The Politics Show

US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high stakes summit to discuss the war in Ukraine.Trump has been upping the ante with his rhetoric ar...

12 Aug 202532min

Youth membership for the Labour party has collapsed – from 100,000 to just 30,000 under Starmer’s leadership. The relationship between Labour HQ and its members on university campuses has soured over ...

11 Aug 202514min

Whit Stillman is something of a cult film director. He rose to prominence in 1990 with his debut film Metropolitan, which became the first in the so-called “Doomed. Bourgeois. In love” trilogy: Barcel...

9 Aug 202550min

Is Keir Starmer sucking up to Donald Trump, and what do politicians get up to during parliamentary recess?Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Rachel Cunliffe and George Eaton to answer listener questions.Do...

8 Aug 202519min

New polling has found that Keir Starmer is now less popular amongst British voters than Donald Trump.Today, we’re talking about Keir Starmer’s first year in government and the rapid decline in his per...

7 Aug 202522min

Nine years after the Brexit referendum, the dream of 'Singapore-on-Thames' has quietly evaporated. Instead, we’ve got a Labour government embracing high taxes, stronger workers’ rights, even state own...

6 Aug 202517min

The dormant Democrat party must find a way to revive itself if it is to have any hope of challenging the Maga movement, Donald Trump, and his eventual successor. The party is split on whether Trump is...

5 Aug 202522min

Parliament is in recess for the next four weeks, a time when Westminster usually goes quiet, but this year there’s one man who’s determined to keep working. Nigel Farage.Today the Reform UK leader del...

4 Aug 202522min