bottles after Hancock Humiliation Weekend, how will the story — of leaked CCTV, secret email addresses and backhanders — develop? What sort of Health Sec will Sa...
28 Jun 202125min
Daily: PUPPET MASTERS, LOST GOLDEN AGES – The myths that hold Labour back, with Nick Cohen
Your opponents are lower than vermin. Politics is a righteous battle of absolute good against absolute evil. A secret cabal controls everything. And only a return to a past Eden can solve our problems...
27 Jun 202121min
Daily: ED MILIBAND – “Big forces not bacon sandwiches decide elections”
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has reinvented himself since 2015 as a podcaster with his hit series Reasons To Be Cheerful, and re-entered frontbencher politics as Shadow Business Secretary. But he ...
24 Jun 202129min
Daily: SECRET WAR – Freedom of Information under attack
Press freedom is under attack from Priti Patel’s draconian plans to tighten the Official Secrets Act, which would criminalise the “onward disclosure” of leaked material, putting journalists at increas...
23 Jun 202130min
Biden’s Russian Roulette
Joe Biden’s frosty first summit with Putin was designed to put the Russian leader on notice that the days of manipulating America are over. But are they? Special guest Luke Harding – former Guardian M...
22 Jun 20211h 2min
VAXX AND SPEND: Start Your Week with Naomi Smith
As the fallout from the Lib Dems’ victory in Chesham and Amersham continues to descend, is Boris Johnson about to get mugged by the newly liberal shires – or old school nimby Toryism? Is the Sunak-Joh...
21 Jun 202127min
Daily: Is MERITOCRACY a myth?
When people end up in a job or position they love, was it because they worked hard in school, or did they just get lucky? Why is the idea of progressing on merit under threat? Is there a way we can mo...
20 Jun 202128min
