Oh God, What Now?
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Oh God, What Now?
Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes. Regulars include: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • N...
Episoade Recente
692 episoade
Trump to Europe: “Drop Dead”
America’s new National Security Strategy is a hellish concoction of far-right obsessions, paranoid conspiracy thought, imperial fantasy, and outright...
Lost in the Far-Right Funhouse – How bots and fakes create a false, angry Britain
Social media’s sewer pipe of white nationalism, conspiracy thought and violent far-right incitement is seeping into mainstream politics. But where is...
In-Fight Club – Your Party flames out
What went wrong with “Your Party”? As absolutely nobody could have predicted, the new Left vehicle’s first conference collapses amid factional squabbl...
Can we get Britain out of its hole?
Britain is in trouble. Stagnating wages, collapsing public services and a feeble economy are turning politics angry and rancorous. Keir Starmer says L...
Big Budget Breakdown – Wage Against the Machine
Behind all the predictable shrieking about “tax raids”, what really happened in Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed misery Budget? And what’s behind Labour’s...
Why Tech Sucks – Cory Doctorow on Enshittification and how to fix it
It’s the word of the moment. “Enshittification” is the reason Google is all ads and no useful results, Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products, y...
Cruel Britannia – Labour loses it on migration
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked a backlash and it’s not clear they’ll even work. So, why have they gone down this route? What options...
Deface The Nation – Is Trump starting to lose? – with Molly Jong-Fast
Is Trump finally falling apart? His approval ratings are catastrophic, the Republicans took a hammering in the November elections, his gross-out distr...
Make Auntie Great Again – Will Trump destroy the BBC?
Trump and the right wing press are gleefully hounding the BBC over a clumsy speech edit – will they succeed in taking down the broadcaster? Plus, mani...
Budget ’25 – Why Rachel Reeves should hold her nerve
Tax rises! Cuts to everything! Here comes the pain! Seldom has a Budget been heralded with such dire warnings… if you believe the Toryform Press. But...
Mamdani – First we take Manhattan
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoralty race electrifies the global Left, rocks the Democratic establishment and leaves Trump titanically u...
Starmer’s dilemma – Electoral reform or Farage in No.10?
After decades of waving away electoral reform, Labour and the Tories suddenly have a reason to question First Past The Post – the nightmare prospect o...
System Failure – Why does British politics feel broken?
British politics feels stalled and the only people benefiting are Farage and the quick-fix demagogues of Reform UK. Why is the debate about our nation...
Scary Migrants, Super Creeps – Can Britain break out of migration madness?
A neurotic obsession with illegal migration is driving British politics rightwards, trapping the parties in an arms race of escalating harshness towar...
Jumping out of the Overton window – Is brainrot taking over politics?
Reform UK just pulled off the sequel to the Jackie Weaver Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting, and it’s excellent. The leaked Zoom meeting from Refo...
Don’t mention the pension! – Can we avoid a two-tier society?
The papers still dangle the dream of a sun-dappled retirement. Yet millions have nowhere near the savings they’ll need, while a fortunate few are amas...
Starmer’s China Syndrome – plus Green MP Siân Berry on the new power balance on the Left
After the collapse of the China spying case, do we have to accept that Britain is way past being able to spar with Beijing? Especially when we depend...
Card Declined – Inside the Digital I.D. Wars
Labour want to bring in digital I.D. and many people do NOT like it. Are they right? Are they wrong? And what is the “Lethal Trifecta” that makes the...
Is the Conservative Party dying? – Plus: What the Manchester terror attack means
The Tory Party looks fatally damaged. Who hijacked the corpse at their conference in Manchester – Reform or Robert Jenrick? Josh Glancy of The Sunday...
Who would win a war in Europe?
Nobody wants to imagine a large-scale war in Europe. But after Putin invaded Ukraine and Trump tore up Europe’s security guarantee, it’s horribly plau...
