
Oil and trouble for the British economy
While Keir Starmer may get some credit with the public for his response to the war in Iran, he's still stuck with its consequences: rising prices just when he'd said he was going to cut the cost of li...
10 Mar 28min

How Starmer's Iran response alienates everybody
We take you inside the Iran discussions in Number 10. What do they reveal about Keir Starmer's thinking and about Labour's electoral predicament?And as polling suggests that two parties with 2% of MPs...
3 Mar 31min

The end of the Labour party as a going concern in electoral politics?
The end of Britain’s political duopoly now looks complete, as Labour suffers a catastrophic by-election defeat to the Greens in Gorton and Denton. Reform comes second, while the Tories lose their depo...
27 Feb 19min

Ukraine extra: burner phones and lost children
Join Caroline as she visits Ukraine on the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion. Burner phones to make sure the Russians don't track them as they travel in on a train called the Bravery Express. A ...
26 Feb 15min

A by-election reckoning — and unexploded bombs everywhere
Three separate scandals have raised serious questions over Keir Starmer's judgement. It's empowered Labour MPs who were once written off as cranks. And with many files still to come out, the questions...
24 Feb 31min

Gabriel Pogrund speaks out on Labour Together scandal
The Labour Together scandal is the latest storm threatening to capsize the government - and Gabriel has been right at the heart. For the first time, he describes what happened when a Labour think tank...
17 Feb 39min

Wes Streeting bottles it and Labour's left grabs the steering wheel
Listen to what Labour ministers and MPs are saying about their colleagues in a week of chaos in Westminster. The prime minister thought it was all over for him this weekend, but a scrambled rearguard ...
10 Feb 30min

Bonus episode: Epstein tried to befriend me
A guest slot to give you a taste of our new podcast, The State of It: USA. Give it a go and please subscribe.His enemies were hoping that Donald Trump would come out badly from the Epstein files, but ...
4 Feb 28min




















