Will cutting juries fix our maggot-ridden courts?
“Dead and rotting seagulls within the roof insulation” and “maggots literally raining down on to the lobby” - this quote from a court in South Tyneside sums up the state of our creaking judicial syste...
4 Dec 202545min
Reeves’s make-or-break budget: should the rich have paid more?
Coco and Nish listened to Rachel Reeves' budget so you don't have to. But hang on, we could all have skipped the speech and read it online. Someone screwed up big time, pressing a button and releasing...
27 Nov 202553min
Mahmood’s Moral Mission: Copy Reform’s homework
Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse. Just when we thought the disasters of the government couldn’t get any worse… New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has made it h...
20 Nov 202548min
Much a-coup about nothing? Labour take all the wrong notes from the Tories
Are knives being sharpened by disgruntled MPs planning a coup against the PM? As Keir Starmer’s team dig in against a supposed threat to the Prime Minister from Health Secretary Wes Streeting - has th...
13 Nov 202554min
What can the left learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win?
Nish and Coco celebrate the win of Progressive New York Democratic Mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani - and ponder what British lefties can learn from his social-media friendly campaign. And is Chancel...
6 Nov 202553min
Britain’s prison and asylum meltdown. Plus - the Renters’ Rights Act w/ Vicky Spratt
It’s been a painful week for the government, with a migrant sex offender accidentally released from prison and a damning report on the spiralling costs of the asylum system. But is a plan to house asy...
30 Okt 202554min
Pod Save the Truth w/ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
Enough is enough! Nish stages an intervention with Coco about her troubling relationship with Chat GPT. Or as Coco puts it: her mate “Chatty G”. But Coco’s not the only one embracing generative AI - i...
23 Okt 202556min
Why can’t the UK get over Thatcher? Plus - “Your Party” infighting is Definitely Maybe over…
It’s been an emotional week after the arrival of a Hamas-Israel ceasefire. This is good news - but issues of humanitarian aid, human rights, and accountability are all still up in the air. The struggl...
16 Okt 202550min
