PoliticsJOE Podcast
This is PoliticsJOE's podcast - the only explicitly anti-nonce podcast in the UK.Reporting on British politics with a sense of humour, the podcast is a recorded version of the conversations we have after work.So pull up a stool, pour yourself a cold one, and laugh through the misery alongside us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Donald Trump has a change of heart on Palestine
Today SeƔn and Laura reunite to chew the cud on Donald Trump's summer holiday in Scotland, where he sat down with Ursula Von Der Leyen and Keir Starmer to finalise trade talks, parry questions on Jeffrey Epstein, and change his tune on Israel's conduct in Palestine.
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Going deep on the Online Safety Act
It's Monday morning. Oli and Ava chat about the Online Safety Act, child protection, and all types of graphic materials.
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Inside the dark world of Elon Musk's empire | Sƶnke Iwersen interview
Head of Investigative research at Handelsblatt Sƶnke Iwersen came by JOE Towers this week on the release of his and Michael VerfĆ¼rden's book The Tesla Files.
In this chat we break down the findings of a massive data leak from Tesla that fell into Sƶnke's lap, the inner workings of Elon Musk's empire, and what all these things tell us about the life and mind of the world's richest man.
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Why are men so bloody lonely? (with polling expert)
Richie Jones of Ipsos joins Ed and Oli to chat about exclusive new polling that sheds light on the male loneliness epidemic. Are the headlines right? Where are the third spaces? What makes a friendship meaningful?
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Tory reshuffle and the Epstein files
Oli and Ed break down Kemi Badenoch's latest chess move (a minor cabinet reshuffle) and ask why Donald Trump won't just release the Epstein files already.
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Who will 16 year olds vote for?
UK Director of More in Common Luke Tryl joins Laura to dive into voting at 16 and how it might impact future elections.
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Starmer's Labour: No place for Diane Abbott
Oli was on Newsnight. Ed was on holiday. The pair reunite to talk Diane Abbott, the Labour rebels, and far-right activity in Epping.
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I worked in a SEND school. This is what it's like | Jack Beaumont
Oli and Ava are joined by South-East Londoner, journalist, and teacher-in-training Jack Beaumont to hear about his experience working in a SEND school ahead of Labour's projected education reforms.
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Are steroids ruining young men?
Happy Thursday. Ava is joined by JOE's national reporter Tom Usher to talk steroids, body image, and men's mental health.
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EMERGENCY POD: Keir Starmer's shock purge of leftwing Labour MPs
On the eve of parliamentary recess, Keir Starmer has just purged his party. Ava and Laura report and react to the news as it unfolds.
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Last PMQs reaction of the season
Ed, Oli, and Ava sit down to react to the final PMQs before parliament enters recess. Kemi and Keir's last dance, if you will.
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Make officials lying illegal | Ian Byrne interview
Ava is joined by MP for Liverpool West Derby Ian Byrne to talk about the Hillsborough Law, which was blocked in parliament last week. He also speaks to his experience being a progressive Labour MP in an era of welfare cuts.
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Ban the Royals from Wimbledon, and is Reform lying?
It's Monday morning. Oli and Ava talk Wimbledon, Donald Tusk's dinner, and Ed Miliband reminding the Commons that climate change exists. All this and Mapgate, an exclusive scoop from the West Midlands broken by Oli's dad.
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I have been to Gaza. This is what I saw | James Elder interview
James Elder is global spokesperson for UNICEF. He came by the studio to speak to us about what he has seen on the ground in Gaza since Israel's violent campaign against the Palestinians began nearly two years ago.
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I will unite the British left. This is how | Zack Polanski interview
Green leader candidate and self-declared eco-populist Zack Polanski joins us to talk wealth taxes, a new direction for the Greens, and how he can beat Farage.
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PMQs reaction
In today's PMQs analysis Ava and Oli debut their new segment: Lickarse of the Week.
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Wealth tax, definitely maybe?
Ed, Oli, and SeƔn chat about a wealth tax, but they also just chat. How will Rachel Reeves fill the newest hole in government finances? Is a seal a bird?
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(0:00:48) Opening chat
(0:10:45) Torture methods
(0:28:00) Aquatic birds
(0:41:30) Wealth tax?
(0:56:24) Footy chat
(1:05:59) End
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Reform MP flames out and Zarah + Jez against the world (?)
It's Monday morning. Another Reform scandal, another party on the left. Oli and Ed discuss.
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(0:00:47) Start
(0:02:00) Gigs chat
(0:06:30) Gardens and civil liberty
(0:15:17) Ed is a cyclist (?)
(0:22:12) James McMurdock suspends himself from Reform
(0:45:04) The Left is back
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Another round: Ruchir Sharma: Why capitalism doesn't work
Global investor and author Ruchir Sharma joins us to unpack the core arguments from his latest book, What Went Wrong With Capitalism. Drawing on decades of experience in global markets and political analysis, Sharma offers a sweeping critique of how modern capitalism has strayed from its original purpose ā and why it's no longer delivering for the many.
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Reacting to Channel4's Gaza documentary
Today Ava and SeƔn react to the Gaza documentary the BBC refused to publish.
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Rachel Reeves cries at PMQs | Analysis with Marc Jennings
Ed and Ava are joined by comedian and fellow Scot Marc Jennings to discuss today's blockbuster PMQs, which saw Rachel Reeves cry and Starmer struggle to answer for yesterday's rebellion.