Starmer vs. Farage – Keir finally picks his enemy
Keir Starmer’s conference speech is getting heaps of praise after he finally went hard against Farage. But has he done enough to show he’s in control,...
Build, baby, build – Is Labour losing the Regeneration Game?
Labour has staked its future on building hundreds of thousand of homes and fixing up crumbling communities. But does “regeneration” actually work? Hou...
Enoch, Enoch, Who’s There? – Reform’s deranged repatriation plans
The ghost of Enoch Powell punches the air as Farage announces jaw-dropping plans for mass deportations and tearing up Indefinite Leave to Remain, clai...
So wrong, it’s right wing – Could Project 2025 happen in Britain?
Project 2025 gave Trump a roadmap for his authoritarian presidency. As the UK turns to the right, Reform UK is on the rise and fears over a Farage gen...
Inside the new ‘Battle for Britain’
British politics is increasingly divided – but where are voters really going as they shift between parties? And how should Labour recalibrate their ta...
Starmer drama – Who's in control of the Labour Party?
Starmer is Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party – but does he feel totally in charge of things? Plus, the race to be Deputy Leader of the Lab...
Britain’s Got Tyrants – Can any party out perform Reform?
Reform UK kicked off party season in the weirdest way possible – will any of the other parties be able to overshadow them in the coming weeks? Perhaps...
Angela’s Ashes: Rayner fallout – plus The Crazy World of Tony Blair
The (former) Deputy Prime Minister resigns literally two minutes before we press “record”. Regulars Rafael Behr and Andrew Harrison plus special guest...
It never Rayners, it pours — EmergencyCast
Angela Rayner’s out. The resignation, which most of us saw coming, finally happened on a Friday afternoon. Was her position really untenable, or could...
Reshuffles, Polanski, the EHRC on trans rights… and the Fight to Stay Sane
The Equality and Human Rights Commission new guidance on trans people’s rights is coming up. What will this mean for trans people in the UK and how di...
How to fix the future – with lessons from the past
Warning: contains hope for tomorrow! It sometimes feels like the polycrisis of global heating, collapsing democracy, job-killing A.I. and radicalisati...
The Very, Very Cross of St George
Who let the flags out? We look at the mania for running a Cross of St George or Union Jack up the nearest lamp-post, who’s fomenting it and why it’s s...
Confessions of an Unlikely MP – Chris Bryant on his astonishing life
One of the best-liked MPs in Westminster, Chris Bryant has led an incident-packed life as the title of his new autobiography A Life And A Half proves...
Why predict a riot? – The people who want Britain to explode
Robert Jenrick’s hanging out with the far-right at the migrant hotel protests, the Express claims “tens of millions” of Britons want a full-blown revo...
Israel and Gaza – The full picture and what happens next – with Dr Julie Norman
It seems like there’s no end to the horrors in Gaza, the torment of the Israeli hostages and Netanyahu’s expansionism. And the more events escalate, t...
“Farage will be found out” – ED DAVEY on how the Lib Dems can fight Reform and rival Labour
Ed Davey’s reborn Lib Dems are on a 100-year high with 72 MPs and a shot at becoming the conscience of progressive Britain. So why do Reform get all t...
Art of the Steal – Could Trump run for a third term?
The Constitution expressly forbids anyone from seeking a third term as US President. But since when did that ever stop Trump from doing anything? Ex-c...
Identity crisis – Are I.D. cards inevitable?
Is the hysteria around digital I.D. cards justified? Or should we simply realise this is the future and get on with it? Plus, how deep is the UK unive...
The ultimate A.I. explainer – Will it kill us all or make us rich?
In one of the most fascinating episodes we’ve ever done Alex Hern – A.I. writer at The Economist, who writes on A.I. but isn’t one himself – joins us...
Chaos Addicts – Why the Right wants a summer of anger
Far-right agitators are amping up protests against a migrant hotel in Epping and Farage claims Britain is “close to civil disobedience on a vast scale...