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Will Keir Starmer get to punish the disabled? Will the Labour party stop him?
In what's being dubbed a modern classic, Oli and SeƔn discuss Labour's welfare rebellion and Bob Vylan's criminal investigation, as well as partaking in some vacuum-sealed analysis.
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Are Bob Vylan the next KNEECAP?
Today the triple threat are back in the dungeon on this, the Monday after Glastonbury, to chew the cud over the weekend's events. As the BBC comes under fire for broadcasting Bob Vylan's set where the group led anti-IDF chants, we ask whether the backlash is overegged and whether free speech is dying at the hands of right-wing snowflakes.
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Another round: Neoliberalism is under threat with the IEA's Chris Snowden
Chris Snowden of the IEA, a neoliberal think tank, joins Ava in the JOETowers basement to talk smoking, gambling, and threats to the neoliberal way of life.
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Who is really running the Labour party? Anushka Asthana interview
Ava sits down with the US Editor of Channel 4 News Anushka Asthana on the launch of her new book Taken for Red. They get into the mind of Keir Starmer, his plans for the country, and his cutthroat nature at the helm of Labour.
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Welfare Cuts and Pride as protest
Today Ava and Conor talk welfare cuts, the rebellion Starmer faces over them, and the state of Pride in 2025.
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PMQs with Vittorio Angelone
Comedian and friend of friends of the podcast Vittorio Angelone joins us for some (deputy) PMQs analysis.
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What we saw at the Palestine Action protest
Laura returns from yesterday's Palestine Action protest to tell SeƔn all about it.
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Are we doing Iraq 2.0?
In what could be described as a loose record, Ed and Ava touch on recent developments in the Middle East, Labour's threatened proscription of Palestine Action, and are joined by Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at LSE, for some real analysis of Trump's actions in Iran.
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Another round: How Trump destroyed his own legacy
Author of The Big Short Michael Lewis swing by JOETowers to chat to Oli about "who" actually is government.
His new book Who is Government? is out now.
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Why there are no "geniuses" anymore
Helen Lewis swung by JOETowers to chat if anyone is actually a genius - and what who we label "geniuses" tells us about society.
She argues that "genius" is a romanticised idea: the notion that extraordinary talent excuses bad behaviour or moral failings. Think, Elon Musk.
She unpacks how celebrated (almost always male) figures like Edison, Einstein, Picasso, Tolstoy (and even Elon Musk) benefit from a halo effect that glosses over serious flaws such as abuse, neglect, misogyny, and selfishness.
She traces the historical roots of the term āgenius,ā linking it t...
What we saw at the terrorism trial of KNEECAP
After reporting from the scene of Mo Chara's court hearing and its surrounding protest yesterday, SeƔn and Laura dive into what they saw and why the British state are really going after KNEECAP.
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(0:00:00) JOEnlyFans
(0:01:20) Love Irish podcasts hate Irish nonces
(0:01:47) A note on endangered languages
(0:04:30) The trial of Mo Chara
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Big Ange and Philpch have it off at PMQs
On today's 'tight' record, Ed and Oli discuss the illustrious Deputy Prime Minister's Questions, Robert Jenrick's dark arts, and school uniforms.
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(0:01:20) Grand opening
(0:03:40) (D)PMQs
(0:40:13) The record gets loose
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Whatās controversial about the mass rape of children?
After Yvette Cooper's statement in the Commons yesterday responding to the findings of the Casey report, SeƔn, Oli, and Laura delve into what's really going on with grooming gangs.
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(0:00:00) A bit of chat
(0:07:10) But why JOEnlyFans?
(0:15:24) Grooming gangs
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On the ground in Ballymena
Ed returns to the studio to discuss his Journalism in Northern Ireland, where he was on the ground reporting on the Ballymena riots. Oli joins him to create the platonic ideal of a podcast.
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(0:22:40) Witches
(0:26:18) Ballymena
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How Trump changed the world with Anne Applebaum
Ava is joined by journalist and historian Anne Applebaum on the release of the paperback of her book Autocracy Inc. They discuss Trump, authoritarianism, and the failure of liberal democracies and world order.
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Does Britain have a "fentanyl" crisis?
Laura's been in Birmingham, finding out about the city's synthetic opioid crisis.
She chats to DISPATCH's editor Jacob Furedi about the drug deadlier than fentanyl being cut into Britain's drug supply.
You can watch Laura's report tomorrow on the PoliticsJOE YouTube.
You can read Jacob's investigation here: https://dispatch-media.com/britains-hidden-opioid-crisis/
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Some thoughts on Rachel Reeves' spending review
In a quiet studio, Oli Dugmore alone takes on Rachel Reeves' spending review with some hard analysis... and a surprise at the end.
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Going deep on the Ballymena riots
Before Oli dives into the spending review tomorrow morning, SeƔn joins him to talk the Ballymena riots and how the far right are mobilising across borders.
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Why I confronted Nigel Farage on Reform's tax plans
Ava was at Reform's unveiling of a new party chairman on Tuesday, where Zia Yusuf was also shown off as heading up their UK DOGE wing. We got in the studio for a quick few minutes to break down the crossroads the party is beginning to find itself.
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